Verb phrase

Interaction For this writing assessment I asked my student, Madison, to write about whatever she wanted. Madison did not need any prompts and began writing right away. She wrote independently for almost five minutes. Afterwards, Madison read back her story all in a similar tone until the last sentence, where she used some expression to say, “The end!” Qualitative Analysis The story Madison wrote was a personal narrative about her experience of playing with a friend outside and getting hurt.…

stories. These techniques make the story interesting to read and make the characters much more relatable. But, the techniques make the stories more complicated and therefore more difficult to read. Both of these stories use multiple point of views, verb tenses, and several other techniques to tell their story. Foremost, Tim O’Brien and Louise Erdrich use multiple point of views to tell their story. Both novels tell some parts in…

I was shocked and impressed by the statements in the podcast, that most of the content was the first time for me to hear. Because I do not know much stuff of linguistics and common knowledge about languages, I cannot decide whether the facts in the podcast are right. I would assume that most of what they said was truth, but I will make adjustments to my knowledge about linguistics and languages in the future. As an evolving language, English speakers have borrowed words from all other languages…

everyday life are far less likely to evolve compared to less frequently used words, seen across multiple Indo-European languages. One of the main examples, in English, is irregular verbs. As language evolved from Old to Middle to current English, fewer and fewer irregular verbs (non “-ed”) existed. Studies found that the verbs that have been regularized were used significantly les compared to those that remained unchanged to this day. “New word order” Because the English language is…

‘Burger’ is a word used by Americans to describe a beef or chicken patty stuffed between two buns and cheese. However, in Pakistan it is used to describe someone who wants to be, or is, ‘westernized.’ Westernized here refers to someone who can fluently speak English, goes to a private school, is ‘modern’ and wears jeans. On the other hand is the ‘Bun Kebab’(local food) who can be defined as someone who attends a local school or university with other Bun Kebabs, knows more Urdu than English, may…

English speakers describe aspect in Ancient Greek by exploring how the ancient Greeks described this concept themselves. In the Platonic dialogue The Sophist, the verb is defined as “the word indicating action,” or simply the action word. Aristotle defines the verb as “a sound compounded with meaning and indicative of time”. A verb, according to the Greeks, describes action, from which we can deduce further that it has a subject, and it indicates time. Most often, the Indo-European languages…

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…

Writing is only improved by practicing and having errors. In the beginning of the semester my writing was not as academically as it should had been, based on the educational level that college writing requires. My grammar was mostly what affected my development as a writer. Most of my grammar grades in the beginning were about from twenty or thirty point out of fifty. My hopes for passing this class weren’t as strong as they were further in the semester. Obviously I was very insecure as college…

Carmen is in second-grade student, she is currently having challenges reading and is performing at a kindergarten reading level. When starting the assessment with Carmen, based on previous assessments, I knew her reading level was below second-grade reading level. Her reading over assessment has seen improvement and she is able to apply skills she has learned. Carmen was able to read Walk in the Fall and The First Snow. She demonstrated improvement in her reading based on the reading techniques…

images and drawings so that her readers could better engage with and understand what she is trying to deliver. “My teacher used the word ‘environs’ as a verb as in ‘video art easily environs the viewers’ Moods environ us” (Life Breaks In, 41). Here Cappello is even criticizing her teacher for using a noun as a verb. So, she uses the same word as a verb in a sarcastic way describing how moods control and enclose us. She is warning or actually teaching her readers the appropriate way of using that…