colors into language. We can put some bright colors to words when we are happy‚ or dark colors to express that we are not in a good mood. We give them their own power‚ and in the article “A Question of Language” by Gloria Naylor‚ the author shows us her idea about that power of words. Words themselves are harmless; the problem comes from the way people want to use them. Naylor starts her text by mentioning about her first time hearing the word “nigger”. It was in her third-grade class‚ when she was
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Name of Assignment: How I will develop sight word knowledge in my instructional programme. Introduction Sight words are words which are recognized on sight and do not require any analysis. Sight word knowledge refers to the ability to recognize the pronunciation of words automatically without conscious application of other decoding strategies (Leu and Kinzer‚ 1999). One of the benchmarks of a good reader is fluency. LaBerg and Samuels‚ 1976 define fluency as the process of automatically
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newspapers in the Indonesian language. It can be said that blends are highly frequent in Indonesian‚ considering that the number 600 can certainly grow bigger. To examine the phenomenon‚ I am interested in the following two issues: How can the pattern of each of the collected data be identified? Does Indonesian apply similar blending patterns to those of English (even though they belong to different language families)? The second question is also relevant to ask because some of the English blending rules
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Open and Closed Word Classes Some word classes are OPEN‚ that is‚ new words can be added to the class as the need arises. The class of nouns‚ for instance‚ is potentially infinite‚ since it is continually being expanded as new scientific discoveries are made‚ new products are developed‚ and new ideas are explored. In the late twentieth century‚ for example‚ developments in computer technology have given rise to many new nouns: Internet‚ website‚ URL‚ CD-ROM‚ email‚ newsgroup‚ bitmap‚ modem‚ multimedia
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written word inferior to the spoken‚ and much of the frustration experienced by novelists is the awareness that whatever we manage to capture in even the most transcendent passages falls far short of the richness of life. Dialogue achieves its power in the dynamics of a fleeting moment of sight‚ sound‚ smell and touch." -excerpt taken from Gloria Naylor’s ’The Meanings of a Word’. Words The first sentence of this excerpt can have several interpretations‚ depending on which synonym of the word ’language’
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English Idioms Idioms and idiomatic expressions in English An idiom is a group of words in current usage having a meaning that is not deducible from those of the individual words. For example‚ "to rain cats and dogs" - which means "to rain very heavily" - is an idiom; and "over the moon" - which means "extremely happy" - is another idiom. In both cases‚ you would have a hard time understanding the real meaning if you did not already know these idioms! A (26) B (26) C (27) D (25) E (25)
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examine the parameters you can use to configure the VPN connection you created in Exercise 17.1. Because the VPN server will at first have only a limited number of connections‚ you must prevent users from remaining connected when they are not actually using the network.| Completion time|5 minutes| Question 1|How many connections are there in the Network Connections window?| 3. Take a screen shot of the VPN Server Connection Properties sheet by pressing Alt+Prt Scr‚ and then paste the resulting
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attacks. They would drive their planes straight on into carriers and battle ships of the allied forces. These men were known as the Kamikaze pilots. Most people ask‚ why? There were many different stories behind the word Kamikaze. The real meaning of this word is “divine wind.” Your probably thinking how did they get so many men to give their lives away like this. Well‚ they ordered them to volunteer. The people in charge were not just looking for any men‚ they were looking for men who were young
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5 9/28/12 When someone describes their selves they usually say a ton of words that best fit them. Although many words help describe a person sometimes just one word is enough. The word that would best describe me I think would be pursuer. One thing that makes me a pursuer is my family‚ they raised me to never give up on my dreams and I want to do achieve my goals to give back to them. Along with that another reason is I am a pursuer because I try hard for my own benefit. In addition a third
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Word Ladders In Word Ladders‚ as in Making Words‚ students are guided to build a series of words as the teacher points out decoding‚ spelling‚ and word-meaning clues about the words. However‚ in word ladders‚ the letters used for each new word come from the previous word‚ rather than from a preselected word bank. Students add‚ subtract‚ or change one or more letters from the previous word to make new words based on clues from the teacher. Usually‚ words are listed vertically so that students
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