15.1 Action Verbs Identifying Transitive Verbs | | Transitive Verb | Object | 1. | Firemen pulled the child from the burning car. | pulled | Try Again | 2. | After a long trip‚ we finally reached Atlanta. | reached | Atlanta | 3. | Judy left her jacket in her school locker. | Try Again | jacket | 4. | After dinner‚ I enjoy a rich dessert. | enjoy | dessert | 5. | The sergeant ordered his troops to halt. | ordered | troops | 6. | Each of us named our favorite rock group. | named |
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1. Choose the sentence in which the subjects and verbs have been correctly identified and in which the subjects and verbs agree. The subjects are in bold and the verbs are underlined. Correct Answer: C At the end of the story‚ they were living happily ever after. (or were) Explanation: Use a plural verb with a plural subject. 2. Choose the sentence in which the subjects and verbs have been correctly identified and in which the subjects and verbs agree. The subjects are in bold and the verbs
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English Grammar BIL 3013 Semester 1 Session 2012/2013 Associate Professor Doctor Abdul Halim Ibrahim Assignment 1 Ways Of Building Vocabulary Name: Tan Seng Cheng Matric Number: D20121058134 Vocabulary is the knowledge of words and morphemes. There are two kinds of words‚ form class words and structure class words. Form class words are words that independently have meaning even if it stands alone or have lexical meaning. For example‚ words like cat‚ dog and house. This class can be
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The Drover’s wife Exposition Outline of the setting – desolated‚ harsh environment‚ poor living‚ bleak‚ Australian bush Outline meaning sketch which is the narrative form of his writing‚ the first two paragraphs are pretty brief about its setting Techniques Technique Example Explain Tone – unequivocal (clear‚ leaving no doubt) ‘near waterless creek’ ‘nothing to relieve the eye’ describes harsh and barren landscape Use of accumulation “built of round timber‚ slabs and stringy-bark‚ and floored with
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Name: Nuzhat Khan Date: 21/04/2015 I confirm that this is my own work Signed: Please submit this cover sheet with your assignment Language Assignment Pass (1st submission) Pass (2nd submission) Fail If necessary‚ please resubmit by: Assignment criteria For this assignment‚ candidates can demonstrate their learning by: a. Analysing language correctly for teaching purposes. b. Correctly using terminology relating to meaning‚ phonology and
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Seminar 1 I Она окинула взглядом Гофер-Прери. Снег‚ сплошной пеленой затянувший всё от улиц до всепоглощающих прерий‚ срывал с города маску тихого пристанища. Дома были лишь черными пятнами на белом полотне. a) snow stretching without break Semantics: the transference of the mode of action; common semantic characteristic – duration of the process; Originality: genuine; Expressiveness: the gap between associated modes is quite wide; Syntactic function: verb; Vividness: vivid‚ the reality is shown
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TARGET SENTENCE 1I’m meeting Dave for lunch on Sunday – Elementary Level / Grammar ANALYSIS | D ANTICPATED PROBLEMS | A MEANING You have plans to eat with Dave on Sunday So it is…. A planned future event This is an event that will happen in the future. | SS think because is present tense of [to be]‚ that this event is now / in the present. SS may not think it is a definite arrangement‚ more of a plan. Confusion with “meat”? Unlikely in this case | B PRONUNCIATION
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A Verbal Warning Will I ever use this in real life? With this representing one of the most frequently asked questions in my classroom over the years‚ it serves as a test for myself in regards to the use of Standard English grammar rules‚ specifically those in regards to the use of verbs. From the earliest of elementary-level instruction‚ verbs are introduced and their relationships are built with the other parts of speech such as nouns‚ adjectives‚ and adverbs. They represent themselves in active
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Winter Syntax by Billy Collins In the poem‚ "Winter Syntax"‚ Billy Collins writes about the difficulties of writing literature through the representation of a "lone traveler" and his adventures through a blizzard. Collins talks about the important aspects of good writing. He starts off the poem emphasizing the importance of the first sentence and how it is analogous to a lone traveler going through a tough blizzard. By using the analogy of the traveler‚ Collins allows readers to vicariously imagine
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International Journal of English Studies UMVERSITV OF MURCIA http://revistas.um.es/ijes The Art of Balance: A Corpus-assisted Stylistic Analysis of Woolfian Parallelism in To the Lighthouse MINGZHU ZHAO Minzu University of China Received: 5 February 2012 / Accepted: 6 July 2012 ABSTRACT This study has a two-fold objective: 1) to examine the density and variety of parallelism in Virginia Woolfs landmark novel To the Lighthouse through a sample-based comparison between this novel and other representative
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