Material Summary

Hello, thank you all who have visited my blog. Here I will summarize the material that 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.