Grammatical tenses

with their parents (Taylor, 2007). However, teenagers and children that do not have a close relationship with their parents tend to hold more distanced and formal conversations. However, the rules of English are rarely observed. Pronunciation, grammatical correctness, and accent are influenced by the culture of the family members. Siblings usually speak slang, a dialect that violates most of the English rules. However, when they speak to the aged, they take a more formal approach and use a more…

arm’) and are able to answer some easy questions. Their listening skills tend to develop faster than their speaking skills. Intermediate students’ writing skills are limited; they can write basic sentences and a few words. At this stage, frequent grammatical and spelling errors are characteristic. Students are able to read and understand simple sentences on topics they are familiar…

of her native English language tones. She denies her authority because her mom won’t approve her English usage. Her mom’s usage of English varies from her English usage. Mom tries to speak English in a simplistic manner, but the author uses grammatical variations and past-present in writing. The author believes that mom wouldn’t understand her novel writing style. The author wants to transition from complicated to simple writing style. 2. “What categories does she divide English into?”…

On the Montana 1948 essay I had grammatical errors such as, sentence fragments, capitalization errors and comma errors. Also I had apostrophe errors and one verb tense error. Throughout the play Mrs. Ann Putnam displays immense jealousy of Rebecca Nurse’s amount of children. In the beginning of the play Mrs. Ann Putnam does not want Rebecca Nurse to asses her only daughter Ruth’s health because she believes she is practicing witch craft. Mrs. Ann Putnam says “I fear her, my babies always…

balance in writing something. This balance helps readers understand what they are reading because they know what to expect and can clearly see the connections between ideas. A sentence is parallel when the items listed in a series share the same grammatical structure Parallelism can be used effectively in parts of sentences, items in a résumé, bulleted lists and headings in a report. How do I make headings parallel? Headings are used to give a title or subtitle to a section of a document.…

STUDENTS’ MORPHOLOGICAL ERRORS IN WRITING RECOUNT TEXT Desy Nur Farida 21602073029 1. Introduction Errors frequently made by students in learning the second/ foreign language. These are very important to be discussed not only by teachers but also by students themselves in order to know the students’ weaknesses so that the teachers can make remedial teachings and the students can learn from their own errors. Among those errors is morphological error. The objectives of this short essay are to…

friends as “you guys,” it is important for me to recognize that in a professional setting Standard American English should be used in order to neutralize a message to an audience. Throughout grade school, I assumed grammar to simply be about proper tense and punctuation. After reading the essay “About This Course,” I realize that grammar’s role in communications is to allow for messages to be read and received clearly. Grammar is not just knowing what a part of speech is, but it is also how…

“Dig a Little Deeper.” For example she says, “You blind to what you need” to Tiana. According to Rckford, This is a grammatical feature AAVE that includes the absence of ‘are’ which is known as zero copula (Rickford 114). This is a correct use of AAVE because the present tense of are or is were omitted. If the context included was and were the sentence wouldn’t follow the grammatical rules of AAVE (Rickford 114-115). According to Rickford, this is what separates AAVE from Standard English. If…

finding the right words to convey my point, organization and a few grammatical weaknesses. My initial thesis statements were weak. In the first graded essay (the Whole Process essay)," What Makes an Expert", my beginning attempt at a thesis statement was "Expertise doesn 't have to include invention or innovation, being an expert means performing one’s tasks with ease when in fact it isn 't." Besides the contractions, the run-on and the tense changes it is not anywhere near strong enough thesis…

In order to improve my claim, I reworded it and changed my argument. In my original paper, my claim was, “In William Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth, the confusion between appearance and reality demonstrates Macbeth's decline from a thoughtful man, to one awash with guilt and insanity, an finally to a naive man.” According to the rubric, claims are “clear”. My claim was not clear because I listed all the ways Macbeth changed. By listing every personality trait, it was hard to decipher what it was…