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    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…

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    Phonetics And Phonology

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    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…

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    English Language Rule

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    The most common perception of using loan words is that they make our writing eloquent. They are also regarded as prestigious, grand and even associated with the language of sophisticated people to display their broad range of vocabulary. Yet, George Orwell criticizes and opposes the use of Latinate words with the belief that they are the root of bad habits in written English. This paper delves into Orwell's problem, the diverse responses it provoked, the set of six rules proposed, their…

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    “Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.” This quote, said by Patrick Rothfuss, explains why the words and language in Wise Blood are so important. In this novel by Flannery O’Connor, a man finds himself caught in a war of faith, destiny, and false prophets. It is set in the imaginary southern town of Taulkinham, Tennessee in the 1950s. The book accurately represents the way southerners lived at the time and how their environments affected their…

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    say the word “go.” He was expecting a simple translation but soon realized that the word was more complicated. Tuvans associate direction with…

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    Then Firdaus goes to her uncle’s house hoping for sympathy, but her uncle says, “all husbands beat their wives”. The author uses the word “all” to emphasize that beating a girl was common, and considered as a tradition in their culture. Also, the word all holds a very strong connation that allows the readers to feel the pain of the women in Egypt. To support this statement, the author states that “my uncle’s wife added that her husband often…

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    First Words: A Short Story

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    our first word. Just think about it. A child learning their first word has several hoops that the child must jump over in order to say the word. The first hoop would be understanding what word(s) is trying to be communicated to them. There auditory lobe must be very active in order to process what word(s) are being said to the child. After the first hoop is jumped the second hoop for the child would be learning how to make there vocal cords and lips work together in order to create the word.…

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    In the class, I started out by grasping at glamorous words to throw on a paper, as one would catch fireflies in a night sky. Feeling unsure of what was going on and doing what i thought was expected, I knew I was not meeting the challenges on my own. During the process, our class shared papers with the one other, including our teacher, for an editing process to find where our paper needed more flexing in order to improve its weaknesses. Through reading aloud joined with personal readings of my…

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    combined to form words” and “the way symbols can be arranged,” which are simply how the language is organized and interpreted to their speakers (Adler, Rosenfeld, Proctor, 2015, pg. 141). There are also semantic rules, which “govern our use of the language,” in other words, “the meaning of statements” (Adler et. al, 2015, pg. 141). This is how it established that a particular word associates…

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    some people have not heard before. Many words are no longer used in today as much as in the past except for some old ancient folks live in rural areas. However, there are some words and phrases that do blend in today’s society to create the dialects that are more flexible, humor, and wisdom of the people speaking it. Syntactically, the word’s orders and idioms are sounded more humor and longer comparing to other dialects. Speaking of phonology, some words are written in SAE, but the phonics is…

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