English personal pronouns

Analysis of Syntactic Rules Every language has many syntactic rules that govern how sentences should be formed. These syntactic rules not only help speakers of that language consistently generate grammatical sentences in their mind, they also allow them to identify those that are ungrammatical. However, not every speaker is consciously aware of all the syntactic rules he or she follows. Sometimes speakers learn these rules subconsciously as they gain experience in using their language. They…

Words can be very manipulative and persuasive, if used right, they can be used to get people to feel different emotions and make people do things. But also, they can be used to make people do things that they might not have ever done without hearing that speaker say what they said to them. Rhetorical and literary devices are included when people are trying to persuade and manipulate people to more effectively change peoples minds. In certain situations, this can lead to really bad endings and…

American Standard English should adopt they as a third person epicene pronoun, also coined a gender neutral, gender-fair, or common-gender pronoun (Adami 281, Baranoski 379). Generic he has persisted since the 1850 Act of Parliament that declared it so, but is he truly generic (Zuber and Reed 519)? The use of he is sexist, excluding females and people who do not fall neatly within the male-female gender binary (Strahan 17). English also lacks a third person pronoun for instances when a person’s…

After comparing the descriptions between the “allmylife” items and the eBay items there was a noticeable difference between how each was described. After I reviewed a few items on the “All My Life” sales list and selected the “Fine Green Shirt” item to compare to eBay sale items. The descriptions that I found on eBay were a combination of both subjective and objective due to the fact that the author of the auction provided facts about the material the shirt was made out of, which was stated as…

Weston has always aimed to make the common place unusual through his work, and he has always been renowned for achieving this mastery of the arts. He has taken everyday objects and reinvented them into complex, seemingly abstract works of art without any darkroom manipulation or editing. He is only more so beloved because of his natural and raw talent for this type of work. Because of his clean-cut processes and keen eye for the basic being extraordinary, he created a wonderful and mysterious…

it is the most widely spoken constructed language in the world. Comparing Esperanto to English, we can see the similarities or differences between the alphabets, vowels, pronouns and word order. Esperanto is invented because it brings tolerance and respect for people of diverse nations and cultures. About 70% of Esperanto vocabulary comes from Romance languages, about 20% from Germanic languages and English and some part from Slavic languages. “Esperanto is a neutral language, extraordinarily…

Structure of the Poem The poem consists of twenty-six lines divided into two stanzas: first seven lines, second, nineteen lines. Line 6-7 are two questions that mark the first volta. In line 26, the last, is found the second volta or turning point. (English sonnet). It is also told in the first person singular where the speaker of the poem and main character are the same. Additionally, there are other unnamed individuals, who are more than one, but the speaker does not they how many. Thus, for…

about three years into high school, a thought lingered around; who am I? It started when Rebecca (Randy) came into one’s life. They were born biologically a female yet identifies as gender fluid, thus having two names and having to use gender-neutral pronouns (they/them). Gender fluid is “referring to a gender identity that changes with time and/or situation as opposed to a fixed sex-role or gender queer expression.” (Winter, Claire R. 2010) In other words, being a gender fluid individual can be…

Clichés are phrases and words which have been used so frequently that they’re powerful or no longer really interesting. They may have started out as a colorful, imaginative phrase, enjoy as sick as a parrot, but they’ve been picked up and used indiscriminately and broadly that they’ve lost their impact and become cold. Clichés are part of our regular language – we regularly don’t understand that we’re using them. Additionally, they appear particularly often in specific kinds of writing…

Gender, the behavior and thoughts surrounding people of different sexes, and sexuality, the range of behaviors, desires, and beliefs related to erotic physical contact, were a reoccurring theme within the film, Viva!. Set in a Cuban town, the film follows Jesús, a young male aspiring to be a Drag Queen, through his journey to obtain a spot on the stage. Through the trials and tribulations of his journey, each interaction with the other characters and events that happened, illuminate a…