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    LIN 3010 Word Formation Processes - Compounding o Obamacare: 2013 noun: term for the Affordable Care Act that does not have the same meaning as when the terms are broken. o Humblebrag: 2011 verb: when the two words are combined, the term’s meaning changes to an expression of false humility, especially be celebrities on Twitter. o Lumbersexual: 2014 noun: when the morphemes are stick together, the term means a fashionable rugged man who adopts the stereotypical dress and facial hair of a…

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    Martin Luther King Grammar

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    To begin with, each sentence is supposed to have a noun and a verb because if they would not have one or the other there would not a be structure and either you know your native language grammar or not. However I do not agree with this because even though a person knows their native language that does not mean he…

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    Napping In Children

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    learning new verbs were able to retain that information. The researcher wanted to know if napping really made a difference in children learning. Sandoval and her colleagues tested 39 children within the age of 3 years old and were divided into two groups, the ones that napped and did not nap. Within these groups the children were randomly assigned whether that would nap for 30 minutes or not. The finding of their research was that of those students that napped within an hour of learning verbs…

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    writing style and sentence structure (Moskey and Williams 28). Actions: An action describes what the subject of the sentence does (32, 47-48). Actions convey an emotion of a specific purpose, which adds meaning to the context. The absence of action verbs will make the sentence(s) unclear or vague. Students encounter rambling or vague stories in their writing when their sentences contain a lack of clarity. When students write with vague words such as almost, apparently, or about, confuse the…

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    1.7 Statement of the Research Questions This research was designed to answer the following questions: 1. Is the Google Translate efficient in translating verb tense from English to Persian? 2. Is the translation produced by Google Translate acceptable apart from possible errors in translation? 3. What are the areas of possible errors in the translation produced by Google Translate?…

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    chapters, the reader will perceive the writing more clearly and directly (46). Williams focuses on making the main character the subject of the verbs in each sentence, and making those verbs the important actions performed by the main character (29). Williams states that the first principal of clarity in writing is to make the subjects of the majority of the verbs in your sentence the main character (47). He states you can find the main character in your sentence by making sure the main…

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    prayer depending on their understanding and conventions concerning the phrase. Such ambiguous words and phrases provide a background information, which provides the gist of the narration. I will also explore the types of verb used in these…

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    your main character and the verb must deliver specific actions of that character. He stresses the point that we must “express action in verbs;” however, the real emphasis lies in weaving the characters into your subject matter. Williams points out that characters and their actions, will often help you to “retell the story to yourself” during periods of intense reading. Being an avid reader myself, this…

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    Have we ever observed, why does so happen? How do we change number? For example: a cat becomes cats when we say I have 2 cats as my pets. How does goose changes into geese, when we are said to change its number? How we make nouns from verbs such as, smoking from the verb smoke? This all happens because of not a magic but due to morphology, a branch of linguistics. In every language in the world, whether it is written, spoken, or signed, morphology is fundamentally involved in both the production…

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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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