english grammar drills part 9 potx

English grammar drills part 8 potx

Ngày tải lên : 01/07/2014, 09:20

... noun is being using to make a generalization is just as much a choice as using a or the Exercise 3 .9 Use the appropriate article in the blank spaces in the following sentences If the sentence makes ... station are always dirty movies, we always get 16 Everyone has to have 17 I’ve just had 18 There was 19 Can I get 21 Susan lost 22 I have idea fire at old Brown place last night information from you? ... answer from real shock when group will be interested in country are losing readers personnel department contractor gave us final bill 43 Post-Noun Modifiers In this chapter we will examine two...

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English grammar drills part 9 pdf

Ngày tải lên : 01/07/2014, 09:20

... Post-Noun Modifiers 49 As you can see, the third-person pronoun substitution test shows that the prepositional phrase ... it can be substituted for the noun and prepositional phrase, proving the prepositional phrase is part of the noun phrase and thus a noun modifier Exercise 4.3 Underline all the prepositional phrases ... talking about earlier are all in their first year here We interviewed the parents whose children participated in the study Did you find a place where we can park overnight? We need to pick a time...

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English grammar drills part 10 potx

Ngày tải lên : 01/07/2014, 09:20

... Dewey suffered at the hand of Truman in 194 8 is the most famous upset in American political history 18 It was not the retirement we had planned for ourselves 19 The type of cowboys we saw in the old ... conference, gave the opening address 18 Any extras that you have should be returned to the ofﬁce 19 We ended up watching a boring game whose outcome was never in doubt 20 The commercials that we ... of adjective clauses that we have given to this point is an accurate picture of formal, written English In casual conversation, however, adjective clauses are simpliﬁed in two different ways:...

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English grammar drills part 11 potx

Ngày tải lên : 01/07/2014, 09:20

... suddenly pulled out in front of me All of the employees in the department went to Larry’s retirement party They went to Larry’s retirement party ... overemphasized It is helpful to think of the restrictive modifier as part of the meaning of the antecedent noun Since the restrictive modifier is part of the meaning of the noun, the restrictive modifier can ... clauses We use indefinite 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 indefinite articles are the...

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English grammar drills part 17 potx

Ngày tải lên : 01/07/2014, 09:20

... decided to How well will he succeed remains to be seen We couldn’t decide what should we wear to the party I was surprised at what did she say What were they serving for lunch was ﬁne with us 10 I...

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English grammar drills part 18 potx

Ngày tải lên : 01/07/2014, 09:20

... helping verbs when we talk about the future, (3) in imperative sentences (commands), and (4) as part of the complement of some verbs Infinitives All infinitives are formed by putting to in front ... what you wish for! X Is careful what you wish for! Verb complements Some verbs use base forms as part of their complements Here are some examples: We made them walk to school I let them finish early ... act in the play The teacher explained what they would next Alice wants to arrive on time for the party Please make as little noise as you can I thought that the train would arrive late as usual...

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English grammar drills part 34 potx

Ngày tải lên : 01/07/2014, 09:20

... American English that it was a few generations ago Exercise 13.5 Change the following statements containing have into both British and American English We have a problem British English American English ... conversational English, nobody seems to follow the rules In listening to casual conversation, you will be surprised at how frequent nonstandard, informal yes-no questions are One study of conversational English ... the main single-word interrogative pronouns arranged by the part of speech that the interrogative pronoun plays: Pronoun Who, whom Part of speech Noun phrase What, which Noun phrase Whose, which...

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English grammar drills part 40 potx

Ngày tải lên : 01/07/2014, 09:20

... return the book to the library for me?” 15 I asked my brother, “Did Mom give you a call about the party?” The formation of indirect information questions is much like the formation of indirect yesno ... “Who knows where the library is?” 10 The cabdriver asked me, “Where you want me to take you?” 2 69 16 Final Review Use the following exercises to test your comprehension of all the lessons in this...

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English Grammar Course - part 9 potx

Ngày tải lên : 25/07/2014, 03:20

... immediately I told him this, but he didn't believe me See more in 9. 7 - 9. 8 2/1 1.1 Coordination Coordination = can be referred to by some grammarians as syndetic (with the presence of coordinators) ... painted his car black and white (a combined process) 11/1 1.3 Clausal Coordination See more in 9. 9 - 9. 20 Coordination Phrasal Clausal • including: + coordinated independent clauses E.g.: She didn't ... coordination of clause of equal status 4/1 1.2 Phrasal Coordination Coordination Phrasal See more in 9. 31 - 9. 43 • including: + coordinated NPs (in different syntactic functions) Clausal E.g.: Peter and...

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English grammar drills part 1 docx

Ngày tải lên : 01/07/2014, 09:20

... ENGLISH GRAMMAR DRILLS This page intentionally left blank ENGLISH GRAMMAR DRILLS Mark Lester New York Chicago San Francisco Lisbon London ... the publisher ISBN: 97 8-0-07-170 190 -7 MHID: 0-07-170 190 -7 The material in this eBook also appears in the print version of this title: ISBN: 97 8-0-07-1 598 11-8, MHID: 0-07-1 598 11-1 All trademarks ... Singapore Sydney Toronto Copyright © 20 09 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc All rights reserved Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act of 197 6, no part of this publication may be reproduced...

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English grammar drills part 2 pps

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... page intentionally left blank Nouns Proper and common nouns There are two basic types of nouns in English: proper nouns and common nouns Proper nouns are the names of speciﬁc individuals, places, ... *Throughout the book, X signifies an incorrect choice or answer Nouns Count nouns Most count nouns in English form their plural by adding a sibilant sound written as -s or -es Plurals formed this way...

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English grammar drills part 3 doc

Ngày tải lên : 01/07/2014, 09:20

... clause 12 clash 13 hedge 14 phone 15 freeze 16 share 17 duty 18 patch 19 allowance 20 sheet For a variety of historical reasons, English has some plurals that are formed in an irregular way 10 Noun ... Phrases stove cough 10 moth 11 day 12 note 13 delay 14 hike 15 tire 16 rain 17 plate 18 grove 19 show 20 pipe If the noun ends in a sibilant sound, either voiceless or voiced, then the plural ... Phrases There are coyotes and wolfs in the area, but their dogs help keep them away The coyotes in particular are like thiefs, always waiting and watching If a coyote gets just a few feets inside...

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English grammar drills part 4 pdf

Ngày tải lên : 01/07/2014, 09:20

... ownership Often we use the possessive form with inanimate nouns to indicate that something is a part or a component of something else For example, consider the following sentence: The computer’s ... screen is a component of the computer In this section, however, we are going to focus solely on how English forms the possessive Before Shakespeare’s time the possessive form of nouns was spelled ... vowel ϩ y: Singular: Possessive: Plural: Plural possessive: boy boy’s boys boys’ Remember, the y is part of the spelling of the vowel and therefore nothing happens to it 16 Noun Phrases Exercise...

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English grammar drills part 5 doc

Ngày tải lên : 01/07/2014, 09:20

... reluctant most foolish most vicious The reason why English has two different sets of comparative and superlative forms is historical Adjectives of native English origin usually form their comparative ... most Adjectives of English origin tend to be one and two syllable words Adjectives of French origin tend to be polysyllabic, that is two, three, and even four syllables Over time, English speakers ... eastern sky moon was rising in the eastern sky Comparative and superlative forms of adjectives English is unusual in that it has not one but two ways of forming the comparative and superlative...

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English grammar drills part 6 ppsx

Ngày tải lên : 01/07/2014, 09:20

... sentence: I am looking for the map Articles 29 The use of the definite article with the noun map tells us that the listener is expected know which particular map the speaker is talking about Following ... noun, compare the following two sentences: Not defined: Defined: Take a bus to 92 nd Street Take the first bus that comes to 92 nd Street In the first example, the noun bus is undefined because it is the ... Sometimes it is surprising what counts in English as normal expectations Perhaps the oddest examples are the names of places and things that are expected in particular environments For example, in...

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English grammar drills part 7 pot

Ngày tải lên : 01/07/2014, 09:20

... As result, traffic 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 indefinite article some in the second sentence signals that the speaker is talking only about one particular group of birds, ... in even had swimming pool We went in pool every day It was fine as long as pool was in sun From apartment we could walk to most of stores we needed The only thing that we had to take car for was...

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English grammar drills part 12 pdf

Ngày tải lên : 01/07/2014, 09:20

... use: My answer was the only correct one I gave him your program It was your decision to make Of particular importance are the possessive pronoun forms that are different from each other: Adjectival ... green card 14 If a visitor stops by, ask him to wait in the library 15 No member of the Republican Party would lend his name to a cause like that Pronouns 75 Reﬂexive pronouns Reﬂexive pronouns...

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English grammar drills part 13 docx

Ngày tải lên : 01/07/2014, 09:20

... gerund 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 ... opposed to the new project themselves 79 Gerunds and Infinitives Gerunds and infinitives are verb forms used as nouns (Infinitives can also be used as other parts of speech, but in this chapter we ... the second column, write the gerund (present participle) form of each verb All of the words follow normal spelling rules Base form Gerund (present participle) advertise advertising amuse become...

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English grammar drills part 14 pdf

Ngày tải lên : 01/07/2014, 09:20

... achieving results 19 Getting off to such a bad start took away from our later successes 20 Seeing is believing One of the hardest things about identifying gerunds is telling apart a verb in a progressive ... general terms, how can we tell when some form of be ϩ a present participle is a progressive tense (be as a helping verb ϩ a present participle verb) or be as a main verb followed by a gerund? Here ... load next semester 19 I wanted to believe that they were telling us the truth 20 To err is human, to forgive is divine Inﬁnitive phrases differ from gerund phrases in one respect English speakers...

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English grammar drills part 15 ppt

Ngày tải lên : 01/07/2014, 09:20

... initial words begin with the letters wh- For example, who, when, where, and why are wh- words) 91 92 Noun Phrases That clauses That clauses are built in a very simple way They consist of the introductory ... I said that we would be able to ﬁnish on time 14 They just assumed that everything would be OK 93 94 Noun Phrases 15 The conclusion was that we should stick to our original plan 16 The kids promised ... Adjective clause: I know that we should change the designs I know designs that we should change 95 96 Noun Phrases The simplest way to distinguish the two different types of clauses is to replace...

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