Sunlight at last for the residents of this small town in
Norway. a) The council has placed
giant mirrors on top of the hills surrounding the town centre to beam light
into it during the dark winter months .
The sides of the valley are so steep and the mountain so high
that the town of Rjukan was in shadow for almost half the year until the new
invention was added.
“It’s important to have the sun in wintertime, and in this
town we didn’t have the sun six months a year in wintertime and the people up
here, they want to have the sun down. We have made a cable car to get up to the
mountains, take people quickly up to the mountains, but now we also have an
older, 100 years old idea, to make them realistic, we take the mirror and reflect
the sun down to us. So it’s a crazy idea, but it’s funny and I think the people
like it.”
b) The mirrors are controlled by a computer that follows
the path of the sun, adjusting to the best angle to catch the rays and
reflect them onto the town centre.
In the past, local residents only got sunshine by taking a
cable car to the top of the mountain. But this new invention has been so
popular, it’s thought other remote towns in the country will follow suit and
build similar projects.
Analysis Grammar :
a) The council has placed giant mirrors on top of
the hills surrounding the town centre to beam light into it
during the dark winter months .
sentence( a) using present perfect
tense (has placed). the form of present perfect tense is :
S + have/has + past participle
Besides, the words into is
prepositions . In the a sentence prepositions show the relation of one word
to another word. Prepositions require an object to complete them, typically a noun or a pronoun.
A preposition and its object is called a prepositional phrase.
Notice that
the prepositional phrase contains no verbs. Generally, they contain
an adjective, a noun or pronoun
and they can also contain a gerund. The noun or pronoun is the object of the preposition. Prepositional phrases can also
contain conjunctions to join two
nouns or pronouns as in this example: - underneath sand and rock
b
b b) The mirrors are controlled by a computer that follows
the path of the sun.
Sentence (b) using Passive sentence
in Present Tense (are controlled). In passive sentences, the thing receiving
the action is the subject of the sentence and the thing doing the action is
optionally included near the end of the sentence. You can use the passive form
if you think that the thing receiving the action is more important or should be
emphasized. You can also use the passive form if you do not know who is doing
the action or if you do not want to mention who is doing the action. The form
is:
[Thing receiving action] + [be] + [past
participle of verb] + [by] + [thing doing action]
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