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Study: Water Sources on Moon More Widespread than Thought
oxygen. Clark, from the Planetary Science Institute, said both cratering and volcanic activity can bring water-rich materials to the surface.
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Study: Water Sources on Moon More Widespread than Thought
He noted that both are observed in the newly examined data.
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Study: Water Sources on Moon More Widespread than Thought
“We see a lunar surface with complex geology with significant water in the sub-surface and a surface layer of hydroxyl.”
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Study: Water Sources on Moon More Widespread than Thought
The discovery, Clark said, can be helpful to future exploration efforts on the moon.
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Study: Water Sources on Moon More Widespread than Thought
“Future astronauts may be able to find water even near the equator by exploiting these water-rich areas.”
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Study: Water Sources on Moon More Widespread than Thought
He added, “Knowing where water is located not only helps to understand lunar geologic history, but also where astronauts may find water in the
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Studying Sentence Patterns to Improve Your Writing, Part One
Many English learners have spent a lot of time studying the parts of speech: adjectives nouns and verbs, for example.
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Studying Sentence Patterns to Improve Your Writing, Part One
But sometimes studying the English sentence from a larger perspective is useful. One way to get a bigger view of English is to study common sentence patterns.
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Studying Sentence Patterns to Improve Your Writing, Part One
The English language has many patterns. In the book Rhetorical Grammar, author Martha Kolln describes seven common sentence patterns.
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Studying Sentence Patterns to Improve Your Writing, Part One
Understanding and mastering common patterns will not only help you do better on grammar tests, but improve your writing skills, too.
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Studying Sentence Patterns to Improve Your Writing, Part One
For example, here is a passage written by Ernest Hemingway, a famous American author. It comes from the short story “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place.”
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Studying Sentence Patterns to Improve Your Writing, Part One
The story is one of the most famous ones that Hemingway wrote. "This is a clean and pleasant café.
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Studying Sentence Patterns to Improve Your Writing, Part One
It is well lighted. The light is very good and also, now, there are shadows of the leaves.”
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Studying Sentence Patterns to Improve Your Writing, Part One
Do you notice patterns in these sentences? If you do not recognize them, you will by the end of this report!
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Studying Sentence Patterns to Improve Your Writing, Part One
In this installment of Everyday Grammar, we are focusing on two of the most common patterns in English.
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Studying Sentence Patterns to Improve Your Writing, Part One
The line shows the foundation of most sentences in English: A sentence equals a subject, or a noun phrase, plus a predicate
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Studying Sentence Patterns to Improve Your Writing, Part One
or a verb phrase. A phrase is a group of words that act as a unit.
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Studying Sentence Patterns to Improve Your Writing, Part One
A noun phrase has an important noun, the headword noun, along with words and phrases that give more information about it.
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Studying Sentence Patterns to Improve Your Writing, Part One
The subject of a sentence is the whole noun phrase not just the noun!
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Studying Sentence Patterns to Improve Your Writing, Part One
The predicate is a verb phrase with a main verb and the words and phrases that give more information about it.
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Studying Sentence Patterns to Improve Your Writing, Part One
If you take the sentence from the Aguilera song, you can analyze it like this: The subject is "I," and the predicate is "am
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Studying Sentence Patterns to Improve Your Writing, Part One
beautiful." In this sentence, the adjective beautiful acts as the subject complement
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Studying Sentence Patterns to Improve Your Writing, Part One
It describes “I,” the subject. So, the song lyric is the first important sentence pattern in English.
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Studying Sentence Patterns to Improve Your Writing, Part One
Pattern number one is: subject plus "be," plus subject complement. The subject complement can be either an adjective or a noun phrase.
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Studying Sentence Patterns to Improve Your Writing, Part One
For example, consider this line from the music group Queen. “We are the champions.
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