13 Staying Home from School GLOSSARY to play hooky to not go to school when one is supposed to; to skip classes * Did you ever play hooky when you were in high school? to put one over on (someone) to trick someone; to fool someone; to hidewhat one is

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Dictionaries Hello, I'm a student in Hangzhou. I have a zest for collecting all kinds of dictionaries. I want to learn what dictionaries British people use and what is the most popular. Well, we have a few dictionaries that I use. Sometimes I just us

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Grammar in a Nutshell Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Grammar But Were Afraid to Use English is a chronological language. We just love to know when something happened, and this is indicated by the range and depth of our verb tenses. I had al

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Exercise 1 -43: Yes, You Can or No, You Can't? Next you use a combination of intonation and pronunciation to make the difference between can and can't. Reduce the positive can to [k 'n] and stress the verb. Make the negative can't ([k渀(t)]) sound v

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When the train gets to Union Station, Lucy gets off, or exits - leaves the train, goes up the stairs - walks up the stairs - and goes out the front exit to the bus stop. 列车到达联合车站时,露西下车,或离开列车下了车,上楼梯走

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Section 39 Languages Language is one of the major forms of communication between people. Speech and writing are the main components of a language. By introducing grammar into language, we make it easi

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Grammar Girl here. Today well be talking about indefinite pronouns such as everyone and somebody. Now, guest-writer Bonnie Trenga writes, Everyone Versus Everybody Lately, listeners have asked a lot of questions about indefinite pronouns, such as eve

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图片1 by Mignon Fogarty This is an expanded show based on the original episode covering when to use affect with an a and when to use effect with an e. This question is from Eric on the voicemail line. I have a question for you regarding the affect

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What's a Participle? Before we talk about what it means to dangle a participle, we have to answer the question What is a participle? A participle is a verb that acts like an adjective. The present participle form of a verb usually ends with ing. For

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From VOA Learning English, this is Everyday Grammar. You may remember our earlier reports on infinitives and gerunds. The infinitive form of a verb can be either its most basic form or appear with the word to. A gerund is a verb that ends in ing and

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1)协助主要动词构成谓语动词词组的词叫助动词(Auxiliary Verb)。被协助的动词称作主要动词(Main Verb)。 助动词自身没有词义,不可单独使用,例如:

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1. Again today the National Weather Service has posted heat warnings from Massachusetts to South Carolina. Electricity demands set records in some areas and scattered power outages have been reported.

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1. A ceasefire will take effect in just hours on the Lebanese-Israeli border. But for now, rockets are still falling. More than 15 bombs hit the city of Haifa and in Lebanon warplanes pounded Tyre. 2.

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1. Bad weather has forced NASA to scrub tomorrow's planned launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis. However, NASA forecasters say there is a good chance the shuttle will be able to fly on Monday or Tuesday.

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1. Prosecutors are drop ping charges against John Karr in the 1996 slaying of beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey. DNA evidence failed to connect Karr to the crime scene . 2. Ernesto is now barely a tropical

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1. Osama bin Laden issued new threats in an audiotape broadcast on Arab television earlier today. Bin Laden accuses the US and Europe of supporting a Zionist war on Islam by cutting off funds to the H

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1. Major rivers in the Northeast are crest ing after days of rain left many areas flooded. At least 14 deaths are being blamed on the massive rainfall, which has forced thousands to evacuate. 2. A 12-

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1. The Supreme Court rules a lower court was wrong to strike down New Hampshire abortion restrictions, but steers clear of a major abortion ruling. 2. Consumer prices rose by the largest rate in five

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1. After insisting that he wasn't supposed to play a role in 9/11, Zacarias Moussaoui is now contradicting himself with some surprising testimony. The al-Qaida conspirator testifying at his death pena

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