Catch phrase

Phrases such as “however cultivated,”(84) [E: quote] and “I acquiesced in the reservation,”(70-71)[E: quote] make the writer sound highly educated. This almost pushes the audience into fall into the depths of his language like divers swimming deep in the ocean. [D: Simile] In the same way, the phrase “The general principle is entirely clear. There is no great difficulty in carrying it out in its detail”(28-30)…

Introduction This paper presents a sentence to analyze how constituents function and the four test that can be used to prove the constituent. Linguist consider a constituent to be a structural unit made of a word or words that create the sentence and other phrases as well. In (1) the sentence that is analyzed and the constituents that are going to be tested are presented. Branches are used to show the boundaries that form the constituents. 1. Sentence and Constituents a. He might have been…

wants to show her audience what the stanzas are saying that Frost make the readers avoid the hidden meaning. She sees some phrases in the poem “equally laid” and “just as fair” are the same. Frost may have used unnecessary phrase in his poem to give it a smooth transition or to make the poem sound more soothing. The source from Christina have proven that some of the phrases in his poem are unnecessary and readers misinterpret him as a professional…

Banished words are words or phrases that can be misinterpreted, misused, overused, or otherwise deemed useless. Every year Lake Superior States University releases a list of banished words. These words come from a variety of sources across the entire country. These banished word nominations are sent in and a committee makes their decision of which words make the cut before the end of each year. Inspired by words on the Banished Word List, our team was tasked to come up with 10 words which we…

After finishing my first semester of English, I can say that I have improved immensely as a writer. Coming into the class, I was not very confident in my abilities as a writer. I did not think my word choice was above average, I thought my sentence structure was something that could be qualified as trash, and I felt like I could not address my audience in any way. However, after this first semester, I feel that everything has changed. Through evaluating my own work this semester, I have been…

adjectives, or finishers, for example: The black owl has hooked beaks. Miss Krag is promoting the use of uncommon vocabulary words. A more complete sentence is “the true owl has tufts on its head,” or “the owls have soft feathers and sharp talons to catch their pray. This activity is all about challenging children to think, and to communicate using English grammar correct. After finishing the sentence, they are analyzing all the grammar pieces. Then they need to sit at their desks and write the…

past times together, as it was, the feeling of comfort leads to more than talking between them. Little did she know that by opening her house for shelter from a storm of nature, Calixta, opened herself for a storm of passion. Chopin, uses imagery, phrases, and…

Participant and Setting The participant was a six-year-old, first grade female named Mary. Mary did not have any diagnosed disabilities. She attended a private school Monday thru Friday for an average of 35 hours per week. While at school, Mary participated in an in-school tutoring program for students identified by their teacher as struggling readers. The in-school tutoring occurred twice a week for one hour each day. In addition, Mary’s parents paid for her to go to private tutoring for…

Cliché is a word or sentence which is overused. For example, back in sec., meaning I will be back in short period of the time. If we think about this example, would you rather use back in sec., in business conversation, or I will be back in short period of the time? I think the answer is obvious, because business conversation should be based on professionally selected words. This kind of cliché is also a lie, because in all cases, it’s impossible to be back from anywhere in just one second. I…

The situation starts off with a letter being sent to Seaver an executive of Grove Press whom Coca-Cola is trying to make Grove Press get rid of their slogan since Coca-Cola sees that it is similar to their slogan "It's the real thing" and also the slogan belongs to Coca-Cola. The next letter is Seaver's response to Herbert's letter to which he sarcastically disagrees with and is satirical throughout his letter in the means of mocking Herbert for the statements made in his letter. In the end,…