Writing Better English for ESL Learners
Some of the older boys were making fun of. (I) The kittens were looking at in the mirror. (they) The damaged floor didn’t just ...
It a. b. c. He a. b. c. You (plural) a. b. c. Relative Pronouns A relative pronoun is a word that does two things: (1) It repl ...
The officer that saw him speeding gave him a ticket. or The officer that gave him a ticket saw him speeding. Notice that commas ...
By omitting the relative pronoun when it is a direct objector the object of a preposition. This is called an ellipticalrelative ...
Exercise 1.24Combine the following pairs of sentences by using a relative pronoun. We decided to buy the newspaper. The newspap ...
Do you have the money? I put the money on this table. The children were lost in the forest. An ugly witch lived in the forest. ...
I have a taste for something. Something is cool and refreshing. Let’s try on the skirt. The skirt has fewer pleats. Exercise 1 ...
Juan wrote the poem that Maria is reading right now. Help me find the kitten that the dog chased into the garden. There’s the a ...
Do you want the old clock that I found in the attic? We met the man from whom I received a scholarship. I approached the man th ...
Ask the cashier from whom. We’re going to the new restaurant (omit). Charles bought a CD player that. We’re driving to the moun ...
Exercise 1.27Combine the following sentences. Use the appropriate possessive form of the relative pronoun. I helped the young s ...
Juanita tasted the cake. The cake’s flavor was wonderful. He bought a bouquet of roses. The color of the roses is deep red. She ...
He kicked the box into the other room. The contents of the box was our china. Possessives and Plurals English possessives of n ...
Plurals are formed very simply in English: add -sor -esto most words. If a word ends in -s, -z,-sh,-x, or -ch, add -esfor the pl ...
indefinite article defines a word as unspecific—it is anyperson or thing (a man, a car, problems). Exercise 1.28 In the followin ...
17.The geese feeding ground was near the lake. Which these countriesis not in Asia? 19.Our students grades average above a B. ...
A large boardfell on Juan and broke his foot. The cityis too far from the factory. The nursecovered the patientwith a heavy bla ...
(your parents, your parents’) Is this new house? (the man, the men, the men’s) Can you tell me where room is? (Mr. Roberts, Mr. ...
The Comparative and Superlative The ordinary form of an adjective or adverb is called the positive. Some exam- ples: tall, rich, ...
English has a few irregular forms in the comparative and superlative that just have to be memorized: POSITIVE COMPARATIVE SUPERL ...
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