too many words that will later require cutting back 2. Replace phrases with single words. There are always opportunities to say more with less. For example: Phrasal verbs‚ such as "ask for" or "put up with"‚ can often be replaced with single verbs‚ such as "request‚" "tolerate". Replace "at the same time" with "simultaneously" and "by the same token" with "similarly." The adverb "immediately" can be used in lieu of phrases such as "right now" and "as soon as." Replace full clauses such as
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Introduction Scope The Basic Grammar course is designed to provide the Marine sergeant with a basic knowledge of English grammar and composition fundamentals. It includes a review of the parts of speech‚ the basic elements of writing including phrases‚ clauses‚ sentence structure‚ punctuation‚ capitalization‚ and spelling‚ and an overview of composition fundamentals from outlining to final proofing. References The following reference was used in the writing of this course: Effective Army Writing Subcourse
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paragraph in which all the sentences are relevant to the controlling idea of the topic sentence‚ but it may leave your reader somewhat confused. Somehow‚ the paragraph lacks smoothness and clarity - the ideas are mixed up‚ the sentences are not clearly and logically related‚ the writing has no rhythm. In short‚ the paragraph lacks coherence. There are three devices that will help us to achieve coherence in our writing. They are: * TRANSITIONAL WORDS AND PHRASES THAT SHOW SPECIFIC KINDS
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How to Use Transitional Devices By eHow Contributor Writer All writers use transitional devices these are words/phrases that help us transition from sentence to sentence‚ paragraph to paragraph. They are used to keep the writing fluid or flowing. Consequently‚ if you use them properly there will be no breaks or jumps from idea to idea. Other People Are Reading * How to Adjust a Transit Level * How to Read a Transit Level * ------------------------------------------------- *
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HOW TO SPEAK GOOD ENGLISH A calm and pleasant afternoon to everybody present here. I’m R.M.Sanjana and I’m here to give an oral presentation on “How to speak good English”. First of all‚ I’d like to tell you that‚ being able to speak a language is in no way related to how smart you are. Anyone can learn how to speak any language. This is a proven fact around the world. Well‚ everyone can speak at least one language. Whether you are intelligent‚ or lacking some brain power‚ you are able to speak
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sporadic mentionings of his name. What also is obvious is this story is the constant repetition of "Amontillado" by Fortunato. 11)How rich is the texture of his sentence? Does his style abound in modifying structures? Are these mainly free? 	The texture of this story is basically made up of a series of prepositional phrases that can be found in his descriptive and narrative passages. There is also use of interrupters as in‚ "One evening during the supreme madness of..." What also can
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applications involving natural language‚ the underlying predicate-argument structure of sentences can be useful. The syntactic analysis of language provides a means to explicitly discover the various predicate-argument dependencies that may exist in a sentence. In natural language processing‚ the syntactic analysis of natural language input can vary from being very low-level‚ such as simply tagging each word in the sentence with a part of speech‚ or very high level‚ such as recovering a structural analysis
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a wrong doing or mistake. The author makes this comment through repetition‚ connotation‚ and a change in syntax from long‚ complex sentences to shortened and more simplistic sentences. The reader is indulged in the selfishness of the protagonist through the repetition of the phrase “I want” along with the repetition of pronouns such as I‚ you‚ and they. The phrase I want is continuously repeated because it illustrates the protagonists ambition and selfishness.
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He is clever. (adj) 1. Five Basic Sentences ( ၅ He is here. (adv) ) ၅ He is in the garden. (phrase) S‚ V ( ) 1) S + V 2) S + V + C V = Verb 3) S + V + O C = Complement 4) S + V + I.O + D.O I.O = Indirect Object 5) S + V + O + C D.O = Direct Object (complement) S = Subject (၁) S + V A boy comes. She sleeps. They walk. (၄) 1) Noun (student) 2) Adjective (clever) 3) Adverb (here) 4) Phrase (in the garden) _ He gives
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Speech: Pronouns * PRONOUN: a word that replaces a noun without specifying a name. * He was tired. In this sentence‚ he is the pronoun‚ replacing the name of the person who was tired (Jack was tired) or some other identifier (The boy was tired). * ANTECEDENT: the word to which a pronoun refers. * Because Jack left in a hurry‚ he forgot his lunch. In this sentence‚ Jack is the antecedent and he is the pronoun. Types of pronoun * DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUNS: the words this‚ these
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