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Academic Writing: Common Sentence Patterns, Part Three
The subject is 'we' and two intransitive verbs 'love' and 'lose'** are paired with the prepositional phrase, in China.
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Academic Writing: Common Sentence Patterns, Part Three
The two verbs are joined by a conjunction, and
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Academic Writing: Common Sentence Patterns, Part Three
The second line follows the basic intransitive verb pattern, but it has an optional
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Academic Writing: Common Sentence Patterns, Part Three
prepositional phrase: The second two lines follow the same patterns as the first two lines.
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Academic Writing: Common Sentence Patterns, Part Three
This series of patterns is an example of parallelism, which you can read about in an earlier Everyday Grammar story.
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Academic Writing: Common Sentence Patterns, Part Three
To practice using the intransitive verb pattern, try writing four lines of poetry in the style of Angelou's poem.
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Academic Writing: Common Sentence Patterns, Part Three
Post your writing in the comments section of this story, or on our Facebook page.
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Academic Writing: Common Sentence Patterns, Part Three
Just put your own words into the pattern we discussed today.
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Academic Writing: Common Sentence Patterns, Part Three
Learning this pattern, and other patterns discussed in previous grammar stories, will not only help you study the writing of great authors.
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Academic Writing: Common Sentence Patterns, Part Three
These patterns will help you write and speak in your own clear, concise sentences, too.
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Activists Want US to Re-think Student Visa Policies for Africans
Activists say visa denial rates for African students seeking higher education in the United States are too high.
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Activists Want US to Re-think Student Visa Policies for Africans
Fanta Aw is executive director of NAFSA: Association of International Educators. NAFSA is a nonprofit organization that supports international student exchange.
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Activists Want US to Re-think Student Visa Policies for Africans
Aw said data released in 2023 by the Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration shows visa rejections.
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Activists Want US to Re-think Student Visa Policies for Africans
She said the rejection rates for African students are higher than rates for students from the Middle East, South America and South Asia.
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Activists Want US to Re-think Student Visa Policies for Africans
At the same time, however, the IEEE Open Doors Report says the number of students from sub-Saharan Africa studying in the U.S. is growing.
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Activists Want US to Re-think Student Visa Policies for Africans
The most recent Open Doors Report, which follows foreign students in the U.S., shows that the number of students from African countries south of the Sahara Desert increased by 18…
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Activists Want US to Re-think Student Visa Policies for Africans
Aw said the rejection numbers mean many more African students could be studying in the U.S.
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Activists Want US to Re-think Student Visa Policies for Africans
Fewer American students are going to college and not as many Chinese students are studying in the U.S. African students could help replace those groups, she said.
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Activists Want US to Re-think Student Visa Policies for Africans
Last year, big percentages of students from several large African countries were denied study visas.
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Activists Want US to Re-think Student Visa Policies for Africans
For those countries, the percentages are high. But the number of students going to the U.S.
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Activists Want US to Re-think Student Visa Policies for Africans
is also high. For example, Nigeria ranked seventh in the 2023 Open Doors Report with over 17,600 students studying in the U.S.
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Activists Want US to Re-think Student Visa Policies for Africans
Aw, representatives from the Presidents’ Alliance and Shorelight met with representatives from the State Department last summer.
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Activists Want US to Re-think Student Visa Policies for Africans
Shorelight is a business that connects international students with universities that offer the study programs they want. The U.S.
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Activists Want US to Re-think Student Visa Policies for Africans
State Department said students should have the chance to secure a student visa no matter where they are from. The groups decided to continue discussing their concerns in the futur…
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