... deter-mine:1. The overall main idea 2. The mainidea of each paragraph (major supporting ideas)3.Minor supporting ideasBe careful the overall mainidea is not where you might expect it tobe. The ... numbers are in parentheses): Main idea (1)Detail (2)Example (3)Detail (4)Example (5, 6)DISTINGUISHING MAIN IDEAS FROM SUPPORTING IDEASIf you’re not sure whether something is a mainidea or ... phrases that signal supporting ideas. FINDINGTHE SUPPORTING IDEAS75Here’s the same paragraph in outline form:I. Due to increasing costs, there will be two changes inthe tuition reim-bursement...
... 2000.Mapping wordnets using structural information. In Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, HongKong. Finding Predominant Word Senses in Untagged ... sections of the Reuterscorpus. We demonstrate that choosing texts from aparticular domain has a significant in uence on the sense ranking. We chose the domains of SPORTSand FINANCE since there is ... described in section 2.1above. We obtained the predominant sense for eachof these words and used these to label the instances in the noundata within the SENSEVAL-2 Englishall-words task. We give the...
... together all the ideas inthe passage. There-fore, themainidea must be general enough to encompass all the ideas inthe passage. Much like a net, it holdseverything inthe passage together. ... language to get their ideas across. Finding an implied mainidea is much like finding a stated main idea. If you recall from Lesson 2, a main idea is defined as an assertion about the subject that ... summarizes the statement’s main idea? a. There are too many thefts inthe garage.b. There are not enough security guards.c. There is something wrong with the security in the parking garage.AnswerThe...
... participating inthe pathways of LPS-induced NO production, are schematically summarized in Fig. 8. Inthe present study, the important role of the indirect pathway through IFN-c in LPS-induced ... 270) Ó FEBS 2003 at the 2-h time-point and maintained up to the 18-h time-point (Fig. 6A). Specificity of IRF-1 binding to the DNAprobe was confirmed from the result that the strong bandsobserved ... recombinant IL-15 on the induction of IFN-c in the PEC was not evident, even in combination with IL-12or IL-18 (data not shown). These results indicate that IL-15contributes far less to the indirect...
... for desk installation. (code 1) (lb) To install the phone on a desk, follow the steps inthe illustration below. (le) Follow the steps inthe illustration below, for installing the phone ... simple object as the complement. Although all these forms are grammatical and communicate the same basic in- formation, the form in (la) was used inthe corpus. I am interested inthe functional ... as in (5c), that is stated in precondition form as a phrase following the next action. The manual writer, in this example, is emphasizing the actions peculiar to the cordless phone and paying...
... students.Doing the pedagogics exercises brings many effects; of which themain effectsare: strengthening knowledge of the subject, improving learning interest in the subject, testing, evaluating study ... method of credit trainingregime.- Finalize and develop the theory of designing and using the exercises in teaching including the requirements, principles, procedures of designing: anexercise, ... ensure the lecturer r ’scontrol and training quality.Continue to invest in infrastructure, equipment to demand practice, experiment,training and teaching to meet the training requirement under the...
... All these words share the same root—advers. Only the endings change.– DEFINING VOCABULARY IN CONTEXT–36 PracticeRead the following passages and determine the mean-ing of the words from their ... come across today and the rest of the week. Instead of looking themup in a dictionary, try to figure out the meanings of these words from their context. Then, look them up in a dictionary to make ... 1Try these questions on the following statements. Readthem carefully, and then write F inthe blank if the statement is a fact and O if it is an opinion. The answersappear right after the questions.1....
... getting the facts, findingthemain idea, determining what words mean in context,and distinguishing between fact and opinion. In this lesson, you’ll getvital practice in using all four skills ... FarThese are the strategies you studied inthe past fourlessons:■Lesson 1: Find the facts in what you read. Yo upracticed looking for the basic information thatwas being conveyed inthe ... Determine the meaning of words fromcontext. You practiced looking for clues todetermine meaning inthe words and sentencessurrounding the unfamiliar word or phrase.■Lesson 4: Distinguish...
... murder.11. Indelible meansa. permanent, impossible to remove.b. fleeting, brief.c. troubling, disturbing.12. Themainidea of this paragraph is best expressed in which sentence inthe paragraph?13. ... also serving those foods, they areclearly copying fast-food menus, not rejecting,ignoring,or disregarding them.4. c. Answer a is an assumption not based on any-thing written inthe passage. ... encompass the whole paragraph.5. True. This sentence expresses themain idea. 6. True. This sentence is an opinion. It is debatable.Someone else might think that altering the menu in school...
... stories start inthe middle and flash backward to the begin-ning; a few start at the end and tell the story in reverse. But most of the time, stories start at the beginning. Writers often begin with ... and then tell what happened next, and next,and so on, until the end. When writers tell a story in this order, from beginning to end inthe order in which thingshappened, they are telling it in ... came up with theidea of the International Dinner to raise funds to repair the damages. The plan was to cel-ebrate the diversity of the Berkshire Park Neighborhood Association by servingethnic...
... least power inthe company. Then the next,and the next, until at last, you reach the president.Likewise, in writing, ideas may be arranged in order of importance. In this pattern, which idea comes ... and rearrange them so that they are in chronological order.Here’s the order of events as they are presented in the story.■ The International Dinner raised $15,000 to reno-vate the Berkshire ... members cameup with theidea of the International Dinner toraise funds for repairs.■ The plan was to serve foods that represent the var-ious cultures inthe neighborhood.■ The committee organized...
... third, in addition, and most importantly. Main Idea By the way, what is themainidea of the two para-graphs above? Do you see a topic sentence? Write the mainidea of the paragraphs in this ... out by saying the mostimportant thing,” you know that the writer will bestarting with the most important idea and ending with the least important. The second best thing, therefore,is the second ... offered inthe paragraph:“Check the doctor’s credentials.”3. What’s the third most important thing?Since the writer is going from most to leastimportant, then according the passage, the third...