GOLDEN GRAMMAR RULES By Michael Swan 1. Don’t use an with own. Sue needs her own room. (NOT Sue needs an own room.) I’d like a phone line of my own. (NOT … an own phone line.) 2. Use or rather to correct yourself. She’s German – or rather, Austrian. (NOT She’s German – or better, Austrian.) I’ll see you on Friday – or rather, Saturday. 3. Use the simple present – play(s), rain(s) etc – to talk about habits and repeated actions. I play tennis every Saturday. (NOT I am playing tennis every Saturday
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Helpful Hints for ACADEMIC MODULE BY GARRY ADAMS & TERRY PECK Practice Tests and Hints for IELTS Listening • Reading • Writing • Speaking fully updated for new IELTS Speaking Test format 101 Helpful Hints for IELTS PUBLISHER'S ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AUTHORS' ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The publishers are grateful for permission to use copyright material. We would like to acknowledge the original sources of text material listed below. Permission has been sought to reproduce all material
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Running Head: Crime in America Economics, Crime, and Prevention in America Clara m. Jones Strayer University Instructor: Dr. Astiage Tondari Economics 405: Economics of Social Issues June 7, 2012 Abstract Economic theories of crime have long been put forward in an attempt to explain criminality. They undertake to explain crime in terms of economic reasons as we as in terms of the structuring of society. Two of the most prolific of these theories look at the country of America and present
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of thinking philosophically about morality. For this reason, metaethics is also occasionally referred to as “second-order” moral theorizing, to distinguish it from the “first-order” level of normative theory. Metaethical positions may be divided according to how they respond to questions such as the following: * Ÿ What exactly are people doing when they use moral words such as “good” and “right”? * Ÿ What precisely is a moral value in the first place, and are such values similar to other
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transcendental philosophy. What the revolutionary achievements of Descartes, Kant, and Fichte have generically in common is to account for the legitimacy of our knowledge claims or, in other words, for the possibility of autonomy. The business of that kind of philosophy is to rationally reconstruct the rightness of judging. For that design the architecture of those authors' theorizing is necessarily opposed to normal experience. (First of all, the common notion of "things affecting us" has to be abandoned
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Exercise 1: "Test for Correctness (MECH) and Wordiness (RED)" The following ten sentences have instances of incorrect, unnecessary, and wordy usages. Rewrite them correctly and succinctly. Don't change anything that is correct, and be sure to preserve the original meanings. The sentences are from letters, here out of context. 1. The way things usually go, we make an effort to notify most of our customers regarding the status of their accounts, irregardless of their balance. 2. We find
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文勇的新托福精选阅读（原黄金29篇）真题[2010年4月3日 5.8版本] 俺常常收到同学们的邮件，要我推荐各种各样阅读材料,问我iBT的复习资料中 Barron, Longman, Delta等等哪个更好。我其实很无奈---因为尽管这些机构很大牌,但大牌丝毫都不意味着文章“质量高”(比如你可以想想三鹿奶粉)---说这些机构的文章质量不高,并不是说文字写得不好,而是说这些文章的句子结构, 论述方式, 出题思路与ETS的并不一致(有时候甚至大相径庭)：用这样的材料训练，实在是 事倍功半。 于是，我们实在应该去找找由ETS出的iBT文章来做：（我们能够找到的|由ETS编纂的标准iBT文章有） 1. OG[1]之中的13篇文章[2]；（其中3篇为第三版OG之中的文章） 2. 13次（套）TPO[3]之中的3*13=39篇文章[4]； 3. 早期[5]报名之时ETS赠送的3篇在线测试题 4. ETS官方给出的模考软件之中抽出的1篇文章； 于是这个文档在我的一时兴起之下，出现了： OG拿在手上，可以一个个字的敲成电子版；TPO的所有考试都是在自己的计算机进行，于是可以一边花钱参加考试
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……………………………………………………………….........4-5 Before entering Upon entering the Prison..………………………………………….5-6 Brief History…………………………………………………………………………....6 Physical Layout…………………………………………………………………………7 Prison Population………………………………………………………………….……7-8 Organizational Structure………………………………………………………………...9-10 Challenges faced by the organization………………………………..…………………10 Rules……………………………………………………………………………………11-12 Enrichment Activities and Recreational Facilities………………………………………12-13 Cultural Presentation…………………………………………………………
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to make some, possibly most, but not all the decisions about their learning. According to Dewey “good education should have both a societal purpose and purpose for the individual student”. For Dewey, the long-term matters, but so does the short-term quality of an educational experience. Educators
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natural language processing, neural networks 1. Introduction Will a computer program ever be able to convert a piece of English text into a programmer friendly data structure that describes the meaning of the natural language text? Unfortunately, no consensus has emerged about the form or the existence of such a data structure. Until such fundamental Articial Intelligence problems are resolved, computer scientists must settle for the reduced objective of extracting simpler representations that
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