"ENGLISH TASK" - TENSES, GERUND/TO+INFINITIVE, AND PRONOUNS IN ZUCKERBERG'S BIOGRAPHY
Mark
Zuckerberg Biography
Mark Zuckerberg is co-founder and CEO of
the social-networking website Facebook,
as well as one of the world's youngest billionaires.
Mark Zuckerberg co-founded the
social-networking website Facebook out of his college dorm room at Harvard
University. Zuckerberg
left college after his sophomore year to concentrate on the site, the user base
of which has grown to more than two billion people, making Zuckerberg a
billionaire many times over. The birth of Facebook was portrayed in the 2010
film The Social Network.
Zuckerberg
was born on May 14, 1984, in White Plains, New York, into a comfortable,
well-educated family. He
was raised in the nearby village of Dobbs Ferry.
Zuckerberg’s
father, Edward Zuckerberg, ran a dental practice attached to the family's home.
His mother, Karen, worked as a psychiatrist before the birth of the couple's
four children — Mark, Randi, Donna and Arielle.
Zuckerberg
developed an interest in computers at an early age; when he was about 12, he
used Atari BASIC to create a messaging program he named "Zucknet."
His father used the program in his dental office, so that the receptionist
could inform him of a new patient without yelling across the room. The family
also used Zucknet to communicate within the house.
Together
with his friends, he also created computer games just for fun. "I had a
bunch of friends who were artists," he said. "They'd come over, draw
stuff, and I'd build a game out of it." To keep up with Zuckerberg's
burgeoning interest in computers, his parents hired private computer tutor
David Newman to come to the house once a week and work with Zuckerberg. Newman
later told reporters that it was hard to stay ahead of the prodigy, who began
taking graduate courses at nearby Mercy College around this same time.
Zuckerberg later studied at Phillips Exeter
Academy, an exclusive preparatory school in New Hampshire. There he showed
talent in fencing, becoming the captain of the school's team. He also excelled
in literature, earning a diploma in classics.
Yet Zuckerberg remained fascinated by
computers and continued to work on developing new programs. While still in high
school, he created an early version of the music software Pandora, which he
called Synapse. Several companies—including AOL and Microsoft—expressed an
interest in buying the software, and hiring the teenager before graduation. He
declined the offers.
TENSES
ON THIS ARTICLE
1.
SIMPLE
PRESENT TENSE
Mark Zuckerberg is co-founder and
CEO of the social-networking website Facebook.
2.
SIMPLE
PAST TENSE
· Mark
Zuckerberg co-founded the social-networking website Facebook out of his
college dorm room at Harvard University.
· Zuckerberg
was born on May 14, 1984, in White Plains, New York, into a comfortable,
well-educated family.
· Zuckerberg’s
father, Edward Zuckerberg, ran a dental practice attached to the
family's home.
· His
mother, Karen, worked as a psychiatrist before the birth of the couple's
four children — Mark, Randi, Donna and Arielle.
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SENTENTENCE IN GERUND/ TO -INFINITIVE ON THIS ARTICLE
GERUND
·
he
used Atari BASIC to create a messaging program he named "Zucknet.
·
He
also excelled in literature, earning a diploma in classics.
TO
INFINITIVE
·
The
family also used Zucknet to communicate within the house.
·
it was
hard to stay ahead of the prodigy
PERSONAL
PRONOUN
·
They'd
come over, draw stuff, and I'd build a game out of it.
·
I had a bunch of friends who were
artists," he said.
POSSESSIVE
PRONOUN
·
Zuckerberg
left college after his sophomore year to concentrate on the site.
REFLEXIVE
PROUN
·
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