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Your guide to reading the world | ideas.ted.com
"Read one book from every country on earth in one year"
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For Colombia's indigenous peoples, 'invasion' never ended | The City Paper Bogotá
"Kogi, Arhuaco and Wiwa"
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BBC Learning English - 6 Minute English / What makes us laugh?
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Daily bread 11/11/2015
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From the ESL Grammar Files: Everything You Need to Know about Teaching Gerunds
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What Is a Gerund?
Simply put, a gerund is the –ing form of a verb acting as a noun in a sentence.
- When a verb is in its gerund form, it refers to the activity rather than the action.
- The process of doing something rather than the actual doing.
- Gerunds can function as subjects or objects in a sentence.
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Swimming is a good form of exercise for the elderly. (The gerund is the subject of the sentence and refers to the activity of swimming not a specific person’s action of swimming.)
She enjoys swimming in the ocean. (The gerunds is the object of the verb and refers to the general activity rather than a specific moment of movement.)
- Infinitives are also verbs used as nouns, but infinitives are the simple form of the verb preceded by the word to. Infinitives can also be used as the subject or object of a sentence
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To live is the greatest gift. (Infinitive as subject)
I want to live life to the fullest. (Infinitive as object of the verb)
- are two forms of one word serving the same purpose in English (verbs acting as nouns)
- gerunds refer to specific, concrete, and/or real actions. Infinitives, on the other hand, expresses actions that are unreal, abstract, or those that might happen in the future.
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Subject
While both infinitives and gerunds can be used as the subject of a sentence, gerunds tend to sound more natural.To copy is the greatest form of flattery. (sounds stilted and formal). Copying is the greatest form of flattery. (sounds more natural)
- certain verbs that take gerunds as objects (admit, consider, deny, discuss, dislike, enjoy, keep, quit, miss, mind, practice, and understand)
- others that take infinitives (agree, ask, demand, deserve, forget, happen, learn, manage, need, prepare, want, and wish).
- Other verbs can be followed by either (begin, can’t stand, hate, intend, like, love, plan, prefer, and remember).
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Only Gerunds Can Function As the Object of a Preposition
They were talking about going to New York City. (Not: they were talking about to go to NYC.) She won an award for cleaning up the city. (Not: she won an award for to clean up the city.)
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Pumarosa.com Escuela Bilingue Interactiva Gratuita para estudiantes de habla hispana
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The Best Mobile Apps For English Language Learners | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…
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Learning JavaScript Design Patterns
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- Reusing patterns assists in preventing minor issues that can cause major problems in the application development process. What this means is when code is built on proven patterns, we can afford to spend less time worrying about the structure of our code and more time focusing on the quality of our overall solution. This is because patterns can encourage us to code in a more structured and organized fashion avoiding the need to refactor it for cleanliness purposes in the future.
- Patterns can provide generalized solutions which are documented in a fashion that doesn't require them to be tied to a specific problem. This generalized approach means that regardless of the application (and in many cases the programming language) we are working with, design patterns can be applied to improve the structure of our code.
- Certain patterns can actually decrease the overall file-size footprint of our code by avoiding repetition. By encouraging developers to look more closely at their solutions for areas where instant reductions in repetition can be made, e.g. reducing the number of functions performing similar processes in favor of a single generalized function, the overall size of our codebase can be decreased. This is also known as making code more DRY.
- Patterns add to a developer's vocabulary, which makes communication faster.
- Patterns that are frequently used can be improved over time by harnessing the collective experiences other developers using those patterns contribute back to the design pattern community. In some cases this leads to the creation of entirely new design patterns whilst in others it can lead to the provision of improved guidelines on how specific patterns can be best used. This can ensure that pattern-based solutions continue to become more robust than ad-hoc solutions may be.
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IELTS Juice | Weekly Lessons | Let's practice this common IELTS reading question type