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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COMPOUND PERSONAL PRONOUNS: NOTES: 1. Reflexive pronouns act as the object of the verb‚ but they reflect the action back to the subject. These pronouns will always be the same person or thing as the subject. Ex. She blamed herself for the mishap. He hurt himself yesterday. 2. Intensive pronouns simply add force or emphasis to a noun or pronoun that is already in the sentence. Ex. You yourself wrote those words. I prepared the meal myself. EXERCISES: Tell whether the underlined
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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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a particular theme/ subject Sentence- grammar‚ a grammatical unit of 1 or more words that express an independent sentence Paragraph- a distinct portion of written matter dealing with a certain idea noun Noun- describes a person‚ place‚ or thing Verb- expresses action‚ state or a relation between two things that may inflected for tense
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