MANGROVE PROTECTION AND ...

FROM PAGE XI and support nets. Their vines are used for handicrafts, for example, making furniture. Lastly, mangroves are now recognised as carbon sinks as the forests have long been and are now an integral part of the Low Carbon Development Strategy.

Of the three types of mangroves,the black is regarded on balance as being the most useful. It is the best land stabiliser due to easier seedling transport, quick growth, and fast aerial root production. It has better sediment-holding capabilities in its underground root systems. It also has a better ability to inhabit “artificial sites” such as areas which have been dredged.

Over the last three years, the Mangrove Department of the Ministry of Agriculture has invested $500 million in mangrove protection and rehabilitation. In addition to education, the department has been involved in replanting, especially in the county of Demerara and though goats have on occasion been feeding on the young mangrove plants, overall, the replanting project has been successful. Mangrove protection and preservation are now ensured and the cutting down of mangroves has disappeared from most coastal communities. This has been largely due to the awareness programmes of the Ministry of Agriculture and the Environmental Protection Agency and by the sad experience of coastal communities, which, after cutting down their mangrove shields, have found themselves open to flooding and soil erosion.

Recently, on Sunday, July 29, to commemorate World Mangrove Day, the National Agricultural Research and Extension Institute(NAREI), in collaboration with Environmental Management Consultants (EMC) headed by Dr Shyam Nokta who stands out as one of the most able and experienced environmentalists in the Caribbean and the Ministry of Agriculture, represented by Minister Zulfikar Mustapha and a number of other distinguished persons including members of the Diplomatic Corps, hosted a shoreline mangrove walk from Movietown in Turkeyen to Ogle gas station.

In addition to observing World Mangrove Day, the exercise aimed to increase awareness and further promote strategies for the sustainable management, utilisation and conservation of the Mangrove Ecosystem. Under the aegis of EMC, NAREI and the Ministry of Agriculture’s protection and revitalisation are now irreversible.

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Thought For Today

Study Success

Dear Student, Welcome dear friend. When you read, besides understanding text organisation, it is also essential to understand its contents. Text comprehension can be

August 13, 2023 done in many ways. Use various types of question-types. Open questions, right or wrong, and multiple-choice questions all have their value. Reading, thinking and reasoning, and then answering questions or making a choice is your best and most active way forward. Here you are forced to examine the text and the different possibilities carefully. Be wise.

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GRAMMAR

Predicate agreement with special subjects

We now look at another TWO special cases, the principles of which you must be sure to remember. We have looked at collective nouns and foreign nouns which both deal with the basic rule of agreement.

Today we look at 1) ‘a number,’ ‘the number’, and 2) ‘part,’ ‘portion,’ or ‘amount’ subject.

ONE: A Number, The Number – A number is a plural subject, and the number is a singular subject. So, be sure to have their predicates agree accordingly. Remember that any modifier immediately before the word ‘number’ (as in ‘a large number’ or the significant/ substantial number) does not affect this rule.

Study these examples:

The number of new homeowners was quite large. (‘Was’ agrees with the singular ‘the number’.)

A number of baked goods operators have submitted their positive intentions. (‘Have’ and ‘their’ agree with ‘a number’.)

A surprising number of electrical oven technicians have submitted their resumés. (The modifier ‘surprising’ does not affect ‘a number,’ which is still plural.)

Something

to Do

Correct any agreement errors in the following sentences.

1. The report showed that the number of potential supporters are significant.

2. All the semicolons that is on this page should be changed to commas.

3. If the number of responses continue to be high, we will reevaluate the need for this product.

Select the correct verbs and pronouns in the following sentences. Underline the key word in the subject with which each choice agrees.

4. A number of people who attended yesterday’s session (is, are) planning to return next week when (he, she, he or she, they) will again hear Dr. Sargeant speak.

5. The group representative said that the bases of the decision

(was, were) explained in document writer’s report.

6. Surprisingly, the number of employees who opted for plan B (is, are) smaller than we had anticipated.

7. The primary basis for the decision to build another barn (is, are) that the cost of renting space elsewhere is uncontrollable.

8. A number of tenants (is, are) planning to file a suit against Splendour Homes Realty; in fact, (he, she, he or she, they) (has, have) already consulted a prominent lawyer.

9. A number of respondents (was, were) exceptionally pleased with (his, her, his or her, their) gifs.

10. A committee (is, are) to be established to study the problem of and suggest possible solutions to the putrid smell coming with the inland breeze.

TWO: Words such as ‘all,’ ‘half,’ ‘some,’ ‘twothirds,’ and ‘none’ are used in subjects to indicate a part or a portion of something. Do consider such subjects plural when they are followed by plurals; consider them singular when they are followed by singulars.

Study these examples:

Half this page has been poorly printed. (The singular ‘has’ is correct because ‘page’ is singular.)

Half these pages have been poorly printed. (The plural ‘have’ is correct because ‘pages’ is plural.)

Something to Do

Are the following “part,” “portion,” or “amount” subjects singular, or are they plural? Choose the correct verb for each sentence; be sure to indicate the key word in the complete subject with which each verb agrees.

1. Two-thirds of the payment (is, are) due in advance.

2. Most of the building (contains, contain) valuable bathroom fixtures.

3. All the machine (has, have) been assembled.

4. Three-quarters of these payments (is, are) due in advance.

5. Half the supplies (has, have) been stolen from this room.

6. None of these dresses (requires, require) altering.

The Passage

The term to be defined is angling. To begin with, angling is an art so that the arts constitute the first category. We may divide them into arts of production and arts of acquisition, and angling evidently belongs to the latter. Acquisition is now divided into cases where its objects give consent, and where they are simply captured. Again, angling belongs to the second of these. Capture can be divided into open and concealed, angling being of the latter kind. The things taken can be inanimate or living; angling is concerned with living things. The animals in question may live on land or in a fluid, and again the term to be defined belongs to the second class. Inhabitants of fluids may be birds or fish, fish may be caught by net or by striking, and you may strike by night or day. Angling is done in daylight…

(From Bertrand Russell: “Wisdom of the West”)

Something to Do

1. The passage speaks of division. What about division is it telling the reader?

2. What are the various categories mentioned in the passage so far?

3. Can you find an example of what could appear at the end of each category given?