Simple Past Tense * Expresses an activity/ activities that happened at a specific time in the past. * From : V + d‚ ed‚ ied Irregular verb action verb * Negative – did + not + base V Was/were ‘be’ verb * Negative – was/were + not * Time expression : yesterday‚ two days ago last year‚ just now‚ in 1998 * Example : 1. Mariam finished her homework last night 2. They graduated two years ago.
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The Past‚ Present and Future Throughout the last 50 years‚ humanity has witnessed many changes that have attired and changed our lives in many ways. The emergence of technology in our lives‚ for example‚ has caused life to become simpler by making connections easier between people. Changes such as these have caused many differences between each generation. Whilst comparing the life of our generation and our parent’s generation we can see that various aspects have changed like technology‚ education
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A Separate Peace: The Price of Jealousy On the surface‚ A Separate Peace‚ written by John Knowles in 1959‚ is a tale of two boys and the events that take place between them one school year during World War Two. Behind the simple storyline‚ however‚ lies a deeply woven web of symbols‚ themes‚ and lessons that are all of great significance and relevance to our lives today. Perhaps one of the most important concepts we can learn from this novel is how we‚ as a species‚ create our own enemies due
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Past and Current Trends Daniel Muldoon Psy/425 May 20th‚ 2013 Barbara Nosal Past and Current Trends Illicit drug use in the United States has been around for many years. Just because it has been around for this long does not mean that it is good for the people. This type of illegal activity has been known to bring around violence‚ gangs‚ prostitution‚ and other illegal activities. To see how the use of illegal drugs has evolved‚ one must look at the past trends of drug use and the current
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The theme of A Separate peace is self-identity. Gene goes through the same identity crisis‚ but his crisis resolves not around war‚ but Finny. Gene’s admiration for and jealousy of his friend is so great that he literally loses himself in Finny. At the time when Finny is injured‚ he feels that he doesn’t exist. Gene’s personal identity is so wrapped up in Finny that in order to become an individual with his own identity‚ he has to destroy Finny. The first example of identity is at the beginning when
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Compare and contrast the way the childhood is presented in "Piano" by D.H. Lawrence‚ "My parents kept me from children who were rough" by Stephen Spender and "Half-past two" by U. A. Fanthorpe In all three poems the poets present childhood in different and exceptional way. In "Piano"‚ childhood is presented in a very idealistic way. The poet is remembering the good old times when he was sitting under the piano and listening to his mother tenderly singing a powerful song. He remembers his loving
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Numbers 1‚2‚and 4 1. In the book A Separate Piece‚ I understood and connected with both characters very well. The character I would say I sympathized more with is Gene. I sympathized more with Gene because Gene had a lot of the same feelings in the book that I have. An example In the book is when Gene thought that Finny was trying to draw him away from his studies so that he wouldn’t be the head of the class but was never really doing that. I can relate because sometimes I feel the same way
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experiences. This definition‚ however‚ reveals only a fraction of the truth about memory. Memory can be a friend‚ though a fickle one at best‚ or it can be a relentless enemy‚ ever haunting ‚ even in sleep. But I believe memory serves as a funnel to the past. Most of my early childhood is but a fog‚ filled with little snippets of memories: a family party which I rode around in a little red pedal car in a black dress and red shirt‚ or the Christmas I got SnoozeNSnore Ernie‚ the tea parties I would throw
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Throughout the novel A Separate Peace‚ John Knowles depicts a character-versus-self conflict through Gene Forrester’s‚ the protagonist‚ progressively worsening insecurities and a major epiphany. During his time at the Devon Boarding School‚ Gene shares a dormitory with his best friend Phineas‚ Finny. However‚ Gene’s jealousy of Finny’s natural athletic ability and leadership qualities causes him to create an internal conflict due to his low self esteem. His covetousness of Finny flourishes to the
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