Kamis, 17 Februari 2011

Pre - position in, on, and at

Preposition of Time : at, in, on

We use :
  • at for a PRECISE TIME
  • in for MONTHS, YEARS, CENTURIES and LONG PERIODS
  • on for DAYS and DATES
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Vocabulary around the house

  • attic
  • basement
  • bathroom
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Descriptive text

Social Function
To describe a particular person, place or thing

Significant Grammatical Features
  • Focus on specific Participant
  • Use of attributes and identifying Processes
  • Frequent use of Epithets and Classifiers in nominal groups
  • Use of simple present tense  
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Passive voice

In the passive sentence, the object of an active verb becomes the subject of the passive verb.
Only transitive verbs are used in the passive. Intransitive verbs such as happen, sleep, come and seem cannot be used in the passive.

When rewriting active sentences in passive voice, note the following:
• the object of the active sentence becomes the subject of the passive sentence
• the finite form of the verb is changed (to be + past participle)
• the subject of the active sentence becomes the object of the passive sentence (or is dropped)
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Asking if someone remembers or not

In this page we will learn about Asking Someone if Remembers or Not.
 
Formal expressions:
- I wonder if you remember.....
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Offering

'Can I help you ?'
maybe you often hear the word.
 
So, that is the example of offering.
The expression of “ Would you like....”is normally used for offering something to someone.
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Simple Future

Simple Future tense is used to describing job or action that will to do (happened) at future.
Formation of sentences
 
1. Positive
( + ) S + shall/ will + V1
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Noun phrases

This the example of Noun Phrase 
  • He is a young boy. 
  • She is so beautiful.
1. Noun phrases is constraction function as subject and object .
2. Noun phrases is either a single noun or pronoun or any group of words
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Finite verb

This is the definition of Finite Vebrs.
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Definition:
Finite verbs (sometimes called main verbs) are verb forms suitable for use in predicates in that they carry
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News Item

News item is factual text which informs the reader about events of the day which are considered newsworthy or important

Social function of news item is : to inform readers, listeners or viewers about events of the day which are considered newsworthy or important
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Introducing 'It'

a : it's amazing to watch this film
b : to wacth this film is amazing

In this pattern, it has no meaning. It is used only to fill the subject position in the sentence. Thus, it is called introductory “it”.
A and B mean the same thing, but sentence B is more common and useful than A. A was introduce mainly to make the meaning of B easier to understand.
Introductory “it” can fill the position both of the subject and object.
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Direct and Indirect speech

Ditha said 'that's cool'
'that's cool ' Ditha said
this is one of most example of direct and indirect speech.
for more details, you can see this post
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