AVOIDING INFORMAL LANGUAGE IN ACADEMIC WRITING

EXERCISE 1 (Have a tutor help you.) 1. Identify the different types of informal language in the following paragraph. 2. Follow the instructions to make the language more formal.

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24. WORD F E - resources.jjay.cuny.edu

24. WORD FORM ERRORS Notice in the sentences below how changing the form of the word educate (by adding endings) changes the word from a verb to an adjective or noun. Educated to the verb citizens are the basis of a healthy democracy. (Adding –ed educate creates an adjective.) The government has a responsibility to provide education to all citizens.

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26. VERB TENSES

26. VERB TENSES Created in 2007 at the Center for English Language Support, John Jay College, on a U.S. Department of Education Page 1 of 1

Unit 18: Present Perfect Tense vs. Past Tense

78 • Unit 18: Present Perfect Tense vs. Past Tense. Exercise 4: Fill in the chart with the correct forms of the verbs. Base Form Present Tense Past Tense Present Perfect Tense

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Present Perfect Tense - English for Everyone

now A time in the past 2) It is cold. Directions: Now make your own sentences in the present perfect simple tense. 1) _____ 2) _____ The present perfect (progressive) tense is used to describe an action that has already begun to happen sometime in the past and continues to happen up through the present.

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Rules for Using Irregular Verbs

1 RULES FOR USING IRREGULAR VERBS Understand the problem. All verbs, whether regular or irregular, have five forms [often called principal parts]. These forms are the infinitive, simple present, simple past, past participle, and present participle. The difference between a regular and an irregular verb is the formation of the simple

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Connecting past and present 2 - businessenglishonline.net

30 a Past simple or present perfect? The past simple is used to describe actions in a completed time period. The present perfect is used when the time period includes

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Past perfect tense - English for Everyone

now A time in the past An earlier time in the past 2) It is cold. Directions: Now make your own sentences in the past perfect simple tense. 1) _____ 2) _____ The past perfect (progressive) tense is used to describe an action that was happening

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TENSES - laps.in

Example – Is she not writing a letter? (3) Present Perfect– It is used to show an action that started in the past and has just finished. Example-She has written a letter.Example – She has not written a letter. Example-Has she written a letter?Example– Has she not written a letter? (4) Present Perfect Continuous– This tense shows the action which started in

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Vergangenheit – Präteritum Theorie learning target

Vergangenheit – Präteritum Theorie © Thomas Höfler 2005 – 2009 1 learning target Aim of this section is to learn the second way to speak about past events.

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verbs - Basby

3 The use of the tenses Infinitive Like in English infinitive – without at (to) - is used after modal verbs: Jeg vil gerne smage din kaffe (I would like to taste your coffee) Jeg skal arbejde på søndag (I am going to work next Sunday) Jeg kan svømme (I can swim) Jeg må gå (I must/have to go)

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APPLICATION FOR EMPLOYMENT

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