Academic English Review 1

ACADEMIC ENGLISH 1 REVIEW

Explain the following.

1. Which characteristics can we find in a good topic sentence?
2. In the following question:

“Where did you buy your laptop?” The structure is:

Structure: Where + aux (did) +subject (you) + verb (present tense) + complement?

Why is the verb “buy” in present tense?__________________________________

1. The past forms of the verb to be: Singular (she, he,it)_________ Plural (we, you, they)________
2. To form the past tense of a regular verb, we add “ed” to it, for example play-played. Mention 5 more examples_______________________________
3. Write an example (sentence) of the following capitalization rules:

– Always capitalize the pronoun I

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-Capitalize the first word of every sentence or question

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• Capitalize the school subjects, except without the number (example: Academic English II, academic English)
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1. Explain the underlined Coherence rule in the following example:

Marsy is one of the students who works every day

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1. Write an example of your own of the following prepositional phrases:

Countries: I live in Mexico

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Places: I’ll see you at the cafeteria

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Days: The exam is on Monday

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Months: She’ll get married in December

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8. Write an example of each rule:

Apostrophes are used to show possession and contractions________________

Abbreviations are capitalize: APA style, USA____________________________

Use commas to separate three or more items: pencils, notebooks, and books________________________

A fragment is an error, an incomplete sentence: Before Christmas:_________________

A compound sentence is made up of two independent clauses (equal sentence) joined by a coordinating conjunction.

Example: an assignment notebook helps you stay organized, so you should consider using one.

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