Noun

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 when they match each other. Use a singular verb if the subject is a singular noun. For example, the subjects ‘my dad’ or ‘our school’, or any of the pronouns he, she or it, require a singular verb. Most singular verbs end in s. Look at the subjects…

Linguistics is the study of language and how it is used. The main disciplines involved in this research is phonetics; phonology; morphology; syntax and semantics. There are three different ways of forming morphologically complex words in English: inflection (dog-dogs, call-called), derivation (drink-drinkable) and compounding (sunglasses) (Bozix, Marslen-Wilson). This essay will focus on two of the morphological processes, inflection and derivation, and the similarities and differences between…

“I don't wanna be another wave in the ocean” lyrics truncated from Bon Jovi song Because We Can. He is expressing that people need to take a stand and not just float by like a wave. The singer is refusing to go along with the flow of life anymore. Displaying he is not conforming to following the masses, going through the motions and relationships. The word wave has many different meanings, but they all have to do with an undulating motion or shape. First, a wave is a disturbance on the surface…

which is a combination of using noun and preposition. For example, time for lunch, pleasure in gaming, and so on. So, these are like the missing puzzles in my English, since the grammar videos don’t cover these areas. While I am reading, I realise this is more advance than the grammar videos. It actually has most of the missing puzzles I needed. Think about the words in English, they can be divided into 9 different parts of speech. Most of the words are either nouns or verbs. Since many…

went to NatWest, the chemist, and Marks & Spencer” (Truss 85). One might assume that the chemist is Marks & Spencer, treating them both as the same place, in which there are just two distinct places, the pharmacy (chemist, when a noun is lowercased, it is not a proper noun) and the bank. Nevertheless, this is contradictory to the second sentence, in which there are three easily distinguishable locations, all separate from one another. Due to the fact that Truss is an English author (from the…

semantic features. The use of large amounts of adjectives and adverbs to pre-modify certain nouns is evident in the text. In line 8, ‘the distant constant slowly listless bang’, creates a very unique and specific imagery, suitable for literary entertainment. The lack of any punctuation between these modifiers suggest that the modifiers are read through quickly and the emphasis lands on the final noun of the of this noun phrase. Furthermore, this excessive use of pre-modifiers enhances the…

To start off this lesson, Mrs. Solomon discussed the definition of a proper noun and then gave examples of different types of proper nouns. To check for understanding, she asked the class to give her their own examples of proper nouns. Toward the end of this time, both Andy and Alicia gave a number of correct examples. Next, Mrs. Solomon assigned a group activity/competition. For this activity, the class…

one-word stage in his speech development which is seen in 1-2-year olds. Therefore, I would encourage Jack’s parents to assist his movement into the two-word stage. This can be achieved by adding nouns to Jacks single words so he has a correct model to imitate. They could model age appropriate verb + noun phrases such as, eat biscuit and…

menacing.", emphasizes the fact that where children should enjoy life and be full of innocence despite this the poor children actually are more likely to be in the workhouses and not be educated.the use of the noun "angel" has religious connotation to purity and kindness. on the contrary the noun "devils" refer to the most powerful evil spirit and has a negative religious connotation to unholiness and heinousness.Dickens stating there are Devils where angels should be suggests the reader that…

Gothic literature perpetually creates suspense and tension in the form of both tradition and contemporaneity. Both forms of gothic literature share a theme insanity that helps the writers to create suspense. In the traditional gothic literature ‘The Signalman’ written in 1866, Charles Dickens successfully builds suspense by writing in first person with numerous imageries. In addition, suspense and tension are well-developed through various techniques, such as third person point of view and…