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    Abstract This study investigated the effects of displaced objects and spatial reorganization on habituation of exploratory behavior. The subjects, rats, each individually spent 5 minutes in an open field for 6 trials. Throughout the study, exploratory behavior was measured in the number of contacts the subject made, the number of ambulations, and contact time (seconds). Trials 1-5 were mainly used to familiarize the subject with its surroundings, naturally leading to decreasing amounts of exploratory

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    will are verbs of ancient Germanic ancestry. In Proto-Indo-European, an inflected future tense existed, but that tense was lost in Germanic. In all Germanic languages, the future tense is formed with auxiliary verbs; this was the case in Gothic and the earliest recorded expressions of Germanic languages. The verb shall represents Old English sceal, and is cognate with Old Norse skal, German soll, and Dutch zal; these all represent *skol-, the o-grade of Indo-European *skel-. All of these verbs function

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    The next play needs to either match the tiger with article “a” or find a domino piece with a picture that will correspond with the article “an.” 2. Missing Pronoun In the Spanish language, the use of subject pronouns are not necessary because the verb ending will indicate the gender or number of a

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    a.) I designed my lesson plan to be used in first and second grade. This lesson plan was designed to be a cross curriculum lesson about spiders that incorporates the following subject areas: Science, Language Arts, and Visual/Performance Arts. This lesson will be taught during the month of October after students have gained prior knowledge through an insect unit that was taught the month before. (b.) The content object that I used in this lesson was for students to be able to identify important

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    For any writer there are times that we can 't choose the right word at times and at the last second we choose a word that seems right but it 's in the wrong context. As a result, it leaves a wrong meaning to what we are writing. Well the problem is the usage of the "exact words" at the right time. The usage of the exact words helps the writer choose from a variety of words that help clarify or state the writer 's true meaning of his or her writing. Exact words come in many different forms to help

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    mostly used with different verb tenses in general. As Lathey (2012) comments on her article about the translation of children literature, "role of tense systems in narrative for children may well reveal cultural differences". In the case of Spanish and English, both use past tense for narration, while German or French have an historic present. In other words, verb tenses have been translated using a literal method, with the closest Spanish verb equivalent. However, some verb tenses are not 100% literal

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    1. Running Records- Starting on my third visit I started to keep running records of Jimmy’s reading. I collected three samples of his reading to be able to really asses his reading using miscue analysis and his CWPM (correct words per minute) and his WPM (words per minute). The first book that Jimmy selected was an AR book that was titled “War of the Worlds”. Based off of the AR guidelines it was a 3.2 reading level. This means third grade second six weeks. The next two samples were from a book

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    and critique. Since different paper types have different structures and expressive methods, it is more precise to discover the common mistakes made by students through different essays. The most common grammar mistakes include punctuation, spelling, verbs tenses, capitalization, incomplete sentence. First of all, in the critique paper about Title IX, the most obvious mistake is

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    One of the most striking features of Anthem is its use of language, especially the absence of the word "I." Characters refer to themselves using the first person plural "we" and not the first person singular "I." This use of language is often confusing, but must be understood if the book 's meaning is to be clear. The use of the plural rather than the singular self-reference, goes to the heart of the book 's meaning. The collectivist society in which Equality 7-2521 lives is similar to the Nazi

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    the words of each sentence with the verb “work”, that is why the inflectional morphemes “–ed” and “–s” must be added. In the first example we must attach the inflection (-ed) because of “yesterday”, and in the second because of “Ann” (third person).

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