A person whose parents are dead An orphan A woman whose husband is dead A widow A place where goods are made A factory A united business A company When the sun and the moon meets and the shadow of the moon is on the earth Eclipse of the sun A man who draws
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There are lots of essay types which we will now examine one after the other. Expository Essays The expository essay is a type of essay that requires the student to investigate an idea, check evidence, expand on the idea, and present the idea in a clear and concise manner. This can be accomplished through comparison
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Don’t Say: The bags were tear apart by the students Say: The bags were torn apart by the students Don’t Say: The eggs have been putted in the refrigerator Say: The eggs have been put in the refrigerator Don’t Say: Will you shot the door, please? Say: Would you shut the door, please? Don’t Say:
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What is Reported Speech? Reported speech is when you tell somebody else what you or a person said before. Distinction must be made between direct speech and reported speech. If we report what another person has said, we usually do not use the speaker’s exact words (direct speech), but reported (indirect) speech. Therefore, you need
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‘A’ is used when referring to someone or something for the first time in a text or conversation. ‘An’ is the form of the indefinite article used before words beginning with a vowel sound. ‘The’ is used to refer to one or more people or things already mentioned or assumed to be common knowledge. 1
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English Language SS1 Week 1 Contents: Oral English: Voiced and Unvoiced Sounds Reading Skills Vocabulary A. Introduction Many sounds in English go in pairs. This means that they are the same but one is “voiced” while the other is “unvoiced” (voiceless). When a sound is voiced, the vocal cords vibrate. When a sound is unvoiced,
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English Language JSS3 First Term Week 9 Contents: Grammar: Prepositions Speech work: Weak Forms Grammar: Prepositions A preposition is a word which precedes a noun (or a pronoun) to show the noun’s (or the pronoun’s) relationship to another word in the sentence. (The word preposition comes from the idea of being positioned before. It is
English Language JSS3 First Term Week 3 Contents: Phonemes Phonetics: Long and short vowels Tenses Phonemes A phoneme is a unit of sound in speech. A phoneme doesn’t have any inherent meaning by itself, but when you put phonemes together, they can make words. A phoneme is the smallest sound unit in a language that is
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How did you read the words in quote in the headline? Perhaps, you thought the author made an error in typing? No, it’s not an error, but what is called homonyms in English language. Care to have more details as provided by about.com? What Are Hononyms? The word homonym was derived from Greek and means
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While grammar is not as static a science as is typically assumed, there are 20 rules of subject verb agreement that attempt to objectify part of the English language form. Most of the concepts of subject verb agreement are straightforward, yet some aspects of singular and plural usage in English grammar are more complicated. Consider
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