first day of school... again, some more
a request for all who are reading this blog right now.
would you please, for me, write a sentence which has as its main verb the verb to pursue in the present perfect tense, the passive voice, the indicative mood, second person, singular number.
oh, and underline the full verb please.
great. thanks!
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if any of you are actually able to do this i'll eat a bee. and hate you forever. or perhaps dress you up in my clothes and have you take the english department screening exam for me. in two weeks!
it would also be helpful for you to know what an elliptical clause is, the difference between the colon, dash, hyphen, brackets and parentheses and when to use them, how to identify trochaic dimeter and how to spell every word in the english language.
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what really baffles me is how i've managed to pass 13 years of formal education in the united states, earn a college degree in english, acquire a job as a professional writer and all without retaining a single ounce of the aforementioned information.
but, here's the thing. i am required to know this information in order to become an english teacher. only english teachers need to know what a gerund is. they need to know so that they can teach it to their students, most of whom will forget it immediately and some of whom will retain it and go on to become english teachers themselves. it's a cycle. and i've suddenly found myself right in the middle of it.
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i must confess, however, that i secretly want to be one of those people who can diagram a compound complex sentence with two adverbial clauses and a dangling participle like nobody's business. i'm just not sure if i can become one of those people by next saturday morning at 9:00am.
would you please, for me, write a sentence which has as its main verb the verb to pursue in the present perfect tense, the passive voice, the indicative mood, second person, singular number.
oh, and underline the full verb please.
great. thanks!
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if any of you are actually able to do this i'll eat a bee. and hate you forever. or perhaps dress you up in my clothes and have you take the english department screening exam for me. in two weeks!
it would also be helpful for you to know what an elliptical clause is, the difference between the colon, dash, hyphen, brackets and parentheses and when to use them, how to identify trochaic dimeter and how to spell every word in the english language.
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what really baffles me is how i've managed to pass 13 years of formal education in the united states, earn a college degree in english, acquire a job as a professional writer and all without retaining a single ounce of the aforementioned information.
but, here's the thing. i am required to know this information in order to become an english teacher. only english teachers need to know what a gerund is. they need to know so that they can teach it to their students, most of whom will forget it immediately and some of whom will retain it and go on to become english teachers themselves. it's a cycle. and i've suddenly found myself right in the middle of it.
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i must confess, however, that i secretly want to be one of those people who can diagram a compound complex sentence with two adverbial clauses and a dangling participle like nobody's business. i'm just not sure if i can become one of those people by next saturday morning at 9:00am.
posted by sara at 9:13 AM
1 Comments:
Gerund—ending in -ing when used as a noun, as in singing in We admired the choir's singing.
You're welcome.
"i'll eat a bee." cracked me up by the way.
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