Intransitive verb

particular form that would allow actions or verbs to express various progresses of the state in each situation; therefore, it needs a particle to be added to the sentence to achieve this need. Chinese grammar is not similar to English grammar, in which English can add -ing onto the end of a verb to show the ongoing state of an action. Chinese has many particles such as le, zhe, guo that are being used in the sentences to add aspectual values to the attached verbs in the sentences. Even though…

present progressive encode semantic meaning through a combination of devices. From general to specific, these semantic devices are: (a) nature of the specific verbal aspect, (b) inherent semantic properties of the verb, (c) aspectual classes of the verb, and (d) core meanings of the verb predicate. Below is the essence of each semantic device, presented in the order just mentioned. Nature of Verbal Aspect. Exploration of the nature of verbal aspect can be traced back to Aristotle’s…

story. 12b) Since grotesque is defined by terms such as malformed or distorted, three details to suggest this include: the great warped chest of the hunchback, his hump on his shoulders, and the hunchback's thin and crooked legs. 12c) The change in verb tenses throughout the excerpt holds a very deep meaning because it marks a very important change. This is the establishment of the café. The start of the excerpt first begins with the use of past tense or the…

Exercise 11: Chaos and Coins: do exercise as described by Tharp. Write 1-2 paragraphs on your process and findings For this exercise, It said to gathered up coins until you have a handful and then throw them into the air. Once they drop the goal is to play, fiddle, and move the coins around until you get familiar or unfamiliar geometries or shape. I did this exercise a few times to experiment with having the same coins, like all dimes, and different coins, like pennies, nickels, and dimes…

Words That Kill “Your words have power, use them wisely.”This quote says, Tords can harm people or help them. Just like in the case of Michelle Carter. Where Michelle used her freedom of speech to convince her boyfriend Roy to kill himself. There is proof of Michelle trying to convince Roy. One of the proof would be how she messages him and the words she uses. Another proof would be that Michelle did not take any action to stop what he was doing. The third and most important is that when Roy was…

One of my favorite words is “shalom.” Shalom is a Hebrew word that has multiple meanings. It is commonly used as a greeting in Jewish culture, utilized similarly to the English “hello.” It literally translates as “well-being be upon you” or “may you be well.” Jesus even appropriated a similar phrase in John 20:2, “shalom Aleichem,” which in English is literally translated as “Peace be unto you.” It can also be used to refer to peace between entities or individuals. Jewish people may call for…

FernGully is a tale of how humans destroy and release danger into the world and care nothing about it. Even though FernGully is a fictional movie, there are still a lot of real world points it brings up. There are many references to real world problems and actions throughout the movie mixed in with cartoon antics to mix fun into the movie as well. In FernGully, the first thing we hear about a human is through Batty. Batty is a bat who escaped the humans after he was tested on. The humans put…

Swag is a term heard far too often. I hear “Swag” on a daily basis, and that is because it is simply everywhere: in music, in day-to-day life, and even in sports. Rappers, athletes, and regular people alike use swag as a way of credibility. I, on the other hand, think the expression swag needs to come to an immediate end, and the reason for that is that there is an actual word that has the exact same connotation. That word is swagger. Swagger, unlike swag, could actually be found in the…

for us. In Schwartz’s book, he uses many of the characteristics that John Trimble the author of the “Writing with Style” shows that are what makes a book readable. John Schwartz utilizes word pictures, honest, personal experience, communicating, and verbs throughout his book which made it readable. John Schwartz uses honesty and trust in pages 9-11 of his book, which made it readable for us. He states, “Pleading for light-up shoes with pink accents and rhinestone. We hesitate; would people…

The thing I disliked the most about English was irregular Verb. In Steven Pinker’s essay, Horton Heared a Who! The author presented an interesting idea regarding the linguistic development when one learned a new language. Professor Pinker introduced the idea that English verbs can be divided into two main types: The regular verb that could be conjugated with normal rules and other Verbs that need special conjugations. Those special verbs, Pinker believe, are difficult to pick up and learned and…