Textbook evaluation June 18‚ 2010 English Vocabulary for Beginning ESL Learners By Jean Yates. 2006. The text is split into four sections: Nouns‚ Adjectives‚ Verbs‚ and Adverbs. The section on nouns alone is split into 11 units and covers just over 100 pages of examples‚ explanations and exercises. I think a text like this would be a great assistance to a beginning teacher like myself‚ as it will give me a framework to follow‚ and the ’ready-made tasks’ or resources‚ that I will
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4 COMPLEX SENTENCES 8 3.1.5 STATEMENTS 9 3.1.6 QUESTIONS 9 3.1.7 DIRECTIVES 9 3.1.8 EXCLAMATIONS 9 3.2 NON-SENTENTIAL HEADLINES 10 3.2.1 MINOR SENTENCES 10 3.2.2 NON-FINITE CLAUSES 11 3.2.3 PHRASES 11 3.2.3.1 NOUN PHRASES 12 3.2.3.2 ADJECTIVE PHRASES 13 3.2.3.3 ADVERB PHRASES 13 3.2.3.4 PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES 14 4. ELLIPSIS 15 4.1 MEDIAL ELLIPSIS 15 4.2 INITIAL ELLIPSIS 15 4.3 SITUATIONAL ELLIPSIS 16 4.4 STRUCTURAL ELLIPSIS 16 5. ANALYSIS OF COLLECTED HEADLINES 17 5.1 TABLOID NEWSPAPERS 17 5.2 BROADSHEET
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Criteria Scientific prose style Oratorical sub-style Publicistic styles Pragmatic aim to prove a hypothesis‚ to create new concepts‚ to disclose the internal laws of existence‚ development‚ relations between different phenomena. is to exert influence on public opinion‚ to convince the listener that the interpretation given by the speaker is the only correct one and to cause him to accept the point of view expressed in the speech not merely by logical argumentation‚ but by emotional appeal as well
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descriptive essay format is the body wherein the author further elaborates the characteristics of the subject being discussed. With his own observation‚ he may present every small feature of his subject in the most artistic way using a variety of adjectives and adverbs. These add color and life to
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CNMT 410 was an interesting class to learn about the professional workplace. The discussions on time stealing interested me the most since I had no idea what some employers consider stealing time. Besides the discussions I learned a lot about producing quality work. Before this class my resume and cover letter would’ve been a joke. Most likely I would’ve taken a generic resume from Google. The resume wouldn’t have been very personal or showcase my experience. There would have been the exact same
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Pointers to Good Composition Writing 1. Use simple words. 2. Vary sentence structure and sentence length. Do not keep repeating the use ofcertain words like ’then’ . Have a mixture of both long and short sentences. 3. Pay attention to paragraphing. 4. Very often‚ you have to describe people and places. When describing a personor place‚ fix the image of the person or place in mind. Then write as much as you can about it. Use sensory perception to include all relevant details. (Sensory perception
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Analysis of Piers Plowman NOUNS Somer: sb. Summer. M. nom sg seson: sb. Season. Sonne: sb. Son. Dat nominal Heremite: sb. hermit. Dat nominal Workes: sb. work. Gen sg/ nom/gen/dat/acc pl World: sb. world Wondres: sb. wonders. Gen sg/ nom/gen/dat/acc pl May: sb. The month of May Maluerne: sb. marvel. Dat nominal Banke: sb. bank. Dat nominal Wateres: sb. water. Gen sg/ nom/gen/dat/acc pl Wildernesse: sb. Wilderness Toure: sb. tower. Dat nominal Dongeon: sb. The highest tower of a castle
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Tracking lexical change in present-day English Raymond Hickey Essen University 1 Introduction For several centuries English has been well known for its many cases of conversion‚ for instance it is used very frequently by Shakespeare‚ almost as a stylistic device of his. And to this day it has remained a prominent feature of the language. The standard definition of conversion (Bauer 1988: 90-2; Spencer 1991: 20) is a change in word-class without any alteration
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Part I: Introduction 1 Rationale Metaphor‚ based on the association of similarity‚ is one of the two basic types of semantic transference that have been an interest for many linguistic researchers. Galperin ( 1981: 139-40) states that the term ‘metaphor’ can be understood as the transference of some quality from one object to another. Metaphor is widely used to designate the process in which a word acquires a derivative meaning. In theory‚ there are at least three communicative functions
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old lives and leave behind the sunset. The poor physical conditions and qualities are emphasised in alliteration “shirtless in shorts‚ barefooted” a metaphor is used to describe what the people are in “themselves a landscape”. “Milk white” is an adjective to describe the people’s flesh which
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