common erros in english part 5

... finishing (of -nn-) firey Wrong spelling See FIERY flamingo (singular) flamingoes or flamingos (plural) flammable or inflammable Both words mean ‘easily bursting into flame’ People often think ... Latin word per, meaning through (Experience is what we gain from going ‘through’ something.) explain explained, explaining explanation (not -plain-) explicit or implicit? EXPLICIT = stated clearly ... PLURALS in a different sense from the English plural Check these words under individual entries for the distinction in meaning singular -a alga antenna formula larva nebula vertebra singular

Ngày tải lên: 17/10/2013, 15:15

... pieriod Wrong spelling See PERIOD pigmy/pygmy (singular) pigmies/pygmies (plural) pining or pinning? pine +ing = pining pin + ing = pinning See ADDING ENDINGS (i), (ii). plateau (singular) plateaus ... parliamentary parrafin Wrong spelling See PARAFFIN. partake or participate? PARTAKE = to share with others (especially food and drink) PARTICIPATE = to join in an activity; to play a part in They PARTOOK ... able to PARTICIPATE in the firm's pension scheme? partener Wrong spelling See PARTNER. participles Participles help to complete some tenses. Present participles end in -ing: I am COOKING They

Ngày tải lên: 28/10/2013, 07:15

... are less usual spellings) shelf (singular) shelves (plural) See PLURALS (v) sheriff (not -rr-) shining or shinning? shine + ing = shining shin + ing = shinning See ADDING ENDINGS (i) and (ii) shoe ... drive However, in speech, the tone of voice will indicate which is intended shaming or shamming? shame + ing = shaming sham + ing = shamming See ADDING ENDINGS (i) and (ii) Trang 15SHAN'T shan’t ... employer for a RAISE An increase in salary is called ‘a rise’ in the UK and ‘a raise’ in America raping or rapping? rape + ing = raping rap + ing = rapping See ADDING ENDINGS (i), (ii) rapt or

Ngày tải lên: 28/10/2013, 07:15

... layout: Yours sincerely Aisling Hughes singeing or singing? singe + ing = singeing sing + ing = singing See SOFT c AND SOFT G. singular or plural? (i) Always match singular subjects with singular verbs ... have SWUM the Channel five times. swinging or swingeing? swing + ing = swinging swinge + ing = swingeing See SOFT c AND SOFT G. swum See SWAM OR SWUM?. syllabus (singular) syllabuses or syllabi (plural) ... sitting/we were seated Trang 6See LIBEL OR SLANDER?. slily/slyly Both spellings are correct but the second is more commonly used sloping or slopping? slope + ing = sloping slop + ing = slopping

Ngày tải lên: 06/11/2013, 22:15

... spelling See WEIRD wife (singular) wives (plural) See PLURALS (v) wilful (not willful) will See SHALL OR WILL?. wining or winning? wine + ing = wining win + ing = winning See ADDING ENDINGS (i) ... nine years old. TROUPER = a touring entertainer Jack Densley is a grand old TROUPER. truly (not truely, an exception to the -y rule) See ADDING ENDINGS (ii). try tried, trying See ADDING ENDINGS ... know how TO swim? (part of infinitive = to swim) I was TOO embarrassed to say anything. (= excessively) Can we come TOO? (= also) They have TWO houses, one in London and one in France. tolerant

Ngày tải lên: 06/11/2013, 22:15

... and International Copyright Conventions This book may not be reproduced, in wholeor in part, in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information ... Not only…But/But also 152 Trang 1469 Where 15770 Per 158 71 Plus 158 72 As to whether 159 73 In the event that 159 74 Owing to the fact that 160 75 As vs Because and Since 160Test: Imprecise ... Expressing Fine Shades of Meaning 143 54 Agree to vs Agree with 143 55 Differ with vs Differ from 144 56 Different from vs Different than 144Test: Prepositions That Express Fine Shades of Meaning

Ngày tải lên: 18/10/2022, 13:18

... things—an adverb, a conjunction, or a noun—but one role it should not play instandard English is that of introducing a noun clause the way itdoes in the example When you’re defining or naming ... Say: We’ll take up that issue again in the event that interest rates decline. Say Instead: We’ll take up that issue again if interest rates decline. Here’s Why: “In the event that” is a cumbersome, ... followingphrases are nicely streamlined by taking out the “as to”s: Instead of Deciding as to whether we should buy the house, say Deciding whether we should buy the house Instead of Guessing as

Ngày tải lên: 27/08/2023, 20:46

... Pronunciation in Use 45 Trang 6Ha) In many accents in England, the letter R is not pronounced after a vowel In other places, the R is pronounced, for example in North America But in both cases, ... the parts of a written word But in this book, the word syllable is used to talk about the pronunciation of words, not the writing For example, in writing we can divide ‘chocolate’ into three parts ... Correct the underlined mistakes EXAMPLE It’s free o’clock three 1 A bat is more relaxing than a shower 4 You need a sick coat in winter 2 The train went true the tunnel 5 I don’t know; I

Ngày tải lên: 17/08/2013, 10:39

... I divided the cake in four parts / Say: I divided the cake into four parts Note A thing m a y b e divided in half or in t w o Paul divided the apple in half (or in two) 5 Trang 1428 No doubt ... is very disappointed at not winning the prize W e use that (optional before a n e w clause)' / w a s disappointed (that) I didn't get an invitation 27 Divide into parts, not in parts Don't say: ... take;, in He persisted in his silly ideas 42 Interested in, not for Don't say: She's not interested for her work / Say: She's not interested in her work Note Also take an interest in She

Ngày tải lên: 08/09/2013, 22:47

... 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 USING CONTRACTIONS They have been in Cuba Who are those people? We are going to go soon I will not have any time It is not ready yet That was interesting ... vs IN 1 The train to Chicago will leave five minutes 2 The train will stay in the station five minutes more 3 Are your friends going to be ín Wisconsin a long time? 4 No, they'll be back in ... he know in all? 16 How many years ago did he get his job in the French publishing house? 17 In what year did he leave that job in the publishing house? 18 Where did Mr Rossi go in 1925? 19 When

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 16:15

... what to invest in, you need to determine why you’re investing you need to define your investment goals If you’re going to need those liquid assets in the next year or two, just sitting on ... SMALLCAPS TRACK 50 ... yield makes the investor less dependent upon ever-increasing stock prices to fund living expenses SOURCE: BPTHESANS-PLAIN 5/ 12 SMALLCAPS TRACK 50 LOOKING FOR THE “HOLY ... competitive with the S&P 50 0 index, in. .. without getting clobbered by commissions Suppose, for example, you have $6,000 to invest in REITs If you invest $1,000 each in six different REITs

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 13:15

... cisappointed (that) | didn’t get an invitation Divide into parts, not in parts Don’t say: 1 divided the cake in four parts Say: I divided the cake into four parts Note: A thing may be divided in ... 173 Using according to my optmion instead of in my opinion Don’t say: According to my opinion, she’s right ¥ Say: In my opinion, she’s right Note Avoid using the phrase as | think instead ... say: The rain prevented me to go Say: The rain prevented me from going Succeed in + -ing Don’t say: Paula succeeded to win the prize Say: Paula succeeded in winning the prize Think of + -ing Don’t

Ngày tải lên: 16/12/2013, 15:42

... 38 4.4 In-depth review: quality assurance results 45 5 FINDINGS AND IMPLICATIONS 47 5.1 Summary of principal findings 47 5.2 Strengths and limitations of this systematic review 48 5.3 Implications ... grammar teaching in English on 5 to 16 year olds’ accuracy and quality in written composition The criteria for including and excluding studies for the in-depth review on the effect of teaching ‘syntax’ ... grammar teaching in English on 5 to 16 year olds’ accuracy and quality in written composition? Research questions for in-depth reviews • What is the effect of teaching syntax in English on 5 to 16

Ngày tải lên: 10/03/2014, 05:20

... cycles of the graph in Figure 17.1 For example, if your list contains 4-5-3, it should not contain 5-4-3, 4-5-3-4, 4-3-5-4, 5-3-4-5, or 5-4-3-5 3-17.4 C onsider the graph Determine the number of ... Graph-processing input/output interface T his A DT interface illustrates how we might package related graph-processing methods together in a single class It defines methods for inserting edges defined ... path in the same way as we connect them in an edge For example, the simple paths in Figure 17.1 include 3-4-6-0-2, and 9-12-11, and the cycles in the graph include 0-6-4-3-5-0 and 5-4-3-5 We define

Ngày tải lên: 07/04/2014, 15:00

... that required while running at constant speed and, in principle, it is this power what determines the size of engine installed on the motor vehicle Upon vehicle braking, kinetic energy acquired ... vehicle during braking process, for it to be used later, or when accelerating or at constant speed movement Systems for capturing and storing kinetic energy perform its converting and storing under ... consists, in essence, of a hydro-mechanical module which includes a variable displacement hydraulic machine, that can operate both in pump mode, during braking, and in motor regime, during start-up/acceleration

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 12:20

... putting the same conducting inks on the cylinders in different stages. If the thickness is still not satisfied after a printing running on the machine shown in the Fig. 6(a), feeding the printed ... label printing company in Dongguan, China, whom is working on a flat-bed screen printer The RFID tags printed in this way is shown in Fig 2B There were a few layers of inks including the ... traditional printing methods including offset printing, screen printing and a hybrid one based on gravure printing and vacuum deposition technology, to demonstrate the possibilities of making low-

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 19:20

... Its opinion is binding The table 4 indicates the institutions involved in the first issue of the... enterprises 5. 2.1 Institutions involved in the first issue for new and existing installations ... Programme, Funding Grant n. 03/07182-5. Final Tech. Sci. Report, 168p. [in Portuguese] INPE - Brazilian National Institute for Space Research (2009) SPRING 5.0. http://www.dpi.inpe.br/spring/english/download.php. ... Engineering Geology, 61 (4): 257 – 271, ISSN 0013- 7952. Dearman, W.R. & Matula, M. (1977). Environmental aspects of engineering geological mapping. Bulletin of the Intl. Assoc. Engineering

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 21:20

... non-linear sampling intervals Trang 15Active Pixel Sensor CMOS Operating Multi - Sampled in Time Domain 125 (a) (b) Fig 6 Sampling in (a) logarithmic interval times (b) linear-logarithmic interval ... counter are integrated per pixel The counter starts the count in the beginning of integration time The comparator output signal goes high in the comparison instant stopping the counting Assuming that ... determines the moment of performing the comparison, while the sampling interval (Ts) Note that the comparison occurs simultaneously in all pixels in the array In the sampling instants (Ts) in which

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 21:20

... Biomimetic Surface” in Chinese Science Bulletin [20], and “Superamphiphobic Web of PTFEMA Fibers via Simple Electrospinning without Functionalization” in Macromolecular Materials and Engineering [21] 2 ... ~+60 mV in water at neutral pH Further increasing of PEI concentration results in the decreasing of electrophoretic mobility and zeta-potential due to the particle flocculation as shown in Fig ... are evaluated using nanoindentation This technique has been widely used in the characterization of mechanical behaviors of thin films, superhard coatings and nacres In a nanoindentation test,

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 23:20