1,129 prompts matching "Making the verb agree with the true subject, not the nearest noun"
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Correcting A Passage With Mixed Register
Act as my SS1 English tutor. Give me a paragraph that wrongly mixes formal and informal re
Practise: correcting concord mistakes in a text
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A Timed Concord Correction Challenge
Act as my SS1 English tutor. Give me eight sentences with subject-verb concord errors and
Exam drill: consolidating clause types
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Discuss: answering a Shakespeare context question
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Discuss: point, quotation and comment as an essay-writing method
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Discuss: preparing quotations for a Shakespeare context question
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Discuss: characters and dialogue in Romeo and Juliet
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Teach me: listening to and discussing a talk on a current issue
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What Job Does This Noun Phrase Do
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Perfect Modals For What Never Happened
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Reported Speech: Backshifting Tenses Correctly
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Inverting After No Sooner
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Collocation: Words That Keep Company
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Adjuncts Of Reason That Explain Why
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Comparing A Literary And A Factual Text
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Formal Letter: Salutation And Subscription
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Sentence Variety For A Better Score
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Summarising From Two Sources At Once
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Summarising An Argument That Has Two Sides
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