ight Right Word Wrong Word Words and structures confused and misused by learners of English L. G. Alexander LONGMAN Addison Wesley Longman Limited Edinburgh Gate, Harlow Essex CM20 2JE, England and Associated Companies throughout the world. © Longman Group UK Limited 1994 All rights reserved; no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior
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Level 1: Self-Assessment—Nouns Use the following self-assessment exercises to improve your knowledge of and power over English grammar, mechanics, and usage. Review all of Section 1.1 in the Handbook of Grammar, Mechanics, and Usage that appears at the end of this book. Answers to these exercises appear on page AK-1. For items 1–5, indicate which words are common nouns and which are proper nouns. 1. Give the balance sheet to Melissa. Common noun: Sheet Proper noun: Melissa 2. After three
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There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and shunned evil. 2 And there were born to him seven sons and three daughters. 3 His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east. 4 And his sons went and feasted in their houses, every one his day; and sent and
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we can communicate with the foreign people. It is impossible to use our language to communicate in that extra-large area of community. So that we have to write in English, as a world language that can be understand by that foreign people. It will be a self-improvement especially in writing skill, because we write many of words in English and it is repeatedly day by day. And from this phenomena it says that slowly a Social Media can improve our writing skill. Based on this consideration, then I am
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they also have various levels of competencies with grammatical structure of English language. English language became the new lingua franca it is usually used as a medium of instruction. But in order to teach the second language also known as the English language, one must know how to apply different techniques and strategies in teaching English as a foreign language. After all, there is no single best way to teach the English language but there are many ways to do. And it is the main role of the teacher
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FILL IN THE BLANKS 1) Rohan and Sania are going out with their . 2) We will come to the . every week. 3) Then you can the book. 4) Three Little Kittens their mittens. 5) Then you shall have no . 6) Three little kittens found their . 7) Now you may the pie. 8) Priya Liked
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speech. He also compares the jay to other animals and shows the differences between them. In the story the jay is the best speaker in the animal kingdom. He is very proud and likes to show off his talent whenever possible. He not only uses good grammar, but can also use comparisons and metaphors. The blue jay can put whatever he feels into words. And not any commonplace words, either, but talk straight out of a book, full of metaphors. And you will never see a blue jay stuck for a word. Nobody ever
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and Weaknesses in Learning English In all levels of education, the quality of every learner’s grasp and understanding always varies since each student obtains knowledge from their educators in different ways. Additionally, it also reflects that students will have dissimilar strengths and weaknesses which can actually be seen through their study while they are all together learning in the same class. From what I have remarkably noticed since the start of learning English, I constantly find myself
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IELTS Speaking Test Grading Criteria Introduction Examiners look at five different things in order to determine a candidate's score: 1. Pronunciation 2. Grammar 3. Vocabulary 4. Fluency and Coherence * Notice that Fluency and Coherence are grouped together although they are different things. Each of these four carries equal value. The examiner gives you a whole-number sub-score for each of these and then calculates the average of the four. * Both whole number and half band scores
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