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    licensed means that the inflection must be present for pro to exist (for instance, English has a [-strong] feature of INFL since English has impoverished agreement inflections). Pro must be identified means that there must be an agreement between a verb and the grammatical person and number of its subject for pro to exist (Holmberg, 2005). The following Italian sentence shows the position of pro: (10) pro Cucinerò le lasagne per degli amici. will cook.1SG the lasagne for…

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    ___________________________________________________________________ Game! Charades (imagen de alumnos jugando charadas) Divide the class into two teams. The teacher will call one student from one team to the front of the class, and show him one verb and one adverb (for example: run angrily). The student must act these words out. If his/her team can guess the two words, the team gets one point.…

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    Muir And Wordsworth

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    Naturalism has a superpower that can be used to find a connection with all things in humans and nature. This power can be in all of us, because it's the power of observation and we can interact with nature by exploring its natural surroundings. Romanticism has no superpowers but does have amazing effects from its beauty, depending on your view of nature, the effects can be life changing; or a place of peace, "bliss of solitude", and a relaxing state of being. In these two writings, Muir faces…

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    Not many people know what is etymology or what it means means. Etymology is the study of the origins of words and the way the words have changed in meaning and in context over time and history. Etymology allows someone to go in depth with its origin, meaning, and the way the meaning has changed. Knowing the origins of words or phrases is crucial to have conversations with other people in our society. By looking at the word assassin, the history of the word allows us to study its many meanings in…

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    Prose Style Memo

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    Another example in avoiding excessive use of verb forms in a sentence “There are a number of factors that are believed to be significant in adopting school uniforms in public schools.” This sentence should be written as: “Number of factors believed to be significant in adopting school uniforms…

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    Attn. grabber (Fact; anecdote; quote; startling statistic; etc . . .) There are seven billion people shoved into one world who experience an infinite amount of situations in one lifetime. General Statement regarding topic (name of author & title of text) Human’s hold the ultimate power and purpose in our world's existence. Narrow to specifics of topic The human condition is a broad concept that can be interpreted in various ways, however there are three components that are essential to a…

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    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…

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    Verbal Aspect Analysis

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    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…

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    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…

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    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…

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