...Memoir I remember clearly how my first day in 5th grade went at Sally K. Ride. I went through those horrific doors and it still shocked me that boys and girls go to the same school and there are no uniforms. It all started the day before the first day of school; there was an orientation for the new kids. I met my teacher, Mr. Picca. His name reminded me of this cartoon, Pucca, that I used to watch when I was a younger. Seeing that I’m not the only new kid calms me down a little but not enough; I knew they were not as nervous as I am. This was my first public school experience. Fast forward to the first day of school. I was really having a difficult time choosing an outfit for school. It was so much better having uniforms. Can’t decide...
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...In evaluating the process of me becoming the sexual person I am today, I believe it’s best to start closer to the beginning of my life and view how I have changed from then. I was born into a Mexican-American family who practiced Catholicism and was brought up with a combination of old school and new school ideas about sexuality. Religion taught me that it was a sin to have sexual relationships with others before marriage and that women were not supposed to be actively sexual and if they were, it was something that was kept private. Along with a conservative religion, being raised by parents who never really addressed sexuality in any way and left me to decipher it on my own. This was probably because their parents never talked to them about...
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...Unit 8 Demonstrative Pronouns 22 10 Unit 9 Verbs 23 11 Unit 10 Subject Verb Agreement 25 12 Unit 11 Auxiliary Verbs / Modals 29 13 Unit 12 Verb To Be 33 14 Unit 13 Simple Present Tense 36 15 Unit 14 Simple Past Tense 39 16 Unit 15 Simple Future Tense 48 17 Unit 16 Progressive Tense – Past & Present 51 18 Unit 17 Past Progressive Tense 53 19 Unit 18 Present Progressive 55 20 Unit 19 Prepositions 57 21 Unit 20 Adverbs 63 22 Unit 21 Adjectives 67 23 Unit 22 Questions Tag 74 24 Unit 23 Wh-Questions 77 25 Unit 24 Conjunctions 80 26 Unit 25 Punctuation 86 27 BONUS 100 Questions Grammar Practice 95 Contents 2|Modul Triumph Redong Vol. 1 – Mia Antasha UNIT 1 : ARTICLES These are the words a, an and the which usually comes before the nouns or adjectives. 1. Definite article – the This refers to something specific or definite. The usually means ‘You know which ones(s) I’m talking about’. E.g.: i. Anne received the award for bravery. (a specific award) ii. ‘Wait for me at the Kerinchi LRT station’. (a specific place) iii. Can I use the phone? (the hearer knows that this means ‘your phone’) 2. Indefinite article – a / an This is non-specific or indefinite. A / an shows that we are talking about one person or thing. We often use a / an:...
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...Put these verbs in the present simple form: 1. We our dog. (to call) 2. Emma in the lessons. (to dream) 3. They at birds. (to look) 4. John home from school. (to come) 5. I my friends. (to meet) 6. He the laptop. (to repair) 7. Walter and Frank hello. (to say) 8. The cat under the tree. (to sit) 9. You water. (to drink) 10. She the lunchbox. (to forget) 1. I good marks. (to get) 2. Rita exercises. (to do) 3. We often the table. (to lay) 4. Tim and Pat pictures. (to upload) 5. Oliver always fun. (to have) 6. Maria sometimes their room. (to tidy up) 7. He often new shoes. (to buy) 8. The dog never out of the house. (to run) 9. You your glasses. (to need) 10. She snakes. (to touch) 1. Tom stamps. (not/to collect) 2. You songs in the bathroom. (not/to sing) 3. Julie in the garden. (not/to work) 4. I at home. (not/to sit) 5. Tina and Kate the windows. (not/to open) 6. Adam French. (not/to speak) 7. His sister lemonade. (not/to like) 8. We to music. (not/to listen) 9. My father the car every Saturday. (not/to clean) 10. Johnny and Danny in the lake. (not/to swim) 11. We handball at school. (not/to play) 12. Laura her room. (not/to clean) 13. Mark his homework. (not/to do) 14. Susan and Jerry TV. (not/to watch) 15. They at 6.30. (not/to wake up) 16. You shopping. (not/to go) 17. Mrs Smith a big box...
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...Table of Contents Noun 4 Number 4 Proper noun 5 Common Noun 5 Collective noun 6 Abstract noun 6 VERB AND AUXILIARY 6 Preposition 7 Conjunction 7 Articles 8 SENTENCE STRUCTURE 9 Structure of a simple sentence 9 PRESENT TENSE 10 S – A – V rules 11 Possessive case 11 Universal Auxiliaries 11 PRESENT CONTINUOUS TENSE 12 When to use 12 Rules 12 SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE 13 Rules 13 Subject Auxiliary Verb 13 Universal Auxiliaries 13 PRESENT PERFECT TENSE 14 Rules 14 Subject Auxiliary verb form 14 Universal Auxiliaries 14 PRESENT PERFECT CONTINUOUS TENSE 15 Rules 15 Subject Auxiliary verb form 15 Universal Auxiliaries 15 PAST TENSE 16 Subject Auxiliary Verb form 16 Universal Auxiliaries 16 PAST CONTINUOUS TENSE 17 Rules 17 Subject Auxiliary verb form 17 Universal Auxiliaries 17 SIMPLE PAST TENSE 18 Rule 18 Universal Auxiliaries 18 PAST PERFECT TENSE 19 Rule 19 Subject Auxiliary Verb form 19 Universal Auxiliary 19 PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS TENSE 20 Rule 20 Subject Auxiliary verb form 20 Universal Auxiliaries 20 FUTURE TENSE 21 Rules 21 Subject Auxiliary Verb form 21 Universal Auxiliaries 21 FUTURE CONTINUOUS TENSE 22 Rules 22 Subject Auxiliary verb form 22 Universal Auxiliaries 22 FUTURE PERFECT TENSE 23 Rules 23 Subject Auxiliary Verb form 23 Universal Auxiliary 23 FUTURE PERFECT CONTINUOUS TENSE 24 Rules 24 Subject Auxiliary Verb form 24 Universal Auxiliaries 24 EXERCISES...
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...NEW EDITION HIGH SCHOOL English Grammar & Composition BY WREN & MARTIN (With New Appendices) REVISED BY N.D.V. PRASADA RAO S. CHAND Page i New Edition HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH GRAMMAR AND COMPOSITION By P.C. WREN, MA. (OXON) and H. MARTIN, M.A. (OXON), O.B.E. Revised By N.D.V. PRASADA RAO, M.A., D.T.E., Ph.D. Dear Students, Beware of fake/pirated editions. Many of our best selling titles have been unlawfully printed by unscrupulous persons. Your sincere effort in this direction may stop piracy and save intellectuals' rights. For the genuine book check the 3-D hologram which gives a rainbow effect. S. CHAND AN ISO 9001: 2000 COMPANY S. CHAND & COMPANY LTD. RAM NAGAR, NEW DELHI -110 055 Page iii PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION Wren and Martin's monumental work High School English Grammar and Composition now appears in two editions. One is a de luxe edition, illustrated in full-colour, and the other is an ordinary edition without illustrations. The material in the book has been further updated where called for. It has been felt necessary in particular to revise some material in the chapters dealing with adjectives, active and passive voice, articles and prepositions. Appendix I, which deals with American English, has been expanded. Appendix II has been replaced with a newer set of tests covering the important areas of grammar. It was in the year 1972 that the shrewd visionary Mr. Shyam Lai Gupta obtained the permission of Manecji Cooper Education Trust for the revision of this book...
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...as a journalist. Un-luckily she meets a workmate Rahantha and “FIRST SIGHT IMPACTS”………. Anybody trying to identify him or her self with any characters in the play is suffering from plural pathology-gross mental aberration and glorified self-deception. All characters in this play are furious and any resemblance to actual person living or dead is purely coincidental. By :- Patrick Mwange Edited by :- Jimmy Kariuki A blueflame researcher’s publication 2012 PALIDROMIC CONFESSIONS By:- Patrick Mwange 2010 Edited by:- Jimmy R Kariuki 2012 PRELUDE:- [Stage opens to reveal a wedding ceremony setting with so many colorful flowers everywhere] (A group of youngsters enter singing) Young 1: You know what, …just can’t help this wait, it’s killing me! Young 2: You say you but wow, I myself,… can’t imagine what a marriage sometimes God comes immaculately. Young 3: (he enters) Hi friends! This is our most expected day! (They start singing a marriage song) [Bemula {Samantha brother} enters amazed] Bemula : Wow! I can see clearly what a magnificent! Young 1: Friends, get ready to receive Samantha’s brother… BEMULA! (They shout and scream appraisingly) Bemula : I still can’t...
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...The Little Prince is so in love with his rose, but he did not know how to deal with LOVE. Hence, he decided to leave his planet and starts his journey for grown-up. The story was begun with the childhood dream of a Pilot, who is the author and dreamed to become an artist when he was seven years old, but the adults were persuaded him to choose another career path. He was frustrated since nobody would appreciate his drawing and mistake his illustrations; therefore he stopped and became a pilot. He believes that he will meet someone who can fully understand his drawings. While he was trying to repair his aeroplane, which was crashed in the middle of the Sahara desert, a little boy appears and asks him to draw a sheep. Pilot drew several times but rejected. The prince finally accepted before exhausted his patience, but he was really surprised with the prince acceptation because he only drew a box and claimed that the sheep was being inside. The little man used to ask Pilot question but never answered, who made Pilot so curious about where the little guy came from. Pilot got some hints through their talk, and believed that the plant of little man came is the asteroid known as B-612. On B-612, the flower on this planet had always been simple, they were only one rings of petals, and took up no room at all. One day, a new beauty flower, rose, had came up, who demanded for the little prince take care constantly. Prince loves the rose very much but he was upset as he doubted...
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...Summary — Chapter I. I am born An older David Copperfield narrates the story of his life. He begins by saying that only the writing that follows can tell who the hero of his story is. He tells of his simple birth, which occurred at the stroke of midnight on a Friday night. An old woman in the neighborhood has told him that the time of his birth indicates he will be unlucky and will be able to see ghosts and spirits. David’s father is already dead when David is born. David’s aunt, Miss Betsey Trotwood, appears on the day of David’s birth and speaks with David’s mother, Clara. Miss Betsey informs Clara that she intends to take custody of the girl Clara is about to bear. Miss Betsey wishes to raise the girl so that men never take advantage of her the way Miss Betsey has been taken advantage of in her own life. When David is born and Mr. Chillip, the doctor, informs Miss Betsey that Clara has had a boy, Miss Betsey storms out of the house and never returns. Summary — Chapter II. I Observe. David’s earliest memories are of his mother’s hair and his nurse, Clara Peggotty, who has very dark eyes. He remembers the kitchen and the backyard, with the roosters that frightened him and the churchyard behind the house, where his father is buried. Both David and his mother submit themselves to Peggotty’s kind direction. In particular, David recalls one occasion when he sits up late reading a book about crocodiles to Peggotty while waiting for his mother to return home from an...
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...colour films. 2 We had . . . fish and . . . chips for . . . lunch. ~ That doesn't sound . . . very interesting lunch. 3 I had . . . very bad night; I didn't sleep . . . wink. 4 He is . . . vegetarian; you won't get . . . meat at his house. He'll give you . . . nut cutlet. ~Last time I had . . . nut cutlet I had . . . indigestion. 5 . . . travel agent would give you . . . information about . . . hotels. 6 We'd better go by . . . taxi—if we can get . . . taxi at such . . . hour as 2 a.m. 7 . . . person who suffers from . . . claustrophobia has . . . dread of being confined in . . . small space, and would always prefer . . . stairs to . . . lift. 8 Do you take . . . sugar in . . . coffee? ~ I used to, but now I'm on . . . diet. I'm trying to lose . . . weight. 9 . . . man suffering from . . . shock should not be given anything to drink. 10 You'll get . . . shock if you touch . . . live wire with that screwdriver. Why don't you get . . . screwdriver with . . . insulated handle? 11 It costs fifty-five and . . . half pence and I've only got . . . fifty pence piece. ~ You can pay by . . . cheque here. ~ But can I write . . . cheque for . . . fifty-five and . . . half pence? 12 . . . Mr Smith is . . . old customer and . . . honest man. ~ Why do you say that? Has he been accused of . . . dishonesty? 13 I'm not . . . wage-earner; I'm . . . self-employed man. I have . . . business of my own. ~ Then you're not . . . worker; you're . . . capitalist! 14...
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...4790642 Jungle Book 24/11/06 11:45 Page i THE JUNGLE BOOK In the hills of Southern India a baby lies warm and safe in a cave. He lies among wolf-cubs, next to Mother Wolf’s side, and he is not afraid. Outside the cave Shere Khan, the man-eating tiger, roars angrily, wanting to kill. ‘No!’ says Mother Wolf. ‘The man’s cub belongs to me. He will live, to run with the other wolves, to be my son. And I will call him Mowgli.’ The years pass, and Mowgli the man’s cub grows up with the wolves. He learns the Law of the Jungle from his teachers, Baloo the old brown bear and Bagheera the black panther. He has many adventures, and many friends among the animals of the jungle. But he still has an enemy. Shere Khan the tiger has not forgotten. He waits for the day when he can catch the man’s cub – and kill him. 4790642 Jungle Book 24/11/06 11:45 Page ii 4790642 Jungle Book 24/11/06 11:45 Page iii OXFORD BOOKWORMS LIBRARY Classics The Jungle Book Stage 2 (700 headwords) Series Editor: Jennifer Bassett Founder Editor: Tricia Hedge Activities Editors: Jennifer Bassett and Alison Baxter 4790642 Jungle Book 24/11/06 11:45 Page iv 4790642 Jungle Book 13/1/07 07:50 Page v RUDYARD KIPLING The Jungle Book Retold by Ralph Mowat Illustrated by Kanako Damerum and Yuzuru Takasaki OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 4790642 Jungle Book 24/11/06 11:45 Page vi Great Clarendon Street, Oxford ox2 6dp Oxford University...
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...The Scent of Apples by Bienvenido Santos: An Analysis (In which I am somehow nostalgic, too.) *** In my recent lurking on websites that feature blog posts about writing and reading fiction, I have come across an article created by a freelance writer. In her post, she explained the manner in which she writes. At first I thought I was in for a very discombobulating read, considering that her writing style was actually not average and that her method may involve serious reference to classical didactic writers found on literature textbooks. But her style was surprisingly simple. She said that before she can write anything, she needs to come up with a single word from which all thoughts and ideas in the article would be derived. The Scent of Apples by Bienvenido Santos reminds me of this writing style. Of course, that statement wasn’t intended to pose a comparison but was just an effect of a serious and curious rumination of an amateur reader – a sudden gush of ideas stemming from a glimpse of literary schema. Nostalgia, as it seems, is the word from which the entire short story emanates. What’s more wonderful about the literary work was that the author doesn’t have to be blunt to elucidate. In fact, the work is simple yet it can rival the literary audacities of other short stories. It is an established rule in writing that one needs to carefully think of a title that makes a literary work worth reading. Santos’ choice of title is an effortless adherence to this rule for it...
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...American society. Rodriguez was born in 1944 into an immigrant family outside San Francisco. Though he was unable to speak English when he entered school, his educational career can only be described as brilliant: undergraduate work at Stanford University, graduate study at Berkeley and Columbia, a Fulbright fellowship to study English literature in London, a subsequent grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. In this selection, Rodriguez analyzes the motives that led him to abandon his study of Renaissance literature and return to live with his parents. He is currently an associate editor with the Pacific News Service in San Francisco, an essayist for the Newshour with Jim Lehrer, and a contributing editor for Harper's magazine and for the Opinion section of the Los Angeles Times. His other books include Mexico's Children (1991) and Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father (1993), which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction. I stand in the ghetto classroom - "the guest speaker" - attempting to lecture on the mystery of the sounds of our words to rows of diffident students. "Don't you hear it? Listen! The music of our words. ‘Sumer is i-cumen in. . . .’ And songs on the car radio. We need Aretha Franklin's voice to fill plain words with music - her life." In the face of their empty stares, I try to create an enthusiasm. But the girls in the back row turn to watch...
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...Alchemist Paulo Coelho Translated by Alan R. Clarke. Published 1992. ISBN 0-7225-3293-8. PART ONE The boy's name was Santiago. Dusk was falling as the boy arrived with his herd at an abandoned church. The roof had fallen in long ago, and an enormous sycamore had grown on the spot where the sacristy had once stood. He decided to spend the night there. He saw to it that all the sheep entered through the ruined gate, and then laid some planks across it to prevent the flock from wandering away during the night. There were no wolves in the region, but once an animal had strayed during the night, and the boy had had to spend the entire next day searching for it. He swept the floor with his jacket and lay down, using the book he had just finished reading as a pillow. He told himself that he would have to start reading thicker books: they lasted longer, and made more comfortable pillows. It was still dark when he awoke, and, looking up, he could see the stars through the halfdestroyed roof. I wanted to sleep a little longer, he thought. He had had the same dream that night as a week ago, and once again he had awakened before it ended. He arose and, taking up his crook, began to awaken the sheep that still slept. He had noticed that, as soon as he awoke, most of his animals also began to stir. It was as if some mysterious energy bound his life to that of the sheep, with whom he had spent the past two years, leading them through the countryside in search of food and water. "They are so used...
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...gender issues. The recent awareness has forced the government to step in and back up laws that are for and against these issues. Analyzing our lives on a daily basis seems easy, but after reading The Gender Trap: Parents and Pitfalls of Raising Boys and Girls by Emily Kane, I didn't realize how much I actually gender my children and how it could affect them in the future. Interviews are not easy to get. I believe Kane did a great job with the participants she had. Kane argued that parents are the ones who construct their children and although their parenting is safe they have the ability to stay away from the pitfall of the gender trap. The bigger picture? It can demolish a lifelong practice that gender injustice takes on. The strong notion is assuming because your child is a female she will recognize herself as a girl, or if it is a male he will recognize himself as a boy and if he or she doesn't, some parents feel disappointed as Haley's dad did from one of the YouTube video's in one of the lectures. He felt that he left his “son” down and was disappointed in himself because Haley did not recognize herself as a boy. The research that Kane completed was clever and eye opening. Kane managed to take the assumptions that people have about boys and girls and created a large overview with her findings about society's impressions on gender. Throughout Kane's interviews she easily locates the “gender trap,” and is able to recognize how the parent is gendering their child and notices...
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