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    withgreater evil now Odysseus. Odysseus is the protagonist in the story “The Odyssey” by Homer. Odysseus is the King of Ithaca, his homeland. Odysseus goes through a 20 year journey to reach home, his wife penelope, and his son telemachus. Three adjective that characterize Odysseus as a hero, two positive and one negative are determined, smart, and arrogant. First, arrogance that describes odyssey negative trait. The first example of Odysseus being arrogant is when he yells out to the cyclopsis his

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    Analysis of Descriptive Adjectives in Two Stories In any story, the reader needs some way of imagining what the author is writing about. When writing, authors use descriptive words to illustrate what they are trying to convey to the reader and to enhance their story. In the stories "The Treasure of Lemon Brown" by Walter Dean Myers and "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer, both authors use descriptive words to develop the mood of the setting and the characters. In "The Treasure of Lemon

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    through a four-­‐part formula suggested by Stephanie Schwab, writing for Social Media Explorer. She takes the general topic of voice and breaks it down into not only tone but also character, language, and purpose. In the graphic below, she uses adjectives to define each different area of the overall brand voice: • Character / persona – Who does your brand sound like? If you picture your brand as a person (a character), here is where you can flesh out this identity with specific attributes that

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    with schizophrenia to act this way. 2. Abrupt; adjective; sudden and unexpected; something that suddenly happens without warning; Life often comes with abrupt situations. There are often times when one has to change their plans because something unexpected happened. For example, a driver may suddenly pass a red light. This would result in an abrupt accident for one. The accident would cause one to take an abrupt trip to the hospital. 3. Adrift; adjective and adverb; without purpose or guidance; having

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    Elements of a Lesson Plan - Suggested Answers | Age/level | Objective(s) | Time | Resources/materials | Classroom set-up | Warm-up | Process (the activity or task) | Assessments | Follow-up | Select the verb that is conjugated into simple present: Angela ________ carrots for her salad. (cuts) Which sentence is written in the imperative? (Listen to your parents.) Select the verb that is conjugated into present continuous: Rather than shoes, I _________ sandals. (am wearing)

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    is a mechanism by which tokens are sequentially labeled with syntactic labels, such as “Verb" or "Noun" or "Adjective". Not all the words in review sentences are sensibly useful for recognize product features and orientations of the discussed product. As Hu and Liu recommend, nouns and noun phrases in the sentences are most likely to be the features that customers comment on, while adjectives are frequently used to express their opinions and

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    355). Stylistically, these word paintings consist of metaphors and similes, and noun phrases that contain colour and sensory adjectives and adverbs. Some examples from TLE (1969/1987, p. 469) that are instances of figurative language include: 1. “wavering lights, showery drops” (noun phrases with adjectives) 2. “dark faces, rosy flame” (noun phrases with colour adjectives) Although the painting by Duncanson shares some commonalities with the poem, it is different in some ways. While highlighting

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    W1 Active Adj

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    LONGMAN COMMUNICATION 3000 1 Longman Communication 3000 The Longman Communication 3000 is a list of the 3000 most frequent words in both spoken and written English, based on statistical analysis of the 390 million words contained in the Longman Corpus Network – a group of corpuses or databases of authentic English language. The Longman Communication 3000 represents the core of the English language and shows students of English which words are the most important for them to learn and study in order

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    The Lab The cool, brisk wind blew against the two story, brick walled office and, the smell of Fall, containing the smell of orange, ripe pumpkin, surrounded the air. Dry, Fall colored leaves from the two hazel birch trees, rooted in the front lawn, funneled down to the lower, empty parking lot of the property; the work week ended. Surprisingly, the cloudy, gloomy Saturday afternoon contained many fun activities for my Dad, Annie, and I.1 Annie, my blonde, blue eyed, older sister and I would hop

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    made much sense to me. IV Match 1-10 with a-j: 1. Descriptive grammar deals 2. Words are classified in part-of-speech categories according to 3. Functional words are 4. Open class words are 5. According to their function verbs can be 6. Adjectives can be used 7. The part-of speech that introduces the relation 8. Variable words are 9. Grammar is used 10. Language can be a) the words that have grammatical meaning only. b) with forms and the structure of words (morphology) and with

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