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Post by vocabulitis5 on May 28, 2009 17:08:15 GMT -8
Test# 2 4) barrels=potatoes -antedent, by which ment to be the highway. was= passive. 6) main reasons ----- is (does not match) they= students, when it saids "reason is that because" is wrong. Correct= are that ---. in a addition to working at= not a second thing. 8) Dangling participle or modifier. Driving too fast, my car spun off the highway. (put I) 9) Dangling issue, George Eliot having command. Having- No good, Because- Good. 11) corporation- Subject. 12) Disintegrates- present, phrase is talking about past. (mission was ended_) 13) Correct. that->hospital. be acceptable-> will satisfy. 14) either, and 15) invaluable- very valuable, not the opposite of valuable. shard- anticident. 16) one of a kind- unique. (the does not work)/ the one of that kind. or the one of its kind. no propositional phrase. reef- subject. 17) no error 18) is, voted=pastense. 19) no error, selby is worried. past perfect- had done,had voted, had worried. past=- did, was, voted, was worried. 21) present tense. appositive- remane the subject. Mr. Kim, the best teacher ever, teaches grammar. you can never say "by he". 22) comparisment. to ride a- explaining= parallelism. to ride= to explain. 24) appositive. , but- reqires two full sentences. take out since. 25) with is the right propasition to use. 27) subject- something is supported by the commission, was (were), clinics, center, 28) their potency, because of plural. 29) constant is to modify changling. you need an adverb to change. Sentences.
incorrect-Purchasing a new TV, the cat screamed along his master. Correct- Purchasing a new TV, the master screamed his cat. incorrect-Running too fast, my shoes hitted on the window. Correct- Running too fast, I hitted the window with my shoes. incorrect-Complaining in the court, his wooden hammer hammered the desk. Correct- Complaing in the court, the dest was hammered by his wooden hammer. incorrect- Walking down Valley view street, the trees were beautiful. Correct- Walking down Valley view street, I was beautiful like the trees. incorrect- Flying on the sky, the view was amazed. Correct- Flying on the sky, I was amazed with the view. incorrect- Having a isolated life, the room felt small. Correct- Having a isolated life, I felt the room is small.
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Post by vocabulitis5 on Jun 4, 2009 11:31:30 GMT -8
Test #3 1) delegates stating twice, you can only state once. you should have used commas, and put it in the front. comming this far= still in progress, having this far- already done. 2) danggling issue, band members were marching, if begings with subordiance claws. 3) of smokin-prepositional phrase. you need plural 4) claus that descrived an issue- fragment. whether ut would happen. * 5) appositive- the first wonan to pilot a plane a cross the english channel. 6) run on sentence. their work has been excellent this year. ^^ 7) images- subject, wit- subject. give pleasure. 8) being- not good, unneccessery- good. a gifted storyteller,
12) modifier. subject- musical 13) don't use if there, use whn if then. 14) which is for object not for a person. use people who..... 15) he -patrick henry. most have been or most had, not most having been. you can use use the most for both singular and plural. 18) more clearer- no@@@! whole claws has not cleared. "how critical... economy" 19) reforms- subject.
25) A with B is only a one thing. A and B is two things. 26) you need to say plural , it should be a number. 27) novel- pride and prejudice, not directly to charlotte bronte. 28) trucks is plural,,, until they are replaced by...... 29) no error. yesterday, i didn't go to school, - if i had gone to school, than I would have ace the test. - if i had not stolen the money, than I would not have gone to jail. - if i had not gotten a flu shot, than I would have died right away. - if i had not noticed others, then they would not have survived.
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Post by vocabulitis5 on Jun 11, 2009 12:39:10 GMT -8
1). were- wrong. subject= so......that 2) parallism.. toppling, uprooting, third thing should be --ing. 4) beautiful, you dont want another syllable. general rule- 1 or 2 , its fine. no one is sorrier than I. mom loves the dog more than (I/), I will always the correct choice. 5) determine about, about does not work., I don't know whether he came to class. I won't go if he doesn't go/ 6) having been reached= having reached the mountain, climbers----. looking for anthesident. 7) or not, situation. whether ==== to south america. =act as one word (subject), sailed or not= correct. Mr. K. taught us the fact that students are lazy., (take out 'the fact'). 8) if you have subject and comma but no verb, its a run on sentences. 10) dangling sentence. 11) , and subject than are. you need subject. disrupted by conflicts, 12) familiar to= ok. latter= David and Joe are my friends (the former-student, the latter- TA). 14) different than- important. different from earliet times. problem in comparison. 15) subject= issues. they used the word 'that' to not to make same sentences. 16) its own food every day. antecident. 17) necessary in.- best = necessary for. 18) driving- obing->, to do-.>infinitive. 21) which= disease- singluar. appositive. not 'threath of ' 22) you read it correctly. 23) indians= antecident. 24) appostive- fossils, record.... provides,,,, 25) as.... 26) studying is,, 27) never= for we,,, 28) neither the accuracy,,, nor!! 29) In my desk is a pen and pencil. in my desk is not the subject. subject- pen & pencil. - My father kicks the soccer ball harder during the premier league in England than I. - My mom hates the movie that shows unappropriate action between three people more than I. - My girlfriend who came from South Africa where respect takes most of place takes more responsibility than I. - I am bigger than he - My friend who will visit my house from another country korea is taller than I
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Post by vocabulitis5 on Jun 18, 2009 12:37:56 GMT -8
1) YOU GOT conjujction with semicolon or clone ( he is unable afford), anticedent. 4) City- subject, 'algough...' 8) "a swiss psychologist"= appositive, avoide it, 9) therefor= you cant do it with comma. Run on sentence. semicolon is correct. 11) but its originality is still a delight. parellel. at onece- does not fit with although. 14) myself- 2 uses- reflexive, i kicked myself. intensive- I myself built this house. 15) to move= infinitive. split infanitive 19) source- subject.=plural/ 22) plus, being=bad. 26) regarded- as- one of the--- 28) use of steel -Before I went to school, my mom had told me to prepare for exams. -Before I called my friends, my father had promised me to cut the grass. -Before he jumped off from an airplane, his girl friend had told him not to shake. -He sliped from the bathroom after he had taken a shower to prepare for dance party.
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Post by vocabulitis5 on Jun 25, 2009 11:25:11 GMT -8
1) you need ;is, 7) it is- antecedent. gerund 8) if you have one or two sylabbols you can add er. 9) to do A + B, have to be parallel. to educate and inform. 10) no particular error. 11) their= its, passive is totally unneccessary. 12) serenly. you need an adverb. 13) if I eat. proper form= the taco, I get sick. 14) circumstances is plural so were is okay. 15) calmy, competently =parallel. 16) no dangling issue. they did it, in the futre they will do it, they will do it. 17) the car which i bought. 23) you protest the law. not you protested over..... 24) between my sister and me. not I;; 27) are- insistence= are should be singular. 28) no error. 1) past tense. +I never attended pre-school, but if I =I never attended pre-school, but if I had gone to pre-school, I would have been more intellegent. 2) present tense. past tense +I don't go to university high, but if I =I don't go to university high, but if I went to university high, I would be more popular. 3) future tense, +I won't be going to the concert, but if I =I won't be going to the concert, but if I were going to the concert, I would be happy.
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Post by vocabulitis5 on Jul 2, 2009 11:33:24 GMT -8
3) anticipating- description= participal. 5) less, not lesser. 8) parallelism is required. in either fiction or drama. 11) need conjunction, and so no more than a few are in captivity. 13) more busier is wrong, it should be busier. 15) which= anticedent., who for person. 16) antecedent for which. 17) no error. refugees, refuge=place. 19) introduced. this= signs. 20) actor has to intimidate. 25) has been present perfect. 26) inconsistent with. 27)
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Post by vocabulitis5 on Jul 9, 2009 11:26:01 GMT -8
1) not enthusiastic of. but enthusiastically supported. 2) frequently compounded.= modifier. but no comma.
3)having been. 4) wherever is better. 8) participle for scientists. 9) parallelism for children, for young adults. 10) The reason for Rebecca's laziness is that she is ____= correct Rebecca is lazy becuase she is too _____= correct. 22) Juan and I is incorrect. 24) socialism is a system under... In this system or under this system
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Post by vocabulitis5 on Jul 16, 2009 12:00:38 GMT -8
Grammar Review Instructions for July 9th.
We will be reviewing our grammar today. You are to look through the questions that you missed on previous practice tests, starting from Test #1. Your incorrect answers should already be highlighted in your Gdoc answer sheet.
Find questions that you do not completely understand and would like for me to explain again. In this document, write the test number and question number that you want to go over.
You should also check the bulletin board for your past notes. If there are any concepts you don't understand, I will explain those as well. Write your questions in this document.
You will do this preparation for the first hour. I will check this document periodically to make sure that you are working through the questions.
You can take your break at 4:50. We will begin our lecture session at 5:00.
MR.K
test 1 sec 7- 10, 14, 33, 34 sec 10- 11, 13,14 10) run on sentenses, scientis predict, and they will..... , therefore= x, ,and=o, ,so=o compound sentence. use 'so that' 2) Dangling issue, 11) prepositional, infenitive- to eat, to ..... 26) 1- subject and verb, 2- tense, 3- pronoun and antecedent. 17) parallelesm, 14) plural problem. 15) I have done something, test 2 sec 7- 15, 25, 31, 32, sec 10- 13, 14
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Post by vocabulitis5 on Jul 30, 2009 11:37:02 GMT -8
Instructions for July 16th.
The following are problematic phrases taken from practice tests. Before we begin the lecture, take some time to go through the list and try to identify the grammar rule associated with the phrase. Write your guess in the right column. You are not expected to know all of them, but I will need to see your guesses to know how well you know your grammar topics. During lecture, you will need to replace your text with the correct answers.
You have until 4:30 PM to go through the list.
RED FLAG RULE 4:00 P.M. this afternoon:
a means of survival a number of A talented and versatile artist, parallelesm abide with about me getting the seats participle about who After seeing the movie, dangling agreement among two people Along the curve of the island lies¡ as expensive than At the heart of this program.... barely because of being¡ before best workers are those which¡ between Between the sales manager and I between you and I Burdened with luggage¡ clever designed birdfeeder concerned ____ confident about department different than each of the women either everybody everyone family Far away from being a conservative,¡ fieldwork where they can study ¡ for Joe and I for we students for who foundation awarded Carlos and I had swam had taken Hailed as one of the best poets of all time, has taken he had wrote he had written. he has cast his vote he is regarded to be he is regarded as,.... her ability for supervising to do= infinitive. him talking his talking= always. I am as smart as I am better than her I am taller than always use she. I feel badly feel= linking verb. I prefer that ¡ when it's about wish or desire, you have to use this rule.
-I recommend that she come on time
-I prefer that she arrive
-It is important that
-It is necessary if he could, he would choose to do it pattern;
= if he had done A then he would have done B.
- yesterday soua didn't study,
= if she had not studied, she would have failed the test. If he ¡ If he: were or had done
hypothetical situation.
- If I had eatten yester day... If I was any faster If I were any faster... if she had accepted, she¡ -If she had accepted, she would have attributed her success to her parents. imminent/ eminent imminent= about to happen very soon.
eminent= well respected,
If had.., then would have,.. (where) V-S In the foothills of the mountain range is¡ In the year of 1977 incredulous/ incredible. incredulous- listening indebted with indebted to somebody. Inside the box is ¡ intently and with compassion invaluable is different ¡ It is important that ¡ It was them itself jury kind of a car largely due to last year last year, now. lay laid, laid, lie, lay, lain less fwer for countable things. money is not countable
=fewer coins. less fat fewer calories (calories are countable) less paper less than three women look at the prices close me gaining weight my gaining weight. more +2 most +3 Mother told my brother and I cross out my brother.
= mother told my brother and me. neither ( of the boys) is neither nor. neither none none of us is does, not only but also, you need it after not only. now that something has happened one likes to believe¡ one= he/ she. depends on you. one of the kids ought = sould, connect with <=. usually its no error. people which were attending people who were attending. which is only for objects not for people. people who wish to be a model people who wish to be models persecuted plus being prefer prefer to. preoccupation preoccupied with--- with~! principle/ principal -le= ruel, prohibit you prohibit someone from doing something. prohibit to own protested over the decision rarely/ barely/ scarecely i can barely hear you rock and roll rock and roll is my favorite. you need to include 'is' scarcely sensitive to be cricized criticism. she could of done mark of illiteracy. she could have done is correct. since 1985 for ten years. since sometime or for sometime, your verb has to be= have done or has done. staff is, it. stationery supply and demand is surely nothing wrong with surely. ten pages or less than different than= wrong the announcement where ¡ part when. is correct. the author about whom I wrote¡ need 'about whom' the boys and their teacher the council announced their decision the council announced its decision. the latter = I like apples and bananas
=The former is red; the latter is yellow. the most perfect perfect is already 100 percent, also unique. you can't say the most unique. the number of / a number of the number= singular. a number= plural.
the amount of= not countable. the number of people have increased the number of people has increased. the period of time the principal was aggravated irritated. aggravated= to make it worse. the principle doctrines ..le= rule. the principal doctrines. the rapid spreading notion the reason is because the reason is that. the scene when the story where the use of plastic is greater than¡ the use of some => the use of some... there is usually two German shepherds there were two causes: this being that lot of the cases, being such is wrong choice. this group of people To pass English this year, ¡ Until it can antecedent- word that comes before. was more widely read than we had rented you you are taller than I correct. off of discrete to things are different discreet using judgement/
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Post by andrewlee on Aug 13, 2009 16:42:18 GMT -8
1) setting, it talks about place. 2) that_____= they tried to summarize .
3) suffering from ailment 5) ____ attempts= thwarted= make it slow. 8) melodramas= being really emmotional.
17) ancestor-descendant model used by European observers. 18) its talking about the survical of any people.
sec 5 1) worth exploring= +, insulular= being seperate. 2) approval through praise= sycophant. 3) thin, pliable, and somewhat transparent.- membranous. 4) mixture of dialects
23)saying something about comparison between engineers and poetic. 24) talking about person who invented it,
sec8) 1) swindler= conman. prey; predetor and prey 2) better refrigeration and transportation. make it easier and keep it longer = expanded and variety. 3) discord= no harmony. concord- harmony 4) he made them surprise. he is happy.= demonstrative your emotion/
6) negligible
HW) sec 2- 5) Dangerously high winds lead to the dangerous and suffering., and the word "thwarted" means to block a path way or barricade something. which shows that because of the wind blocking the space shuttle's path way, they delayed their schedule by a week. 19) this show that its from european's point of view of one group (european) perceive another group (the native americans) 21) americans only had oral descriptions, but written evidence. author is saying that they still can say that educated guess that came from religious rituals are quite reasonable. = oral tridition vs. religious rituals (religious documents).
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Post by andrewlee on Aug 20, 2009 16:32:47 GMT -8
sec 2 1. he wants to aviod,,,,, surprise. = predictable 2. ingress- entrance, egress- exit. 3. marriage was a practical.... economic advantage. worthy of having love=money. 4. procrastinate- temporize same meaning of put things away 5. talking about light and insulation. light is going to come through, and it keeps the heat =insultion 6. she moved them emotionally, with style alone and had a speech, but looks like its empty. rehetoric= how you communicate. 7. ... behavior, irritated.
section 5 1. adept at= you are good at.
3. Inbreeding. deleterious genes. 4. accusing- negitive word. inconsistency is negative. section 8
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Post by vocabulitis5 on Sept 17, 2009 11:27:24 GMT -8
test 3 3. turbulence- shake. testify to= it becomes an evidence of. jeopardize- danger, sustain- keep going. 4. idea is there are lots of varity.= 5.byzantine- very complex.= complex stretagies and adriot.
section 7 3. intuition, reasoning. 4. supplement- supportive. coordinated- negosiative. compromise- weaken. 5. ..... of what they detested= what they hate. epitome- essence. 6. keen judgment and insight= acumen. 8. openhanded this, difficult to reconcile= opposited. solicitousness- possitive. section 9 1. descending, incresing= the potential for diving injuries. 2. habitual beasting ... ____ ways 3. stead fast, tactful.
test 4 2. reclusive- living my your self. 3. pilfer= to steal. 4. prestige- high consideration. profound- deep, theology= theo= god. 5. monarchical-
section 7. 2. allege- is to accuse someone without any evidence. 3. presumption- assume that you can do it. conspicuousness- easily noticeable. brivety of a telegram (brief) 5. recessive- dominany allele, arboreal= arbor day. 6. unwitting= you dont know whats going on. 8. furtive glances, venal politician= who takes money.
section 10 4. foreshadow= prediction by showing image. disseminate- to spread out. undermines- to weaken. 6.preclude- to prevent. caco- ugly phone- sound calli- beautiful.
Test 5 section 2 4. Professor Fernandezz has been... about most of the purportedly humanitarian aspects of the colonial government and has insisted that its actions were, on the contrary, this means that 5. composite= combination. a conflagration of 1666= big fire so its not a fire. distillation means to purify the liquid. concordance is to make reference to something. aberration is behavior that is not normal. and amalgamation of companies means the mixture of something, which corresponds to the key word composite. 12. something about the diffining the role of women. it was influenced by fund-raising, tea boycotts, and actions.we got rolyaless woman, they argues for property rights. they protested . its to demonstrate that both side of women engaged in political activities, basically every women protested. 14. naturally means that it was naturally happened not by human hand but may be from the god's decision. the innately means that you are born with an ability which corresponds with the word naturally. 20. Going up and down a tree, possible for adults to do the action they could get more muscle and become rebust.
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