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english grammar workbook for dummies_3

Tham khảo tài liệu 'english grammar workbook for dummies_3', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 50 Part I Laying Out the Concrete Slab Grammar Basics Seeking Out the Subject Verb Pair The subject verb pair is the heart and soul of the sentence. To check your creation zero in on the verb. At least one word must express action or a state of being. Next look for a word that expresses who or what is doing that action or is in that state of being that s the subject. Now for one more essential step Check to see that the subject and verb match. They must go together and make sense Mike has been singing Lindsay suffered and so forth . For practice on properly matching subjects and verbs flip to Chapter 2. Some words that look like verbs don t function as verbs. So you may wrongly identify a verb. Checking for a match between a subject and a verb eliminates these false verbs from consideration because the pairs sound incomplete with false verbs. A couple of mismatches illustrate my point Lindsay watching Mike s message having been scrambled. . . . . . . . You try some. In the blank write the subject S verb V pair. If you find no true pair write incomplete. By the way Duke who appears several times in the following sentences is my grand-dog. Q. Mike with a cholesterol count climbing higher and higher gave in and fried some sausages.__ A. Mike S gave V fried V . Did I catch you with climbing In the preceding sentence climbing isn t a verb. One clue cholesterol count climbing sounds incomplete. Just for comparison cholesterol count is climbing makes a match. See the difference 1. Duke sighing repeatedly and frustrated by her inability to score more than ten points at the dog show.__ 2. Dogcatcher Charlie fed a chopped steak to Truffle his favorite entry in the Dog of the Century contest._ 3. Duke my favorite entry snarfed a bowl of liver treats and woofed for about an hour afterward.__ 4. Entered in the Toy breed category Duke is sure to win the Most Likely to .