ACTION VERBS The underlined words are especially good for emphasizing accomplishments Management Skills Administered Analyzed Assigned Attained Chaired Consolidated Contracted Coordinated Communication Skills Addressed Authored Collaborated Composed Contacted Convinced Corresponded Research Skills Analyzed Clarified Collected Compared Conducted Critiqued Technical Skills Adapted Applied Assembled Built Calculated Computed Teaching Skills Adapted Advised Coached Communicated Coordinated
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Mañana Habit - "Mamaya na lang" The Mañana Habit is something that we have learned from the Spaniards. The word "Mañana" means ‘tomorrow’ or ‘specified future time’ also known as “procrastination” in plain English, “mamaya na” in Filipino. How it Works: 1. You need to do something now. 2. But then you decide to do it later. 3. As a result of the delay, you end up not doing it. 4. Now, you tell yourself or somebody that you will do it tomorrow. 5. Tomorrow comes. The same
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required. * How many initial responses to discussion questions are due each week? 2 posts 4 days out of the 7 so a total of 8 posts in total per week. * What is the word requirement for initial responses to discussion questions? 250 words * What is the word requirement for “daily” responses to discussion questions? 150 words * What is the resource available to help with issues related to writing and grammar? Write Point * Are all written assignments submitted to the plagiarism checker
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Assignment: Challenges of a Paper There are many challenges that can arise when writing a paper. One of them is having an unclear thesis when writing a paper. Which means that the main point does not relate clearly to the thesis of the paper you are writing? This can also confuse the readers and lose their attention. Another challenge that might arise when writing a paper is fragment sentences in the paper. It happens often, and it is when a sentence does not have a subject and a verb in the
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unique grammatical features. This paper discusses the grammatical features in English business correspondence from sentence types, sentence structures, the location of adverbial phrases, tense, aspect, subjunctive mood , compound words, modal verbs and passive voice. Key words: grammar; feature; business correspondence. 商务函电英语的语法特点 摘要: 商务函电英语作为一种有自己特点的英语，有其独特的语法特点。本文从句子类型、句子结构、状语的位置、时与体、虚拟语气、复合词、情态动词和被动语态八个方面探讨了商务函电英语的语法特点。 关键词：语法；特点；商务函电 Contents 1. Introduction 1 2. Sentence types
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conversations with each other. Code Switching is done simply because those persons know more than one language and have more than one language in common. This switch may last for a couple of sentences, for only a single phrase or may be only for a single word. It depends on how the persons take it with themselves and the others. In the article Code Switching it is written that “the switch is commonly made according to the subject of discourse, but may be for a variety of other reasons such as the mood of
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a situation teacher makes a child stand on the corner for not knowing the difference between two words “persimmons” and “precision”. The boy does not know well about two words because his native language is Chinese not English. So his mental ability to distinguish two similar pronounced words “persimmons” and “precision” is not formed yet. But the boy thinks there are some connections between two words. It is revealed in the second stanza. To eat a persimmon, we need precision. At first we have to
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content of GRE essays.) 3. Help the reader follow your train of thought. Organizing and presenting your ideas clearly and effectively is more important than the ideas themselves. So be sure to use logical paragraph breaks and appropriate transition words and phrases to reveal your essay's rhetorical structure and to help the reader follow the flow of your discussion. 4. "Bookend" each essay if you have time. Though introductory and concluding paragraphs are entirely optional, by providing these
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Name of text read and its level: “Mrs. Frisby and the Crow” – 4th grade level Accuracy Rate: 104 words – 5 errors = 99 words correct 99/104 = 95 % accuracy Self-Correction Rate: 1:6 Reading Level: 95% accuracy – Independent/Easy Level How the student sounded: The student sounded very comfortable with the passage while she was reading. She read with good fluency until she came to a word she was unsure of. She is a very soft-spoken young lady. She didn’t use voice inflection at all punctuation
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analogy, metaphor, simile, cliché, amphiboly, “flame word”, hyperbole, euphemism and colloquialism. An idiom is two or more words that give a different meaning than that of the literal meaning. According to Webster’s New World (2011), idioms are used often to replace a literal word or expression, and many times the idiom better describes the full nuance of meaning. The major function of an idiom is to translate the literal meaning of the words to a different meaning. Many times, the popular use
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