... Second Edition Writing Better English FORESLLEARNERS This page intentionally left blank Second Edition Writing Better English FORESLLEARNERS ED SWICK New York Chicago San Francisco ... anyone else for any inaccuracy, error or omission, regardless of cause, in the work or for any damages resulting therefrom McGraw-Hill has no responsibility for the content of any information accessed ... Set a standard of quality for yourself and conform to it Use the Answer Key not only to check your work but also to find suggestions for how to write appropriate sentences for any of the exercises...
... learning-based approach Therefore, we constructed a large-scale tense/aspect corpus from Lang-8,3 a social networking service forlearners of foreign languages ESLlearners post their writing ... both sentences, we use the feature main-clause for the verb phrase pours, and sub-clause for the verb phrase rains along with the feature conj:when for both verb phrases Regarding p-tmod, we extract ... errors We used Stanford Parser 1.6.9 for generating syntactic features and tense/aspect tagging 4.2 Classifiers Because we want to know the effect of using global context information with CRF,...
... for breakfast./The boys want to have cereal for breakfast My sister can be home by 6:00 P.M./My sister wants to be home by 6:00 P.M They can travel to California./They want to travel to California ... Gutierrez can carry the groceries for her./Mr Gutierrez wants to carry the groceries for her You stay in bed all day I try hard My brother is a little late We find a room for the night Ms Brown gets ... be kissed by her Is the fence being built by Max? The map was forgotten by her brother Unit Subjunctive Mood 8-1 8-2 10 She demands Forrest return home by 5:00 P.M The man suggests you wear a shirt...
... McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc Click here for terms of use 116 Practice Makes Perfect: English Grammar forESLLearners Formed with no- Formed with not Positive Form none no one nothing nowhere never* ... two forms One form begins with no- (except for never and neither), and the other consists of not followed by another word When these words are not negative, they have a special positive form ... kind of Whose parents ? What sort of man would ? 114 Practice Makes Perfect: English Grammar forESLLearners Andi told me what It’s hard to believe how The accident happened when How much ?...
... millennium G There are special rules for abbreviations for time B.C and A.D are always capitalized B.C is used for eras or years that occurred before Christ A.D is used for eras or years that occurred ... Companies, Inc Click here for terms of use 100 Practice Makes Perfect: English Grammar forESLLearners Note that words that end in -ful, -less, and -ing use more and most to form the comparative ... that the subject—not the prepositional phrase—determines the form of the verb 94 Practice Makes Perfect: English Grammar forESLLearners Singular Subject ϩ Plural Object of the Preposition...
... English Grammar forESLLearners When you use an adverb that shows that an action is done frequently (often, sometimes, always, usually, every day, etc.), you should use the habitual form of the ... change as well Following are the irregular past tense forms of some commonly used verbs: 30 Practice Makes Perfect: English Grammar forESLLearners Infinitive Past Tense Infinitive Past Tense to ... Just like other perfect tenses, it has two formations: one for a habitual or frequent action and one for an action in progress or incomplete The structure for a habitual action is will ϩ have ϩ past...
... Companies, Inc Click here for terms of use 10 Practice Makes Perfect: English Grammar forESLLearners Just like nouns, adjectives can follow the predicate They most often come after forms of the verbs ... add to or for before the indirect object noun or pronoun The indirect object becomes the object of the preposition to or for Place the prepositional phrase after the direct object For example: ... Perfect: English Grammar forESLLearners Subject Pronoun Direct or Indirect Object Prepositional Phrase I you he she it we they me you him her it us them after me behind you for him from her in it...
... the cut sets for reuse and let the learners keep the uncut photocopies for review Learners can write the story sequence for homework and retell the story the next day in pairs Linking ESL Instruction ... pace while learners listen to get the gist Next, give learners the set of comprehension questions Read the text aloud a third time forlearners to write their answers and a final time forlearners ... have overheard from your learners Be sure your learners are familiar with the vocabulary used on the grid/cards Model the activity with one or two learners before having learners interview each...
... valid only for attendance in the school district or institution identified on the authorization 42 • • ESL Learners: A Guide forESL Specialists Provincial Funding forESL Students for whom ESL funding ... competence.3 for more information, see Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc ESL Standards for Pre-K-12 Students Alexandria, VA: TESOL Inc 1997 ESL Learners: A Guide forESL Specialists ... Assessment for English Language Learners: Practical Approaches for Teachers (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1996), p 77 Analytic Oral Language Scoring Rubric • • • • • • 20 ESL Learners: A Guide for ESL...
... better speakers of English Solution for Writing In 1994, while at the University of Georgia, I was hired by the American Language Program to teach grammar to ESL/ EFL learners On the first day of class, ... the participants worked on various assignments; the performance of each student on each assignment was discussed in detail in class A week before the semester end exam, the students were given their ... class Most spoke for less than a minute, and none exceeded the two minutes that had been allotted to them As I had...
... after year They can be used for whole class presentations and reviews, for drills, or for individual work PowerPoint presentations run on both Macintosh and Windows platforms Files are small unless ... download PowerPoint presentations I like to download presentations for elementary school children and then modify them for my ESL students who are older As you become more familiar with PowerPoint, ... s-video output for better pictures Manufactures are starting to market outputs for high definition TV's Teachers need to find how they can get the right type of output from their computer for a TV...