Seven dirty words

Wordiness Passive voice Misplaced modifier Stylistic inconsistency Question 14 What word or phrase best characterizes the problem affecting the following passage? Conaster goes on to discuss the famous ill-fated excursion by Adolph Ruth that ended six months later with the discovery of Ruth’s decapitated head. Tense error Usage error Spelling error Apostrophe error Question 15 What word or phrase best characterizes the problem affecting the following passage? With the help of…

A sentence is a gathering of words which begins with a capital letter and closures with a full stop (.), question mark (?) or exclamation mark (!). A sentence comprises or involves a verb phrase and a subject. Sentences comprise statements. Simple sentences have one statement. Compound sentences and complex sentences have two or more than two statements. Sentences can comprise subjects and objects. The subject in a sentence is for the most part the individual or thing completing an…

identifies communicative competence as “That aspect of our competence that enables us to convey and interpret messages and to negotiate meanings interpersonally within specific contexts” (p.36). It includes four sub-competences which are interconnected and they cannot develop separately. These four competences are: _ Linguistic Competence: is related to language knowledge such as spelling, structure and pronunciation. – Sociolinguistic (pragmatic competence): implies an understanding of the…

Corn mazes are huge, sometimes extravagant, mazes made out of corn where children and children at heart find amusement in making wrong turns and getting lost looking for the end. David Barber uses a corn maze to show that in life everything we do, whether a positive or a negative impact, is an experience. Experiences form the basis of all types of human relationships (Volkmer). Barber uses paradoxes, an extended metaphor, and diction to portray the idea that the experiences in life impact one…

There are many symbols and meanings in “Fahrenheit 451”, the author uses these symbols to get this point across in an informal manner. There are three particular ones that the author uses that really stick out. One example of this is the earphones, Montag uses his earpiece to communicate with the hidden English professor Faber (pg 90). These earpieces are a symbol of the future of technology and what is to come of future generations. In the story, “Fahrenheit 451” Montag describes the earpiece…

working hard to make sure they learn and enjoy their time in my classroom. I put an unprecedented amount of time in preparing special types of lessons for your children. I try to speak slowly and clearly, with extra explanations and repetitions of new words. I try to make the classroom a welcoming and warm place for your children where they can open their mouths and speak a new language…

different types and length are put together to bring up a language. Sounds are put together, and at times, when this happens, they change their form and do amazing things. Words are put in a certain order, and at times the beginnings and endings of words are changed to change the meaning. The meaning can be affected by the arrangement of words and the knowledge of the person speaking about what the receiver will understand. There are branches of linguistics that are also given names. In this…

1. There is a difference between material and nonmaterial culture, and just as they are written, that is what they are. To further explain, take material culture for example. Material; material culture deals with the physical objects within a society that was created by its people. This can be anything ranging from a home to a simple tool such as a screw driver. Anything that has to do with the culture’s physical aspect that can determine the society’s perspectives and the behaviors of those…

Unit 5 Lesson 1 • Concrete versus Abstract Nouns When you think of nouns, you probably think of people, places or objects. While these are all nouns, they are not the only type. Concrete nouns Concrete nouns are perceivable by the senses and name something you can see, hear, smell, taste or touch. These include people, animals, places and objects. People: doctor, mother, friend, firefighter. Animals: dog, snake, ape, panda bear. Places: Central Park, peninsula, mount, Mexico Objects:…

speaker, this paper will make hypotheses pertaining to the underlying syntax affecting the language’s construction and the phonological parameters present. 2. Syntax, continued: In paper 2, it was hypothesized that in Jordanian Arabic the basic word order is identical to that of English and accordingly the differences observed between the order of English and Arabic sentences could be attributed to differences in the movement of constituents…