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Dear all,

I’d like to inform you, those who participate in my course, the History of English Literature (SKI), that this week on September 2, 2010 the class is FREE because the classroom is going to be used for conducting OSMARU for the new English Diploma Program students. Moreover, I must also handle the programs all the day.

So, I’ll see you next after the Idul Fitri holiday on 16 September 2010. Thank you.

Best wishes,

Yusuf Kurniawan

Dear students,

Here is the list of presenters of History of English Literature Course in pdf format. You can download here. If you haven’t found your name/s on the list please let me know soon.

Thank you.

Best wishes

Yusuf Kurniawan

In transcribing English words into phonetic transcription you need a certain font, which supports your writing in MS Office Word. The font is called SilManuscript IPA. Without it you will not be able to make phonetic transcription. You can download it here.

Dear students, I have a long list of irregular verbs. If you are still not familiar with many forms of the irregular verbs, this post will best fit your focus of English study.

Check out the complete list below:

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The Colon

The colon expands on the sentence that precedes it.

• There are many reasons for poor written communication: lack of planning, poor grammar, misuse of punctuation marks and insufficient vocabulary.
• He collected a strange assortment of items: bird’s eggs, stamps, bottle tops, string and buttons.
• Peter had an eclectic taste in music: latin, jazz, country and western, pop, blues and classical.

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Exclamation mark

The exclamation mark is used to express exasperation,astonishment or surprise or to emphasise a comment or short, sharp phrase.

For example:

1. Help! Help!
2. That’s unbelievable!
3. Get out!
4. Look out!

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Period, full stop or point

The period (known as a full stop in British English) is probably the simplest of the punctuation marks to use.

You use it like a knife to cut the sentences to the required length. Generally, you can break up the sentences using the full stop at the end of a logical and complete thought that looks and sounds right to you. Use the full stop ….

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Punctuation is used to create sense, clarity and stress in sentences

You use punctuation marks to structure and organise your writing. The most common of these are the period (or full stop in British English), the comma, the exclamation mark, the question mark, the colon and semi-colon, the quote, the apostrophe, the hyphen and dash, and parentheses and brackets. Capital letters are also used to help us organise meaning and to structure the sense of our writing.

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1. We say the… when there is only one of something.

• What is the longest river in the world? (There is only one longest river in the world)
• We went to the most expensive restaurant in town.
• The only television programme he watches is the news.
• Paris is the capital city of France.
• Everybody left at the end of the meeting.
• The earth goes round the sun (Also the moon, the world, the universe)

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A. Study this example:

Tom is looking for his key. He can’t find it. He has lost his key.

“He has lost his key” means that he lost it a short time ago and he still hasn’t got it.

This is the present perfect (simple) tense

We form the present perfect with have/has + the past participle. The past participle often ends in -ed (opened, decided) but many important verbs are irregular (lost, written, done etc.)

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