What is the editing stage? The editing stage is when you check your essay for mistakes and correct them. Editing Steps: Grammar and Spelling 1. Check your spelling. 2. Check your grammar. 3. Read your essay again. 4. Make sure each sentence has a subject. 5. Make sure your subjects and verbs agree with each other. 6. Check the verb tenses of each sentence. 7. Make sure that each sentence makes sense. Style and Organization 1. Make sure your essay has an introduction‚ supporting
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Final exam format‚ SPA 101 All accent marks will count as ¼ pt. on the exam‚ whether they are missing or misplaced. 1. Listening: You will hear a paragraph 3 times‚ but no more than 3 times. There are five statements that must be finished with information from the paragraph. There are 3 choices. Example: Rogelio hace ejercicios en a. El club b. en el gimnasio c. en su casa. From Lesson 1 2. Definite articles: You will see five nouns. In front of each noun‚ write the correct Spanish
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Winter Syntax by Billy Collins In the poem‚ "Winter Syntax"‚ Billy Collins writes about the difficulties of writing literature through the representation of a "lone traveler" and his adventures through a blizzard. Collins talks about the important aspects of good writing. He starts off the poem emphasizing the importance of the first sentence and how it is analogous to a lone traveler going through a tough blizzard. By using the analogy of the traveler‚ Collins allows readers to vicariously imagine
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Christine Moloney Adv. English F Block May 10‚ 2011 Walt Whitman’s “Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking” holds an extraordinary group of verbs throughout the poem. Among the commonly used verbs are others that make whole lines entirely more striking. After the first five lines‚ a few verbs really jump out at me. “Down from the shower’d halo” strikes me as a powerful way to illustrate moonbeams (5). The verb “shower’d” is similar to‚ yet much different than a moonbeam that shimmered or shone
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In grammar‚ a preposition is a part of speech that introduces a prepositional phrase or combines with a noun to form a phrase. For example‚ in the sentence "The cat sleeps on the sofa"‚ the word "on" is a preposition‚ introducing the prepositional phrase "on the sofa". In English‚ the most used prepositions are "of"‚ "to"‚ "in"‚ "for"‚ "with" and "on". Simply put‚ a preposition indicates a relation between things mentioned in a sentence. Another simpler term‚ a preposition is a prior explanation
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1.….everything that has happened to us during the day ….. MEANING 1. “has happened” is a grammar structure used for actions which started in the past but continue up to now or to talk about actions that have a result now. Timeline: x (x)(x) has happened past present future CQs : Did it happen in the past? Yes. Is the day going on? Yes. Is it likely to happen some more events? Yes.
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Language Analysis | February 26 2008 | Candidates should demonstrate an ability to analyse language for teaching purposes and show understanding of basic ELT terminology relating to form‚ meaning and language use. | Assignment 2 | He takes after his father Context: Students listen to a short dialogue (a married couple have just had a baby boy) A. Congratulations Julie! How are you? B. I’m fine thanks. I’m feeling much better now. A. So...where is he? Wow‚ look at his
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Name : Elsa Aprilia. W Class : 2-C 2nd semester - Fkip bhs. Inggris I. Whales 1. What type of the text used by the writer? 2. The communicative purpose of the text is to? 3. What is the language feature used by the writer to tell the factual information? 4. What is the generic structure of the first sentence? 5. Please write a sentence that shows the relational process from the text above? Answer: 1. Descriptive 2. To describe a particular person‚ place or thing
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Articles about Jose Rizal Thursday‚ May 10‚ 2012 Rizal and children Rizal and children By: Ambeth R. Ocampo Philippine Daily Inquirer When my students go through Jose Rizal’s expenses in Europe‚ they note that his biggest and most regular expenses were for the purchase of books and postage stamps. This is not surprising because we all know that he liked to read and study‚ and to write home a lot because he was homesick in Madrid. Students also note that he bought 1/10 of a lottery ticket
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PHONOSTYLISTIC ANALYSIS Extract from “Hamlet” by W. Shakespeare This poem belongs to the poetic style‚ which is characterized by repetition of lines‚ which form stanzas. The atmosphere of the poem is dramatic‚ majestic‚ tragic‚ the narrator seems to stand at that line when you need to make a decision that changes your life forever As for the lexical stylistic devices‚ this fragment is rich in: metaphors: “the
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