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What''''s up - American Idioms

What''''s up - American Idioms

Ngày tải lên : 26/10/2013, 22:15
... that the stress patterns differ In general, particles (also called "adverbs" or "adverbial particles") are stressed, but prepositions are unstressed unless the preposition has more than one syllable ... verbs to form idioms This exercise is also a story, which provides learners with another example of the idioms in context This exercise is on the cassette, so students can check their answers by ... helps students grasp the precise meaning of each idiom Each line is part of a story, so the context builds from sentence to sentence What Does It Go With? helps students develop an awareness of...
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McGraw - Hill's Essential American Idioms

McGraw - Hill's Essential American Idioms

Ngày tải lên : 18/03/2014, 09:07
... pointed to by a See also is in sans serif type sense is the definition of an entry head Some entry heads have two or more senses, and in this case, the senses are numbered Some senses have additional ... single sense In that case, the senses are numbered Often, sense number one is more literal than the others and is listed first When the subsequent senses are figuratively based on the first sense ... Euph dead ᮀ It was a long illness, but she is at peace now at sixes and sevens Fig lost in bewilderment; at loose ends ᮀ Bill is always at sixes and sevens when he s home by himself at the drop...
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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Marjorie''''s Busy Days, by Carolyn Wells pot

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Marjorie''''s Busy Days, by Carolyn Wells pot

Ngày tải lên : 28/06/2014, 17:20
... A Noble Society Disturbed Citizens Rosy Posy 's Choice A Substitute Guest Thanksgiving Day A Spool of Yarns The Charity Bazaar MARJORIE' S BUSY DAYS CHAPTER I A JOLLY GOOD GAME "What you say, King, ... than not his will was law But this was usually because he had such splendid ideas about games and how to play them, that his sisters gladly fell in with his plans But Marjorie was not far behind ... craft sails the waves than this." "What is that mountain in the distance?" asked Marjorie, shading her eyes with her hand as she looked across the street "That 's a—a peak of the Rockies, ma'am...
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mcgraw hill s essential american slang phần 10 pptx

mcgraw hill s essential american slang phần 10 pptx

Ngày tải lên : 24/07/2014, 12:22
... constructions such as nonrestrictive adjective clauses, adverbial phrases and clauses, appositives, and suspended constructions In such a use, they create emphasis After graduation from high school—where ... yours, his, hers, its, ours, theirs Its is especially likely to be misused, probably because of confusion with the contraction it 's for it is Never use it 's for the possessive of it: The cat washed ... Indefinite pronouns form the possessive by adding - 's: anyone 's, anybody 's, someone 's, everyone 's, and so on The predicative possessive forms of the personal pronouns, however, not use an apostrophe:...
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mcgraw hill s essential american slang phần 9 pot

mcgraw hill s essential american slang phần 9 pot

Ngày tải lên : 24/07/2014, 12:22
... professor, and entitled A Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases, Classified and Arranged so as to Facilitate the Expression of Ideas and Assist in Literary Composition Roget devised a system ... The search was fruitless; and the men were discouraged STOPS 393 The search was fruitless The men were discouraged Because the search was fruitless the men were discouraged Semicolon in Lists ... his finger along the edge he mused, "This is sharp medicine, but it is a sound cure for all diseases." There was some fussing about the way he should have his head on the block Somebody insisted...
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mcgraw hill s essential american slang phần 8 potx

mcgraw hill s essential american slang phần 8 potx

Ngày tải lên : 24/07/2014, 12:22
... the subject as the images by Garson and 308 DICTION Dillard For instance one philosopher discusses the style of another like this: The style is not, as philosophic style should be, so transparent ... abstractions as if they were human A simple instance of personification is the use of personal pronouns to refer to objects, as when sailors speak of a ship as "she." Here is a more subtle instance, ... possession of their deserted abodes Washington Irving "Rank" and "fashion" signify aristocratic Londoners; "trade" designates the merchant class These abstractions are personified by the verbs:...
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mcgraw hill s essential american slang phần 7 pdf

mcgraw hill s essential american slang phần 7 pdf

Ngày tải lên : 24/07/2014, 12:22
... BETTER: She will show us how to it He becomes self-conscious to the extent that he withdraws into himself BETTER: He becomes so self-conscious that he withdraws into himself Pointlessness Pointless ... many words to say something; and pointlessness, saying something that doesn't need to be said at all Circumlocution > Avoid Meaningless" Strings of Verbs English often conveys subtleties by stringing ... mean to suggest that Segal is as gaga as this book [Love Story]—only that a part of him is Pauline Kael Pretentiousness Pretentiousness is using big words to no purpose (except perhaps to show off)...
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mcgraw hill s essential american slang phần 6 potx

mcgraw hill s essential american slang phần 6 potx

Ngày tải lên : 24/07/2014, 12:22
... soft syllables Loud syllables are said to be stressed and for purposes of analysis are marked by /; soft syllables are unstressed and marked x.1 Writers create syllabic rhythm by arranging stresses ... now to be a serious political mission Samuel Hopkins Adams Both of those passages consist chiefly of short, simple sentences The first uses them poorly, the second effectively Where does the difference ... phrase Intonational rhythm coexists with syllabic Thus Tennyson 's lines also show an almost perfect alternation of stressed and unstressed syllables: X / \ / X / \ / X / The long day wanes; the slow...
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mcgraw hill s essential american slang phần 5 docx

mcgraw hill s essential american slang phần 5 docx

Ngày tải lên : 24/07/2014, 12:22
... conveys emphasis are by clustered stresses and metrical runs A stressed syllable is spoken relatively loudly, an unstressed one more softly Stressed syllables are marked by /, unstressed by x, as ... run consists of a number of stressed and unstressed syllables recurring in a more or less regular pattern This, of course, is common in poetry, but much less so in prose Clustered Stresses X / ... Pitchers are divided into two classes These classes are starters and relievers Pitchers are divided into two classes—starters and relievers In sentences like these, the colon or dash says: "Here...
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mcgraw hill s essential american slang phần 4 ppt

mcgraw hill s essential american slang phần 4 ppt

Ngày tải lên : 24/07/2014, 12:22
... roads They show also natural features, such as rivers and lakes, and sometimes mountains As simple maps, most automobile drivers have on various occasions used sketches drawn by service station ... (Chesterton uses the terms classification and class several times.) Speaking strictly, analysis and classification are not identical The first begins with the general and works into particulars; ... sentences are strong and repetitive, qualities exactly suited to Nichols 's purpose He wants to stress that writing often is—usually is—monotonous work Such "fit" between sentence style and purpose is...
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mcgraw hill s essential american slang phần 3 pptx

mcgraw hill s essential american slang phần 3 pptx

Ngày tải lên : 24/07/2014, 12:22
... opposition is indispensable A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opponents than from his fervent supporters For his supporters will push him to disaster ... acquires a deeper form in Marx and issues in Soviet Russia Russell 's nine sentences correspond to his steps in analyzing his topic: Sentence Idea Topic: increasing intellectual complexity Plan: list ... paragraph expresses attitudes of our culture, not the writer 's own beliefs): American men don't cry, because it is considered unmasculine to so Only sissies cry Crying is a "weakness" characteristic of...
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mcgraw hill s essential american slang phần 2 doc

mcgraw hill s essential american slang phần 2 doc

Ngày tải lên : 24/07/2014, 12:22
... an essay on Picasso with this sentence: There is no painter who has so spontaneously and so profoundly reflected his age as Pablo Picasso Arousing Curiosity This is usually a more effective strategy ... avoiding "I," "me," "my," we sense a personality In the following passage a historian is discussing dress and personal cleanliness in the Middle Ages: Hemp was much used as a substitute for flax in making ... business of the storyteller is to ask questions, not to answer them That truth applies sometimes to the essayist, who may wish to suggest a judgment rather than to formulate one The strategy is...
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mcgraw hill s essential american slang phần 1 pptx

mcgraw hill s essential american slang phần 1 pptx

Ngày tải lên : 24/07/2014, 12:22
... Usage Usage designates rules of a less basic and binding sort, concerning how we should use the language in certain situations These sentences, for instance, violate formal usage: She dresses beautiful ... papers or business letters Which is not to dismiss such writing as easy Being clear and concise is never easy (To say nothing of being interesting!) But at least the writing process is structured ... increasing abstractness Style is immediate and obvious It exists in the writing itself; it is the sum of the actual words, sentences, paragraphs Strategy is more abstract, felt beneath the words as the...
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English Grammar Tests-Elementary Level''''s archiveBasic American English pps

English Grammar Tests-Elementary Level''''s archiveBasic American English pps

Ngày tải lên : 26/07/2014, 06:20
... social skills and sent her to the famous school in Switzerland ends ending finishes finishing 3.You can't miss it, it 's that tall building right at the of the road end ends finish finishes ... for the last part and I just don't know how to the story end ending finish finishing 10.To most people it seemed like a long and successful relationship and so it was a great surprise to learn ... family watched television ends ended fnishes finished 8.You could tell the time by him because he always work at exactly the same time every day ends ended finish finished 9.I've written practically...
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Barrons's American Accent Training

Barrons's American Accent Training

Ngày tải lên : 05/10/2012, 08:20
... 1-31: Contrasting Descriptive and Set Phrases Exercise 1-32: Two-Word Stress Set Phrase Descriptive Phrase Summary of Stress in Two-Word Phrases First Word Second Word Nationalities Exercise 1-33; ... own examples at the bottom Bob sees Betty He sees her Betty knows Bob She knows him Ann and Ed call the kids They call them Jan sells some apples She sells some Jean sells cars She sells them We ... with stress on the first word, have been taken into everyday English from descriptive phrases, with stress on the second word As soon as a descriptive phrase becomes a set phrase, the emphasis shifts...
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Tài liệu NTC''''s American Idioms Dictionary doc

Tài liệu NTC''''s American Idioms Dictionary doc

Ngày tải lên : 17/01/2014, 00:20
... Eugene polished the f loor until it was smooth as glass (as) smooth as silk very smooth ᮀ This pudding is smooth as silk ᮀ Your skin is as smooth as silk (as) snug as a bug in a rug cozy and snug (Informal ... as possible, to get people to stop smoking in buses ᮀ As far as possible, the police will issue tickets to all speeding drivers ᮀ I’ll follow your instructions so far as possible (as) far as someone ... Black s speech was as dull as dishwater (as) dull as ditchwater Go to (as) dull as dishwater (as) easy as ABC very easy ᮀ Making apple pie is as easy as ABC ᮀ Calculus is easy as ABC (as) easy as (apple)...
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Tài liệu Healthgrades 2012 Trends in Women’s Health in American Hospitals  pptx

Tài liệu Healthgrades 2012 Trends in Women’s Health in American Hospitals  pptx

Ngày tải lên : 12/02/2014, 23:20
... Know Your Risk of Cardiovascular Disease  RISK ASSESSMENT   Major risk factors for cardiovascular disease that can be influenced by lifestyle choices include:  Take this assessment to estimate your   ... following symptoms:   39% Coronary Bypass Surgery  Anxiety and restlessness   Chest pain, tightness or pressure, which  can radiate to the shoulders, back, neck,  jaw or arms   Dizziness or a feeling of passing out  ... Valley Regional Medical Center Brownsville TX Corpus Christi, TX  x  CHRISTUS Spohn Hospital Corpus Christi ‐ Memorial Corpus Christi TX     including:  CHRISTUS Spohn Hospital Corpus Christi ‐ Shoreline Corpus Christi TX...
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Tài liệu Opportunity for All - How the American Public Benefits from Internet Access at U.S. Libraries pptx

Tài liệu Opportunity for All - How the American Public Benefits from Internet Access at U.S. Libraries pptx

Ngày tải lên : 18/02/2014, 00:20
... means for accomplishing important tasks Using data from the surveys and stories from public access technology users, librarians, and community stakeholders, Section discusses the reasons users ... characteristics of the users of public library Internet services is provided Section provides a detailed discussion of types of uses and users in the areas of pursuing educational goals, job seeking ... access to the Internet and computers, supported by staff trained to help users be successful in their interactions This access has also proven to be critical in times of disaster, where libraries...
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Tài liệu The Child''''s Book of American Biography pdf

Tài liệu The Child''''s Book of American Biography pdf

Ngày tải lên : 18/02/2014, 08:20
... president' so I guess he 's almost a giant I guess the president is as big as the meeting-house, and prob'ly the vice-president is the size of the school-house." The school-teacher sisters were busy with ... to stay down at the wharves when the Portland vessels came in It was sport to watch the burly negroes unload the hogsheads of molasses, the barrels of sugar, and the spices The boys used to wish ... to build healthy almshouses and asylums This was seventy years ago, when traveling was slow and dangerous in the west and south She had so many delays The Child 's Book of American Biography,...
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Tài liệu U. S. Small Business Administration Table of Small Business Size Standards Matched to North American Industry Classification System Codes pdf

Tài liệu U. S. Small Business Administration Table of Small Business Size Standards Matched to North American Industry Classification System Codes pdf

Ngày tải lên : 22/02/2014, 05:20
... NAICS Codes 531130 531190 NAICS U .S industry title Size Size standards in standards in millions of number of dollars employees $25.5 $7.0 Lessors of Miniwarehouses and Self Storage Units Lessors ... Personal Care Stores $7.0 Subsector 447 – Gasoline Stations 447110 Gasoline Stations with Convenience Stores $27.0 22 NAICS Codes NAICS U .S industry title 447190 Other Gasoline Stations Subsector ... 100 20 NAICS Codes NAICS U .S industry title Size Size standards in standards in millions of number of dollars employees Plastics Materials and Basic Forms and Shapes Merchant Wholesalers Other Chemical...
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