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Pointer 2

2. Businessman in front of the office.

Teber (2010).

Look at the picture and answer: Whats wrong with this sentence?

When somebody call the businessman,

he was looking at the building.

Check verb agreement, tense and form.

Read this resourcehttp://leo.stcloudstate.edu/grammar/tenses.html

Examples

The office manager was at his desk and the secretary istaken phone calls. (wrong)

The office manager was at his desk and the secretary wastaking phone calls. (correct)

Verbs are the most important complex part of speech in English. They can take many different forms

and function in many different ways. Verbs indicate the person and number of the subject and thetense and voice (active and passive) of the action. Every sentence has at least one clause andevery clause has at least one verb. Understanding verbs, therefore, is crucial to your success withEnglish. The most frequent errors occur with the verb to be. There are 3 forms of the verb to bein the present tense, am, is and are. Knowing when to use the singular form and when to use the

plural form is a fundamental of learning English. Be sure that your verbs agree with the subject andthat the tense and form are correct.

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Once came home, the girl eated a candy.

3. Swing. SXC.hu (2009).

Check for full subordination or be sure that the subject has not been omitted.


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Read this resourcehttp://www.chompchomp.com/terms/mainclause.htm

Examples

Because wanted to learn quickly, Pamela studied all the time. (wrong)

Because shewanted to learn quickly, Pamela studied all the time. (correct)

A complex sentence contains at least two clauses: a main clauseand a subordinate clause.

The main clause.

"[A main clauseis a] clause which bears no relation, or no relation other than coordinationto any other or larger clause. Thus the sentence I said I wouldn'tis as a whole a single mainclause; in He came but I had to leavetwo main clauses are linked in coordination by but."(P.H. Matthews, "main clause," The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics, Oxford

University Press, 1997)

A subordinate clause, which is dependent on the main clause for its meaning, may functionin a sentence as an adjective, an adverb, or a noun.

Example

The Great Horned Owl,which hunts at night, feeds on rodents and other smaller animals.

An adjective clause(also referred to as a relative clause) usually begins with a pronoun,such as who, whom, whose, that, which, where, or when, and immediately follows the noun

or pronoun which it describes.

Example: The secretary collected many boxeswhich she put her files into.

An adverb clausebegins with an adverbial conjunction, such as because, although, if, orwhile, and is frequently found at the beginning or end of the sentence.

Example

Although he wanted to visit his family, he went to Europe for his vacation.

A noun clausebegins with the word that or a question word, such as why, what, or how, and

can function in a sentence in any of the ways that a noun can.

Example

The students must decidewhich English course to take.

Full subordination means that both the subject and the verb are present and that the main clause iscomplete. A sentence is not complete without full subordination.


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Pointer 4

4. Bored(Merrill, 2007)


Yes, the class is bored, the girl is boring.

Watch this video

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyMECXPv1GI

Check the verbals. Be sure that you are not using a verb where you should be using an adjective or

using an adjective where you should be using a verb. Also be sure to check and see that you areusing a finite verb or a non-finite verb correctly.

An infinitive is a verbal which is formed with toand the base form of the verb. Although the word to

may be the first word of an infinitive, it also begins many prepositional phrases.

Example

infinitives: to eat, to walk, to enjoy.

prepositional phrases: to school, to Cuba, to the party.

It may also function as a noun, an adverb, etc., but it cannot function as a finite verb in a clause.

A gerund is a verbal which is formed by adding the suffix ingto the base form of a verb. A gerundnever functions as a verb in a sentence. It always functions as a noun. Gerunds should not beconfused with ingwords that are part of all progressive tense verbs.

Like gerunds and infinitives, verbal adjectives are formed from verbs but do not function as finiteverbs. Each verb has two basic verbal adjective forms: the present participle and the past participle.

Example

verb: eat - verbal adjectives: eating, eaten.

verb: interest - verbal adjectives: interesting, interested.

Read these resourceshttp://www.learnenglish.de/grammar/verbfinitenon.htm

http://individual.utoronto.ca/ajhicks/participles.pdf

Example

This is a very interestedbook. (wrong) interested verb not used with modifier very This is a very interestingbook. (correct) interesting adjective used with modifier very


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Pointer 5

Look at the picture and answer: Whats wrong with these

sentences?

Yes, I did it by meself.No, I didnt do it by self.

5. Graduated Franco (2006).

Check the pronoun form, agreement and reference. Be sure that the correct form of the pronoun isused and that it is relative to the sentence.

Read these resourceshttp://www.acadweb.wwu.edu/writingcenter/Handouts/Pronouns.htm http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/pronounshttp://www.englishlanguageguide.com/english/grammar/reflexive-pronoun.asp

Examples

They completed the reports theirselves. (wrong)

They completed the reports themselves. (correct)

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Franco, O. (2006). Graduated [digital picture]. Obtained on october 4th fromhttp://www.sxc.hu/photo/660438 under sxc.hu free of chargelicense.

Horton Group. (2006). Water fountain children [digital picture]. Obtained on october 4th fromhttp://www.sxc.hu/photo/542463under sxc.hu free of chargelicense

Merrill, C. (2007). Bored [digital picture]. Obtained on october 4th fromhttp://www.sxc.hu/photo/732192 under sxc.hu free of chargelicense

SXC.HU (2009). Swing[digital picture]. Obtained on october 4th fromhttp://www.sxc.hu/photo/1209895 under sxc.hu free of chargelicense.

Teber, C. (2010). Businessman in front of the office [digital picture]. Obtained on october 4th fromhttp://www.sxc.hu/photo/1307588 under sxc.hu free of chargelicense.

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