Kompetenzerweiterung I, Homework for Week 2

Welcome to the course! For homework, please:

Read up on participle clauses as reduced relative clauses here and complete the two quizzes linked at the bottom of the page: http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/participle-clauses.html

Complete the tasks on the back of the handout distributed in class today. (The first sentence can be written as: Camped outside the movie theater, we waited for the midnight Harry Potter showing.)

Read up on the use of apostrophes in English on this page and take the two quizzes featured on the bottom of the page: http://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/apostro.asp

You can access the complete Economist Everest text from class here: https://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2016/06/economist-explains-6

(By the way, the article’s caption reads, "Rocky crags and vertiginous heights notwithstanding, …" What does the word notwithstanding mean and how it is used syntactically?)

Finally, have a look at this website https://www.phrases.org.uk/ on idioms and proverbs and jot down three that you find particularly interesting. What is the meaning and origin of the expression? How is it used?

Your first optional writing prompt is an essay in response to the question "What is the best sense?" You can use the short essays distributed in class as models or take yours in an entirely new direction.

Essay guidelines:  written work should be kept under 500 words and must have gone through a spell and grammar check if it is typed. Typed work with basic spelling errors will not be corrected, so make sure that you have English settings on your Word processor (e.g. German Word will automatically correct "of the" to "oft he" if you do not set the language to English at the bottom of the screen). Submit the essays to me by Thursday at midnight if you'd like to receive them in your Monday class. Otherwise, submit them in person on Monday.