The Nouns and Verbs (Lesson 19, 23 Jan. 2024)
Please identify nouns and verbs in the news extracts 1 and 2 below.
1.- At
least 65 Palestinians were killed in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis on Monday
as Israel intensifies attacks on the city.
- Doctors
Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres, or MSF) reports that staff in
Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis say they can feel the “ground shaking” as
Israeli bombardments close in, with a “sense of panic” among staff,
patients and displaced people in the building.
- The
United States and United Kingdom have launched new air attacks on Houthi
rebels in Yemen, hitting the capital Sanaa and other areas.
- At
least 25,295 people have been killed and 63,000 wounded in Israeli attacks
on Gaza since October 7. The death toll in Israel from the October 7 Hamas
attack stands at 1,139.
2.
KUALA LUMPUR: Toh Puan Naimah Khalid, the wife of former
finance minister Tun Daim Zainuddin says the Malaysian Anti-Corruption (MACC)
is insisting for her to be charged tomorrow despite her husband still being
hospitalised.
In a statement, she said, a team of MACC officers
suddenly arrived at the hospital where her husband is warded demanding to
record her statement despite having already taken her statement earlier on Jan
10.
She said she had asked for the charge to be done on
Wednesday, the day after Daim completes his medical procedure on Tuesday, but
this was refused.
"Today a team of MACC officers suddenly arrived at
the hospital where my husband is being warded, demanding to record my
statement, having already taken my statement earlier on Jan 10.
