Bob Ray 5/20/13 Essay Reflection My first year of high school has been challenging. My world literature class’s writing assignments were the most challenging. There were many things that I find difficult but I had to make adjustments so I can improve as a writer in high school. At the beginning of the year‚ I struggled most in the analysis part of the essay. The analysis made up most of the point value of a paragraph. In the Maus essay assignment‚ my paragraphs were made up of mostly
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(FCE- Grammar) Linking Words Linking words show the logical relationship between sentences or parts of a sentence. | | |Steve and his friends are coming to dinner. | |1. Positive Addition |And is used to connect words or phrases. And may be |He is waving his arms and shouting at us. | | |used to connect two independent clauses
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would go if I had the time. (Conditional statement "if") B. What have you done with your hair? (Interrogative) C. That sign was just painted. (Past tense) D. He could have phoned but I doubt it. (Improbability) E. She´ll have finished by the time we arrive. (Future perfect tense) 1 Describe how you would drill the past tense (or another grammar point) with a repetition drill‚ a yes-no question drill and a substitution drill. 2 Explain how you would teach the difference between
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which I did not do very well on it. There were twenty questions and twenty minutes to finish. So I decided to write faster [as fast] as I could. After accomplishing[completing the test] I was feeling as if I had written {good choice and use of verb tense here!} very well but when I received my grade I was shocked. There were also many questions that I missed since I had not seen them. Concisely‚ haste makes the things in opposite. {this is unclear to me} Last but not least‚ haste can even pull us
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Exercise Exercise 2 MIXED TENSES Motorcycle Accidents A spokesman for the Public Works Department says motorcycle lanes 1. _________ (be) no longer needed on the highway as the accident rate involving motorcycles 2. ______________ (be) negligible compared to trunk roads. The percentage of motorcycle accidents along the expressway 3. _________ (be) less than 0.01%‚ most of which are caused by reckless riding and speeding. According to international design requirements‚ a separate
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didactic texts‚ written between the 5th and 8th centuries. Old Tamil preserved many features of Proto-Dravidian‚ including the inventory of consonants‚ the syllable structure‚ and various grammatical features. Amongst these was the absence of a distinct present tense – like Proto-Dravidian‚ Old Tamil only had two tenses‚ the past and the "non-past". Old Tamil verbs also had a distinct negative conjugation (e.g. kāṇēṉ (காணேன்) "I do not see"‚ kāṇōm (காணோம்) "we do not see") Nouns could take pronominal
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SUNILA SOUTHGATE COLLEGE CELTA COURSE PRE- INTERVIEW TASK 1. In each of the following sentences underline the verb or verb and identify the form/ tense used. a) We never go to the theatre these days. Present Simple b) We are saving up to travel abroad Present Perfect Continuous c) We have already been to Europe. Past Perfect d) We didn’t have enough money to go further. Past Simple e) We had spent all our savings by the end of the summer. Past Perfect f) We had
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perfect tense. Use the past perfect tense when speaking about past events. Lesson Opening: Teacher will ask students to tell a series of events that took place yesterday and she will write that on board. For example‚ I left the school at 1 pm. I got home at 2 pm etc. Activity: Teacher will put students in pairs and ask them to write 2-3 sentences on their notebooks about something they had done‚ in their own life‚ and Teacher will instruct them that the sentences should be in past tense. Lesson
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Interesting Questions: 1. Not very particular in (about) nesting sites‚ house wrens may nest in birdhouses‚ mailboxes‚ building crevices – even in the pockets of hanging laundry. (2006.5.6.28) Explanation: 28. A. "particular in" should be "particular about." The sentence is suggesting that house wrens are not very particular--not very fussy‚ selective‚ fastidious [hard to please]‚ as in A person very particular about his food--ABOUT their nesting sites; that is to say‚ they may nest in "birdhouses
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shifts in the grammatical tense‚ which is what structures the plot of the story. In the present narrative tense‚ we find the mother in some sort of religious state of mind where she prays to certain gods and spirits‚ for example: “Ah‚ Amitabha‚ Buddha of great compassion‚ I whisper...” (P. 1‚ L. 24). While she finds herself in this state‚ she is reminded of their‚ her family’s‚ life since they moved from China to America‚ these parts of the story are‚ obviously‚ told in the past tense. The story begins
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