1. THE GERM. LANGUAGES IN THE MOD. WORLD Languages can be classified acc. to different principles. The historical classification groups lang-s in accordance with their origin from a common linguistic ancestor. English belongs to the Germanic or Teutonic group of lang-s. The modern GL are 11 in number. They all go to ProtoGermanic. And protogerm. goes to the Indoeuropean tongues. The GL fall into: 1. East Germanic (The Gothic Lang.) – nowadays all of them are dead‚ 2. North Germanic : Swedish –
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conundrum - a difficult problem (noun) whet - Make keen or more acute (verb) placate - gain the goodwill of (verb) infructuous - not fruitful; not producing the desired results (Adj) rectitude - Righteousness as a consequence of being honourable and honest(noun) Ex. Rectitude of behaviour expediency - the quality of being suited to the end in view (noun) expedient - appropriate to a purpose / serving to promote your interest (Adj) repugnant - extremely distasteful / in conflict
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TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETING STUDIES PREP SCHOOL INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED READING BOOK REPORT FORM Name Baris Tokel Date 6/04/2013 Title of Story/Book The Sugar Glider Author Rod Neilsen Setting: The story takes place in southeastern part of Australia Main Characters (with analysis) Don Radcliffe: a pilot‚ close friend of Paul‚ father of Judy Paul Copeman: a pilot‚ close friend od Don Judy Radcliffe: daughter of Don Radcliffe Sylvia: ex-wife of Don Beulah Copeman:
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[pic][lEs’beto~] Verlan version of "laisse tomber" les Anglais (noun‚ masculine‚ plural) [pic]the Redcoats (the Red Flag‚ etc...) [pic]French‚ as any other language‚ has numerous periphrastic and euphemistic expressions to indicate female menstruation‚ a phenomenon that our male-dominated societies‚ until recently
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given a group of proper nouns‚ or when they were given proper nouns with associated images as Paivio believed that these were strongly related. For the experiment a one tailed hypothesis was used‚ this one tailed hypothesis stated that participants would find it easier to recall proper nouns that were shown with a picture as opposed to being shown proper nouns without the picture. The I.V used in the experiment was whether the participants in each condition were shown proper nouns accompanied by images
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I. INTRODUCTION Understanding Old English Old English (OE) is the earliest form of English spoken today. Seeing it at first glance‚ we will recognize that the appearance and sound are roughly different from Present Day English. The form started emerging approximately in the fifth century‚ around 449 AD and used for over 600 years before the Norman Conquest 1066 AD. During those 600 years‚ it was going through a constant change. By 1100‚ it had been a completely different language compared to its
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LESSON PLAN Day/Date : Time : 8:40 am – 9:40 am Standard : 5 Duration : 1 hour Students : 19 /22 Subject : English Grammar Topic Theme : : Collective Noun Sharing ‚ Saving and Spending General Objectives The objective of the lesson is make students understand collective nouns and use collective nouns in the correct form. Learning Outcomes At the end of the lesson‚ students should be able to: 1. Differentiate regular and irregular verb in simple past tense 2. Differentiate the use of past
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verb is derived‚ as in dark +en = Darken When =ie is added to an adjective‚ a noun is formed‚ as in sweet +ie = sweetie Other examples: Noun to adjective Verb to Noun Adjective to adverb boy+-ish= Boyish clear+-ance = clearance exact+-ly = exactly virtue+ -ous= virtuous sing+-er=singer clear+-ly =clearly Noun to Verb Adjective to Noun Verb to Adjective moral+-ize= Moralize tall+-ness= tallness read+-able=readable
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Tutorial Week 7 - Class and Entity-Relationship Diagrams 1 Class Diagrams and Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERD) Class diagrams and ERDs both model the structure of a system. Class diagrams represent the dynamic aspects of a system: both the structural and behavioural features. ERDs‚ depicting only structural features provide a static view of the system. 2 Class Diagrams 2.1 Elements of a class diagram: 2.1.1 class A class is a general concept (represented as a square box). A class defines
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combines with a noun to form a phrase. For example‚ in the sentence "The cat sleeps on the sofa"‚ the word "on" is a preposition‚ introducing the prepositional phrase "on the sofa". In English‚ the most used prepositions are "of"‚ "to"‚ "in"‚ "for"‚ "with" and "on". Simply put‚ a preposition indicates a relation between things mentioned in a sentence. Another simpler term‚ a preposition is a prior explanation‚ typically found before a noun‚ pronoun‚ or substantives‚ that explains the noun‚ pronoun‚ or
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