1. About five o’clock Harry telephoned to find out why the store had not delivered the air conditioner he had bought that morning. Core parts:
Who or what is the sentence about (What is the Subject) ? What is being said about the subject (What is the predicate)? Other parts: When? Why?
The basic meaning or essential thought of this sentence is ______.
Identify the essential and the more important thought(s) in the following sentence.
Having learned indirectly that Rebecca was pregnant with his child, Johnny came back from Paris to confront her with the question of what she was going to do about the child she was carrying.
She tried on one of the shoes which the assistant had brought but it was uncomfortably tight so she removed it quickly and handed it back with the remark that she had no intention of hobbling between her car and her front doorstep.
A. Mr. Jones asked to see Jim and then called in Bill; the captain of our team, Joe, said he thought we were next.
B. Mr. Jones asked to see Jim and then called in Bill, the captain of our team; Joe said he thought we were next. 1. In sentence A, who is the captain of the team? 2. In sentence B, who is the captain of the
A. When I looked into the room, I saw Mary seated at the desk; Jim was at work on the computer and did not hear me call.
B. When I looked into the room, I saw Mary; seated at the desk, Jim was at work on the computer and did not hear me call. 1. In sentence A, who was seated at the desk? 2. In sentence B, who was seated at the desk?
A. The treaty was signed by three nations involved in the border dispute in 1986; one nation refused to abide by all agreements, however, and the battles began once again.
B. The treaty was signed by three nations involved in the border dispute; in 1986 one nation refused to abide by all agreements, however, and the battles began once again.
1. In sentence A, what happened in 1986? 2. In sentence B, what happened in 1986
A panel of education experts and researchers on Thursday proposed a broad reconfiguration of federal policies on financial aid for college, including a simpler
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application process, Pell grant maximums linked to the consumer price index and, most radically, federally financed college savings accounts for children in low-income families. (P45)
Which of the following is not included in the federal policies proposed by the education experts and researchers?
A. a simpler application process B. Pell grant maximums
C. consumer price index D. college savings accounts
Structure Analysis Exercises
With as many as 120 varieties in existence, discovering how cancer works is not easy.
Today, stepladders carry labels several inches long that warn, among other things, that you might — surprise! — fall off.
Places that until recently were deaf and dumb are rapidly acquiring up-to-date telecommunications that will let them promote both internal and foreign investment.(P48.1)
But a single optical fiber with a diameter of less than half a millimeter can carry more information than a large cable made of copper wires.
A survey of new stories in 1996 reveals that the antiscience tag has been attached to many other groups as well, from authorities who advocated the elimination of the last remaining stocks of smallpox virus to Republicans who advocated decreased funding for basic research.(P48.5)
Declaring that he was opposed to using this unusual animal husbandry technique to clone humans, he ordered that federal funds not be used for such an experiment — although no one had proposed to do so — and asked an independent panel of experts chaired by Princeton President Harold Shapiro to report back to the White House in 90 days with recommendations for a national policy on human cloning.
In his autobiography，Darwin himself speaks of his intellectual powers with extraordinary modesty. He points out that he always experienced much difficulty in expressing himself clearly and concisely, 1）but he believes that this very difficulty may have had the compensating advantage of forcing him to think long and intently about every sentence, and thus enabling him to detect errors in reasoning and in his own observations. He disclaimed the possession of any great quickness of apprehension or wit, such as distinguished Huxley. 2）He asserts, also, that his power to follow a long and purely abstract train of thought was very limited, for which reason he felt certain that he never could have succeeded with mathematics. His memory, too, he described as extensive, but hazy. So poor in one sense was it that he never could remember for more than a few days a single date or a line of poetry. 3）On the other hand, he did not accept as well founded the charge made by some of his critics that, while he was a good observer, he had no power of reasoning.
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