Verb phrase

Before the getting started I knew that language reflected culture like with the amount of words in a semantic domain. This helped me look closer at things like phrases a culture creates like the “time is money” phrase. Before I never would have looked deeper into the meaning of the phrase and thought about how it reflects a culture of people trying to get stuff done. Also I now have a more in-depth knowledge of how languages change. It helped me understand the factors that…

Two Generations "Miss Cathy shrieked and stretched out her arms, as soon as she caught her father’s face looking from the window… I took a peep in to see after Linton. He was asleep in a corner, wrapped in a war, fur-lined cloak, as if it had been winter – a pale, delicate, effeminate boy, who might have been taken for my master’s younger brother…" (Brontë 206). Explanation: 1. Ruffian Sentence: “Catherine shall linger no longer to argue with the low ruffian – I have humored her enough” (Brontë…

damage caused by mankind’s follies. Another important use of parallelism is during line two, and three when Hopkins uses starts the phrase it in order to show the characteristics of first earth, and then god. He connects these two sentences that is important to his meaning. Hopkins also uses different word choices throughout the passage. He first starts off with phrases similar to “smeared with toil” (7) which shows a negative spin. Then throughout the passage his view slowly changes into a more…

“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.” ― Thomas Mann. Writing is a subject that is different for everyone. In my opinion if I could write about a topic I choose and I am passionate about I know my papers would be interesting to read. On the other hand, I when I am given a topic to write about I think it is harder to make the paper interesting and enjoyable to read. When it comes writing I have a few of struggles that one day I wish I could improve…

language repertoire. One episode in particular, “XYZ PDQ”, peaked my interest, probably because every word and phrase examined in that episode is a word or phrase that I would like to start using. Now, you are probably wondering what on earth this cool radio show is even about. Let me tell you, this radio show answers questions from a all levels of English speakers about what certain words or phrases are supposed to mean. The two show hosts explain the elements of history, culture, and family…

four ways to identify these pre-constructed passages or phrases. The four ways are Dying Metaphors, Operators or verbal false limbs, Pretentious diction, and Meaningless words. Dying Metaphors are prefabricated metaphors that have been used many times in many different contexts. It can also be metaphors that have been switched from their original meaning without the person using them even knowing. An example given by Orwell of such is the phrase “toe the line” is sometimes written as “tow the…

dialogue and narration in The Lord of the Flies. Many of the words that he uses have a negative connotation. “Simon’s mouth labored, brought forth audible words” (128). This statement does not seem very pleasing to the reader. If Golding used the the phrase “Simon began to speak” instead, the reader wouldn't feel the same negative emotions. Whenever the novel introduces new people, places, or things, it uses long descriptive sentences. This style helps make a better image on what is going on in…

The poem, “The Fish”, by Elizabeth Bishop focuses on providing a detailed explanation of a fish that the speaker has caught. Throughout the poem, the speaker incorporates her conflicted attitude towards the fish. The poem uses numerous literary devices such as imagery, paradox, diction, and tone to convey the thoughts and feelings behind the speaker’s changing perspective and to show its meaning because although the fish itself means very little literally, it serves as a symbol for the speaker’s…

There are many computational speech production models regarding serial language processing. In these models the stages are independent and information flow is unidirectional/top-down – lemma level processes feed lexeme level processes, but not the other way around. One of the most widely known and discussed speech production models was proposed by Bock & Levelt (1994). This model presented four distinct stages of processing. The process begins at the conceptual stage, a message-level…

participants heard the word “was” + past-tense verb, which is an indicator in English that the…