Subject and Verb Agreement 1. Collective Nouns * Consider a collective noun singular when it refers to a group as a whole. The orchestra rises. My family loves to travel. * Consider it plural when it refers to each member of a group individually. The orchestra are voting for their new conductor. My family take turns choosing places to go. 2. Special Nouns * Nouns plural in form (ending in S) but singular in meaning take singular verbs. Acoustics‚ economics‚ linguistics‚ mathematics
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HOLIDAY HOMEWORK CLASS – VIII English Story Book Reading : The Little Prince. Written Assignment based on Reading : (Literature Exercise Book) Mention the qualities of The Little Prince that highlights the story. What values do you learn from these qualities that will help you in your life and lead you to write and build the story of your life. Bengali (2nd Language) 1. Write down any incident of your childhood with illustration (within 150 words) 2. Write down one paragraph about “Products
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************** AN ASSIGNMENT FOR WRITING SUBJECT A REPORT WRITING THE USES OF ARTICLES IN ENGLISH NOUN PHRASE Hanoi‚ May‚ 2012 THE USES OF ARTICLES IN ENGLISH NOUN PHRASE ABSTRACT Noun phrase plays an important role in the construction of a sentence. Lacking knowledge of noun phrase in English‚ learners could not make understandable sentences. And‚ it is almost inadequate to discuss the noun phrase without referring at some stage to the class of words known as determiners. This paper‚ therefore
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able to: 1. enumerate the classes of nouns 2. define the meaning of each noun 3. appreciate the importance of understanding the classes of nouns II. SUBJECT MATTER A. TOPIC: CLASSES OF NOUNS B. SUBTOPIC: * Proper Nouns * Common Nouns * Concrete Nouns * Abstract Nouns * Mass Nouns * Count Nouns * Collective Nouns * Possessive Nouns * Compound Nouns C. REFERENCE: Teresita C. Villa; Gayo
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NOUN What is Noun? A noun is a word used to name a person‚ animal‚ place‚ thing‚ and abstract idea. Nouns are usually the first words which small children learn. The highlighted words in the following sentences are all nouns: Late last year our neighbours bought a goat. Portia White was an opera singer. The bus inspector looked at all the passengers’ passes. According to Plutarch‚ the library at Alexandria was destroyed in 48 B.C. Philosophy is of little comfort to the starving. Types Of
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The houndstooth check. History and evolution in the Twentieth century. 1. Introduce: A: definition Houndstooth is a two-toned textile pattern‚ Scottish by origin‚ characterized by broken checks‚ and most often designed in black and white. The print does in fact have something to do with its canine-sounding name — which was inspired by the uneven shape of a hound dog’s teeth. 2. History A: original(before twentieth century) Houndstooth originated in Scotland in the 1800s[1][2]‚ shepherds originally
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Despite Alarcón’s poem "Mexican is Not a Noun" being of a few words‚ it’s meaning is extremely powerful‚ especially for the Mexican American people group. “Mexican Americans‚ the largest and fastest growing Latina/o subgroup in the United States (U.S. Census Bureau‚ 2011)‚ share unique demographic‚ historical‚ sociopolitical‚ and immigration experiences (Villegas-Gold & Hyung‚ 2014).” Alarcón uses stanzas to connect his ideas from the smallest impact to the largest punch regarding them. "Not only
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identify Two-Word Adjectives. Stress compound adjectives. Write a descriptive paragraph. You must aim to: 1. identify two-word adjectives called compound adjectives 2. correctly stress compound adjectives 3. keep in mind that the first element in the compound is stressed. 4. develop the topic using coherent and organized sentences YOUR INITIAL TASK Task I. Identify Compound Adjectives On a sheet of paper‚ copy the following sentences and underline the compound adjectives. 1. I’ve seen the 20-storey
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written production Learning Competencies The learner □ activates prior knowledge concerning the topic from reading the selection □ properly uses words and phrases related to the main concept of the lesson □ identifies the main stress in the compound words (based on listening activity) □ utilizes relative pronouns (who‚ whose‚ that‚ which) and adverb where in relative clauses to emphasize the stylistic dimension of the adventure story. □ expands the story according to the experiences of the
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MODULE 5 SESSION LONG PROJECT Take the current amount you have in your checking or savings account. Suppose you have a choice of keeping your money for five years in a savings account with a 2% interest rate‚ or in a five year certificate of deposit with and interest rate of 4.5%. Calculate how much interest you would earn with each option over five years time with continuous compounding. I’m going to do this for my checking and savings account amount Checking Account A = Ce^RT My total money
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