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Reading Skills
&
Strategies
90:
Identify adjectives & adverbs where necessary
Adjectives:
Descriptive adjectives are the most numerous of the different types of adjectives.
These adjectives describe nouns that refer to action, state, or quality. They give an idea about
the characteristics of the noun by answering the question 'what kind'.
New Delhi is a large city with many historical monuments.
Adverbs:
A word that describes or gives more information about a verb,
adjective, adverb or phrase.
Bangkok is a city where commerce and pleasure happily share the same parts of town .
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Reading Skills
&
Strategies
91:
Pay particular attention to collocations
Collocation is the relationship between two words or groups of words that often go together
and form a common expression.
Types of Col I ocati on
There are several different types of collocation made from combinations of verb, noun,
adjective etc. Some of the most common types are:
Adverb + Adjective
completely satisfied (NOT Ele
1
1vAFi§At satisfied)
Adjective + Noun
excruciating pain (NOT excruciating J&Y)
Noun+ Noun
a surge of anger (NOT a ftf5fl of anger)
Noun+ Verb
lions roar (NOT lions Sflet:lt)
Verb+ Noun
commit suicide (NOT 1:mEleFt:al(:e suicide)
Verb+ Expression with Preposition
burst into tears (NOT 131ew t119 iA tears)
Verb + Adverb
wave frantically (NOT wave reveFisl=lly)
Familiarity with collocations will allow you to predict some of the answers .
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Reading Skills & Strategies
92:
Be familiar with types of clauses
An
independent clause
is a clause that can stand alone. You can think of this as a simple
sentence. There is a subject, verb, and complete thought.
A
dependent clause
is a clause that cannot stand alone; it depends on another clause to make
it a complete sentence. You can recognise a dependent clause because it starts with a
subordinate conjunction. A subordinate conjunction is a word that joins ideas together and
shows the relationship between ideas. Some of the subordinate conjunctions that you may
already know are
'because,' 'although,' 'where,'
and
'after.'
Subordinate
conjunctions may
represent
time,
cause and
effect,
and contrast.
It is important to remember that a dependent clause is not a complete thought. For example,
'Because it was not his turn,'
this would not be a complete thought. Your audience does not
know what happened because it was not his turn. To make a dependent clause
a complete
thought, you should combine it with an independent one:
'Because it was not his turn, John
passed
the balf.'