Writting good or well 5 ppt

... Superlative Good or well Better Best Bad or ill Worse Worst Much or many More Most Take a stab at this section’s practice exercises, but don’t go to the -ER if your aim is faulty and you put the wrong form ... 16: For Better or Worse: Forming Comparisons 23 _59 9321 ch16.qxp 4/3/06 11:30 PM Page 207 ߜ Check the dictionary if you’re not sure of the correct form. The entry for the p...

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... an, not a. 64 55 7 5 85 06 46 2 6 84 05 35 74 94 5 6 65 9 5 16 36 25 45 15 Dollars’ Clothing: Fashions That Work A–D. Surprising Surprisingly comfortably comfortable suits for work and leisure. ... descriptive words are underlined, but only some of them are wrong. Look for adjectives trying to do an adverb’s job (and vice versa) or the wrong sort of articles. When you fin...

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... this posture is. 44 94 05 15 2 5 3 5 84 54 64 74 Yoga and Y’all: An Excerpt If you only learn only one yoga posture, this should be it. Even Bbeginners can even do it. To form the “Greeting Turtle ... Another, more concise correction is to delete “that is blue” and simply say, “blue sky.” 22 _59 9321 ch 15. qxp 4/3/06 11:31 PM Page 203 199 Chapter 15: Going on Location: Placing Desc...

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... Helen get angry), go for the comparative, with -er for the short word and more for the two-syllable word. i pettiest, more annoyingly or less annoyingly. The argument had more than two moments, ... syllables. r more forcefully. This sentence compares his force to the force of a truck. Two things in one comparison gives you comparative form, which is created by more for long words. s most .....

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... establishment. Correcting the errors may involve adding, removing, or rearranging quite a few words. Note: Often more than one correction is possi- ble. I supply one answer for each error in the following ... that each is correct. Here’s an example and a practice set of exercises. If you find an error, rewrite the sentence. Note: More than one correction is possible with this sort of error....

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... sure that they’re very close to the word they describe. Except for a few place or time descriptions, nearly every multiword description directly fol- lows the word it describes, as in these sentences: I ... said. ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ 191 Chapter 15: Go...

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... crosswalk. ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ 193 Chapter 15: Going on Location: Placing Descriptions Correctly 22 _59 9321 ch 15. qxp 4/3/06 11:31 PM Page 193 A. The senator speaking voted against the Clarity Bill last week. Or, The senator who spoke ... sentence is...

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... cute. Another form of illogic that pops up in comparisons is overkill: the use of both -er and more or less or -est and most or least. You can be either sillier or more silly, but not more sillier. 217 Chapter ... face is unattractiver more unattractive than Sally’s, and you’ll have to look at him all day if he is president. 213 Chapter 16: For Better or Worse: Forming Comparisons...

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... little errors (like wearing something that isn’t black in New York City) that sabotage your writing. 30 _59 9321 pt5.qxp 4/3/06 8 :50 PM Page 228 n Singing a shower song with a thick New York accent, ... the most important, if not the most important, provisions of the law. Or, Elizabeth concentrated on one of the most important provisions of the law, if not the most important. The original i...

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... say, present to past tense, or from first person (the I form) to third (the he or they form). Nor should a sentence drift from singular to plural without good reason. For help with verbs, check ... way. Chapter 20 concerns the little errors (like wearing something that isn’t black in New York City) that sabotage your writing. 30 _59 9321 pt5.qxp 4/3/06 8 :50 PM Page 228 233 Chapter 18:...

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