Name______________________________________ Date ______________________Block__ Subject-Verb Agreement - Exercise 1 Circle the correct verb in each sentence below. In the line next to the sentence write down the rule# it applies to. 1. Emily and Greg (comes‚ come) to my house every Friday for lunch. Rule#_____ 2. There (is‚ are) time to watch the movie. Rule#_____ 3. My friends who are in the band (wants‚ want) me to play a musical instrument. Rule#_____ 4. My father or my brothers
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on “Originally” by Carol Ann Duffy Outgrowing childhood is leaving many cherished people‚ memories and treasures behind. Emigrating in childhood is leaving a culture‚ a language and a home behind. Carol Ann Duffy moved from Glasgow‚ Scotland to Stafford‚ England when she was six years old‚ in the 1960s‚ thus later writing this poem “Originally”. Through laying out childhood memories and ending on the note that she hesitates when asked of her origin‚ Carol Ann Duffy expresses regret that she has
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Test materials Remind yourself of the passage‚ A Game of Polo with a Headless Goat from the Edexcel Anthology for IGCSE English Language and IGCSE English Literature‚ and then answer Questions Emma Levine travelled throughout Asia researching and filming unusual sports. In this passage she writes about a donkey race in Karachi. We drove off to find the best viewing spot‚ which turned out to be the crest of the hill so we could see the approaching race. I asked the lads if we could
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weakling‚ rose to become an intellectual giant not because of‚ but rather in spite of‚ the outmoded and backward system of instruction obtaining in the Philippines during the last decades of Spanish regime. Since boyhood Rizal knew the value of good education. His exile in Dapitan gave him the opportunity to put into practice his educational ideas. In 1893‚ he established a school which existed until the end of his exile in July 1896. It began with three pupils and in the course of time the enrollment
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New Light of Myanmar MYANMAR’S OLDEST ENGLISH DAILY Volume XXII‚ Number 41 4th Waxing of Nayon 1376 ME October 2015 still set for Myanmar’s Yangon Stock Exchange launch Old Central Bank building in which Myanmar’s Securities and Exchange Commission’s office is set to open.—Photo: Ye Myint By Ye Myint Myanmar’s deputy minister of finance says the planned launch of Myanmar’s stock exchange is on track for October next year. “Myanmar’s Yangon Stock Exchange plan is progressing
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There have been many inspirational people in my life to many to talk about just one. But if i had to narrow it down to just one person it would have to be my boss. I work at a pre-school three days a week dealing with 3-5 year old children. They have learning requirements‚ and also free play there are many interesting things that go on through out my day. My boss has her degree through baker college and she is the owner of this pre-school called Rainbow Place. I have worked there for two and a half
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English Proficiency Test Candidate Name___________________ Class: ____________ College: _____________________ (Reading Test) Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. Glaciers Besides the earth’s oceans‚ glacier ice is the largest source of water on earth. A glacier is a massive stream or sheet of ice that moves underneath itself under the influence of gravity. Some glaciers travel down mountains or valleys‚ while
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------------------------------------------------- Shooting Stars By Carol Ann Duffy ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- “Shooting Stars” is a horrific and moving poem written by Carol Ann Duffy. She adopts the persona of a female Jew speaking out from beyond the grave about her terrifying ordeal before she died in the Holocaust. A powerful impression is left on the reader after reading Duffy’s dramatic monologue and visual descriptions
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r‚ the r is not pronounced. And the vowel before the r will be long. Vowels In Contrast Short A Long At Short Av Long Avt/A¨vt Short D Long E Book Shoot Bon Born Bun Barn‚ burn Foot Boot Cod Cord Ton Turn Full Fool Dock - Duck Dark Good Rude Fox Forks Cup Carp Look Loot Hot Halt Hut Heart Pull Pool Lock - Luck Lark Would/wood Wooed Lost - Lust Last Put. Adieu Not Naught Cut Cart Bosom Blue Pot Port Hush Harsh Brook Crude Shot Short Shut Shirt Bull
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‘golden touch’. Through the use of allusions‚ capitalization and humour in the poem Eurydice we can see Duffy’s intent to transform the original Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice to give a rather unspoken and innocent Eurydice a new devious persona. Duffy seeks to make the reader consider another viewpoint in a rather one dimensional society by allowing Eurydice to voice her opinion of not wanting to return to Orpheus despite him trying to rescue her
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