Grammatical tense

Writing is a recursive process that takes time and effort on my part. It means writing your first draft, checking it for grammatical errors, quotations, citations, and punctuation. The second draft is cleaner than the first but often isn 't the final draft. I usually set my second draft sit for a day or so then take another look at it with a fresher eye. Now I have a good working draft; I usually ask a peer to either listen to it or read it over themselves. Working with a peer allows me to…

Learning, to me, is simply the acquisition of skills that add value to one’s life, be it from the streets, in a classroom or even in the market. It is the one process that people do on a daily basis, and depending on how one looks at it, there can be diverse approaches to learning. Some of these approaches are based on the different experiences of the different people. Thus, because people approach learning in different ways, there is bound to be differences in the way people define effective…

Albert Camus wrote The Stranger during the Existentialist movement, which explains why the main character in the novel, Meursault, is characterized as detached and emotionless, two of the aspects of existentialism. In Meursault, Camus creates a character he intends his readers to relate to, because he creates characters placed in realistic situations. He wants the reader to form a changing, ambiguous opinion of Meursault. From what Meursault narrates to the reader in the novel, the reader can…

degree familiar with Arabic, and therefore influenced by how language works. The formal Arabic language is knows as Al-Fusha or Classical Arabic, which is the language used in the Quran and is considered as the foundation of the syntactic and grammatical norms of Arabic. Al-Fusha remains widely used by scholars, poets and taught in schools. Today, it’s considered more of a written language…

In Amy Tan’s essay, Mother Tongue, Tan discusses her struggles growing up as an Asian-American born to Chinese immigrants. She examines certain aspects of the language she speaks and writes, against the language her mother speaks and writes. Amy has a keen grip on “proper” English, most likely due to her being raised in America. Alternatively, Tan’s mother speaks in fragments of English due to her being an immigrant who fled China’s Cultural Revolution (Amy, 1990). Tan realises her different…

story. This however, is not used very often as it tends to not flow well in narration. Simultaneous narrating is was not common in conventional narrating in Genette’s time. It refers to discussing the plot, for example, as it is told in the present tense. It is usually limited to certain genres of…

be complicated to create some effect at different points of a story. Grammar is crucial in the language of any book. In grammar, several issues are taken into consideration and create many effects in the book. Tenses produce an effect on the reader. The novel has is presented in past tense. There are…

Outline 1-Intoduction: A: African American Vernacular English definition. B: Origins. C: Societies’ opinion. 2-Body Paragraph 1: A: Some sided with AAVE B: AAVE is a rule-governed and systematic language. C: Examples that serve as proof. 3-Body Paragraph 2: A: AAVE’s effect on its speakers. B: AAVE speakers face difficulties in professional settings. C: AAVE speakers manage to switch from dialect to another in order to blend in. 4-Body Paragraph 3: A: Linguists suggest the use of…

A contrastive analysis of requests in English and Vietnamese In process of communication in a community, request is one of the most important speech acts. In fact, it is used a lot in all aspects of life such as social interaction, working, studying, language teaching, etc. Especially, when teaching and studying language, many Vietnamese teachers and students find difficulty in understanding the similarities and differences between requests in English and Vietnamese. They can not…

Introduction It is predicted that successful language learners have the ability of tolerance and adaptation to unknown factors and vague segments of a new language. One of the most important learning styles is ambiguity tolerance (AT) which is defined as "the degree to which you are cognitively willing to tolerate ideas and propositions that run counter to your own belief system or structure of knowledge" (Brown, 2000: 119). As Ely (1989) states, language learning is full of uncertainty and…