OXFORD PRACTICE GRAMMAR MODAL VERBS
... Some of these sentences are correct, and some have a word which should not be there. If the sentence is correct, put a tick (/). If it is incorrect, cross the unnecessary word out of the sentence ... unnecessary word out of the sentence and write it in the space. ? I won't be able to come to the meeting. / ? We didn't needn't have watered the garden be...
Ngày tải lên: 18/10/2013, 00:15
The Oxford English Grammar
... contrast in number. Generally, they have only a singular form, but some place-names have only a plural form: the Netherlands the Bahamas the Alps the Andes the United Nations the British Isles Proper ... ups take-over/ take-overs stand-in/ stand-ins Though having the plural inflection at the end, these two break the spelling rule by retaining y before the inflection: stand...
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... suggesting and so on, The Sayer can be a human or human-like speaker, and also any other symbolic source. Other participants are Verbiage and Receiver. The teacher repeated The question again and again I ... as the foundation; hence the grammar is natural, and so to be organized around the text, or discourse” (Halliday, 1994). +Descriptive vs. prescriptive grammar...
Ngày tải lên: 07/09/2013, 13:48
... it means they are. You know (they’re, their) not happy. Note that they’re (they are) fits in with the rest of the sentence. 1. Do they have (they’re, their) uniforms? 2. By now (they’re, their) ... in the predicate that receives the action of the verb. In sentence 2, above, the noun Amy is the word in the predicate that receives the action of the verb cheered. Therefore,...
Ngày tải lên: 23/10/2013, 13:20
Grammar and Vocabulary for Cambridge Advanced and Proficiency - Modal verbs 1
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