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by Tian Yuan
Wed Nov 23, 2005 1:51 am
Forum: Activities and Games
Topic: A Parcel of English -- need your help!
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A Parcel of English -- need your help!

Dear all, I would like to find someone who can offer their mailing address to me so that we can exchange our students' letters. :P I teach Cambridge English For Schools in China. The student meet once a week on weekend for 3 hours. We are woking on Book 1 now and one of the special unit in the text...
by Tian Yuan
Wed Oct 12, 2005 12:51 am
Forum: Applied Linguistics
Topic: Help! I can't clearly explain this sentence...
Replies: 4
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Sentence structure

"The number of people there who say they are overworked has risen from 28% in 2001 to 44% in 2004." This sentence structure can be simplified as "The number has risen from 28% to 44%." "of people" and "there" are both the post-modifiers of "The number" ; "who say they are overworked" is the relative...