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I have gained in the discussion yesterday in learning is about exercise
exercise subject and verb agreement, verb and grammar synonyms of advebs for
academic English, and vocabulary
Exercise : Subject and Verb
Agreement Exercise
1. Annie
and her brother are at school.
2. Either
my mother or my father is coming to the meeting.
3. The
dog or the cats are outside.
4. Either
my shoes or your coat is always on the floor.
5. George
and Tamara don’t want to see that movie.
6. Benito
doesn’t know the answer.
7. One
of my sisters is going on a trip to France.
8. The
man with all the birds lives on my street.
9. The
movie,including all the previews,takes about two hours to watch.
10. The
players,as well as the captain want to
win.
11. Either
answer is acceptable.
12. Every
one of those books is fiction.
13. Nobody
knows the trouble I’ve seen.
14. Is
the news on at five or six ?
15. Mathematics
is John’s favorite subject,while civics is Andreas’s favorite subject.
16. Eight
dollars is the price of a movie these days.
17. Are
the tweezers in this drawer ?
18. Your
pants are at the cleaner’s.
19. There
were fifteen candies in that bag. Now there is only one left !
20. The
committee debates these questions carefully.
21. The
committee leads very different lives in private.
22. The
Prime Minister,together with his wife,greets the press cordially.
23. All
of the CDs,even the scratched one,are in the case.
Grammar
:
Synonyms of Verb and Adverbs For
Academic English
Exercise 1. Verbs
1.
Destroyed = Obliterate
2.
Cut = Severed
3.
Create = Conceive
4.
Allow = Tolerate
5.
Consume = Ingest
6.
Calm = Pasify
7.
Adjust = Calibrate
8.
Enlarge = Magnify
9.
Support = Incentivize
10.
Adjust = Speculate
11.
Float = Levitate
12.
Exemplify = Illustrate
13.
larCify = Elucidate
14.
Interfere = Impede
15.
Motivate = Advocate
Exercise 2. Adverbs
1. Systematically
= Methodically
2. Resentfully
= Begrudgingly
3. Quietly
= Amicably
4. Severely
= Fiercely
5. Unclearly
=
Unintelligibly
6. Absolutely
= Sporadically
7. Indisputably
= Unequivocally
8. Eagerly
=
Zealously
9. Painfully
=
Laboriously
10. Decisively
= Earnestly
11. Indisputably
= Indisputably
12. Absolutely
= Definitively
13. Weakly
= Faintly
14. Privately
= Discreetly
3.Vocabulary
1.Broken
home = c. a family where the parents have separated.
2.
To snap at someone = h. to speak to someone angrily.
3.
To lose touch = to lose contact.
4.
To snap out of it = to recover quickyly.
5.
To cope = to deal successfully with a situation.
6.
Blue = Unhappy
7.
Help line = a telephone advice sevice.
8.
Self-injury = harm that you do to yourself deliberately.
9.
Counselor = a person professionally trained toto people about their problems.