SENTENCE PATTERNS: SAMPLES 1. S--Vi--(Adv.) (Subject--Intransitive Verb--Adverb‚ usually optional) The man coughed (loudly). The audience laughed. The guest has arrived. The children walked down the street. The waiter hurried away from the door. Note: An intransitive verb is an action verb that does not require a direct object or a complement to complete its meaning. The word "intransitive" literally means "does not carry across." Therefore‚ the action of the verb does not transfer
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"wh-" questions about the underlined parts of the following sentences: 1. The English teacher gave us a test last week. 2. People often go to pubs in London because they have accessible prices. 3. The top model is wearing a silver dress tonight. 4. The weather was warm and sunny yesterday. 5. Nothing has happened so far. 10 points (5 x2p= lOp) SUBJECT II Find the mistake and write the correct sentences on your answer sheet. (Some sentences may be correct). 1. A snake hasn’t got legs. 2. When
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nature. The last sentence (and‚ in fact‚ this one) have probably never been produced before in the history of the world. the same is true for much of what we say every day. So‚ we do not seem to learn or to speak language by purely imitating other people. How are we able to judge whether a sentence sounds okay? Can we literally have a list of sentences in our mind against which we check each new sentence we hear? Chomsky argues not‚ since our brains are finite but English is potentially
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Experienced writers use a variety of sentences to make their writing interesting and lively. Too many simple sentences‚ for example‚ will sound choppy and immature while too many long sentences will be difficult to read and hard to understand. This page contains definitions of simple‚ compound‚ and complex sentences with many simple examples. The purpose of these examples is to help the ESL/EFL learner to identify sentence basics including identification of sentences in the short quizzes that follow
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Business Horizons (2005) 48‚ 431 — 441 www.elsevier.com/locate/bushor Integrated marketing as management of holistic consumer experience Shu-pei Tsai Department of Public Relations and Advertising‚ Shih Hsin University‚ Taiwan (116) No. 1‚ Lane 17‚ Sec. 1‚ Mu Cha Road‚ Taiwan‚ ROC KEYWORDS IMC; Experiential marketing paradigm; Holistic consumer experience; Brand value structure Abstract In a bid to combine the two major perspectives (strategic communications and strategic brand management)
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Integrative Negotiation Andrea Stevenson Grantham University BA303: Business Negotiations Marcus Ellison Carnevale presents eight completely different ways for achieving integrative agreements within the Circumplex‚ which I tend to discuss in the following. Solutions move from easier‚ distributive agreements to additional advanced and comprehensive‚ integrative ones‚ and there are many methods to finding joint gain. I will be illustrated all the methods by example of Alex and John‚ the
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Alexandra George Dr. Goldberg 4 February 2013 WWII Extra Credit The Forgotten 500 by Gregory Freeman is an untold story of a rescue undertaken by a group of men (the OSS- eventually the CIA)‚ using aircraft to rescue five hundred and twelve downed airmen from the mountains in Nazi occupied Yugoslavia. The airmen had to avoid capture while awaiting a rescue‚ some for months others for a year or more. With the aid of the Serbian people and General Mihailovich‚ who loved Americans and resisted
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ISC 2009 Class X -English Question paper General Instructions: 1. Attempt all four question. 2. The intended marks for questions or parts of questions are given in brackets. 3. You are advised to spend not more than 35 minutes in answering Question 1 and 20 minutes in answering Question 2. Question 1 (Do not spend more than 35 minutes on this question). Write a composition (350 – 400 words) on any one of the following:- (25 Marks) 1. Recall a remarkable event of social importance in your city or
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Sentence Structure and Avoiding Run-on Sentences Sentence Structure Depending on the number and type of clauses they contain‚ sentences are classified as simple‚ compound‚ complex‚ compound-complex. 1. Simple Sentences A simple sentence contains only one independent clause. Without dancing‚ life would not be fun. A simple sentence can also contain compound elements (subject‚ verb‚ object). Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak. (compound verb) 2. Compound sentences
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SIMPLE SENTENCE A simple sentence‚ also called an independent clause‚ contains a subject and a verb‚ and it expresses a complete thought. In the following simple sentences‚ subjects are in yellow‚ and verbs are in green. A. Some students like to study in the mornings. B. Juan and Arturo play football every afternoon. C. Alicia goes to the library and studies every day. COMPOUND SENTENCE A compound sentence contains two independent clauses joined by a coordinator. The coordinators are as
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