Adjective

“ The English Language Teacher’s Secret” by Catherine Lim is a story focuses on Miss Ponniah who had been deeply in love once, during her twenties and still in the state of excitement towards her memorable love story between her and Dr. Chellam. Throughout the whole story, Catherine Lim employs various stylistics devices. For the three paragraphs of the excerpt which I have chosen, the sentence structure is not complex but these sentences are long with segmented and the frequent usage of…

When a person loses their vision, they are generally considered blind. Merriam Webster defines the noun blind as merely someone who is unable to see. However, when used as an adjective it means lacking awareness or perception. While it is true that blindness means unable to see, it doesn’t have to mean that you lack awareness. To compensate for one sense underperforming, or not in use, the other senses tend to pick up some of the…

Twenties due to the defiant and exuberant character of the country. Proceeding the end of World War 1 in 1918, the United States was working to recover from the damage it sustained and striving to become a large and prosperous nation once again. The adjective fruitful best describes the 1920’s because the time period brought forth the flapper movement, the birth of the jazz era, and the increase of the automobile industry. Flappers were fashionable women dancers of the 1920’s who conveyed…

This story was cute; I remember reading this story when I was in elementary school. The story talked about a girl named Rachel who is turning 11 that day. Rachel is the narrator of the tale. She talks about turning 11; even so, she understood that turning 11 is no difference between ages 1-10. She realized that birthdays do not represent any emotional growth. Rachel was waiting for a certain feeling to come over when she turned 11, however, when she woke up she felt like ten instead of…

I chose to research the word “fair” taken from line 2 of Sonnet 106. I chose this word because I knew there would be some changes in usage and meaning over time. In modern speech, the word “fair” has several meanings. The most common definition used in modern speech is equal, just or reasonable (def. 18b). If something is fair, then all parties are treated equally and nobody is unhappy with the result (def. 18b). Another common modern usage is in grading items. Something that is in fair…

symbolizes suffering. Even without knowing the backstory of the narrator, the reader can tell that he has experienced loss and suffering. The setting of walking through the night symbolizes the dark life the narrator is walking through. Frost uses many adjectives throughout the poem to help show the feeling of darkness and despair. As the narrator walks through life, he feels as if everything around is also feeling his sadness, “I have looked down the saddest city lane”. The use of…

The use of these adjectives emphasises the nature of the championships creating a real sense of competition between the gymnasts. This also gives people who may not have watched gymnastics before a good measure by which to compare they gymnasts without having to rely on the…

Analysis 4.1 Analysis The initial interpretation of the poem comes about significantly as a result of looking at the words used by the poet, particularly about their interconnection and the deviant grammatical and graphological elements. Analysis of lexical features is therefore, a better point to start with a detailed linguistic analysis. This in turn, contributes to the effects of overall meaning that the poem carries. 4.1.1 Lexical level At lexical level we see the lexical choose many single…

writing) Antigone is referred to frequently throughout the text in the masculine gender and adjectives. In “Masculine and Feminine Roles in Tragedy” Sarah B. Pomeroy believes this adjective placement to be an intentional change which Sophocles meant to make the suggestion that Antigone in her actions was leaving behind her feminine qualities. Antigone even goes so far as to address herself with the male adjectives. The reader can also note that it seems Antigone’s “male” behavior and…

English articles than that of NS. Furthermore, in the learner’s corpus the production rate is higher in noun phrases (NPs) bearing no preceding noun or following modifiers than NPs having a preceding noun or following modifiers (articles + (adverbs) + adjectives + noun) 1. Introduction…