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    Using generic criticism in analyzing commencement speeches has also been done. In her thesis, The Development of a Genre: Commencement Addresses Delivered by Popular Cultural Icons, Gault (2008) examined the genre of commencement rhetoric and utilized commencement speeches to determine the significant characteristics of the genre. Establishing the commonalities within the genre of commencement addresses gives the speaker a structure to which he can pattern his speech. For the audience, genres…

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    and outlines of each subject that were taught throughout the day. Friday’s are generally their assessment day. Mrs. Finnell was assessing her students on irregular verbs. She first did a review and discussed what makes an irregular verb irregular. She demonstrated by writing sentences on the board that used these different verbs. She then had students complete the first side of the worksheet and come show her before completing the back. The students seemed not to be grasping the concept…

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    Anzaldúa Analysis

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    Structure of the Poem The poem consists of twenty-six lines divided into two stanzas: first seven lines, second, nineteen lines. Line 6-7 are two questions that mark the first volta. In line 26, the last, is found the second volta or turning point. (English sonnet). It is also told in the first person singular where the speaker of the poem and main character are the same. Additionally, there are other unnamed individuals, who are more than one, but the speaker does not they how many. Thus, for…

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    consider our system should support online search query, the time costly NLP techniques such as parse tree is not applicable in our case. Thus, we use POS tagging sequence to classify our patterns and there are three types of pattern components--Entity, Verb Phrase and Entity Modifier. The new idea of entity modifier is introduced to specify a sub-level of the entity or describe a relation under a certain condition. Note that through adding entity modifiers, our system is able to not only further…

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    Language has a pivotal role when it comes to communication amongst humans. There are over seven thousand languages, however, one-third of them contain a SVO (subject verb object), one-third of them contain VOS (verb object subject), and one-third of them contain a SOV (subject object verb) word order. Regardless of the word order, language contains distinct characteristics that cause them to be referred to as language. These characters are what define language, which is why not all forms of…

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    Verbs And Action Verbs

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    Verbs and Tenses Most verbs describe actions, so they are called action verbs. Action verbs tell what people or things are doing. Here are some common action verbs. drink look jump swim fall eat shout walk throw climb laugh run sit catch dance Subject and Verb Agreement When you use a verb, you have to say who or what is doing the action. This ‘who or what’ is the subject of the verb. The subject and the verb match each other. You say that the subject and the verb agree…

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    Tessa's Case Study

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    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…

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    traceable Old English words. This word also traveled through many spellings, but it held the same meaning throughout history. Middle English finally transformed this word into the word that is still in use today. The word “drown” remains an intransitive verb with ultimately the same meaning. Although the word itself has changed throughout time, the meaning has not. Another way a person could potentially die from an unintended situation is through suffocation. This accidental death can be caused…

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    parser recognizes the misanalysis. Misanalysis happens because a garden path sentence has a noun phrase that seems to be attached to the syntactic representation of the sentence of the object of the verb, when instead it serves as the subject of the matrix clause verb and the subordinate verb and is intransitive. 2. What is the “all-or-nothing” view of reanalysis of garden path sentences (p. 370)? What alternative to the authors suggest? The sentences are either successfully reanalyzed or not.…

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    text 1 contains 12 transitive structure clause, 9 intransitive and 2 Short passive clause. - text2 contains 8 transitive structure clause, 10 intransitive and 5 Short passive. Although both texts focus on the same event of Rabaa Al Adawiya , it may be expected that Police and protesters play major active roles in both texts. nonetheless as could be note from the above analysis this is not so. Text 1uses more intransitive clauses and less intransitive and Short passive clauses. Text 2…

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