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    Language can vary between people because of a number of things; how and where they grew up, moving to a new place, starting a new job, or even hanging around people from a different place than you. Language and thought connects because thought is what helps to form language. There are many psychologists who have their own theories about how language is learned and adapted as you age. Jean Piaget, Lev Vygotsky, and Steven Pinker are three who all believe in cognitive development, but have…

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    manipulate my style to suit each specific type. Then, by encouraging diversity through the assignment of genre-specific essays, the class taught me specifically how to manipulate my style. I learned to eliminate any unneeded phrases, words, and tangents. This included be verbs, which frequently plagued my compositions prior to this year. I developed the skills needed to effectively and efficiently eliminate mistakes in my writing, cleaning up the loose ends that kept my writing just below the…

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    Syntactic Deviation Essay

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    postponement, and discontinuity) from stylistic point of view. The construction here exemplified by clauses in T.S Eliot’s poem “The Waste Land”. Biber et al (1999:900) pointed out; “fronting has to do with placing core elements which tend to appear after the verb in pre-verbal position”. The purpose of the study is to examine obligatory adjunct, optional adjunct, and direct object and object complement fronting construction, focusing on the constituent placed in initial position. Moreover, to…

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    Change In English Class

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    college english classes, and I say research paper because that's what I would mainly write in high school. So now finishing my first college quarter of English 101 and having learned so much more to properly writing an essay, like eliminating “to be” verbs, properly using an author's work by citing them, run-on sentences, sentence fragment, proper use of quotation marks and parenthesis, and even MLA style of writing. The first essay I brought to the table was my Diagnostic essay, which differed…

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    in trend or prevalence? Provide more background information for your readers by answering any of these questions. *Diana 10441689, you requested help with Sentence Structure: Your essay has recurring errors in subject-verb agreement. There are several sentences where your verb and your subject (who or what you talk about) do not show number agreement, which can confuse your readers because they won’t know the number of the subjects you are talking about. Let’s take a look at this example from…

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    who read or listen to the ambiguous sentences, utterances or phrases. Ambiguity can be classified into two different categories named lexical ambiguity and structural ambiguity. Lexical ambiguity occurs when a word has more than one possible meanings. Structural ambiguity is a situation where one sentence has more than one meaning due to its sentence…

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    as he points them out. 3. Then, he will be asked if he knows the meaning of the words he identified within the text. 4. After that, I will explain that those words are verbs with…

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    various supporting verbs and modal particles in Vietnamese politeness? Supporting verbs Supportive verbs include performative verbs…

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    * Analyzing the information * Plan the document * How do I write the document? * Editing * Evaluation of the process We can make all headings parallel by starting all the headings with a verb or an -ing word, or make each heading a question: For example:- Using verbs * Analyze * Plan * Write * Edit * Evaluate Using -ing words * Analyzing the information * Planning the document * Writing the document * Editing my writing * Evaluating…

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    Alliteration The repetition of initial consonant sounds Imagery Words or phrases that appeal to any sense or any combination of senses Metaphor A comparison between two objects with the intent of giving clearer meaning to one of them. Often forms of the "to be" verb are used, such as "is" or "was", to make the comparison Onomatopoeia The use of words which imitate sound Repetition The repeating words, phrases, lines, or stanzas Rhyme The similarity of ending sounds existing between two words…

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