COMMON ERRORS GRAMMAR 1. Tense Errors – Common Error No. 1 These involve the wrong form of the verb. There are 3 forms of verbs – a) common verbs – - present tenses - past tenses - continuous tenses b) modal verbs - can‚ could‚ shall‚ should‚ may‚ might (plus verb) c) auxillary verbs – are‚ is‚ were Common Verbs are often found in the Present‚ Past and Future Tenses. PRESENT TENSES Example Example of Error Correction Simple Present He drinks tea every morning Then
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mugged. She was carrying a lot of cash‚ didn’t tell her friends she was leaving the disco and walked down some dark steps. (How many examples of should (n’t) have… can you make?) 2. Meaning: Completed past action‚ which was considered inadvisable by speaker. 3. Form: should (not) + have + past participle (walked) modal negative present perfect 4. Phonemic transcription Note: contraction “n’t” and weak form of “have” /v/ 5. Concept checking questions • Did she go home by
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obvious and this is what we need and in that order unambiguous? 3) Concision: Is the sentence written as econornically as possible? to look for right answer ` 1) Subject-Verb Agreement IN DETAIL PICKED UP ON THE WAY / KEY TAKE-AWAYS 1) Past particple by itself is not a working verb. For eg.: The electron named in 1894 is not a sentence. 2) A sentence can be a fragment in another way: it could start with a Connecting Word and contain no Main Clause (a clause that could stand alone
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quite the same degree because I wanted to create a somewhat likable main character when I came writing the first chapter of my novel. Moving on‚ the two other similarities between my work and Filth is the use of first person narrative and present tense. I have chosen to follow in the same style as Filth as I found it both choices particularly effective at providing a sense of unpredictability‚
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The Simple Tense Simple Present | Singular | Plural | First Person | I do it everyday | We do it everyday | Second Person | You do it everyday | You do it everyday | Third Person | He does it everyday | They do it everyday | Simple Past | Singular | Plural | First Person | I did that yesterday | We did that yesterday | Second Person | You did that yesterday | You did that yesterday | Third Person | He did that yesterday | They did that yesterday | Simple Future | Singular
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Analysis of an extract from ‘The Singing Lesson’ by Katherine Mansfield “ With despair - cold‚ sharp despair - buried deep in her heart like a wicked knife‚ Miss Meadows‚ in cap and gown and carrying a little baton‚ trod the cold corridors that led to the music hall. Girls of all ages‚ rosy from the air‚ and bubbling over with that gleeful excitement that comes from running to school on a fine autumn morning‚ hurried‚ skipped‚ fluttered by; from the hollow class-rooms came a quick drumming of
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PRESENT SIMPLE TENSE We use the simple present tense to talk about actions and states in the present that do not usually change. Present Habits Ideas Opinions Feelings General Truths and Facts Frequency Adverbs and Expressions Seldom‚ Usually‚ Sometimes‚ Twice a year‚ Weekly ‚ Every‚ Always‚ Often‚ Rarely‚ Never THE PRESENT SIMPLE TENSE He Verb She It 6 A lion eats meat Ahmed goes to school by bus Lila usually watches TV at 8 o’clock + S THE PRESENT SIMPLE TENSE Verb I You They
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"pretty how" town. "Pretty how" seems to describe the superficial lifestyle lived by the members of this town. Anyone is a colorful character in a town of black and white. The poem is written in the past tense‚ and tells a love story between Anyone and Noone. Only in one stanza is the present tense used‚ as they "dream their sleep"‚ which is a happy ending to a bittersweet story. The women and men of the town were not concerned with anyone or Anyone. They didn’t acknowledge anyone unless the other
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request that you be here tomorrow. The Simple Present Subjunctive is also still used in a few traditional expressions. e.g. Long live the King! The past tenses of the Subjunctive‚ and the auxiliary would‚ are used in expressing wishes. e.g. I wish you were here. I wish I had known that. I wish the rain would stop. The past tenses of the Subjunctive‚ and the auxiliary would‚ can also be used in order to indicate that conditions being expressed are false or improbable. e.g. If I
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The analysis of texts 1. Old English – The story of Jacob’s Deceit 17. And hēo sealde him Þone mete Þe heo seaÞ‚ and hlāf; and hē brōhte Þæt his fæder 18. and cwæð: ’Fæder mīn!’ Hē andswarode and cwæð: ’Hwæt eart Þū‚ sunu mīn?’ 19. And Iācob cwæð: ’Ic eom Ēsau‚ Þīn frum-cenneda sunu. Ic dyde swā Þū mē bebude. Ārīs upp and site‚ and et of mīnum huntoðe‚ Þæt Þu me blētsiƷe.’ Translation: 17. And she sold him that meat she boiled‚ and bread‚ and he brought them to his father. 18. and said:
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