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fattypickeltoefungus
fattypickeltoefungus
27.05.2021 • 
English

I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. [para. 1] from the “I have a dream” passage, answer the following questions.
Questions
1. With appropriate title, headings and subheadings, make notes from the passage above.
2. Write down the lexical familiarisation strategies used in the following paragraphs:
a) Para. 4
b) Para. 5
c) Para. 7 (line 1 and 2) and (line 3)
d) Para. 20 (lines 1 and 2)
e) Para. 22
3. In framing his speech, the writer has effectively exploited the technique of pairing ideas/words. Give any five collocations used in the passage.
4. Apart from the effective use of synonyms in creating parallelism, the writer has also used productively antonyms/opposites. Give any two antonyms from para. 1-4.
5. What would be the equivalents of the following statements from the passage:
a) Meet with love b) Blacks
c) Cut out
d) Elevated
e) broke
f) harmony
g) belief
h) uncoordinated sounds
6. To what are the following words or phrases referring?
a) ‘This momentous degree’ (para. 2)
b) ‘it’ (para. 2, last line)
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c) ‘this sacred obligation’ (para. 6)
7. Write down all the ‘to-infinitive’ verbs in para. 9.
8. For each of these, give an example from the passage.
i. Dependent clause (para. 22)
ii. Noun phrase (para. 36)
iii. Prepositional phrase (para. 13)
iv. Simple sentence (para. 22)
v. Complex sentence ( para. 4)

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