Writing Assignment: Paragraph with Passive Sentences
Compose one paragraph of 150-175 words using
different action verbs in any time frame. Use both active and passive voice
verbs. Type a suitable title in the Subject Line of your message; capitalize the
content words (N, V, Adj, Adv).
Language elements: Refer to the verb forms in Applied English Grammar Chapter 11 Passive Sentences and
vocabulary from the Academic Word List. Use different verbs. Use at least
one of each sentence type, in any order: simple, compound, and complex. The
complex (or compound-complex) sentences should include an adverbial clause, a
relative clause and a noun clause.
By Marsha Chan
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iPod is a brand of portable media players that were designed and marketed by Apple. Six generations of iPods have been created to date. A 1.8˛ hard drive is used for storage in each device. The First Generation iPod, which was built with a mechanical scroll wheel and a 5GB hard drive capable of storing 1,000 songs encoded using MP3, was priced at US$399 when it was launched in October 2001. I use mine to broadcast audio files in my beginning ESL class. The iPod Nano, a related device, was introduced in September 2005 for US$249. At Mission College, a raffle for an iPod Nano was held to entice faculty to attend AngelLearning training, and I was a lucky winner. Much smaller than the first iPod, the Nano is a convenient skiing and hiking companion. In September 2007, Steve Jobs introduced the Sixth Generation iPod Classic and announced that iPods were renamed iPod Classics. The iPhone and iPod Touch, which were unveiled in January and September 2007 respectively, continue to captivate Apple fans. |
Vocabulary Profile http://www.lextutor.ca/vp/eng
Words recategorized by user as 1k items (proper nouns etc): iPod, iPods (total 8 tokens)
K1 Words (1-1000): 70.86%
K2 Words (1001-2000): 5.71%
AWL Words (academic): 7.43%
Off-List Words: 16.00%
Words in text (tokens): 175
ipod is a brand of portable media players that were designed and marketed by apple six generations of ipods have been created to date a number number hard drive is used for storage in each device the first generation ipod which was built with a mechanical scroll wheel and a numbergb hard drive capable of storing number number songs encoded using mpnumber was priced at us$number when it was launched in october number i use mine to broadcast audio files in my beginning esl class the ipod nano a related device was introduced in september number for us$number at mission college a raffle for an ipod nano was held to entice faculty to attend angellearning training and i was a lucky winner much smaller than the first ipod the nano is a convenient skiing and hiking companion in september number steve jobs introduced the sixth generation ipod classic and announced that ipods were renamed ipod classics the iphone and ipod touch which were unveiled in january and september number respectively continue to captivate apple fans
Verbs are underlined.
Passive verbs are highlighted in yellow.
[Dependent clauses] are bracketed.
Sentence type, dependent clause structure, verb voice and tense, and
other notes are shown in green.
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