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This is something very old.
What is ancient?
It is something that no one can explain or understand.
What is mysterious?
This refers to the normal state of weather that a place has.
What is climate?
This usually refers to a long journey by ship.
What is a voyage?
This refers to the name for a storm with strong winds in the US and the UK.
What is a hurricane?
What is the suffix added to some verbs to make nouns? It is four letters and starts with an "m".
What is "-ment"?
This is a text that talks about the main events of someone's life.
What is a biography?
____________________________ are words that sound alike but have different meanings.
What are homonyms?
__________________ are a type of homonym that also sound alike and have different meanings, but have different spellings.
What are homophones?
_______________________ are words that are spelled the same but have different meanings.
What are homographs?
What is the difference between which and who?
Who is normally used to refer to human beings, either male or female. On the other hand, the word which is used to refer to other living beings such as animals, insects, plants, and objects in general.
What is the difference between the active and the passive voice?
In the active voice, the subject is the focus of the sentence. In the passive voice, the object BECOMES the focus of the sentence.
What form of the passive voice is this? (will/won't+be+past participle): You will be given free books.
What is the future passive voice?
What form of the passive voice is this?
(have/haven't+been+past participle)
The lights have been switched off.
What is the present perfect passive voice?
Which form of the passive voice is this?
My computer is being cleaned. (is/are+being+past participle)
What is the present continuous passive voice?
Which suffixes are used to indicate certain occupations?
What are "-er" and "-ist"?
What is a relative pronoun?
A relative pronoun is used to give more information about nouns.
What is an informal essay?
The informal essay is an essay written for pleasure. Its purpose is to help you organize your thoughts on a specific topic, to reflect on readings, and to express different points of view. It can still be informative and convincing, but you're allowed to write it with less formal expressions.
What is the formula of the past perfect?
What is "had/hadn't+past participle"?
Which suffix do you use in order to turn some verbs into adjectives? It is four letters and it starts with an "a".
What is "-able"?
When do you use the relative pronouns that and which?
Why do you write research reports?
We write research reports to show what we have learned through research.
When do you use the past perfect?
You use the past perfect for one thing that happened in the past way long before the other thing has happened.
What is the other purpose of the passive voice, apart from giving emphasis to the object?
The passive voice is used when you don't know the subject of a sentence.
Give the formulas of the present and past simple passive.
Present simple: is/are (not) + past participle
Past simple: was/were (not) + past participle