Monday, October 15, 2007

VOCABULARY, Oct. 15th

Vocabulary building is important for both reading comprehension and writing. Use the following two words (note the part of speech) in one sentence.

posthumously (adverb) + colloquial (adjective)

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4 comments:

richard said...

After Mr. Martin death, the linguistic committee of Paris recognized posthumously his colloquial style of writing to be original.

Veronica Baig said...

Richard: You've used the vocabulary well, but note that Mr. Martin should be possessive, and the word order would be better as "posthumously recognized".

richard said...

After Mr. Martin’s death, the linguistic committee of Paris posthumously recognized his colloquial style of writing to be original.

Veronica Baig said...

Richard: That's better:-)