what people actually say‚ not what they should say. To a linguist‚ grammar consists of those constructions judged acceptable by a native speaker’s intuitions. This is what it means to say that linguistics is descriptive and not prescriptive. Linguistics is descriptive‚ not prescriptive. Many people associate knowing a language with speaking and writing it according to the grammatical rules established for that language in grammar books and dictionaries. The study of linguistic competence does not
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Motivation Present and let the pupils interpret the pictures about charity. The lecturer/s will give additional information about the pictures and then summarize it all. B. Discussion Charity is giving a heart; it’s a practice of voluntary giving of help to those in need. Charitable giving is also a religious act or duty is referred to as almsgiving or alms. Feeding the hungry‚ helping the poor‚ taking care of orphans‚ lending hand to disabled‚ providing shelters‚ food‚ and clothing are some
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Grammar Review Rewrite the sentences correctly or write correct if the sentence is without error(s). 1. The panther lay motionless behind the rocks. Waiting silently for its prey. 2. Mother loved to play all of our favorite games. Canasta‚ Monopoly‚ hide and seek‚ and even kick the can. 3. With machetes‚ the explorers cut their way through the tall grasses to the edge of the canyon. Then they began to lay out the tapes for the survey. 4. The car was hardly worth trading‚ the frame was twisted
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Christmas tradition which makes us different from the other. Some of the Filipino traditions are the Filipino Christmas lantern‚ Christmas caroling‚ “simbang gabi” or the misa de gallo‚ and the gift giving‚ the true essence of Filipino Christmas. CHRISTMAS GIFT GIVING... Historically‚ Christmas gift giving became part of many Christmas traditions all over the world to honor the three wise men that brought gifts to the baby Jesus. According to the bible records after Jesus was born in Bethlehem in
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NounsWords that identify a person‚ idea or thing.woman‚ tree‚ love‚ city‚ computer ‘Naming’ words | Types of noun Common: refers to things in general friendship‚ dog‚ night‚ road‚ education Proper: a specific person/place/thing Edinburgh‚ Asia‚ Clare‚ Tuesday‚ Big Ben Concrete: something that exists physically dog‚ road‚ Asia‚ Big Ben‚ computer Abstract: intangible idea love‚ friendship‚ education‚ time Collective: groups of people or things audience
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Grammar Review By: Shauna Hwang Day 1 * Prepositional phrases – generally consist of a preposition and a noun or pronoun Ex: The sweet potatoes in the vegetable bin are green with mold. * Appositive phrases – a noun or pronoun with modifiers that adds information by identifying‚ renaming‚ or explaining a noun or pronoun Ex: I can’t find my notebook‚ the one I use for history class. * Participial phrases – a participle modified by an adverb or adverbial phrase accompanied by a complement
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The giving pledge What is “the giving pledge”? It’s a solemnly bound “promise” which beats the normal promise. Because a pledge is something you are bound to do‚ and there is no way around it. You could say that “pledge” have a higher status of word if you compare it to “promise”. “The giving pledge” is a band of billionaires who donate money to charity. Warren Buffet and Bill Gates took the initiative to gather a lot of rich Americans and persuade them to give more than 50% of their fortune to
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Grammar Test Revision Unit 1- Sentence Types A simple sentence has one subject and one predicate (verb) Example: My brother is not a very good basketball player. An independent clause is one which can stand-alone it also has a subject and a predicate. Example: We walk home from school. Building on from this you can make a complex sentence made from an independent clause and one or more dependent clauses. A dependent clause in one which cannot stand alone although it to has a subject and
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Prize Giving Ceremony – Announcing Procedures It is recommended to have a good announcer (speaking in English) who can announce the teams and presentations as they are happening. The announcements might be translated to the local language. It is furthermore recommended to have two people making the presentation (not including a host/hostess who will hold the award until the time for the VIP to make the presentation)‚ this allows more VIP’s to be involved and also speeds up the process for
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E C T U R E 3 Context-Free Grammars 1 Where are Context-Free Grammars (CFGs) Used? CFGs are a more powerful formalism than regular expressions. They are more powerful in the sense that whatever can be expressed using regular expressions can be expressed using grammars (short for context-free grammars here)‚ but they can also express languages that do not have regular expressions. An example of such a language is the set of well-matched parenthesis. Grammars are used to express syntactic rules
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