Grammatical tenses

are what build up to the climax of the story, which is a flashback it itself. The flashback, which is the climax, of Doree finding that Lloyd killed their children, remains one of the most powerful scenes in the story though it is written in past tense. The reader can still feel the immediacy of events and what Doree…

Raymond Caver’s “Call If You Need Me” told the story of Dan and his wife Nancy trying to revive their relationship after they have both been involved with other people. The prominent imagery from Dan’s narration allowed the reader to understand the complex emotional state of the couple. This point of view allowed the reader to see how Dan judged Nancy actions’, as well as his own, before the initial timeframe of the story as well as throughout the story. Access to Dan’s thoughts informed the…

raped her, trying to get him killed. Yet, she doesn’t know about the problems that can erupt from having an innocent man killed. The tone of both the book and the song is tense. You feel tense and a bit excited in the song when the speaker is talking about the problems he faces when he gets to his girlfriend. In the book, it is tense because you find out Mayella’s real reason for going to court. This happened in chapter…

I found Jodi Picoult’s novel, “My Sister Keeper”, to be an emotional and inspirational story. Anna Fitzgerald was created as a designer baby to be a donor for her sister Kate who was diagnosed with Leukemia. “They had me so I could save Kate. I wouldn’t be alive if Kate wasn’t sick”. When Anna turns 13, she decides that she has had enough and sues her parents for the right to her own body. This novel describes the pain and damage the arrangement caused their family and teaches the audience about…

Identities of Tender Buttons and Life Breaks In Have you ever gotten so used to seeing the same everyday objects that you barely notice them anymore? Haven’t you been having terrible mood swings over that? Both Gertrude Stein and Mary Cappello in their books dissolve the tediousness of both everyday-use and everyday-felt elements and objects in a very exceptional way. Personally, I believe that Stein uses very common and simple adjectives in expressing certain objects, food, and rooms. She…

W.V.O. Quine argues for the point of view that time is a dimension similar to space. He considers time from the position of language. The way we talk about time is very biased towards certain ways of thinking about it. He writes, “Relations of date are exalted grammatically as relations of position, weight, and color are not.”1 Grammar requires verbs to be tensed, but Quine thinks this to be complicating matters unnecessarily. Additionally, he finds that it is demanding “lip service to time even…

however, he did use some regular past tense, irregular past tense, and third-person singular verbs. In the speech sample, Arlo had an MLU of 5.84, which is higher than what is expected at this age. Arlo used utterances that ranged from 1 morpheme to 15 morphemes during the play session. Arlo used many utterances of different lengths, but he did not use many grammatical morphemes. For example, Arlo mainly talked about current things and did not use many of the tense marking…

For the historical present, temporality still has an important part to play given that in a narrative discourse, no foregrounding or highlighting of importance is possible without the contrasting use of the past tenses in the background. As for the usage in personal, lively oral narration, temporality becomes secondary to the speaker’s perceived personal distance (or closeness) to the temporal situation, the latter of which is a pragmatic consideration rather than…

This is a quotation taken from Katherine Mansfield’s short story ‘’The Voyage’’. The story is about a young girl called Fenella, after the death of her mother she went with her grandmother to move in her Grandparent’s house in Picton, which is inspired from Mansfield’s personal life when she had to move out from her home in Wellington, New Zealand to London, England. Mansfield uses imageries, metaphors, and the setting to convey the two main ideas of darkness and light and the transformation of…

California dreaming can be so much better than California living; at least that’s what I feel sometimes after taking my gap year. This statement I believe is not only applicable to my gap year, but also my experience as a whole. Acknowledging the great presence of collegen in my face and the silky blonde undyed locks on my head, I realize that I have not gone through an immense amount of “life”, but I still know that my experience on this Earth has taught me a couple of things that make me the…