Word of Wisdom

mood that is automatically related to the story is cold, dark, and gloomy, which carries on throughout the rest of the story. This can also be directly related to the way the narrator views the topics he talks about. By using these vividly gloomy words, the narrator reveals that the part…

Tone is a very important part of addressing message including choice of your words and your dress. Let’s consider your voice first, if the voice is relaxed then delivering your message would be smooth. If it is shaky, you may not able to spread the message the way you intended. Same goes with nervous which is worst. Personally, I can’t remember any word when I get nervous. I also mumble a lot and voice turn to shaky. Once I remember I was stopped by police while I was waiting at the airport to…

Morph syntactic Analysis: 12th Grade Male from Mexico #2 Introduction This Morph Syntactic Analysis project allowed me to explore the word formation of an ESL student. The student I examined was a twentieth grade male from Mexico. The Spanish aspects of his prior knowledge may have affected his English composition. The analysis features morphology and syntax areas of language. Noun phrases, corpus, verb phrases, verb tense, sentence composition, orthography, and other parts of speech…

Imagine growing up in a household where no one ever muttered a word. No one talked during breakfast, getting ready for school, after school, at dinner, or even before bed. There were no books around to read or a television set around blaring cartoons or educational shows. How would one’s vocabulary develop or increase if that were the case? Now imagine a household where talking amongst family members was always occurring. Parents were waking up asking their children “How did they sleep last…

Denotation and Connotation Connotation and Denotation are the two principal methods of describing the meanings of words. While denotation describes the precise and literal definition of a word that would be found in the dictionary, connotation refers to the wide range of interchanging associations that most words carry with them. To use these two variances incorrectly can be a very negative thing, and could induce many damaging consequences. “The New York Times has a Communism fetish” (The…

and Paul E. Engelhardt, focuses on the issues that revolve around syntax and the production of words. Syntax allows for words to be combined and create a sentence that has a specific meaning. Humans are able to communicate almost every thought or idea and this is largely because of syntax. The word hat has a specific meaning but language has the power to be significantly changed by putting together words to create meaning such as in the example that’s my hat or that’s not a hat. Each language…

Assignment 4 Prefix means to fix before or to fix to the beginning of a word. Prefixes are united with or placed at the beginning of words to alter or modify their meanings or to create entirely new words. A root word or word element from which other words are formed. It is the foundation of the word. The root conveys the central meaning of the word and forms the base to which prefixes and suffixes are attached for word modification. A combining form is a world root to which a vowel has been…

clauses and sentences boundaries in discourse. It is known as the role played by particular basic semantic relations between words in order to create textuality. (McCarthy, 1991, P. 65) To add, lexical cohesion is truly achieved by using the lexical links through a text. Notably that lexical cohesion occurs when two lexis in a text are semantically related in some way. In other words, lexical cohesion refers to relationships in meaning between lexical items in a text. (Paltridge, 2006, P.…

noun words that commonly end in “s” into their plural form by adding an apostrophe after the letter “s”; and to abbreviate the word “is”. Example: It is my sister’s car. My sisters’ own that car. It’s a grand party. (The word “is” has been shortened making it “‘s”) 2. The chronic exclamation mark (!) An…

Each speech sound can be discriminated in such words as pet and set for the listener to understand the auditory message. And at a higher cognitive level, listeners can process homonyms that sound alike but have different meanings, such as, blue-blew. 6. A speech sound can have slight allophonic variation…