The Sentence

The diction level demonstrated by the narrator is very mature. There are several words, phrases, and connections that are made throughout the story, which many uneducated or younger audiences may not completely understand. Perhaps the short story is written as a flashback from an older adult. Many of the descriptions and most of the story is written in past tense as if someone is looking back to a particular part of their life. In addition, I find it hard to believe that a young boy would be…

“How are cocoons made? Do wings pop out when they become butterflies?” That is two of the many questions Michael asks throughout the day. For these inquiries, it happened during his small group reading, in response to the story, Farfallina and Marcel, by Holly Keller. The content describes the relationship between a caterpillar and a bird; and by the time the children finished reading, Michael’s question shows his zeal to acquire more information. Nonetheless, at the start of the period, Michael…

The word text is used in linguistics to refer to any passage, spoken or written, of whatever length, that does from a unified whole. To make a coherent text, it must contain cohesive ties. A text has texture, and this is what distinguishes it from something that is not a text. (Halliday and Hassan, 1976, p.1-2). Cohesion is found on many types of discourse (Tanskanen, 2006, p.2). According to Halliday and Hassan(1976) the concept of cohesion is A semantic one; it…

Explain what deterrence and retribution are. Kahan says that—in addition to deterrence and retribution—there is another purpose to punishment that theorists have ignored? In the United States, Two important philosophies to consider for the purpose of punishment are deterrence and retribution. The theory of deterrence states “Deterrence Justifies punishment to prevent harm to others.”(Pg. 596, Kahan) Hence, individuals are discouraged to committing a crime if the punishment is swift, certain and…

paper out loud. I tend to misuse pronouns in my writing. For example, I selected a sentence from my second essay that shows one of my weaknesses, “It’s not how the person’s body image looks like or how much they weigh.” Misusing pronouns is the common mistake I make frequently. Subject-verb agreement is another subject that I’ve always struggle with in my writing. I don’t catch the error when I proofread the sentences. It’s difficult for me to make sure the subject agrees with the verb. This…

When a person under the age of eighteen commits a crime, most of the time they will not be tried as adults. The young defendant might go into court and his sentence might be much more lenient than if he had been an adult. Adults who commit these crimes know exactly what it is they are doing and they know exactly how wrong it is, yet they continue to do it. Minors, however, are still young and ignorant. They are in their childhood, despite what one might argue, and they will make mistakes. Young…

school day. I learned a lot in Professor Gitlin’s class. One of the very first things that I learned in my English 1301 class was how to fix my sentence fragments. My first paper in English 1301 wasn’t very good. After it was graded I read over the markings, and saw a lot of the word “frag”. My paper consisted of many sentence fragments, or incomplete sentences. This was a very big problem for me because…

Some activities of this stage are predicting from words, which consists on showing the students a word from the text in order to make them predict what the text is going to be about; predicting from title or first sentence, during this activity, the teacher writes the title or first sentence of the text they are going to read on the board in order to make predictions about what it is going to be about; predicting from a key illustration, which is basically show the students a illustration…

reveals the importance of the Vietnamese culture fading away as the country becomes destroyed by integrating the language feature repetition. The statement “It is not remembered. Remember,” makes you think about the past using the term “it”. The first sentence “It is not remembered.” is the soldier saying to the narrator that the Vietnamese war is not always remembered which conveys the audience to sink into the past. Throughout the poem, we learn about how the Vietnamese people’s lifestyle and…

7. (3 points) Suppose I try to turn “The woman who is singing the national anthem is a very good singer,” into a question by saying “Is the woman who singing the national anthem is a very good singer?” Something has gone wrong here. What? The correct way to say is------> "Is the women who is singing the national anthem a very good singer?" According to Chomsky one cannot take the first appearance of the auxiliary word. One must look for the auxiliary that comes right after the phrase label…