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Period or full stop THE APOSTROPHE Commas   Commas Common Mistakes with Commas There are three mistakes which English learners often make with commas. Let’s look at them so that you can, hopefully, avoid making them! 1. Don’t put a comma between a subject and its verb: The people we met on holiday, were very nice.  —> Incorrect Everything in those cupboards, needs to be packed in boxes.  —> Incorrect 2. Don’t use a comma before  that: She told me, that she wanted to move to London.  —> Incorrect I had no idea, that he could speak Japanese!  —> Incorrect 3. Don’t use a comma to join two sentences if you don’t use a linking word: I think this will be a good year, I’m sure of it.  —> Incorrect He told me that he’s planning to go to the gym every day, of course he’ll give up in the first week. —> Incorrect Using commas quiz

Инфинитив  - это базовая, неличная форма глагола.  Признаком  инфинитива в английском языке является частица  to , например:  (to) go, (to) be, (to) ask, (to) fight, (to) understand, (to) walk . Английский инфинитив  сочетает в себе признаки глагола и в некоторой степени существительного. Последнее выражается в том, что инфинитив может выступать в предложении в качестве подлежащего, дополнения, предикатива, определения, обстоятельства и некоторых других. Например: To learn  is important. Учение  важно. ( Инфинитив выполняет функцию подлежащего. ) The most important thing is  to learn . Самое важное это  учиться . ( Инфинитив выполняет функцию предикатива. ) He wants  to learn . Он хочет  учиться . ( Инфинитив выполняет функцию дополнения. ) Отрицательные формы инфинитива образуются путем добавления отрицательной частицы  not  до инфинитива. Например: I decided  to invite  them. – I decide...

Crime has been around us for many centuries. Every day when we open a newspaper or turn on TV almost all we read or hear is about criminals and their illegal actions. According to the law, people who commit a crime must be punished, imprisoned or even sentenced to a death penalty. Without punishment our life in the society would be less secure, although sometimes punishment isn’t strict enough, to my mind. Some kinds of crimes are as old as the human society (such as stealing, pick-pocketing, vandalism, assault or domestic violence, murder and manslaughter), others are a more recent phenomenon. Armed robbery of stores and banks, hacking into computers (so called “cyber frauds”), corruption or forgery of money and documents, for instance, are some of them. The 20 th  century has also seen the appearance of organized crimes such as drug-trafficking, drug-smuggling and hijacking. Statistics show an alarming rise of violent crimes and crimes to do with the illegal sale of arms acros...