Grammatical mood

Reading and writing is a way that people can express themselves in a unique way. Reading and writing has been a popular hobby for people over a course of many years and a source of great entertainment. People write stories as a way of entertaining themselves and some sell these writings and end up making great profit from it. Some writers create beautiful poems and share their feelings through these poems to different audiences. There are many people that write because they can put their…

For most people, the first day of work can be quiet a catastrophe. In fact, standing in a new office can be reminiscent of the first day of kindergarten waiting at the front gate with our hands glued to our mom’s hands unable to let go and take another step. At least during those days, we had teachers to depend on and to show us around the school. In a new office, however, everyone is pre-occupied with work so more often than not, a piece of paper is the only source of guideline to turn to in…

means]” when he proclaims that he wishes Allie were not in the cemetery. Unconventional for a formal work of writing, Salinger strengthens his already emotionally-charged literature with punctuation and sentence structures reflecting not conventional grammatical structure, but rather the true rhetoric of Holden…

Existential Ideas of Two Distant Eras Ever since the creation of the universe and life, humans and other intelligent beings have questioned their existence. Forms of art such as music, paintings, and literature attempt to provide answers to and comfort in the presence of life’s toughest questions. Plato’s “The Allegory of the Cave” written circa 380 B.C.E. provides an early insight into the meanings of life for different individuals’ lives using existential principles much later defined by…

To listen to a piece of music does not necessarily mean that you have understood the ideas and/or emotions musicians and composers are trying to convey. Through this class, you have not only taught me how to describe music, and Its effects but how our own individual experiences influence how we interpret, and react to music. When first I began taking music classes in high school, I was not taught how to listen to music correctly and how to describe how it affected me. I would often find myself…

Human beings constantly strive for comfort, whether that comes in the form of money, love, groups of people, temperature or a certain place. And while stepping outside of your comfort zone is important and necessary in life, sometimes you need to be in your own safe space to be able to relax, open up and be productive. Although Emily Dickinson actively removed herself from society and didn’t travel to gain inspiration like other authors, she did spend time immersing her mind in her subject…

makes any findings in linguistics unreliable (Zimmer, 2013). Other linguists criticize the dataset itself, claiming that the optical character recognition scanner makes many mistakes; and the different ways of spelling a word, capitalization and grammatical inflection makes the data ‘noisy’. Lastly, some of the linguists in Zimmer’s article say that many of the findings are nothing new, and have been known concepts in the linguistic discipline for a long…

Cocaine is a substance that has been around for many years and still remains highly abused today. Cocaine is the psychoactive agent found in coca plants. Coca is one of the first, most compelling and most dangerous drugs of natural origin. It is used medically as an anesthetic and as an illegal drug. During the 1980’s cocaine use was at its finest. It was the preferred drug of use for the wealthy and acclaimed and was part of what some called a captivating life the “Champagne of Drugs”.…

On different types of English ambiguity 摘要：Linguistic is the scientific study of language, which studies not just one language of any one community, but the language of all human beings. English ambiguity exists in our life and may directly lead to the wrong understanding and communication when it occurs. We classify categories of them based on the different parts. In English, we usually confront with ambiguous sentence, that is to say we can understand in two ways or more ways. We make a brief…

(“School was finished”, “loads of people were flying away for the holiday” and “the heating had switched on automatically”). The story tells the reader about the loneliness of the girl growing up through describing Karen’s family circumstances, her mood and reflection on life. The abstract contains three types of discourse: description, narrative and interior monologue. However, we more often face mixed types than pure samples of a particular discourse…