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Monday, 22 January 2024

Back to Grammar -- The Tenses

 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.


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