Order of Adjectives & Comma Use with Paired Adjectives In English‚ it is common to use more than one adjective before a noun. For example‚ we can write "He’s a funny young boy‚" or "She’s a smart‚ energetic woman." When you use more than one adjective‚ you have to put them in the right order‚ according to type. It is correct to write‚ "I have a small red car"‚ but it is not correct to write‚ "I have a red small car". When you use two adjectives together‚ you sometimes use "and" between them and you
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Ayoshna Ganesh Mrs. Stafford—Zero Hour AP English Literature—Comprehension questions 12 September 2013 “A Pair of Tickets” 1. The use of the train ride into a city in China provides and an appropriate introduction to the narrator “becoming Chinese‚” because it symbolizes the journey she is having. Plus most people reflect on things during longer trips and it gives her a chance to reflect on things that her mom has said and what her mom has done for her. In turn it provides a reader about the
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From the first breath of life‚ people begin to develop a sense of who they are. Cultural heritage is the source of identity and the key to what sets nations apart from one another. Amy Tan’s short story “A Pair of Tickets” illustrates the journey that a mother and a daughter face trying to understand the different cultures and perspectives of the Chinese and American way of thinking. Through the use of setting and theme‚ Tan demonstrates the importance of family‚ heritage‚ and identity. From a young
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"A Pair of Tickets" A message I think the author Amy Tan is trying to give in "A Pair of Tickets" is the importance of knowing your heritage. The beginning starts off with a young lady named Jing Mei and her father on a train in China to visit their estranged family for the first time in years‚ but it’ll be Jei Ming first time ever. Jing Mei never felt like she had Chinese in her at all‚ because
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The short story ’A Pair of Tickets’ is a component of a novel ’The Joy Luck Club’ by Amy Tan which focuses on a woman fulfilling the lifelong wish of her mother. The title symbolizes the discovery of the narrator’s identity‚ and the soul of her emotional nature and feelings towards her mother. The setting in this story changes the soul of the narrator as she begins to discover things about herself and her two different cultures. As the story progresses‚ she begins to question things in her life
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Analysis of the data After analyzing the data collected‚ there are several interesting findings. To begin with‚ the most unaccepted behavior is cutting line (Scenario 3). Cutting line is the only scenario getting the point below 1.5 in all ten points and the analysts indicated that this will be the activity they are very unlikely to do in both homeland and vacation (Fig.1). The reason may due to the social norms. An article showed that ‘first come first served’ preference is the elementary idea
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The Twisted Mind of a Serial Killer As police walk into an abandoned house‚ a foul stench overtakes them. The room is dim and looks as though no one has been here for months. They walk further into the house and begin to see spots of blood on the floor. They follow this trail down the stairs into the basement where the smell becomes overwhelming‚ causing some of the officers to gasp and run back up the stairs. In the basement‚ they find the remains of several young boys who have been molested
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What is Think‚ Pair‚ Share?Think-Pair-Share is a strategy designed to provide students with "food for thought" on a given topics enabling them to formulate individual ideas and share these ideas with another student. It is a learning strategy developed by Lyman and associates to encourage student classroom participation. Rather than using a basic recitation method in which a teacher poses a question and one student offers a response‚ Think-Pair-Share encourages a high degree of pupil response and
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comparison of one thing with another thing that has similar features. In this questions ‚ the student is given pairs of words which share some relation or the other. Along with a question pair of words‚ there are pairs of words as options. The student is required to identify the relationship of the words given in the question pair. Keeping this relation in mind‚ the student should find out the pair of words from the given options that bears the same or similar relation between them. However‚ the given
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Pair Trading Educational Course – Part 1 Contrary to popular belief the market has logic to it. The market is efficient most of the time‚ which is stocks are priced accurately according to all the known and forecast information. The truest logic running through markets is that of relative value‚ all assets are worth something in relation to something else. Take gold for example; when you buy gold you are going short the dollar too. Stocks‚ when you buy stocks you are going short cash. Stocks‚ bonds
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