Yesterday was Monday. Yesterday’s class was interesting. She came yesterday. Yesterday is classed as a morphemic noun in all three sentences because the word is able to take inflections marking plural‚ possessive‚ or both—characteristic of nouns. Syntactically‚ however‚ yesterday is not the same. In sentence one‚ yesterday is a syntactic noun. In sentence two‚ it is classed as a syntactic adjective. In sentence three‚ the word yesterday tells when and is‚ therefore‚ considered a syntactic adverb
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Honesty I will start with a true story. Once King of Spain went to visit prison. He spoke with each and every prisoners. One prisoner said ‚ “ I am innocent but the judge was biased. “ the other told “ Witnesses lied “ Every prisoner claimed that they were innocent. Only one prisoner told king ” I was in need of money. I was caught while stealing the ornaments. I am in jail for the crime I committed.” The king exclaimed “ You are the only bad person in the company of all these honest persons
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* (A) * (B) * (C) * (D) * (E) Explanation Choice (C) is correct. It avoids the lack of parallelism of the original by replacing the present participle "alternating" with the past tense verb "alternated‚" which is logically consistent with the past tense verb "incorporated." ------------------------------------------------- أعلى النموذج The party guests were enthralled by the host’s ------- anecdotes‚ which were full of engaging and provocative details. * (A) piquant
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form-words‚ because they are words in form only. When a form-word is entirely devoid of meaning‚ we may call it an empty word‚ as opposed to full words such as earth and round." Content words: noun‚ adjective‚ adverb‚ main verb Function words: auxiliary verb‚ modal verb‚ pronoun‚ preposition‚ determiner‚ conjunction. According to Prof. John Sinclair‚ there are two principles at work in language: The open choice & the idiom principle The open choice principle Language is creative
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This is how to get the best result. You let the berries dry in the sun till all moisture has gone of them. Then you gather them and chop them very fine. (Halliday and Hasan‚ 1976: 17) In this example‚ the demonstrative pronoun “this” is used to refer to the whole next two sentences. It should be noted that cataphoric reference does not always contribute to cohesion as the anaphoric does. The second type of cohesive devices suggested by Halliday and Hasan is substitution. A substitution is used
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THE LANGUAGE OF ADVERTISING *Lakshmanan.M.P “There are four ways‚ and only four ways‚ in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do‚ how we look‚ what we say‚ and how we say it.” -Dale Carnegie Abstract We are living in an era of information explosion in which advertising seems to be an indispensable building block of the media.
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Modal Verbs CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ………………………..………………………………….......... 3 CHAPTER ONE. CATEGORY OF MODALITY AND MEANS OF ITS EXPRESSION …………...…………………………...…......4 1.1. Notion of modality and history of its study ……….…….………….4 1.2. Modal verbs as means of expressing modality………………...........6 Conclusions to Chapter One ………………………………………………........12 CHAPTER TWO. LEXICO-GRAMMATICAL MEANS OF EXRESSING MODALITY …………………………………………...…..13 2.1. Modal verbs as means of expressing
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Phrase A Phrase is a group of related words that does not include a subject and predicate. There are several kind of phrases: Noun Phrase A noun phrase is a group of words with a noun as its headword. Some noun phrases begin with an infinitive (to go) or a gerund (going). Example: The young man threw the old dog a bone. Adjective Phrase An adjective phrase is a phrase with an adjective as its head. An adjective phrase modifies a noun. Occasionally following a noun Example:
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Question#6: Five Chapters of a Thesis 1 Running head: FIVE CHAPTERS OF A THESIS DL5: Comprehensive Examination Questions Question #6: The Five Chapters of a Thesis William Bennett CSUSB EVOC 639: Professional Competencies in Vocational Education April 13‚ 2010 Question#6: Five Chapters of a Thesis 2 Question 6 Describe the five major chapters of a thesis. Your description should also include the value and purpose for each chapter. The five major chapters of a thesis are: the introduction
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Phrases and Clauses 5 December 2012 Phrases and Clauses I) Prepositional and Appositive Phrases Phrase- a few words that do not have a subject or a verb and are one part of speech in a sentence A) Prepositional Phrases Prepositional phrase- preposition with a noun or pronoun following it Ex: near the table and chairs. “Near” is the preposition and “table and chairs” are the objects. 1) Adjectival Phrases Adjectival phrase- a prepositional phrase that modifies a noun or pronoun
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