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30 Cards in this Set
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form of "to be"
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like, is, are, was, were, will be
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As expected
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Suprise move
New Development Someone is news |
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Characterize news as good or bad
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Participial Phrase, Dependent clause, quotation, question
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Name and unknown person
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Personal Pronoun (she's/he's)
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Yesterday
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Continues, no/not, another/once again
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SOBA CTN YCN LF
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Scare Order Bury As expected
Characterize There is Name unknown Yesterday Cram Newspaper Lose Fact |
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SOBA
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Scare
Order Bury As expected |
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CTN
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Characterize
There is/ There are/ It is (to be) Name Unknown |
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YCN
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Yesterday
Cram Newspaper |
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LF
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Loose
Factual |
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in order
in the process of literally, actually, really suddenly, gradually, finally Flatly Personally, officially miraculously local and nearby different, seperate a total of the fact that meanwhile |
waste words
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infrastructure
draconian byzantine evanescent fleeting vagaries gubernatiorial |
non-broadcast words
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incident, activity, condition, situation, unconditional, long
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hollow words
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involved
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vauge words
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accesorize, arguable, high profile, icon, interactive, interface, meaningful, methodology, parameters, parenting, priorotize, pro-active, scenario, supportive, viable, syenergy
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vouge words
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controversy
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weary words
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passed away, succumbed, expired (dead)
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weasel words
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commence (start), utilize (use) implement (carry out), approximately (about)
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windy words
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dilemma, egregious, enormity, fortutious, hopefully, ironically, penultimate, portentous, quintessential, unique, heroics
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wrong words
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WWWWW VV HH PINS FC
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Waste/Weary/Weasel/Windy/Wrong
Vouge/Vauge Hallow/Hotrod Prefabricated/In other news/ Non-broadcast/ substitue syn. Foregin words/ cliches |
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WWWWW
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Waste
Weary Weasel Windy Wrong |
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VV
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Vouge
Vauge |
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HH
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Hallow
Hotrod |
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PINS
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Prefabs
In other news Non-broadcast words Substitute synonyms |
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FC
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Foregin words
Cliches |
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special, major, important, extra, crisis, unique, unprecedented
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hotrod words
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the definition of news
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1. have an IMPACT on many people
2. describe UNUSUAL situations or events 3. about widely known, PROMENINT people |
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4 tips of the trade
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go with SVO
turn negatives into positives write the way you talk mark key facts |
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According to chapter 3 DONT USE these words:
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may, might, could, seem, any form of "to be"
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According to chapter 3 USE these words:
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and, also, but, so, because, new, now, but says
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