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    Time and Form

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    language has past and present tenses‚ it does not have a future tense because there is no particle for it. To say what will happen in the future‚ you can use the modal auxiliary will (plus the base form of the main verb)‚ the verb phrase be going to (plus the base form of the main verb‚ the present simple or the present progressive‚ etc… But‚ be careful! There are times when one is preferred over the others. We can accept that there are 7 main ways of this. Take a look at the following examples:

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    subject • predicate • object • predicative (aka complement) • adverbial and adjunct • sentence • clause • phrase Concepts of intra-elemental grammar for the English language • noun • adjective • determiner • verb • adverb • preposition • conjunction • pronoun [edit] Controversy The term is mainly used to distinguish these ideas from those of contemporary linguistics‚ which are intended to apply to a much broader range of

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    Word Choice Fragments‚ Run-On‚ Parallel Structure‚ String/Wordy Sentences‚ Colorful Language‚ Denotation & Connotation‚ All types of Figurative Language (all) 2.3 Parallel vs. Non Parallel 2.5 Wordy Sentence Chart 2.6 Be Specific‚ choose vivid verbs‚ include strong‚ precise modifiers 2.7 Denotation/Connotation…be ready to identify 2.8 Similes‚ Metaphors‚ Personification Extra… Alliteration‚ Hyperbole‚ Oxymoron‚ Idioms‚ Overstatements/Understatements Sentence Variety and Structure 3.3 Independent/Subordinate(Dependent)

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    conundrum - a difficult problem (noun) whet - Make keen or more acute (verb) placate - gain the goodwill of (verb) infructuous - not fruitful; not producing the desired results (Adj) rectitude - Righteousness as a consequence of being honourable and honest(noun) Ex. Rectitude of behaviour expediency - the quality of being suited to the end in view (noun) expedient - appropriate to a purpose / serving to promote your interest (Adj) repugnant - extremely distasteful / in conflict

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    TIMS Model What are the Lesson Objectives: a. The learner will recognize pennies‚ nickels‚ dimes and quarters and their values. b. The learner will practice counting coins. Standards addressed and expectations of students: Math Standards 0006.1.6 Name and identify coins and their values. 0106.1.4 Count the value of a set of coins up to fifty cents. Anticipatory Set: Ask students to get out their fake coins and see if they can tell which one is which while teacher sets up the song

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    Requests and Offers

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    could‚ will‚ would Requests Requests in English are usually made in the form of general questions with the help of the modal verbs MAY‚ CAN‚ COULD‚ WILL‚ WOULD. Requests are pronounced with rising intonation. Adding "please" to a request makes it more polite. As a rule‚ polite requests are not asked in the form of negative questions. The modal verbs MAY‚ COULD‚ WILL‚ WOULD are used in making polite requests in speech and writing‚ in communication with strangers and with people you

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    Loftus and Palmer Review

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    fast the cars were going when they smashed into each other?” and the rest were not interrogated about the speed of the vehicle. After a week had passed‚ subjects were asked‚ “Did you see and broken glass?” and the correlation was made between which verb was used‚ the speed estimated and the subject knowing if there was any broken glass. (Loftus & Palmer‚ 1974). In Experiment 1 it was hypothesized that when the subject hears the word “hit” instead of the word “smashed” they will think that the collision

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    Complementizer That

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    the complementizer “that”. For this study the two variants are that or zero as illustrated respectively in the first and second sentence of the example. Each token was coded with five factor groups: the verbs preceding that or zero (know‚ say‚ think and other verbs as factors)‚ the tense of those verbs (past and present as factors)‚ the gender (Male or Female as factor groups) the age of the speaker (young‚ mature or old as factors) and the education of the speaker (more educated or less educated as

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    Back-Formation

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    of the word. For example‚ the noun resurrection was borrowed from Latin‚ and the verb resurrect was then backformed hundreds of years later from it by removing the ion suffix. This segmentation of resurrection into resurrect + ion was possible because English had examples of Latinate words in the form of verb and verb+-ion pairs‚ such as opine/opinion. These became the pattern for many more such pairs‚ where a verb derived from a Latin supine stem and a noun ending in ion entered the language together

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    varieties of inflections in Azerbaijani language than in English or Persian and; they share some common properties as well as several dissimilarities. English and Persian represent more irregularity in terms of plurality for nouns and affixation for verbs; Azeri incorporates numerous inflections into each category as well. The differences are the major source of difficulties for a native speaker of Azeri or Persian to learn English and vice versa. To overcome this‚ teaching should be effectively and

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