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nurikzhan
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Hi dear all, Please help me to understand the questions and answer: 1. Which suffix doesn �t change the place of the stress in the word? -on, -ment, -ics, -ate, -ous? I think -ics? 2.Which capital is the youngest? London, Cardiff, Dublin, Belfast, Edinbourgh? I wrote Cardiff, but the answer is not correct. 3. Make a sentence with a formal inversion structure: the child, would have, died, the ambulance, had, not, come in time 4. Make up a declarative sentence: Little, realize, how importnat, this meeting, is, he, does. 5. The verbs are written with the suffix -ise both in BE and AE ORGANISE IMPROVISE BAPTISE DESPITE CRITISISE MECHANISE GENERALISE REALIZE COMPROMISE COMPRISE
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26 Jan 2014
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Apodo
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Here are my suggestions for the sentences:
3. The child would have died had the ambulance not come in time.4. Little does he realise how important this meeting is. |
27 Jan 2014
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nurikzhan
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Dear Apodo,
Thank you very much. |
27 Jan 2014
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Maril�abarca
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"-ic" is a neutral suffix, it doesn �t affect the stress pattern of any given word.
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27 Jan 2014
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MoodyMoody
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For #5, the only words that look correct to me as an American English speaker with the -ise ending are improvise, compromise, and comprise. Despite and realize are also spelled correctly in American English, but neither ends with -ise. I believe "critisise" is misspelled in both American and British English. I spell it "criticize" � I think the Brits spell it "criticise." It is related to critical, after all.
Edit: Personally, for #2, I wouldn�t use "youngest" to refer to a city. Young is usually used only for living things. However, newest doesn�t quite work, either. I would probably rephrase the question to "Which capital was founded the most recently: London, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Belfast, or Dublin?" (or whatever order the cities were in). My Google-fu seems to indicate that Dublin was actually founded most recently; the dates for Edinburgh and Belfast have been lost to history, London was founded in 42 CE, Cardiff in 53 CE, but the first mention of Dublin is in 140 CE. |
27 Jan 2014
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