English phrases

My wife and I, like most other people living in America, received a knock on our door by some Jehovah’s Witnesses. They had their material at “the ready” and started, as they often do, asking us about “paradise earth”. I invited them into our home. At the end of the discussion, we arranged a time for a follow-up visit. On their second visit, my wife and I were prepared with coffee (yes, they do drink coffee) and snacks. I also had some time to brush up on Jehovah’s Witnesses’ beliefs. The…

nouns, adverbs, adjectives, and verbs were: *A NOUN is word, phrase, or clause that names a person, place, thing, or idea. Taco Bell, computer, London, and Sarah are nouns. *A VERB is an action word. Walk, talk, and eat are examples of verb. *An ADJECTIVE is a word, phrase, or clause that specifies, limits, or modifies nouns or pronouns. Pretty, beautiful, green, hard, and lucky are examples of adjectives. *An ADVERB is a word, phrase, or clause that modifies a verb, adjective, or another adverb…

are some words and phrases that do blend in today’s society to create the dialects that are more flexible, humor, and wisdom of the people speaking it. Syntactically, the word’s orders and idioms are sounded more humor and longer comparing to other dialects. Speaking of phonology, some words are written in SAE, but the phonics is slightly different. In the area of lexicons, the same words could be written in completely different patterns. Finally, the variation of such phrases…

there are many reasons as listed by Trudgill & Hannah 2008: first, new objects and experiences were encountered in North America which needed naming, either by adapting EngEng vocabulary or by creating new words: e.g. Corn is the general English term for grain and denotes the most common grain crop, which is wheat in England but maize in North America; the word Robin denotes a small, red- breasted warbler in England but a large, red-breasted thrush in North America. Second: Technological…

present. 2. Syntax, continued: In paper 2, it was hypothesized that in Jordanian Arabic the basic word order is identical to that of English and accordingly the differences observed between the order of English and Arabic sentences could be attributed to differences in the movement of constituents…

pragmatic rules, that are used in order to communicate and receive a message. Phonological rules control how words sound when spoken. We often don’t even realize when we are using this rule because we are so accustomed to our native languages. In the English language we have a multitude of words that are spelled the same but that are pronounced in multiple ways. For example, the word lead can be pronounced as “led” or by emphasizing the e in “lead,” to make it sound like “leed.” Another rule…

them there is a time when the fear will dissipate and the healing will start. Moreover, because alliteration makes phrases more appealing to the ears, the lines are easier to remember. The repetition of "weep no more," not only in the same line, but once again in lines 182-183, "Now, Lycidas, the shepherds weep no more;/Henceforth thou art the genius of the shore" further drives this phrase into readers' memories (2. 165/182-183). It is not the intense symbolism for death that Milton both…

A sudden Nostalgia in a Yoga class. We, human beings, tend to build intimate and emotional connections towards various things we encounter or have and places that we visit. If, ever, our relationships with these things or places come to an end; we may well mourn their absence or go through an experience of remembrance. This emotional an existential remembrance could include the past; our past experiences, incidents we got through, actions, places we have been to and people we met. Despite the…

The Bhagavad-Gita is a rather small section in the overall massive text of the Mahabharata. However, the size of this passage had no effect on its ability to influence. The likes of Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Annie Besant, and Mohandas K. Gandhi were all inspired or influenced by this text. The Bhagavad-Gita wouldn’t be the inspiring text is it today if it hadn’t been influenced by many other religious texts that came before it. The Bhagavad-Gita takes ideas from other religious…

oga originated in India and has the purpose of stimulating both spiritual growth, mental wellbeing and physical health. Yoga contains many exercise programs, of which physical exercises, or hathayoga, is one. In the following the basic principles of hathayoga are outlined. An important part of physical yoga is the breathing exercises, or pranayama. This part is in many ways the most fundamental, because the basic type of breathing is also a part of the yoga postures - the asanas. The postures…