Thursday, April 1, 2010

Use parallelism structure

Skill 24: use parallelism structure with coordinators (and, or, but)
* She likes reading and writing.
Subject+ Verb+ Gerund AND Subject+ Verb+ Gerund

* She like to read and to write.
Subject+ Verb+ infinitive verb AND Subject+ Verb+ infinitive verb

* I can understand what you say OR what you do
Subject+ Verb+ noune clause O...R Subject+ Verb+ noune clause

* He is nice AND clever
Subject verb adjective
AND adjective

they speak English fluently and clearly
adverb AND adverb


Skill 26: parallelism with comparison

  • Hasan is taller than Taeq
  • Reading is more interesting than watching TV. Gerund + Gerund
  • to play is better tan to sleep
  • waht you say in less interesting than what you do
Per conjunction
  • both ........ and .......
  • either ........... or ..............
  • neither ............ nor ..........
  • not only .......... but also ...........

Skill 27: form comparison with superlative
  • Adj (neutral) comparison superlative
  • short shorter than shortest

  • 3 sound double double
  • fat Fatter than The Fattest
  • Thin Thinner than The Thinnest
  • Long
  • beautiful more beautiful than the most beautiful
  • happy happier than the happiest
  • clever cleverer than the cleverest
  • narrow narrower than the narrowest
  • simpler simpler than the simplest
  • good better than the best
  • bad worse than the worst
  • little less than the least
  • many, much more than the most
  • fare farther than ( for distances) the farthest
  • fare further than ( quantity) the furthest
* This exam is the longest in the whole course


skill 29: double comparative