Grammar

about someone that is wrong and can cause a lot of misunderstanding. This will also help to eliminate judgements, not only when speaking but also when thinking. Some would disagree in saying inclusive speech is a form of prescriptive grammar. Prescriptive grammar is when one group of people tells another what proper speech is. By doing so, they are not promoting the goals of a liberal arts education because they are telling someone how to speak. If people are being told how to speak…

essays and composed them into a portfolio. By displaying how I improved on developing a thesis, corrected my grammar and mechanics, identified my writing strengths and weaknesses, and changed my attitude towards writing, my final portfolio confirms that I have met the ENG 111 goals exceptionally well. Throughout the course I have improved upon two main criteria on the rubric: the thesis and grammar standards. With my first essay, “Writing Personality…

podcast is “Cogenosijia”, which means commaf**kers, people who always point out others’ grammar mistakes in a proud manner. Because English is constantly changing and evolving, the grammar rules could be out date due to personal using-variation. Many English words were made up, and even the people with the best of English language like Mark Twin, “do not care about grammar rules, so that behaviors of grammar Nazi are seems ridiculous. English borrowed words from other languages to maintain…

writing I have a few of struggles that one day I wish I could improve on. The three writing areas I struggle with the most are sentence fluency, grammatical errors, and word choice. To make my writing better I will continue revise and edit my papers. Grammar is something that you need to repeatedly practice and I believe that should help with fixing grammatical errors. To…

the idea and showed that, although, it may be possible for grammatical encoding to be used in control structures that have no lexical content, most syntactic structures are lexically anchored. To help explain grammar encoding, Tree-Adjoining Grammar (TAG), shows that the objects of the grammar are small trees, which include a word or lexical head. When discussing the second issue of grammatical encoding being automatic or resource-demanding, the article cites a finding from Ford (1982) – which…

20 minutes is plenty to explain a simple grammar rule with a little practice. For writing problem, however, the time is never enough. The tutor are not allowed to help more than the allocated time to allow the students to work on their writing by themselves. What the tutor do is to look closely…

“Language variation means that a given language like English is not one uniform and homogeneous system, but that it contains many, slightly or strongly diverging subsystems or varieties.” (Dirven 2004: 204) In order to understand the term variety different concepts must be defined. This essay discusses the differences and similarities of the concepts of accent and dialect. While the first part of this essay deals with the term accent, the second part deals with its contrast term, the dialect.…

structure, and how use of punctuation allows for sentences to be grammatically correct. One aspect of the grammar lesson that positively affected my writing was the use of a comma after an introductory phrase. The example from my ED three is this sentence: “In my experience, Pinterest is a good way…” The were a few cases in my ED three that I corrected the lack of such comma. The second grammar tool that I used to better my writing was the semicolons and colons. I have used semicolons before,…

important skill you need to practice law is the ability to write in an organized and grammatically correct way. “In order to succeed in this Program you must have strong communication skills. This means that you speak and write correctly using correct grammar and punctuation.” Writing is important in the field of law because without the ability to write, you are out of a job. Chances are, if you can’t write well, you won’t be able to present anything in an organized way. Clients aren’t going to…

(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…