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1 READ & NOTICE THE GRAMMAR.
A What are some kinds of risks have you taken in your life? Discuss them with a partner. Then
read the narrative.
Teen Daredeuil:
Teenagers, studies show, take more
risks than adults. I believe this is true
for me as well as for many of my friends.
As teenagers, we were always trying to
impress each other. When I was about
16 years old, I took a risk that ultimately
had a very bad result.
It all happened one day when I was
out with my friends in the forest near my
house. We were riding mountain bikes
on trails and, as usual, we were daring
each other to do extremely silly things,
such as ride really fast up and down hills
on one wheel.
We came to a big tree that had fallen
over a stream. The stream had almost no
water, and there were big, sharp rocks in
it. My friends dared me to ride my bike over the fallen tree. “No problem,” I said coolly. There
was no way I was going to chicken out! now. Everybody was cheering as I rode my bike at top
speed. My fear was not as strong as my desire to impress my friends.
Suddenly, I lost control and slipped off the tree, crashing onto the rocks below. I landed
on my right arm and felt a sharp pain unlike any I’d ever experienced before. Hours later at
the hospital, where my parents had driven me after the accident, I learned that my arm was
broken in several places.
After that experience, I became much more cautious. To this day, whenever someone
dares me to do something, I think twice before doing it.
1 chicken out: to agree to do something and then not do It because of fear
GRAMMAR FOCUS
In this story, the writer follows these rules of subject-verb agreement.
Subjects follow be in sentences with there.
... and there were big, sharp rocks in it.
Subjects with every-, some-, any-, or no- take a singular verb.
Everybody was cheering...
Non-count nouns as subjects take singular verbs.
My fear was not as strongas...
140 NOUNS, ARTICLES, AND SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT
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