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... tell them apart: ߜ Its/it’s: The first shows possession (the bird grasped a seed in its beak), and the second is a contraction meaning it is ߜ Their/there/they’re: The first shows possession (the ... other words, this section points out some dangers in the pronoun world and shows you how to steer clear of them Specifically, I take you through the wonderful world of its/it’s, their/there/ they’re, ... seeds in their beaks) The second is a location (don’t go there) The third is a contraction meaning they are ߜ Whose/who’s: The first shows possession (the bird whose beak is longest) The second...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 02:22

... because the little brats refused to keep quiet A their The sentence expresses possession, so you want the first choice The second there is location, and the third means they are If you plug they ... and What Is It? The Lowdown on Pronouns Try the following questions Choose the correct word from the choices in parentheses Underline your selection Q Marybelle sewed (their/there/they’re) lips ... like “My aunt and her mother-in-law were happy about her success in the Scrabble tournament,” because you don’t know who had success, the aunt, the mother-in-law, or some other lady College entrance...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 02:22

... Jessica’s?” Q there The meaning of the sentence calls for a location, so there is the one you want R Their The security cameras belong to them, so their is needed to show possession S It’s The sentence ... here the blank precedes the item possessed, fingers Her is the possessive you want I their Because you’re talking about both Jessica and Neil, go for their, the plural J our In this sentence the ... in the sentence: the sculptures and the hubcaps These could refer to either To eliminate the uncertainty, replace these with a more specific statement Rachel was pleased to be allowed to keep the...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 02:22

... Part I: Laying Out the Concrete Slab: Grammar Basics Seeking Out the Subject/Verb Pair The subject/verb pair is the heart and soul of the sentence To check your creation, zero in on the verb At ... properly H ave you heard the story about the child who says nothing for the first five years of his life and then begins to speak in perfect, complete sentences? Supposedly the kid grew up to be ... having eaten through the kibble bag and increased the size of her stomach by at least 50 percent One of the other dogs, biting the vet gently just to make a point about needles and...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 02:22

... complete Make sure that the sentence follows the rules outlined in this chapter instead of counting words Take a test drive with the questions in this section Decide whether the sentence is complete ... Endmarks When you’re speaking, the listener knows you’ve completed a sentence because the thought is complete and your tone says that the end has arrived In writing, the tone part is taken care ... exclamation points scream at the reader Endmarks become complicated when they tangle with quotation marks For tips on endmark/quotation mark interactions, check out Chapter Punch the time clock now and...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 02:22

... connect these two ideas, look for a stronger connection word Then can’t the job Try and then or but then Still another good solution is to replace the comma with a semicolon (; then) Q correct The ... They (S)/lapped (V) The action here is lapped, which unites nicely with they Completeness rules! u incomplete The reader is waiting to hear something about the cow The way the sentence reads now, ... to know about the protesting cow A incomplete The word because implies a cause-and-effect relationship, but the sentence doesn’t supply all the needed information B incomplete What did the mama...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 02:22

... in a list ends and another begins Commas the same thing in sentences Perhaps Professor MacGregor wants you to the following: ߜ Go on the Internet ߜ Locate the origin of the handheld meat patty ... me a minute to shudder at the small but important mistakes (and I don’t mean mistake’s) in bagel signage First of all, the apostrophe (the little hook at the end of the word merchant) is wrong, ... history Inserted into a sentence, the line breaks in the preceding list turn into commas: Professor MacGregor wants you to go on the Internet, locate the origin of the handheld meat patty, and write...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 02:22

... Commas separate the day from the year, the whole date from the rest of the sentence, and each part of the address (the house number and street, city, and state) A comma also follows the address Notice ... audience about the sport? Elboxing is about 5,000 years old Chester It originated in ancient Egypt Really? Man I can’t believe you knew that! 10 Yes, the sport grew out of the natural movement of the ... interrupters: They comment on or otherwise interrupt the main idea of the sentence and thus are set off by commas In these sentences, the interrupters are italicized: Cindy Jones, snaking through the dark...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 02:22

... you tell our audience about the sport? Here you see the benefit of the direct-address comma Without it, the reader thinks I know Mort is the beginning of the sentence and then lapses into confusion ... Cindy, on the other hand, checked the phone number in the pizza directory she had thoughtfully stashed in her purse The expression inside the commas makes a comment on the rest of the sentence, ... and then swam a mile or so for the aerobic benefit The direct address term Mort is in the middle of the sentence, so two commas are needed to cut it away from the main idea o We wish her the...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 02:22

... from other descriptions by a comma The verdict: Delete the comma after two In this sentence the expression sneaking out the back door isn’t an introductory element It’s the subject of the sentence, ... or won the lottery.) With a comma, the italicized material is extra The sentence then means that Oscar will never sell a horse, period The reason — he needs the money — may mean that the horses ... sentence V See the preceding answer W The pronoun I is part of the main idea of the sentence, not an introductory expression No comma should separate it from the rest of the sentence X The phrase...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 02:22

... at the left side of Layout Editor, and arrange them in the layout area, to the right When you click the Run icon , the functioning GUI appears outside the Layout Editor This section covers the ... Area” on page 3-16 • “Running the GUI” on page 3-19 • “Saving the Layout” on page 3-21 • “Renaming GUI Files” on page 3-21 • “Displaying the GUI” on page 3-22 • “Layout Editor Preferences” on page ... the Layout Area You can place a component in the layout area in one of these ways: • Drag the component from the component palette into the layout area and drop it • Select the component in the...

Ngày tải lên: 29/09/2013, 20:20

... Đã làm hướng dẫn không được ? page can not be displayed Ai đó cứu với, khẩn cấp lắm rồi , sau nó dịch toàn bị lỗi the ...

Ngày tải lên: 13/12/2013, 10:08

... generic solution, as further tablets will be launched on the market in the course of the next few months Turning the Page: The Future of eBooks 17 like to read On the other hand, nonbuyers tend ... Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Germany Turning the Page: The Future of eBooks PwC Contents Foreword Management summary Current situation The Book Market The Digital Book: Market of the Future? ... be answered in chapter D Turning the Page: The Future of eBooks 27 Outlook and recommended action The Situation in the Year 2015 The Gutenberg era is not about to come to an end Printed books...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 09:20

... follows the archetype of a story about the battle between good and evil If we look closely at the plot, biblical themes are also apparent Nag, the snake in the garden, is an allusion to the story ... are personified, and they are also given the ability to be able to speak to each other in English The fact that they are able to speak to each other like human beings makes them seem more real ... use the key words and phrases that you identified earlier to outline your answer Write this brief outline in the margin of your page or on scrap paper This outline will help you stick to the...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... Lady Southdown and her daughter The dowager did not say a word about the state of Miss Crawley’s soul; but talked with much discretion about the weather: about the war and the downfall of the monster ... to the window by the romantic appearance of the ocean and the heavens, thought he would further enjoy them while smoking Nobody would smell the tobacco, he thought, if he cunningly opened the ... made themselves heard from the neighbouring drawing-room, where they were thrumming away, with hard fingers, an elaborate music-piece on the piano- forte, as their mother spoke; and indeed, they...

Ngày tải lên: 01/07/2014, 10:20

... using the standard PageRank algorithm After the global PageRank vector computation is completed, they then compared the local PageRank scores of the pages within a given host to the global PageRank ... two pages, that is, more pages point to the Google homepage than to the university’s homepage PageRank bases its ranking on an idea that if there is a link from web page A to web page B, the ... PageRank scores of the pages in the same host Specifically, they took the elements corresponding to the pages in host J of the global PageRank vector π, and form the vector gJ from these elements...

Ngày tải lên: 26/07/2014, 08:17

... and neither are animal species 33 People say that the animals will be endangered in the forest A They said to be endangered in the forest B It is said that the animals will be endangered in the ... powerboat at the other Surfing Surfing is a recreational activity in which individuals paddle into a wave on a surfboard, jump to their feet, and are propelled across the water by the force of the wave ... single sail The sail is connected to the board by a flexible joint The sport is a hybrid between sailing and surfing The sail board might be considered the most minimalist version of the modern...

Ngày tải lên: 27/07/2014, 15:20

... disturbing bias by the authors of the SG report Another example of the same bias is the way in which a study by Perkins et al [20] is presented in the SG report The authors of the report refer ... that the success of the treatment was associated more with smokers’ beliefs about whether or not they received nicotine than with whether or not they actually received nicotine [79] Note that the ... about 35% of the nicotine that heavy smokers would extract from their cigarettes for 12 weeks Participants would then be followed up for 12 weeks If the nicotine addiction thesis presented by the...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:20

... ill patients Furthermore, the significance Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Acknowledgement The authors thank Jeanette Mikulic for her assistance with preparation of the manuscript ... noise will depend in part on the number of other factors examined as potential contributors to sleep disruption Nonetheless, this paper lays the groundwork for further research in this area by ... conclusion with respect to the impact of noise on sleep disruption in the ICU A third factor that may account for the discrepancy in reported results is the breadth and depth of the study question Investigators...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:20