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The headmaster complains about the students who like to play truant. The teachers complain about the students who like to play truant. ____________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________.
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I do not like reading comic books. Arnys does not like reading comic books. ____________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________.
Task 17 Study the explanation below. You may have a discussion with a partner. A story involving animal as its characters is called a fable. Fable is a narrative text. Narrative texts function to entertain the readers or listeners. They also function to instruct the readers or listeners in that they teach them that problems should be confronted and attempts made to resolve them. Narrative texts are organized as follows: 1. First, introduce the main character(s) in a setting of time and place, and alert the listener and/or reader to what is to follow (orientation). 2. Second, tell the sequence of events, and then change in some way so that the events become a problem for one or more of the characters (complication). 3. Third, tell the situation when the problems are resolved (resolution). 4. Finally, you can tell explicitly how the character/s has changed and what has been learned from the experience, but it is optional. Instead, you can ask the listener and/or reader to conclude by themselves and to draw the lesson they get from the story themselves (coda). Common grammatical features of narrative texts include: 1. use of nouns to describe the particular people, animals, and things that the story is about; 2. use of adjectives to build noun groups to describe the people, animals or things in the story; 3. use of conjunctions to sequence events; 4. use of past tense.
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Interlanguage: English for Senior High School Students XII
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