English Grammar – ENG 314



English Grammar – ENG 314

August 25, 2014

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The below questions are to give us (Annette, Elly, and William) some sense of what you know about grammar (and style) issues. You won’t be graded on it!

1. Give a definition of a preposition and an example.

2. Underline the subjects in:

The puzzle of wind power is that it is often strongest at night, when the demand for power is low. Siting a wind farm on top of one of the many played-out lodes in the windy Midwestern plains or the nation's mountainous areas could help solve this problem. Pumped storage uses wind power to shunt water from lower to upper reservoir tanks placed in mine shafts. When power is needed, water can be channeled down through turbines that create electricity on demand. A proposed pumped-storage project in Germany's Harz Mountains would store up to 400 megawatts of power, enough to supply 40,000 homes.

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3. Circle the verbs of the above text.

4. How formal is the following e-mail (quoted in the IHT)?

i need help i am writing a essay on writing i work for this company and my boss wants me to help improve the workers writing skills can yall help me with some information thank you.

5. What makes the below text really hard to read (also from the IHT)?

I updated the Status report for the four discrepancies Lennie forward us via e-mail (they in Barry file) .. to make sure my logic was correct It seems we provide Murray with incorrect information ... However after verifying controls on JBL - JBL has the indicator as B???? - I wanted to make sure with the recent changes - I processed today - before Murray make the changes again on the mainframe to 'C'.

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