Extra Flashcards
Pronoun - it
Cannot refer to action. W Ex - Polar ice caps have melted and it is resulting in rising sea level.
That
When the word “that” appears just after a working verb, it acts as a “re-set” button in the sentence: a new subject-verb-object structure will follow. Ex - The teacher is confident that her students mastered the lessons
More vs Greater
More is used for countable nouns and uncountable nouns that are not numbers themselves. Greater is used for numbers. Ex - percent, likelihood
Less vs fewer
Fewer refers to a specific number while less refers to a continuous quantity. Ex - There was less devastation than I was told
Random
Made Possible by Isolated from Agreed to Awarded x Awareness of
Dated
Dated at
Just as
Just as .. so
Declared
declared X Y. Ex - The reviewer declared the book a masterpiece
from
from..to
total
Total to, totalling about, a total of
Ability
Ability to
between
between a and b
did not..
X did not do Y, and instead did Z.
Parallel Idioms
Distinguish x from y Think of x as y Consider x y Estimate x to be y View x as y Mistake x for y whether x or y