Tuesday 8 July 2008

evaluation and emphasis

49.1

1. Adjectives have negative association:
misguided: based on wrong information/ beliefs
inadequate: not match
2. Adjectives sound most positive and exciting:
intense: great or strong used of felling
ground-breaking: basic, from everything else originates
3. to play a(n) important/fundamental/ significant role
4. crucial: the only one of its type

49.2

1. Nierinck gave credit to the input of her research associates and acknowledged that they had played a crucial role in the project.

2. Unfortunately, these results are not borne out by other work in the field and you are challenged to claim that there is hard evidence to support your theory. There are mistaken in some of your calculations, and they need redoing.

3. Herbert flaws Evensson on the validity of his conclusions claiming that his data were flawed and were too limited to be reliable.

4. This superb article can be viewed as a seminal piece of work which has made ground-breaking discoveries about the nature of cancerous cells.

49.3

1. By no means is it certain that all the students will pass their final exams.
2. He had never taught before such an outstanding student.
3. Rarely has the country witnessed such a display of public feeling.
4. We will no way be able to halt the process of global warming.
5. Under no circumstances will student be allowed to defer the completion of their thesis longer than one month.
6. Only when we gather a lot more data, will we know the answer.

49.4

1. The study highlights the need for more research.
2. I don't find your arguments either solid or convincing.
3. Unfortunately, the two studies came up with results which were not compatible.
4. She wrote the first comprehensive study of this key period of Athenian history.
5. It is worth recalling that his work was initially criticised for being too limited.
6. The article underlines the importance of literacy and numeracy skills in early education.

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