Grammatical tense

Vocabulary coincide (v)- to occupy the same place in space or time Your track meet will coincide with my soccer game tomorrow since they are scheduled for the same time. taut (adj)- having no give or slack; tightly drawn When he pointed the taut rubber band at me, I knew that it was going to hurt. stifled (adj)- muffled or repressed He tried to say something, but he was stifled from having a lot of popcorn in his mouth. submerge (v)- to go under water The sinking boat slowly submerges into the…

this include: the great warped chest of the hunchback, his hump on his shoulders, and the hunchback's thin and crooked legs. 12c) The change in verb tenses throughout the excerpt holds a very deep meaning because it marks a very important change. This is the establishment of the café. The start of the excerpt first begins with the use of past tense or the…

stories. These techniques make the story interesting to read and make the characters much more relatable. But, the techniques make the stories more complicated and therefore more difficult to read. Both of these stories use multiple point of views, verb tenses, and several other techniques to tell their story. Foremost, Tim O’Brien and Louise Erdrich use multiple point of views to tell their story. Both novels tell some parts in…

Learning to write psychological reports is an essential component of a psychologist’s academic career. Throughout my brief career working in clinics I thought I had completed an adequate amount of clinical writing, and therefore I felt writing psychological reports would not be a difficult task. However, after completing my first report, I quickly realized I was wrong. The process of writing a psychological report is a thorough and complicated task. After writing a total of five reports, I have…

“The Wound-Dresser,” by Walt Whitman, is a gruesome poem that brings his readers face to face with the cruel realities of war. The wound-dresser is about the nurse talking about the fatally injured victims of Civil War and how he had taken care of them. Whitman himself was a nurse in the battle field. This poem allows the readers to see what he saw, and feel what he felt. His main theme that I found is that he used literary techniques to emphasis his writing, showed that nurses also could be…

begins with giving a curious interpretation of the seasons, then with excitedly recounting her posh days of youth, then she describes a memory from her childhood with melancholy nostalgia and signs off with a resignation to boring existence in present tense. The talk of seasons struck me. Spring is creul? Winter keeps you warm? What sort of people think this way about seasons? I had the idea that maybe a corpse would think about seasons like this. The section is called “Burial of the Dead,”…

There is about a hundred-year gap between the two stories, as Kate Chopin’s “The Storm” was written in 1898, though published only in 1969, while Margaret Atwood’s short story “Happy Endings” was created in 1983. In spite of the time and even cultural differences, both stories have much in common, as they are devoted to an eternal theme of human relations, of choices and challenges that men and women make every day of their mutual existence. The thesis comes from the statement that both stories…

significant because it is progressive past tense (l. 1). The tense is used when one is trying to recall an action that has just ended. This gives a wistful feeling to the poem as though one is recalling the past as a possibility for the present even though the past must stay in the past. The tone shifts with the word “but” located in the line, “that you were…but, love, you are” (l. 1). The speaker begins to use “are” moving the line into the present tense so that the speaker is no longer looking…

speaking verbs (past, present, and future. I can use the TEKS to help the students understand about past, future, present tense when referring to where they went for the trip. Before going to the trip, I can focus on helping first graders understand about past, present, and future. We can do interactive activities where we learn to identify how to properly use each of the verb tenses. Furthermost, after coming back from their trip I can ask the students to write a small paragraph of things we…

Throughout this semester I have developed in many ways in my writing and I’ve been able to recognize and learn from my mistakes. There are five major areas that I was graded on with each of my essays. Those five areas are unity, development, coherence, grammar/-spelling/punctuation, and overall. Out of those five areas I had two strengths that was consistent from essay one through essay four, these two strengths are unity and development. Not only did I have strengths but I also have major…