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We use question words to ask certain types of questions (question word questions). We often refer to them as WH words because
they include the letters WH (for example WHy, HoW).
Wh- Questions allow a speaker to find out more information about topics. They are as
follows:
Time
When?
Place
Where?
Person
Who?
Reason
Why?
Manner
How?
Object/Idea/Actio
What?
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Superlatives
Introduction
Superlatives are special forms of adjectives. They are used to compare more than two things. Generally, superlatives are formed
using -est.
1. Forming superlatives
How these forms are created depends on how many syllables there are in the adjective. Syllables are like “sound beats”. For
instance, “sing” contains one syllable, but “singing” contains two — sing and ing. Here are the rules:
Only one syllable, ending in E. Examples: wide, fine, cute Add -st: widest, finest, cutest
Only one syllable, with one vowel and one consonant at the end. Examples: Double the consonant, and add -est: hottest, biggest,
hot, big, fat fattest
Only one syllable, with more than one vowel or more than one consonant at
Add -est: lightest, neatest, fastest
the end. Examples: light, neat, fast
Two syllables, ending in Y. Examples: happy, silly, lonely Change y to i, then add -est: happiest, silliest, loneliest
Two syllables or more, not ending in Y. Examples: modern, interesting, Use “most” before the adjective: most modern, most
beautiful interesting, most beautiful
Passive voice
Sentences can be active or passive. Therefore, tenses also have "active forms" and "passive forms."
Passive Form
In passive sentences, the thing receiving the action is the subject of the sentence and the thing doing the action is optionally included
near the end of the sentence. You can use the passive form if you think that the thing receiving the action is more important or should
be emphasized. You can also use the passive form if you do not know who is doing the action or if you do not want to mention who is
doing the action.
[Thing receiving action] + [be] + [past participle of verb] + [by] + [thing doing action]
Examples:
Passive
Past Continuous The customer was being helped by the salesman when the thief came into the store.
Present Perfect Recently, the work has been being done by John.
Continuous
Past Perfect Many cars had been repaired by George before he received his mechanic's license.
Past Perfect The restaurant's fantastic dinners had been being prepared by Chef Jones for two years before he moved
Continuous to Paris.
Future Continuous At 8:00 PM tonight, the dishes will be being washed by John.
WILL
Future Continuous At 8:00 PM tonight, the dishes are going to be being washed by John.
BE GOING TO
Future Perfect The project will have been completed before the deadline.
WILL
Future Perfect The project is going to have been completed before the deadline.
BE GOING TO
Future Perfect The mural will have been being painted by the famous artist for over six months by the time it is finished.
Continuous
WILL
Future Perfect The mural is going to have been being painted by the famous artist for over six months by the time it is
Continuous finished.
BE GOING TO
Future in the Past I knew the work would be finished by 5:00 PM.
WOULD
Future in the Past I thought a beautiful dinner was going to be made by Sally tonight.
WAS GOING TO
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George Washington
George Washington (February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799) On April 30, 1789, George Washington, standing on the balcony of
Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York, took his oath of office as the first President of the United States. "As the first of every thing,
in our situation will serve to establish a Precedent," he wrote James Madison, "it is devoutly wished on my part, that these precedents
may be fixed on true principles." Born in 1732 into a Virginia planter family, he learned the morals, manners, and body of knowledge
requisite for an 18th century Virginia gentleman. He pursued two intertwined interests: military arts and western expansion. At 16 he
helped survey Shenandoah lands for Thomas, Lord Fairfax. Commissioned a lieutenant colonel in 1754, he fought the first
skirmishes of what grew into the French and Indian War. The next year, as an aide to Gen. Edward Braddock, he escaped injury
although four bullets ripped his coat and two horses were shot from under him.From 1759 to the outbreak of the American
Revolution, Washington managed his lands around Mount Vernon and served in the Virginia House of Burgesses. Married to a
widow, Martha Dandridge Custis, he devoted himself to a busy and happy life. But like his fellow planters, Washington felt himself
exploited by British merchants and hampered by British regulations. As the quarrel with the mother country grew acute, he
moderately but firmly voiced his resistance to the restrictions.When the Second Continental Congress assembled in Philadelphia in
May 1775, Washington, one of the Virginia delegates, was elected Commander in Chief of the Continental Army. On July 3, 1775, at
Cambridge, Massachusetts, he took command of his ill-trained troops and embarked upon a war that was to last six grueling
years.He realized early that the best strategy was to harass the British. He reported to Congress, "we should on all Occasions avoid
a general Action, or put anything to the Risque, unless compelled by a necessity, into which we ought never to be drawn." Ensuing
battles saw him fall back slowly, then strike unexpectedly. Finally in 1781 with the aid of French allies--he forced the surrender of
Cornwallis at Yorktown.Washington longed to retire to his fields at Mount Vernon. But he soon realized that the Nation under its
Articles of Confederation was not functioning well, so he became a prime mover in the steps leading to the Constitutional Convention
at Philadelphia in 1787. When the new Constitution was ratified, the Electoral College unanimously elected Washington President.He
did not infringe upon the policy making powers that he felt the Constitution gave Congress. But the determination of foreign policy
became preponderantly a Presidential concern. When the French Revolution led to a major war between France and England,
Washington refused to accept entirely the recommendations of either his Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, who was pro-French,
or his Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, who was pro-British. Rather, he insisted upon a neutral course until the United
States could grow stronger.To his disappointment, two parties were developing by the end of his first term. Wearied of politics, feeling
old, he retired at the end of his second. In his Farewell Address, he urged his countrymen to forswear excessive party spirit and
geographical distinctions. In foreign affairs, he warned against long-term alliances.Washington enjoyed less than three years of
retirement at Mount Vernon, for he died of a throat infection December 14, 1799. For months the Nation mourned him.
Washington D.C.
Washington, D.C. formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the
capital of the United States founded on July 16, 1790. The U.S. Constitution allows for the creation of a special district to serve as the
permanent national capital. The District is therefore not a part of any U.S. state and is instead directly overseen by the federal
government. Within the District, a new capital city was founded in 1791 and named in honor of George Washington. The City of
Washington, along with Georgetown andoutlying areas within the federal district, were placed under a single, unified government
following an act of Congress in 1871. It is for this reason that the city, while legally named the District of Columbia, is known as
Washington, D.C. The city shares its name with the U.S. state of Washingtonlocated on the country's Pacific coast.
The District is located on the north bank of the Potomac River and is bordered by the states of Virginia to the southwest
and Maryland to the other sides. The city has a resident population of 601,723; because of commuters from the surrounding suburbs,
its population rises to over one million during the workweek. The Washington Metropolitan Area, of which the District is a part, has a
The centers of all three branches of the U.S. federal government are located in the District, as are many of the nation's monuments
and museums. Washington, D.C. hosts 174 foreign embassies as well as the headquarters of the World Bank, the International
Monetary Fund (IMF), the Organization of American States (OAS), the Inter-American Development Bank, and the Pan American
Health Organization (PAHO). The headquarters of other institutions such as trade unions, lobbying groups, and professional
Washington, D.C., is governed by a mayor and a 13-member city council. However, the United States Congress has supreme
authority over the city and may overturn local laws. Residents of the District therefore have less self-governance than residents of the
states. The District has a non-voting, at-large Congressional delegate, but no senators. D.C. residents could not vote in presidential
elections until the ratification of the Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1961.
Natural number, which can also be called a counting number, is represented by the digits from 0, 1, 2, 3 ... through to infinity. In math
law, there must be an infinite number of natural number digits, since each natural number is defined in part by having a number that
follows it. These numbers are also whole numbers, not fractions or decimals, and can be used for counting or ordering.
The main distinction between a natural number and an integer is that natural numbers, with the exception of zero, are only positive.
There is no number below zero, and a natural number can't be followed by zero, such as is the case with -1,0. Essentially this defines
natural numbers as anything zero or above that is whole and not fractional. Zero is generally considered to be the only natural
number that is not positive.
The concept of zero evolved long after civilizations began using counting numbers. Earliest records of counting numbers from 1-10
date to over 4000 years ago, when the use of specific written code to signify place were used by the Babylonians. The Egyptians
wrote hieroglyphs for each digit, but it wasn't until about 1000 BC that the concept of zero was created by the Mayan and Olmec
civilizations.
Though the Olmec and Mayan groups show the first records of the use of zero, the concept of zero also developed in India, in the 7th
century BCE. It was the Indian use, rather than Mesoamerican use that was adopted by civilizations like the Greeks.
There are many ways in which natural numbers can be used in math applications. They can limit problems by suggesting that the
answer must be a natural number. They are also studied in specific application in set theory, mathematics that evaluates sets of
things. Number theory may evaluate natural numbers as part of the set of integers or independently to see if they behave in certain
ways or exhibit certain properties.
An integer is what is more commonly known as a whole number. It may be positive, negative, or the number zero, but it must be
whole. In some cases the definition of whole number will exclude the number zero, or even the set of negative numbers, but this is
not as common as the more inclusive use of the term. Integers are the numbers people are most familiar with, and they serve a
o understand what an integer is — that is to say, why it is different than simply a ‘number’ — we must look at the other sets of
numbers that can exist. Many of these sets overlap with the integer set in some areas, and some are virtually identical. Others have
very little in common with any integer — these sorts of numbers tend to be much less familiar to most people.
The subset of positive integers is probably the oldest set of numbers. This group is often referred to as the set of counting numbers,
since these are the numbers used to count things and ideas. The numbers in the positive integer set are all of the whole numbers
above zero. So the set would be listed as {1, 2, 3, 4, …} and so on, forever. Like the set of integers itself, the positive integers are
infinite. Since people have been counting as far back as we know of, this set has also existed for a very long time. Although it may
not have been known to be infinite, the set was still essentially the same.
A very closely related set is the set of all non-negative integers. This set is identical to the set of positive integers, except that it also
includes the integer zero. Historically, the number zero was an innovation that came about quite a bit after the counting numbers had
been in wide-spread use.
Both of these sets may be referred to as the set of natural numbers. Some mathematicians prefer to exclude the integer zero from
the natural numbers, while others find it useful to include it. If we consider the more inclusive definition, we can then define an integer
as any member of the set of natural numbers, as well as their negative counterparts.
Whole Number
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