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Explore phrase position, including the order of destination and transport phrases.",6,"word_sort",[13,37,64,91,114],{"id":14,"sentenceTemplate":15,"displayOrder":16,"explanation":17,"blanks":18,"payload":19},"01a0e1ab-d6b2-7030-83f5-7ad2d58032b0","Sort each sentence by how it describes the duration of an activity.",0,"For + a length measures duration; for can be omitted before short durations. From + a starting time and to or until + an ending time give both limits. All + a named period describes the whole period.",[],{"items":20,"categories":36},[21,24,26,29,31,34],{"text":22,"category":23},"We talked for ten minutes.","Measured length",{"text":25,"category":23},"I waited twenty minutes.",{"text":27,"category":28},"I worked from eight to eleven.","Start and end times",{"text":30,"category":28},"We studied from noon until four.",{"text":32,"category":33},"We danced all evening.","Whole period",{"text":35,"category":33},"I worked all night.",[33,23,28],{"id":38,"sentenceTemplate":39,"displayOrder":40,"explanation":41,"blanks":42,"payload":43},"01a0e1ab-d6b2-70a4-83f5-7ad2d61d7dea","These phrases describe a lesson. Sort them by whether they give its length or only its ending time.",1,"A length tells us how much time an activity takes, with or without for. Until gives an ending time. Without a starting time, an ending time alone does not tell us the length.",[],{"items":44,"categories":63},[45,48,50,53,55,57,59,61],{"text":46,"category":47},"until noon","Ending time only",{"text":49,"category":47},"until four o’clock",{"text":51,"category":52},"for forty minutes","Length of time",{"text":54,"category":52},"fifty minutes",{"text":56,"category":47},"until lunchtime",{"text":58,"category":47},"until half past ten",{"text":60,"category":52},"for three hours",{"text":62,"category":52},"two hours",[52,47],{"id":65,"sentenceTemplate":66,"displayOrder":67,"explanation":68,"blanks":69,"payload":70},"01a0e1ab-d6b2-70fc-83f5-7ad2d70bef7c","These phrases describe cleaning jobs. Sort them into how often a job happens and how long it lasts.",2,"How often asks about repetition: a regular schedule or a count of occasions within a period. How long asks about duration: an amount of time, a whole period, or the interval between a start and an end. A duration does not need to begin with for.",[],{"items":71,"categories":90},[72,75,77,80,82,84,86,88],{"text":73,"category":74},"twice a day","Frequency: how often?",{"text":76,"category":74},"three times a month",{"text":78,"category":79},"thirty minutes","Duration: how long?",{"text":81,"category":79},"for an hour",{"text":83,"category":74},"every Saturday",{"text":85,"category":74},"once a week",{"text":87,"category":79},"all morning",{"text":89,"category":79},"from nine to five",[79,74],{"id":92,"sentenceTemplate":93,"displayOrder":94,"explanation":95,"blanks":96,"payload":97},"01a0e1ab-d6b2-7144-83f5-7ad2d783afad","Look at the final phrases. Sort these sentences by whether they describe how an activity is done at a location or how someone travels to a destination.",3,"The usual order is manner, place, then time: how an activity is done comes before its location, followed by any time phrase. With movement verbs, the destination usually comes before the transport phrase. Both patterns are correct, and neither needs a time phrase.",[],{"items":98,"categories":113},[99,102,104,107,109,111],{"text":100,"category":101},"I write by hand at home after lunch.","Activity at a location",{"text":103,"category":101},"We eat in a hurry at work on Mondays.",{"text":105,"category":106},"I travel to town by train.","Travel to a destination",{"text":108,"category":106},"We go to the park on foot.",{"text":110,"category":101},"She types quickly at work.",{"text":112,"category":106},"I go to school by bus.",[101,106],{"id":115,"sentenceTemplate":116,"displayOrder":117,"explanation":118,"blanks":119,"payload":120},"01a0e1ab-d6b2-718c-83f5-7ad2d799349c","These phrases describe everyday activities. Sort them by whether they tell us when, where or how something happens.",4,"A time phrase locates an activity in time. A place phrase names its location. A manner phrase describes the way it is done. 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