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Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Question Structures

I am still getting papers in which students forget to add the "do" to the question format.

Example: "Why do birds sing?"
I get a lot of "Why birds sing?"
Please be diligent about checking for this kind of mistake.
Posted by Sean at 5:25 AM

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