ready to identify 2.8 Similes‚ Metaphors‚ Personification Extra… Alliteration‚ Hyperbole‚ Oxymoron‚ Idioms‚ Overstatements/Understatements Sentence Variety and Structure 3.3 Independent/Subordinate(Dependent) Clauses…Adj/Adv/Noun Clauses 3.4 Simple/Compound/Complex/Compound-Complex Sentences 3.5 Prepositional Phrases/Appositives/Verbals/Gerunds/Participles/Infinitives 3.6 & 3.8 Conjunctions: Coordinating and Subordinating Effective Paragraphs 4.2 Methods of Elaboration (know chart) 4.4 Patterns
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history of language‚ namely Old English (OE)‚ Middle English (ME)‚ and Modern English (MnE). The first period‚ which lasted from 450 to 1100 (or 1150)‚ and is known as Old English‚ is the period of full endings. During this period the inflections of the noun‚ the adjective‚ the verb are preserved more or less unimpaired. This means that‚ in principle‚ any vowel may be found in the ending which is usually unstressed: [a‚ i‚ o‚ u‚ e]. Old English is an early form of the English language that was spoken
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simple sentences‚ compound sentences‚ or complex sentences. A Sentence may be divided into a subject [ (who or what?)- the word that follows the subject is not the object‚ it is the complement i.e was‚ became etc.] and a predicate [ (the rest of the sentence) expands on the subject and begins with the verb. The predicate is divided into verb‚ diect/indirect object ] PARTS OF SPEECH; Every word in a sentence is named according to it’s function. NOUN: Naming word [ (common noun)- ordinary everyday
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Some word classes are OPEN‚ that is‚ new words can be added to the class as the need arises. The class of nouns‚ for instance‚ is potentially infinite‚ since it is continually being expanded as new scientific discoveries are made‚ new products are developed‚ and new ideas are explored. In the late twentieth century‚ for example‚ developments in computer technology have given rise to many new nouns: Internet‚ website‚ URL‚ CD-ROM‚ email‚ newsgroup‚ bitmap‚ modem‚ multimedia New verbs have also been
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The Present Progressive The present progressive tense is equivalent to the English construction “to be + _ing” or “I am studying”. To express the present progressive which is a compound verb‚ you will use the verb estar (to be) with a verb in the present participle. Take note that the present participle is invariable and the endings for the three groups of verbs are as follows: -ar verbs (ajudar) -er verbs (escrever) -ir verbs (partir) -ando (ajudando) -endo (escrevendo) -indo (partindo) Here
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the Russian language. This is one of the reasons why students do mistakes. The gerund is rendered in Russian in different ways: a) The gerund executes the functions of a subject in the sentences‚ but translated as a noun. b) The gerund executes the functions of a part of compound verbal predicate‚ but translated as infinitive. c) The gerund executes the functions of an attribute‚ but translated as verbal adverb. d) The gerund executes the functions of an object‚ but translated as a subordinate
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underlined word. Whenever the door slams‚ the lamp rocks back and forth. a) Adjective b) Noun c) Verb d) Adverb How much cloth will it take to make the curtains? a) Adjective b) Noun c) Verb d) Adverb Please turn on the light. a) Adjective b) Noun c) Verb d) Adverb She went to the market to buy some vegetables. a) Noun b) Verb c) Adverb d) Preposition Jasmines are white in color. a) Verb b) Noun c) Adjective d) Adverb
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BIBLIOGRAPHY…………………………………………………………........17 APPLICATIONS……………………………………………………………….20 INTRODUCTION There are about 150 prepositions in English. Yet this is a very small number when you think of the thousands of other words (nouns‚ verbs etc). Prepositions are important words. We use individual prepositions more frequently than other individual words. In fact‚ the prepositions of‚ to and in are among the ten most frequent words in English. Many of prepositions have more than
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Section One Parts of Speech AL Diagnostic Tests Nouns Lessons and Activities Pronouns Verbs Adjectives Adverbs CO PY R IG Review Activities Final Tests HT Prepositions Conjunctions Interjections ED 3 MA TE RI Diagnostic Tests 5 Name Date Period Score % DIAGNOSTIC TEST 1 PARTS OF SPEECH For each underlined word in the following sentences‚ identify and then write the part of speech on the line next to the number. Each part of speech is
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JORDAN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE A constituent college of st. of Augustine University of Tanzania (SAUT) FACULTY OF EDUCATION P.O BOX 1878‚ Morogoro-Tanzania. COURSE; ENGLISH STRUCTURE CODE; LL 214 DEPARTMENT; ENGLISH SUBMITTED BY; GERALD‚ RICHARD REGISTRATION NUMBER; 2011/ 0237 SUBMITTED TO; MADAM MARY JIBREA TASK: THE RELEVANCES OF ENGLISH SRUCTURE TO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. Structure of English We can study the English structure to relate to the English
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