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…

Peer Review 1: No Name Cognition: I think that your proposition is good and definitely falls within the genre of a justificatory argument. However, I’m not sure that your argument feels like a justificatory argument. This seems to me to be like an explanatory piece overall because you don’t provide much evidence to support your proposition. You explain the background of your argument, but you don’t explain why the debate about Cleopatra’s race has relevance and why it should continue. This is…

Abstract: Zhang Guruo lists few systematic theories on translation; however, he has unique insight into translation. From four aspects his views will be illustrated in this paper: on faithfulness; on idiomaticness; on notes; on readers. On faithfulness, Zhang’s view is that “the content is like the matter and substance while the form like the words and expression. ” He has been in pursuit of idiomaticness for all his life. From the perspective of translation, he advances translating idiomatic…

the outcome has to be close to the original meaning. If the goal of the translation is to understand the culture, it is more useful to comprehend the meaning. The translation must take into account constraints that include context, the rules of grammar of the two languages, their writing conventions, and their idioms. A common misconception is that there exists an exact simple correspondence between any two…

Grammar is used in many ways such as to communicating and writing. As soon as we start speaking we are using grammar because we are pronouncing words and eventually we will put them with other words to form a sentence. Grammar has played an important role in my life. When it comes to writing and speaking it’s been a long journey for me. I have a hard time comprehending things due to a learning disability, so reading and writing was not easy. It takes patients and practice for me to understand…

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…

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…

The word text is used in linguistics to refer to any passage, spoken or written, of whatever length, that does from a unified whole. To make a coherent text, it must contain cohesive ties. A text has texture, and this is what distinguishes it from something that is not a text. (Halliday and Hassan, 1976, p.1-2). Cohesion is found on many types of discourse (Tanskanen, 2006, p.2). According to Halliday and Hassan(1976) the concept of cohesion is A semantic one; it…

K. (2002). Most students are facing a;ot of problems in aspects of, having poor grammar or pronunciation, lack of confidence, vocabularies, and strategies. Rubin&Thompson (1982) stated that a great influencing factors of successful language learning are positive traits , age, and effective strategies. For achieving a good communication…

positive qualities: evidence from each module included and outside information presented. Therefore, discussion posts I have presented include both negatives and positives that improve over time in my writing. First, I will apologize for my horrible grammar and plethora of “throughout history..” statements that I often used near the beginning of the course. I take pride in my decent ability to write, but I do not always own up to my inability to proofread. Therefore, I will begin discussing…