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Выпуск 6
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Which word means a seat for a king or queen:»t-h-r-o-n-e» or «t-h-r-o-w-n»?
Ответ
t-h-r-o-n-e
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Is the word part added to the end of a word called a prefix or suffix?
Ответ
a suffix (example: care + ful= careful, or «full of care»)
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Think of two parts of a sentence. Which one tells whom or what the sentence is about?
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The subject
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What word is not needed here? «The president and the vice president met together»
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together (The verb «meet» includes the idea of «together»)
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In what nonsense poem do two animals go to sea in a beautiful pea-green boat?
Ответ
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat» (by the 19th –century British writer Edward Lear)
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Which word in this list is not a synonym of «absurd»: ridiculous, outlandish, old-fashioned, ludicrous?
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old-fashioned (meaning «of a former time»)
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What punctuation is needed in this sentence? «The party is on Saturday June 15?»
Ответ
a comma, after the word «Saturday» (use a comma between a weekday and the day of the month)
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The verbs «receive», «conceive» and «deceive» are examples of the same spelling rule. What’s the rule?
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«i» before «e» except «c»
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Did the word «encyclopedia» originally come from Latin or Greek?
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Greek (It was borrowed by Latin and first appeared in English in 1644)
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Find the article that signals a noun in this sentence. «I am going to the circus with my favourite aunt».
Ответ
«the» (Use «the’ before a plural or collective noun: the movies, the circus.)