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Yang, Yujie (Neil)

ESL 33B
Dr. Carlisi
11 December 2016
Language Development Project (LDP) 5
Option 1 Vocabulary log.
Word #1

Engulf

Source

Southland by Nina Revoyr (P.300)

Sentence

But finally the alcohol engulfed him and the bar,


the whole world, tipped and spun.

General meaning

Engulf means being surrounded.

Specific meaning

Engulf is used to mean that Frank drunk very


heavily.

Grammatical info
Sample sentence

Verb
He was engulfed by a feeling of sadness.

Word #2

Fidget

Source

Southland by Nina Revoyr (P.310)

Sentence

Paxton looked down and was silent for so long that


Lanier and Jackie started to fidget.

General meaning

Fidget means making movements that caused


by nervousness.
Fidget is used to mean that Lanier and Jackie felt
uncomfortable with Paxtons silence.

Specific meaning
Grammatical info

Verb

Sample sentence

Jack fidgeted in his seat.

Word #3

Exhaust

Source

Southland by Nina Revoyr (P.321)

Sentence

Until the boys anger and regret and denial and


grief were finally exhausted.

General meaning

Exhausting means using up.

Specific meaning

Exhaust is used to mean that the boys calmed


down.
Verb
We are going to exhaust the oil resources in two
hundred years.

Grammatical info
Sample sentence

Option 2: Error Log


Parallelism

Activity 1: Review and Analysis


Error and Source

Explanation of the
Problem

Solution/Correction/Stra
tegy

1) Race pedagogy, using laws


to protect yourselves and
develop the concept of
equality of all are three best
ways to fight against racism.
(Project 3 completed draft)

Race pedagogy is a noun


phrase and using laws to
protect yourselves is a
phrase with ing. Whats
more, develop the concept of
equality is not a noun phrase.

2) This will be a good


choice that will take
advantage both for
customers and for
producers. (Project 2
essay)

I mean that the choice


is good for customers
and producers, but I
used two for after the
word both.

If you have a series of


things of ideas in a
sentence, you have to
match your nouns with
nouns, verbs with verbs
and adjectives with
adjectives, ect. (Video:
Parallel Structure: Smrt
Live Class with Shaun)
What I need to do is to
change two of these
phrases and to make
them to be the same
kind of phrases.
Teaching people about
racism, using laws to protect
yourselves and developing the
concept of equality of all are
three best ways to fight
against racism. When I
wrote this sentence, I
did not notice that the
balance between
these phrases. I should
pay attention to the
grammatical form of
ideas to match them.
When you use the
word both, you have to
make sure that the
ideas that come after
both are parallel.
(Video: Parallel
Structure: Smrt Live
Class with Shaun) What
I need to do is to
remove one for and
to put both after the
first for. This will be
a good choice that will
take advantage for both

customers and
producers. I don not
use the word both
very often even though
it is a simple word.
What I supposed to do
is writing more
sentences with both.

Activity 2: Exercise
Online exercise
http://www.speak-read-write.com/worksheet-coordinationparallel.html
1. Martin wondered where his cell phone was, since it was in his
knapsack yesterday, was on the table last night, and now was
lost.
2. Academic success is an achievement to savor and celebrate, a
rewarding accomplishment for all that hard work.
3. The ski slopes were filled with beginners who fell repeatedly, slid
on their backsides, and often struggled to stand up.
4. She studied in the late afternoon beside the window, while dinner
was cooking on the stove, before her husband came home.
5. Beautifully elegant figures characterize Reid's work, first peoples
with gleaming rounded faces and birds with curving polished
beaks of stone.
6. For at least three weeks, the offensive continued from within the
bunkers, inside the tunnels, and atop the cliffs.
7. The study was halted because of a declining participation rate,
negative drug interactions in the elderly target market, and a
conflict of interest which arose involving one of the researchers.
8. The consumers who will receive the most benefit from these
features are those who cook most of their meals in the oven, who
want to save power, and who don't want a hot kitchen.
9. Ending on a long, low note, the saxophonist deftly removed his
hat, bowed to the audience once, and quickly left the stage.
10. Confused about how to handle the grown tomcat, the pet store
employee grabbed it by the scruff of the neck, swung it through
the cage door, and immediately got scratched.

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