Modal verb

3) Movement form personal to impersonal voice. There are two kinds of movement: - The personal voice is used to indicate a subjective opinion such as through the first person pronoun I, or through the use of second person pronoun you. For example: I think we should change our flag You shouldn’t drop rubbish Both I and you indicates the subjective opinion based on speaker’s intention regarding to the phenomenon - The impersonal voice is used to indicate and objective opinion, such as through…

Stewart Pidd: Exploitive Perspective Kook In their book, Gary Pollitt and Craig Baker explain the basics of point-of-view: They first describe point-of-view as the manipulation of pronouns to create the writer’s perspective towards a topic. A writer can choose between three point-of-view perspectives: First-person, which is effective for telling a story about oneself, second-person, which focuses on the reader, and third-person, which is commonly used for academic writing. Pollitt and Baker…

(Burton &Humphries, 1992:90). Concerning the first text, Hicks says, in order to be effective, the style of a newspaper article must have “four principal attributes: suitability, simplicity, precision and poise.” (1998:59). The use of direct, active verbs such as “celebrates”, “climbed” or “pays” are tools of suitability while the short, simple, everyday life vocabulary is used for simplicity. On another hand, Myers explains that “Blogs are defined by what they link to and how they link”…

“they fell into a silence.” The whole paragraph on this realisation that the dream could become reality is the turning point for George. “They looked at each other amazed.” The pronoun ‘they’ suggests that the ‘amazed’ stares also came from George. The verb ‘amazed’ suggests George’s astonishment and surprise that the dream which he thought they could never achieve was becoming real. This suggests that George is starting believe that the dream will happen. Candy’s money changes his whole…

Labov and Waletzky (1967&1997), as they cautiously stated that evaluation is definable only in semantic terms, because an evaluative clause can suppose a great variety of surface forms. Such forms consist of direct statements, lexical intensifiers, modal expressions, subordinate clauses, repetitions, lexical expressions that contain symbolic actions, and judgment expressions of a third person. In general, depending on the degree of explicitness or structural embeddedness, an evaluative clause…

‘Join the Flu Fighters’ is an informative and persuasive leaflet given out to adults across the UK, whose employers have decided to use this service. This means that there is a specific audience to relate to – working adults – so healthy males and females aged 18-60 generally. The background context is relevant for this leaflet as working adults have similar basic desires – to save money and have an easy kind of life. The author of this leaflet seemingly plays on these desires, examples include…

How much language awareness can account for L2 development? Is it necessary? Can it hinder fluency? The controversy involving explicit and implicit learning boosts many studies in SLA field. Some researches (e.g. Krashen, 1981; Paradis, 1994) do not see much contribution of explicit grammar teaching in L2 development, whereas others (R. Ellis, 1994) argue that explicit knowledge accelerates form-meaning mapping and helps to attain certain types of knowledge, such as academic or professional…

The poem ‘War Photographer’ addresses the tragedies that take place at war and the issues in the way the western world perceive the photos that raise awareness to these horrible situations. The strong feelings of frustration, love of his job and suffering are portrayed throughout the poem. The photographer is ‘finally’ alone implying that he is welcoming his solitary connotes that his company was not welcoming. This is most likely due to the fact that the majority of them would be soldiers and…

“Where Do We Go From Here?” is a speech delivered by Martin Luther King in 1967 during the Southern Christian Leadership Council in Georgia. The year 1967 was a period in American history where the civil rights movement and Black Power was a reigning notion amongst the public – causing boycotts and riots across the country, eventually spreading to other continents. In the shown extract, King is perceived to highlight two main ideas to the audience. First, he asks for a social change of the order…

Gender affects many aspect of language, it changes the way people speak as well as the way people perceive others. It is also one of the categories base on which people can divide not only themselves but also their social position or use of language. Language is made out of several elements that make is whole. Those elements are called syntactic, phonological, morphological and semantic. Syntax is a set of rules that control grammatical structure of a sentence and it'sits processes. Study of…