Subject-Verb Agreement The following are common rules on subject-verb agreement: 1. Nouns in plural form but singular in meaning take a singular verb. a. Statistics is my favorite subject. b. Measles attack the whole town. 2. Plural titles of the books‚ periodicals‚ films‚ and the like take a singular verb. a. Great Expectations is our favorite. b. The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People is my favorite book. 3. Use do for plural subjects and does for
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Writing an Effective Statement of Interest As part of the application process for certain positions‚ you may be asked to write a statement of interest. Before proceeding‚ please take a few minutes to review this information on how to write an effective statement. Effective statements of interest: 1. Answer the question or address the issues to which you are asked to respond. (E.g.‚ “Of the three projects stated‚ identify the one which is of greatest interest to you and detail the skills that
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even if you don’t look at it again. Your thoughts are like dreams‚ if you don’t write it down‚ you will probably forget it later. • Adverbs tell instead of show—“She is happy.” vs. “She smiles.” • Show‚ NOT tell! Showing uses more words. Use action verbs and not adjectives or adverbs. • Detail is the life of the work. Avoid unnecessary detailed descriptions such as weight‚ height‚ etc. • Don’t worry about language‚ but get to the point/story. Don’t worry about poetic words; don’t let them get in
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The first grouping I have chosen is C‚ D and E. These three extracts have the same mode‚ which is to be read. Extract C is an account written in first person we know this as he uses a first person singular pronoun ‘I’. He uses personal pronouns as it is the man’s account of what happened at the time of the event‚ the extract is him recalling personal events. We know from the content it is to be read as it is evidence of an eye witness given to the US enquiry into the sinking of the Titanic‚ therefore
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begin to comprehend language about twice as fast as they are able to produce it. Two Words: The third stage begins around the age of 18 months‚ when children begin to use two word sentences. These sentences usually consist of just nouns and verbs‚ such as "Where daddy?" and "Puppy big!" Multi-word Sentences: Around the age of two‚ children begin to produce short‚ multi-word sentences that have a subject and predicate. For example‚ a child might say "Mommy is nice" or "Want more candy
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are) who whose (not who’s‚ a contraction of who is) Other Common Errors everyday (adjective) vs. every day (noun) lead (present tense) vs. led (past tense) irregardless is not a word‚ don’t use it then (adverb) vs. than (conjunction) lose (verb) vs. loose (mainly an adjective) data is the plural of datum e.g.‚ (for example) vs. i.e.‚ (that is) "This applies to universities in the DC Metro Area (e.g.‚ The Johns Hopkins University)." "This refers to the best business school in the DC
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ASSIGNMENT 1 - FOCUS ON THE LEARNER PART A I interviewed a 26-year-old Italian in the Elementary English Class. He is a student at the University of Verona‚ studying International law. He can be described as both extrinsic and intrinsic learner because he said he is learning English for basically two purposes; first‚ for the course he is studying ’International Law’‚ which involves global communication‚ so with English he will be able to deal with international clients in the future. His
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matter-of-fact and stereotyped forms of expression; special syntactic structures motivated by the need of brevity and compactness of expression: (a) complex sentences with a developed system of clauses; (b) constructions with non-finite forms of the verb (infinitive‚ participle‚ gerund) (c) attributive noun groups; (e) special word order; (f) absence of strictness in observing “sequence of tenses”. B. Advertisements and Announcements There are two basic types of advertisements and announcements
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Make a few notes on the cards for those words so you will know them better when you see them again. Now‚ sort the words again. Put them in three groups: adjectives‚ nouns and verbs. Use a dictionary or online dictionary to check and see if you’re right. (Hint: you should have 9 adjectives‚ 8 nouns‚ and 3 verbs.) One more sort! Sort your words in to groups that show the connotation you have for each word. (Feel free to revisit lesson #2.02 to review connotation.) Create a group of
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Change the following sentences into untrue conditional statements. In order to do this exercise correctly‚ you must 1. Decide if the sentence is about situation B or C‚ 2. Use the appropriate conditional verb forms for the if and result clauses (look at the chart in Lesson 2 on conditional verb forms). 3. Total 25 points Example 1: Maria feels tired all the time because she goes to bed so late. RESULT CONDITION (B) But if Maria didn’t
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