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Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
Jul 30, 2015 04:50
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Q: Shift + proposition

user3556985I saw a sentence that has the word shift. I am trying to understand the sentence but it has become hard to understand. The sentence is "Over the past few years shifts in educational policies have affected society especially in developed nations". I am not quite sure how the "shift" is us...

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Actually, it's a good question.
Intermediate learners could run into a sentence that they don't know many words at any time.
Or worse, they thought they knew what some of the words mean, but they didn't.
That makes reading difficult.
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Suppose that a leaner thought shift must be a noun, knew neither affect nor develop, didn't know -ed verbs can be used as an adjective, and was basically not sure how over works.
It could look like this to them:
> OOOO the past few years XXXXXs in educational policies have XXXXXed society especially in XXXXXed nations.
How do we teach children to read?
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It could become much worse if they knew only the first 1000 words.
They might not know educational, policies, society, and even especially.
Which would make them see the sentence like this:
> OOOO the past few years XXXXXs in XXXXXXXXal XXXXXXs have XXXXXed XXXXX XXXXXXXXly in XXXXXed nations.
Can we parse that?
(I think we still can, but not sure how--neatly.)
 
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