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In the last panel of the comic strip, the barber says: “Well, I guess this guy knows which side his bread is buttered on!”. Grammatically, the word “his” is a:
Brazil floods: 'I saw people trapped in their
“Lucas Gandra also described dramatic scenes during the flooding, recalling that many residents were trapped in their homes and calling for help.”
Identify the possessive pronoun/adjective used in the sentence.
The plural of “that wise Englishman keeps his gold watch in a safe” is:
(__)The relative pronoun "whom" is used in formal registers to refer to the object of a verb or preposition, while "who" is typically used for the subject.
(__)Reflexive pronouns, such as "himself" or "ourselves", can be used with an emphatic function to stress that the subject performed the action without help.
(__)The definite article "the" must be used before names of individual lakes and mountains in academic writing to ensure the correct determination of the noun.
(__)Possessive adjectives like "their" and "her" function as substitutes for the noun, eliminating the need to express the possessed object in the sentence.
Now, choose the CORRECT alternative with the sequence from top to bottom:
I.Defining relative clauses provide essential information about the noun they modify and are never separated from the rest of the sentence by commas.
II.Non-defining relative clauses provide extra information and must be enclosed in commas, but the relative pronoun "that" cannot be used in these structures.
III.In informal English, it is grammatically incorrect to end a sentence with a preposition, even in relative clauses where the pronoun is omitted.
Which of the statements above is/are CORRECT?
Read the following passage from Passing, by Nella Larsen, and answer the question.
Stepping out of the elevator that had brought her to the roof, she was led to a table just in front of a long window whose gently moving curtains suggested a cool breeze. It was, she thought, like being wafted upward on a magic carpet to another world, pleasant, quiet, and strangely remote from the sizzling one that she had left below.
LARSEN, Nella. Passing. In: The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen – Passing, Quicksand and The Stories. New York: Anchor Books, 2001, p. 164.
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Hero boy swims for four hours to save his family (9th February 2026)
A 13-year-old Australian boy has been hailed a hero after an epic swim that saved his family. The boy, Austin Appelbee, and his family were on a beach holiday in Western Australia. They were kayaking and paddleboarding in shallow water when strong winds pushed them farther offshore. They ended up over four kilometres away from land, and the daylight was fading. Austin decided to kayak to shore to get help. However, the waves had damaged his kayak, which had taken in water and flipped over. He said he then lost an oar and knew he was in trouble. He decided he had no alternative but to swim back to land. He swam through shark-frequented waters to raise the alarm.
Austin made it to the beach and phoned for help. This sparked a huge rescue operation, which resulted in coastguards finding the teenager's mother and two younger sisters. The boy said: "I hit the bottom of the beach and I just collapsed, and then, after that, I had to “ sprint two kilometres to get to the phone." Rescuers called his efforts "superhuman". One rescuer said Austin's actions could not "be praised highly enough." He added that the teenager's "determination and courage ultimately saved the lives of his mother and siblings." Austin's mother Joanne, 47, told reporters: "The wind picked up. We lost oars, and we drifted out further. It was an absolute nightmare."
“ This sparked a huge rescue operation, which resulted in coastguards finding the teenager s mother and two younger sisters . The boy said: I hit the bottom of the beach and I just collapsed, and then, after that, I had to sprint two kilometres to get to the phone. Rescuers called his efforts ‘superhuman’.”
The claim to reason or rationality is the ultimate validation of the affirmation and assertion of the human condition. Aristotle’s definition of man as "a rational animal" was not spoken of the African and the Amerindian. Little did he realise that his definition of "man" laid down the foundation for the struggle for reason between colonialists and colonized peoples.
Aristotle’s definition of man was deeply inscribed in the social ethos of those communities and societies which undertook the so-called voyages of discovery apparently driven by innocent curiosity. It seems then that the entire process of decolonisation has upheld and not jettisoned the questionable belief that "man is a rational animal" was not spoken of the African and of the Amerindian.
The term African philosophy renders the idea that history repeats itself easy to believe. The term tends to revive innate skepticism on the one hand and to stimulate ingrained condescension on the other. The skeptic, unswervingly committed to the will to remain ignorant, is simply dismissive of any possibility let alone the probability of African philosophy. Impelled by the will to dominate, the condescendor is often ready to entertain the probability of African philosophy provided the judgement pertaining to the experience, knowledge and truth about African philosophy is recognised as the sole and exclusive right of the condescendor. The self-appointed heirs to the right to reason have thus established themselves as the producers of all knowledge and the only holders of the truth.
Mogobe B. Ramose. African philosophy through Ubuntu.
Harare, Zimbabwe: Mond Books Publishers, 2005, pp. 5-6 (adapted).
Considering the preceding text, judge the following item.
Due to the grammatical function the pronoun "which" has in the first sentence of the second paragraph, it would be grammatically correct to add a comma after "societies".
Choose the alternative that correctly completes the sentence. The correct answer must be a possessive pronoun that replaces the noun and avoids repetition.
That house is not ours; it is ______.
The correct relative determiner that completes the clause is:
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Everyone ages, but, sometimes, people outlive all predictions. Previous research has uncovered an unlikely factor related to longevity: intelligence. However, intelligence isn‟t a simple characteristic. There are many traits that contribute to it that can be tested — from memory to mathematical logic. In a 2024 clinical psychological science study, Paolo Ghisletta, of the University of Geneva, linked longevity specifically to one of those traits: verbal fluency, the measure of one‟s vocabulary and their ability to use it. Ghisletta‟s research used samples from the Berlin Aging Study, which started collecting data shortly before the Berlin Wall came down in 1989. It tracked 516 people aged 70 to 105 from enrollment to their death, over as long as 18 years in some cases. The study measured factors like dental health, stress levels, and economic well-being, as well as cognition. This makes it a “rich and rare data set,” said Ghisletta in an interview.
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