Grammatical tense

changes when –ing and –ed are placed. To monitor Carmen’s understanding of present and past tense verbs by having Carmen read sentences that have words with –ing or –ed verbs. Then, having Carmen point out the verb and the type of ending they have. Carmen will be given the opportunity to explain if the verb is present or past tense. Monitoring how Carmen is able reads sentences with past and present tense words will allow me to see if she continues to ignore the ending of verbs when adding –ing…

I came to the US when I was 11. I started my ELL class while I was in elementary school. The class was hard, because ei was shy, new to the culture and above all I was the minority. However the instructor embraced the moment. She made me want to learn. The methods she used to taught me English vocabulary was unique. She had different methods of teaching such as presentations, movies, songs games, puzzles. One day we even went to the zoo and she taught us I enjoyed the class. The Ell class in…

In the story Everything Stuck to Him by Raymond Carver, the author makes many choices when it comes to the framework of the story. Within the single story, Carver expertly creates an inner plot and an outer plot which can be defined as a frame story. Despite having two plots, they both combine to show past actions that relate to present outcomes. This combination is a representation of how his relationship with his wife ended badly and how it played out when looking back on it. The choices…

The past is the past for a reason. That is where it is supposed to stay. Although many are unable to let go of it, and it eats them away over time. Has it changed their personality? The great traumatic event has negative effects towards the family's wellbeing. The impact was greatly dealt with the lady of the Brennan family. Tom's mother has not been able to forget the accident and move on. It is impossible to change what has already happened, therefore the individual must move on in order to…

Although the father tries, his family does not notice the struggle he made, shown in line four when “No one ever thanked him.” The past tense of the poem shows that a regretful realization of ingratitude toward the father has dawned on the speaker, who now realizes through the memories of his father that the man’s actions were warm and appreciative. The speaker now realizes that his father…

the literal and then the figurative tense have on the poem? The interesting thing about this poem is the perspective it’s written from. The poem starts with an observation about a spider that appears to be a well suited for its surroundings, “A noiseless patient spider, / I mark’d where on a little promontory…

The Language of Time: An Analysis of Stephen Harper’s “Statement of Apology to Former Students of Indian Residential Schools” The Indian Residential School system was, as former Prime Minister Stephen Harper describes, “a sad chapter in [Canada’s] history” (1). The Indian Act of 1876 essentially passed guardianship of Aboriginal children to the Government of Canada, causing the education of these children to be the responsibility of the government. These Indian Residential Schools were created…

Among these individuals, approximately 3,590,000, including the subject of my interviews, live in Jordan. The remaining speakers reside mainly in Israel and Palestine. The Jordanian dialect differs from Standard Arabic in only special cases such as grammatical alterations in the use of pronouns and articles, drawing the majority of its lexical influences from French and Turkish. So far as its transcription into text, Jordanian Arabic utilizes the Standard…

one who gets her heart broken not in this movie. Tom was the one who feelings were crushed. Rachel his little sister is the one giving him sound advice about how to deal with the relationship and moving one. The move starts off like in the present tense and rewind to the past to explain everything. Mckenzie and Paul his best friend tries their best to give advice about something they have never experienced. Mckenzie gives off this desperate feel and has never been in a serious relationship. Paul…

In Toni Morrison’s “Recitatif,” Twyla Benson retells the story of her time in St. Bonaventure shelter and encounters with Roberta Frisk, but they remember different things each time they reminisce on the past. Twyla finds herself evaluating what really happened in her life, shifting ideas based on her own memories and what Roberta thinks. Her thoughts are ultimately distorted, raising questions on what is actually true. Twyla, as the narrator, tells the story with her own bias, making it…