Context-free grammar

Living Between Two Worlds Dayton Kwok Introduction As an American born Chinese, I’ve always had to switch between using English and Chinese. This is especially exacerbated since I lived in San Francisco, a city dominated by immigrants hailing from Southern China and Hong Kong. One moment I’m using English to talk to my friends, and the next moment I’m using Cantonese to talk to my family. My native language was English, but I also learned to speak Cantonese around the same time I learned to…

showed the fear and discomfort the Indians had towards their enemies. This excerpt was somewhat the same, but also different to section 2.2. The first reading, 2.2, was quite challenging and irritating. This part of the excerpt was obvious due to the grammar in this section, which was expressed and written different than today's English. Old English and today’s English are very different. This letter was poorly written due to the run-on sentences that rarely had any periods, but did indeed have…

first, take, win, fun, and many more. However, there are a few places where he is confusing vowel patterns, such as in the word shoot, where there are two o’s that make the /oo/ sound, instead of one. There were also a few places where he made some grammar mistakes. My guess is that there would have been less mistakes if I would have done this activity with him about thirty minutes sooner, when his brain wasn’t focused so much on…

MercyCorps is an humanitarian organisation founded in 1979 to help people struggling to get a better life. This text deals with an unfortunately current event such as the situation of Syrian refugees. Being a sensitive issue, and given that this is addressed to any potential person interested in helping, it is important to be careful with the language used, in order to present the ongoing facts and the urgent character of the help needed. Along the text we can find several words describing the…

the homework from last week and were told to mark the corresponding points in our point chart. From there, Carole talked about grammar and what she looks for in a paper. Run on sentences or fragmented sentences are something to avoid. Effect is usually used as a noun and affect is usually used as a verb. I’ll need to take add a grammar section to my notebook for future grammar notes. Then, we were each handed a value sheet and were asked to pick our top ten values. From those ten values we had…

THE MOST ACCEPTABLE AREA OF PERFORMANCE TODAY WAS RATING CATEGORY NUMBER:3 A SPECIFIC INCIDENT WHICH DEMONSTRATES TODAY’S PERFOMARNCE IN THIS AREA IS: N/A THE LEAST ACCEPTABLE AREA OF PERFORMANCE TODAY WAS RATING CATEGORY NUMBER: A SPECIFIC INCIDENT WHICH DEMONSTRATES TODAY’S PERFOMARNCE IN THIS AREA IS: N/A DOCUMENTATION OF PERFORMANCE AND COMMENTS: This shift was Officer Premenko’s first day of phase ## of the learning phase. Officer Premenko was dispatched to the 320 Phillip Drive…

This worker met with Mohamed at justice page middle school. Privacy practice and Tennessen notices were reviewed verbally. The interview was not recorded due to no battery on the recorder. Mohammed stated that he has been struggling at school and wants his classes to change. He stated that he does not like his math and since class. He stated that he requested couple times with his social worker and still waiting. He appeared anxious about the class. This writer reminded Mohammed that the year is…

Watching the video titled, Grammar Revolution did my heart good as it showed me that there are highly educated, dedicated teachers and lovers of the English language unable to agree among themselves how to teach grammar to children. The views of the “Stuffy English” crowd versus the “Practical English” people were quite humorous to watch at times because if they can’t agree then what hope does the average person like me have? With that being said, let’s examine the theme that this video…

Universal Grammar (UG), which stated that the knowledge of grammar was dependent on two components: principles, properties shared by all languages, and the parameters, the way in which these properties vary. Controversies abound with the UG model, but it does explain how all natural languages are similar in some respects and how humans are able to learn their first language as well as other languages. UG simplifies the ideas about learning a second language by claiming that "learning the grammar…

According to Kittler, Rygl and Mackinnon, “the concept of high-/low-context communication was originally introduced in 1959 but elaborated in Beyond Culture (Hall, 1976)”. (2011) High context culture is type of a communication using a contextual element such as voice tone or body languages and most of the content are implicit. High context culture can be seen mostly in Asia or Middle East people. The characteristic of high context cultures includes learning in a group, before starting any…