Sports and games offer students a lot of lessons and values. Other than the fact that sports is good for the health of a student, it also teaches students patience, sportsmanship, and appreciation of hard work. Patience because in order to win games, one has to maintain level headed and cool so that he will not cloud his judgment. Sportsmanship, so that even if one loses, he is not bitter about it and can even congratulate his opponent. And appreciation for hard work because attaining skills is not an easy task.
Answer:
a. There is one example of a passive voice in the draft. The passive voice is used in sentences 1.
b. There is only one state-of-being word in the draft. It is in sentence 8. In sentence 8, it explains how important workplace fitness is.
c. Sentence 7 contains an expletive. It is the phrase "don't hesitate to." The sentence could have been written as "Please, contact me with any questions," without the expletive.
Explanation:
a. Passive voice: In a passive voice, the action is performed on the subject, who receives the action, while in an active voice, the subject performs the action.
b. State-of-being verbs: are linking verbs that identify who or what a noun is or was. They include "is," "am," "be," "been," "being," "was," "were," and "are."
c. Expletive is an empty word or phrase that conveys no additional or independent meaning.
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If it is George Orwell's <em>Animal Farm</em> then his motto is "I will work harder"
In a Summer´s Reading by Bernard Malamud,George's daydreams tell us about him that he shares the expectaions of the American Dream.
He wants to be well-off , to get a job that would allow him to buy a house with porch in a green suburban area. This money would gain him people´s respect.
George avoids Mr.Cattanzara by crossing the street when he approaches Mr Cattanzara´s house. He feels despair because he is unable to keep his promise to read 100 books.
"George knew he looks passable on the outside, but he was crumbling apart." He feel this way because he has managed to earn people´s respect by making them believe he can read such a large number of books; however, he knows his lie is short-lived and will soon be discovered.
