1- <span>The ancient Chinese board game “Go” is invented long before there was any writing to record its rules. A game from the impossibly distant past has now brought us closer to a moment that once seemed part of an impossibly distant future: a time when machines are cleverer than we are.
<u>Because it's an action that started and finished in the past, this should read </u><u>was</u><u> (Simple Past)</u>
2- </span><span>For years, Go was considered the last redoubt against the march of computers. Machines might win at chess, draughts, Othello, three-dimensional noughts and crosses, Monopoly, bridge, and poker. Go, though, is different.
<u>This continues the same line of mistake as the first paragraph. Because it's referencing something that already happened ("Go was considered...), this should read </u><u>was</u><u> (Simple Past).</u>
The game required intuition, strategising <u>and</u> character reading, along with vast numbers of moves and permutations. According to legend, it was invented by a Chinese emperor to teach his subjects balance and patience: qualities unique to human intelligence.
<u>The conjunction and is used before the last element in a list. In this case, this word should be substituted by a comma because <em>character reading</em> is not the last element on that list.</u>
3- </span><span>This week, though, a computer called Alpha Go <u>defeats</u> the world’s best player of Go. It did so by “ learning” the game, crunching through 30 million positions from recorded matches, reacting and anticipating. It <u>evolves</u> as a player and taught itself.
That single game of Go marks a milestone on the road to the “technological singularity”, the moment when artificial intelligence becomes capable of self-improvement and learns faster than humans can control or understand.</span><span>
<u>These should read defeated ... evolved. This continues the same line of thought on subject-verb agreement. If it's talking about a past event, and the rest of the paragraph sustains that idea, then these verbs should be in Simple Past.</u></span><span>
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The things that could be moved were the passengers and heavy things which included iron and other heavy things.
<u>Explanation:</u>
When The railroad system got developed, it made a huge remark on the people and was a very helpful innovation. It was used to carry people from one place to the other place.
Not only passengers, the railroad system was also used to carry heavy things like iron, wood and so on from one place to the other, helping to develop trade and production activities. With time passing on, it got even more developed leading to the development of locomotives and iron rails.
The above excerpt from The Grapes of Wrath uses the rhetorical figure called parallelism, which is part of the group of the
diction figures.
In Literature, parallelism is a literary figure that consists of repeating the same structure several times changing some elements from the sentence. It is often used in order to emphasize what it is been said. What the speaker is looking for by using this method is to give balance and cadence to the idea, making it sound nicer in order to get an effect on the listener, persuading him through the repetition.
We can easily find parallelism examples in literary works as well as in everyday conversations. Here you can find some of them:
Whether <em>at the gym, at work, or at home</em>, she is always happy, or <em>Easy </em>come, <em>easy </em>go. Or, like the except says:
<em>Some of the owner</em> men were kind because they hated what they had to do, and <em>some of them</em> were angry because they hated to be cruel, and <em>some of them</em> were cold because they had long ago found that one could not be an owner unless one were cold.
The answer is a) A string of similes show the value of precious stones, while metaphors highlight the ways in which flint is also valuable.
Mystery, tension, & intensity
