present perfect simple d. Have been going‚ present perfect progressive e. Had spent‚ past perfect f. had been sleeping‚ past perfect progressive and turned‚ simple past g. have been awarded‚ present perfect passive 2.2 a. ‘I read the report this morning’ is in the past simple tense‚ describing a completed action‚ something which is over‚ whereas ‘I’ve read the report this morning’ is in the present perfect tense‚ indicating that the action is not necessarily complete and so the sentence might continue
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your tenses straight. Few trials in life are so agonizing as working through a paragraph in which tenses shift‚ like a wayward eye‚ from present to past and back again. When you are writing about the past‚ stay in past tense. The exception to this comes when you find yourself interpreting historical texts (as you will do in these papers); in this case it is perfectly fine‚ indeed desirable‚ to write in the present. Think of it this way: use present tense when dealing with text‚ past tense when dealing
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life as sad and boring using the past tense versus the present‚ and short run on lines that set the hopeless mood of the poem. Imagery and colorful language is also used to describe the unhappy relationship throughout the poem. Living In Sin shows a woman’s life without rhyme in four meaningful images and as the tone changes she sees the relationship/marriage she expected and the relationship as it actually is. To begin with the speaker uses run-on lines‚ past tense and tone to illustrate the first
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Greece‚ Plato and Aristotle agreed that the past is eternal. Aristotle claimed that time had no beginning because‚ for any time‚ we always can imagine an earlier time. Imagine‚ the earliest past you have and by extension imagine all the people in history doing this. Be it as it may before mankind even. Isaac Newton believed future time is infinite and that‚ although God created the material world some finite time ago‚ there was an infinite period of past time before that. The thing is flow of time
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and L’homme à la houe by Jean-François Millet In 1899 an American schoolteacher‚ Charles Edward Anson Markham (1852-1940)‚ who used the penname Edwin Markham‚ was inspired by an 1863 painting to write a poem. The painting was "L’homme à la houe" by the French artist‚ Jean-François Millet (1814-1875); the poem was "The Man with a Hoe". The poem quickly became as famous as the painting. Both continue to be moving testimonies to what the too prevalent inhumanity of humanity can cause. The Man with a Hoe
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Assignment 2 Language related task Example 1: We can put off sleeping for a limited period. (Lexis) Meaning The lexis Put off means that we do not want to do it now. We will do it at a later time. Synonym Procrastinate Concept Questions: Do we want to do it now? No Will we do it later? Yes Form Base Verb + Adverb + Phrasal verb put off sleeping Put off is a phrasal verb used in everyday language by native English speakers Pronunciation can put off
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RENDERING A NEWSPAPER ARTICLE Rendering a text from a source onto a target language is a linguistic procedure that presupposes simultaneous operations of compressing the original text to the limits of its informational necessity and sufficiency and choosing the most effective linguistic means of the target language to convey the message of the original text. To render a newspaper article consider the following points: 1) Read the original text to define its problematic issue. 2)
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about his experience learning to speak French in Paris‚ under the rule of a cruel dictator-like teacher. He describes certain moments of intense cruelty of the teacher‚ such as when one girl in his class doesn’t know the correct irregular past tense of the verb to defeat. The girl was poked in the eye with a freshly sharpened pencil‚ and the teacher‚ although remorseful‚ did not spend much time apologizing. The students in the class are not fluent in French‚ and their halting sentences‚ when translated
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form/tense used. E.g. I was living in Italy in 1998. I was living in Italy in 1998 – past continuous. We never go to the theatre these days. Form /Tense Simple Present We’re saving up to travel abroad. Form /Tense Present Continuous Root We’ve already been to Europe. Form /Tense Present Perfect We didn’t have enough money to go further. Form /Tense Simple Past Root We had spent all our savings by the end of the summer. Form /Tense Past Perfect
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subject + verb in present simple tense + preposition + time marker Anticipated learner problems Students may add –ing to the verb as they may get confused by the fact that even though the verb is present simple‚ we are referring to a future event. Concept check questions Is he going today or is he going tomorrow? Is this about the present or the future? (Future) 2. If I had a lot of money‚ I’d buy a boat The second conditional If + subject + past simple + noun‚ + modal verb (would)
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