English grammar drills part 35 docx

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... writing out the exercises. English Grammar Drills is organized into three parts: Part 1 covers noun phrases, the fi rst of the two fundamental building blocks of English grammar. Noun phrases function ... achiev- ing a native-like command of English grammar. While the book covers most areas of English grammar, it has a heavy concentration on those aspects of grammar that h...

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... problem with mouses and rats. 3. She and her husband run the farm by themselfes, so it is a lot of work for them. (i-viiiB,001 -32 8B) whl bk.indd 11 3/ 16/09 12 :33 :54 PM Nouns 7 Singular Plural fl ... form /s/ /z/ fl ame fl ames 1. three 2. trick 3. stool 4. history 5. wall 6. rake 7. play (i-viiiB,001 -32 8B) whl bk.indd 7 3/ 16/09 12 :33 :54 PM 6 Noun Phrases /k/ back-ba...

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... wives wives’ 1. dog 2. horse 3. tree 4. lady 5. fox 6. tooth 7. play 8. worker 9. shelf 10. man 11. studio 12. place 13. fl y 14. child 15. woman The pronunciation ... possessive: boys’ Remember, the y is part of the spelling of the vowel and therefore nothing happens to it. (i-viiiB,001-328B) whl bk.indd 15 3/16/09 12:33:55 PM 14 Noun Phrases Of course the...

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... hit of the party. cupcakes were the hit of the party. Predicate adjective: The cupcakes were . The cupcakes were . True adjective: . (i-viiiB,001-328B) whl bk.indd 20 3/16/09 12:33 :56 PM Adjectives ... (the base form), but (i-viiiB,001-328B) whl bk.indd 21 3/16/09 12:33 :56 PM Adjectives 25 13. physical 14. strange 15. probable 16. recent 17. available 18. developed 19. sha...

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... Sometimes it is surprising what counts in English as normal expectations. Perhaps the odd- est examples are the names of places and things that are expected in particular environments. For example, ... for the offi ce. 6. We need to pick topic that everyone will identify with. 7. engineer employed by a subcontractor fi led a complaint. (i-viiiB,001-328B) whl bk.indd 31 3/ 16/ 09 12:33:57...

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... result, traffi c is just awful. They were renting apartment in Santa Monica, really nice town on beach about twenty miles from center of city. apartment building they lived in even had swimming ... about all birds, not any particular group of birds. The presence of the indefi nite article some in the second sentence signals that the speaker is talking only about one particular group of bird...

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... readers. 24. I never get clear answer from personnel department. 25. We got real shock when contractor gave us fi nal bill. (i-viiiB,001-328B) whl bk.indd 43 3/16/09 12:33:59 PM Articles 41 Dogs ... required. 15. When I travel overseas, sleep becomes big problem for me. (i-viiiB,001-328B) whl bk.indd 41 3/16/09 12:33: 58 PM ... friends before next weekend Preposition Pronoun object with...

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... new coat at the mall. (i-viiiB,001-328B) whl bk.indd 49 3/16/ 09 12:33: 59 PM Post-Noun Modifi ers 51 We interviewed the parents whose children participated in the study. We interviewed them. Did ... with friends is always a great pleasure. (i-viiiB,001-328B) whl bk.indd 48 3/16/ 09 12:33: 59 PM Post-Noun Modifi ers 49 As you can see, the third-person pronoun substitution test shows tha...

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... is a city dreams seldom come true. 10. Do you remember the year Donna graduated from college? 11. The meals you get at camp leave a lot to be desired. 12. English is especially diffi cult for ... of. 9. The committee arranged meetings with all the candidates that they wanted to interview. 10. I phoned all the people that were on my list. 11. The members that wanted to renew had to fi...

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... overemphasized. It is helpful to think of the restrictive modifi er as part of the meaning of the antecedent noun. Since the restrictive modifi er is part of the meaning of the noun, the restrictive modifi er ... We use indefi nite articles to signal that the hearer is not expected to know in advance which particular noun we are talking about. In this sense, common nouns with indefi nite...

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... phrases Gerunds are the present participle forms of verbs. Present participles are formed by adding -ing to the base (or dictionary) forms of verbs. Present participles are mostly regular. The ... nitives Gerunds and infi nitives are verb forms used as nouns. (Infi nitives can also be used as other parts of speech, but in this chapter we will deal only with infi nitives used as nouns.) Here ar...

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... meetings. 10. The defendant denied he had ever been to Chicago. (i-viiiB,001-328B) whl bk.indd 98 3 /16/ 09 12:34:06 PM Noun Clauses 99 Wh- clauses The second type of noun clause always begins with ... the letters wh Here are the most common wh- words that begin noun clauses, classifi ed by their parts of speech: NOUNS what whatever which whichever who whoever whom whomever whose ADVERB...

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... next. (i-viiiB,001-328B) whl bk.indd 235 3/16/09 12:34:23 PM 234 Sentences 10. They plan to stay in Los Angeles how long. The way information questions in English are formed differs in two ... However, as you know, English also requires that the subject and verb be inverted and that we insert do if there is no other suitable helping verb to be the tense-carrying verb. Thus Engl...

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... salmons, salmon 10. lifes , lives (i-viiiB,001-328B) whl bk.indd 295 3/16/09 12:34:31 PM 294 English Grammar Drills Exercise 16.35 (Chapter 15: Direct and indirect quotation) Convert the following ... c is just awful. They were renting an apartment in Santa Monica, a really nice town on the beach about twenty miles from the center of the city. The apartment building they lived in even...

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