Predicate adjectives Forms used in front of noun alike like, similar alive live, living, alone, lone, afraid, frightened asleep sleeping A predicate adjective appears after a linking verb such as be. It cannot appear directly in front of the noun that it describes.
SKILL 55: DISTINGUISH SPECIFIC AND GENERAL IDEAS General ideas and the statements that express them are kind of like umbrellas. They cover broad categories or groups of people or things and usually express the overall aspects, characteristics, or elements of these categories or groups. Specific ideas and statements offer that support. They usually clarify, explain, and illustrate general ideas and statements by referring to particular individuals, ideas, or things. To get more information watch the next video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9dPYUhn3kc&t=3s
SKILL 8: FIND DEFINITIONS FROM STRUCTURAL CLUES HOW TO IDENTIFY THE QUESTION What is...? what is the meaning of...? what is true about...? TYPES OF CLUES punctuation: comma, parentheses, dashes. restatement: or, that is, in other words, i.e examples: such as, for example, e.g. WHERE TO FIND THE ANSWER Information to help you determine what something means will generally be found after the punctuation clue, the restatement clue, or the example clue. HOW TO ANSWER THE QUESTION 1.- find the word in the passage. 2.- locate any structural clues. 3.- read the part of the passage after the structural clue carefully. 4.-eliminate any definitely wrong answers and choose the best answer from the remaining choices. To get more information watch the next video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73p_oKEYqTQ
SKILL 8: LISTEN FOR DOUBLE NEGATIVE EXPRESSIONS DOUBLE NEGATIVES Situation negative word (e.g. not, no, none) and a negative prefix (e.g. in, un, dis). Example He didn´t like the unclean office. Meaning did not like unclean office= liked clean office. Situation two negative verbs Example It isn´t snowing, so they aren´t going to the mountains. Meaning implies that they would go if it were snowing. Situation neither or not....either Example Sue didn´t like the movie, and neither did Mark. Meaning both did not like the movie To get more information watch the next video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ygc6DIUn5Y
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