Context-free grammar

“Dinner Dandruff” by Robert Fulghum is a humorous essay. It is about the gross responsibilities people take on when they grow up. The style of this text is funny and light hearted. To determine the style of a text identify the author's use of diction, syntax, and imagery. Throughout this essay, there are many examples of these elements of writing. Diction is the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing. The author has a formal tone in his writing. For example…

The English language is my secondary language. For that reason, I have had to try harder not only during the course of my Freshman Composition class, but in general during the most of my academic career. In other words, I have had to put more time and effort than typical in order to catch up, but I should say I have always loved it. That being said, I believe that, so far, I have done a pretty good job, obviously not in writing perfect and err less papers, but in setting foot in the right path…

This hypothesis goes against linguist such as juuva – mentioned in the first section of this essay – who believe that inflection and derivation are the same process as it states that inflection and derivation belong to separate components of the grammar. Not only is this hypothesis stating the idea that derivation and inflection are in fact distinct, but also that they should be handled with different rules – derivation with lexical rules and regular inflection with syntactic rules this theory…

grammatical construction is agreeable with verbs whose context explains in one way or the other the constructional meaning (2008). As shown earlier, verbs used in a sentence structure can take different forms for example descriptive, expository, expressive or argumentative forms. The manner in which it is relayed by the author always means that the reader will have to find his or her own meaning as relates to the usage of the verb in whatever context. Hence, semantic structures make construction…

In the writing “I Won’t Hire People Who Use Poor Grammar”, Wiens compares the nuances of writing code to that of using Grammar, “good writing…programming, the devil is in the details.” (Wiens 104), in that the details make up a larger esthetical component of the writing than it would otherwise make up. This means that a grammar mistake (i.e. to instead of two) accounts for a significant portion of how the writing will be seen. If it is grammatically okay, then the meaning and purpose of the…

Vocab term used: Sentence used in Incite I incite you to sit next to Menna. Cathartic (Catharsis) Hey guys, I was wondering If I could read it's kind of cathartic for me. Aloof You Savannah have been very aloof. Belligerent You Menna have been very belligerent. Scapegoat Menna you are using Savannah as your scapegoat. Amicable You need to start being more amicable. Conundrum What is the conundrum in here? Comrades (Camaraderie) Menna and I have become comrades over the course of this week…

Argumentative Essay on Grammar I believe grammar should be emphasized in the school district. So that when the children at that school have a better chance of getting through college and getting a job. Some jobs make it to where you have to have good grammar to get the job. As well as colleges if you don’t have good grammar in college it would make you look bad. In the article “I Won’t Hire People Who Use Poor Grammar. Here’s Why”, two people have different perspectives on the issue. Lynne…

and feelings to others.The fact that we process language does not always mean that we are communicating well and in a proper manner. Within language there are four key elements: Sounds, words, grammar, and meaning. As a person who speaks multiple foreign languages I have noticed that the element of grammar…

(NNS) English. The difficulty of English article production attributes to the low production rate of English articles in NNS writings, as compared to that of native speakers of English (NS). This study investigates and analyzes how L2 learners’ L1 grammar has influences on the article production rate and the syntactic patterns associated with it. A qualitative and quantitative study based on corpus linguistics analysis revealed that a corpus of NNS students’ academic writings shows significantly…

What’s in This Toothpaste is a formal essay and it is an informational essay. This essay has an explicit thesis which is “What’s in this toothpaste” (Bodanis, 10) and the urgency of toothpaste consumers to know what is in their toothpaste. In this essay the author writes about the ingredients that make up toothpaste. An effective example of diction is the very well use of scientific phrases. The author uses scientific phrases such as “a large helping of gummy molecules from seaweed Chondrus…