Grammatical tenses

omitting verb tense and agreement and gender reversal (Hogan, Bridges, Wymer & Volk, as cited in Chabon & Cohn, 2010). Judging from her age, Tessa should be in Brown’s stage V+ and should be able to use past tense “be” auxiliary and main verbs, and show infrequent use of the present progressive tense. She presents at stage Late IV/Early V where the regular past tense first emerges (Justice & Ezell, 2008). Due to her Late IV/Early V stage presentation and her lack of appropriate use of verb…

essay, using words correctly, and having a lot of grammatical errors, such as comma splices, fragmented sentences, and incorrect verb tenses. Now that the course is coming to an end, I noticed that I excel in guiding the reader,…

probable to reduce the as opposed to when the word following it begins with a vowel (Lacombe, 2014). For example, West Side=” Wes side” or West End. The second rule is that a final -d or -t is less likely to be eliminated if it forms part of a past-tense marker…

Research in the past three months which were very challenging to me due to my limited experience on writing these kind of article. Also, I studied elementary school and high school in Hong Kong, I found it difficult to have the sense on recognizing grammatical and linguistic mistake in my essay. Through reading other classmates’ work, it allowed me…

Imagine you are in a situation where you are having a conversation with someone and you are trying to explain your thoughts and ideas, but you can’t. Something is stopping you from saying what you want, you begin using gestures, and suddenly it is like charades. That is exactly what young children and even older adults experience when living with expressive language disorder. When it comes to expressive language disorder, all of your thoughts and ideas are right there in your head, but the words…

disconnected. Moreover, there are a multitude of grammatical and mechanical errors throughout the piece. First Reader’s Comments: Specific Comments: Pg1, P1, L2-5 - This sentence reads in a way that comes across as clunky and with poor flow, largely due to its length and circulatory use of language. As a result, I would recommend clarifying this sentence through rephrasings and potential restructurings. Also, as the event is occurring in the past tense,…

1. What three questions are important to consider when examining a language development theory? Write out each question and provide a description of the major points of all three. There are three questions that are important to consider when examining a language development theory. The first question is: What do infants bring to the task of language learning? This refers to infants’ language abilities when they are born and how they acquire language as they age. This question is essentially…

Professor Martin made on my essay, and I made my revisions according to his notes. At certain times, it was difficult to read his handwriting, but I made the revisions to the best of my ability. First, I made simple grammatical corrections such as adding commas, changing some tenses, and fixing easily mistaken words such as changing the word “site” to “sight”. Then, I tackled adding more detailed paragraphs, such as describing Ms. Kitty, a net, the cabins, the sugar cane field, the animals, and…

gender roles implemented by culture norms, especially being a woman, would be ultimately more problematic when that culture has this mindset since learning how to speak. Ultimately, growing up speaking a language other than English will contain more grammatical genders and consequently, puts up more…

The orientation of the poem occurs between stanzas one and three and these introduction stanzas are used to describe the highwayman, his situation with Bess and the setting of the poem. The first stanza is an informing introductory paragraph for the poem because of its spooky, mysterious tone. In the first stanza, there are frequent metaphors used to describe the setting, for example; ‘The road was a ribbon of moonlight, looping the purple moor’ (line 3). The whole of the first three stanzas are…