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call putong, the river east side, he belong to that side local people. That man want to ask Du Zong father take him in like become own family,” this quote encapsulates the dialect of Amy Tan’s mother broken English involving incomplete sentences and adverbs misplaced or misused. While on the contrary, creative writing involves storytelling, fiction, figurative and descriptive language. An example is used in the short story “Snow,” by Ann Beattie when stating phrases as, “...You, in the white…

Late Renaissance love poetry, written in a period of increasing secularisation of it subject matter, often contains sexist depictions of women: Robert Herrick is no exception. In his poetry females are often reduced to their physical attributes, or even, in poems like Upon Julia's Clothes, their attire. As a Cavalier poet, Herrick concentrated on the pleasures of the moment and believed that enjoying life was significantly more important than following strict moral codes. This can be seen…

gives readers the opportunity to fill in the blanks themselves and paint her line-art of words with their own emotional colors. In addition to the lack of description, most sentences in the story are simple sentences modified with one or two quick adverbs, and the remaining are more likely than not to be two simple sentences combined with a simple conjunction such as “and” or “but”. Often there are several simple sentences with the same subject, for example on pages 16-17: “ She was never…

GRAMMAR Introduction to Grammar Conventions Conventions can be defined as a series of generally accepted standards for written English. We use these specific conventions so that our writing is more readable and so that our readers can easily discern what we are trying to say. There are four main categories that a convention may fall under: sentence structure, spelling, punctuation, and capitalization. In this chapter you will find information regarding these four conventions, along with…

Billions of people around the world speak English. This language found at large over all the American continent is now spoken across our planet. Non-native speakers have adopted English as the lingua franca to be able to communicate better with each other to facilitate commercial, cultural, or administrative exchanges just to name a few. Many of the countries today that speak the English language are former British colonies, Canada not being an exception to this. Even though it has two official…

problem for me in other academic classes other than English, so learning not to use contractions strengthened my writing and made my final products less bland and more appropriate for college. Also, my English professor had taught me to use alternative adverbs to the word “very” because “very” is quite the overused word. In class, Hamlet also taught me how to use paperrater.com to check our rough and final drafts before submitting them, and she taught me how to use proper MLA and APA formatting…

This book review is published in Teacher’s Weekly, a Western Australian magazine for teachers, to encourage their high school students to read the novel The Book Thief for them to gain an understanding of the importance of words and knowledge. This book review is targeted towards English and History teachers. Markus Zusak is an Australian award-winning author, having written two international bestselling titles, The Book Thief and The Messenger, and is the recipient of the 2006 Printz Honour…

lot of effort and time on it. In addition the groom and the bride are nervous about how the ceremony will be held because everybody prepares for this special day for a long time and spends a lot of effort and time on it. (“Moreover” is a conjunctive adverb which can not stand in the beginning of the sentence in academic writing.) 3. It is common knowledge that wedding dress is the…

commentary to this. He also makes no comment on the half eaten box of chocolates he receives from his father. Because McCourt writes as an observer, readers can put in the pieces with their own thoughts and judgments. He avoids the use of adjectives and adverbs to allow readers to fill in the…

know the social issues because Some of the sentence construction that Davis uses are interrupting modifiers between subject and verb, full sentences as interrupting modifier, Some of the beginning element that Davis uses are prepositional phrases, adverbs, subjects, According to the backstory, the U-boat sank while it was carrying thirteen mysterious barrels (BE10). Page 118 Now, competition organizers explained, those barrels were leaking (BE3). page 118 Lorenzo, left to his own ingenuity,…