kin31937_ch.02.qxd 10/23/06 2:06 PM Page 11 THESIS SENTENCE TEMPLATES A thesis sentence is a sentence in the introduction that tells the reader what the topic or argument of the essay is. Experienced writers have little difficulty writing thesis sentences. This is because they have read and written thousands of them. You‚ the emerging writer‚ don’t have it so easy. So‚ you have to accelerate the process. You do this via thesis sentence templates. A thesis sentence template is the basic machinery
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exemptions for religious organizations (i.e. Churches‚ Synagogues) indirectly forced him to support said organizations. The case‚ Walz v. Tax Commission of City of New York‚ addressed the issue of if property tax exemptions violated the Establishment Clause of the first amendment. The case was decided May 4‚ 1970 and the ruling served to reinforce the opinion that the purpose of such tax exemptions is not to inhibit or advance religion. Not only does the tax-exempt status of religious organizations
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an online dictionary. Make a few notes on the cards for those words so you will know them better when you see them again. Now‚ sort the words again. Put them in three groups: adjectives‚ nouns and verbs. Use a dictionary or online dictionary to check and see if you’re right. (Hint: you should have 9 adjectives‚ 8 nouns‚ and 3 verbs.) One more sort! Sort your words in to groups that show the connotation you have for each word. (Feel free to revisit lesson #2.02 to review connotation
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systems by B. Elan Dresher and Xin Zhang.) Syntax: Manchu phrases are all head-last. This means that the head-word of a phrase (e.g. the noun of a noun phrase‚ or the verb of a verb phrase) always falls at the end of the phrase. Thus‚ adjectives and adjectival phrases always precede the noun they modify‚ and the arguments to the verb always precede the verb. As a result‚ Manchu sentence structure is subject–object–verb (SOV). The grammars of Japanese and Korean bear resemblance[specify] to
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unique persona to this ghost-story recurrent steam train with its unpleasant sense of isolation and being described as "trapped in a cold tomb". The use of a simile heightens the ghastly connotation of the area that he is arriving too. The normal adjective cold being used as a adverb gives the train a negative feel but almost personifies it like a living being would feel temperatures‚ but this point is counteracted when the train is described as a
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transitional phrase; often‚ your logic will appear through a word or concept common to the last sentence of the preceding paragraph and the topic sentence of the following paragraph. For example‚ the end of a paragraph by Bruce Catton uses a demonstrative adjective‚ "these‚" to modify the subject of the topic sentence so that it will refer to a noun in the last
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Example: Edgar Allen Poe wrote "The Raven" (;) Edgar Lee Masters wrote Spoon River Anthology. Subordinating Ideas Subordinating an idea‚ or show that one idea is related to but less important than another‚ by using an adverb clause or an adjective clause. -Subordinating ideas are dependent on other parts of the sentence. (By itself it is not clear) Example: The dog is a strange mammal (because) it has a peculiar relationship with people. Using Parallel Structure To create parallel
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implies Christopher Ondaatje thought the ferry was likely to sink‚ and is actually amazed that it hasn’t. The quotation “an idyllic spot” immediately gives the reader an insight to his feelings towards his surroundings. He repeatedly uses positive adjectives such as “beautiful”‚ “spectacular” and “wonderful” to highlight his feeling of adoration for the Lake and the nature that surrounds it. Poetic language such as “spectacular sunrise” is used in the passage again to reiterate the feeling of positivity
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brain until we could fully understand and use them all. The eight parts of speech: such a key component of language‚ yet such a complicated piece of my learning career. Out of all eight of the parts of speech‚ the verb‚ the noun‚ the pronoun‚ the adjective‚ the adverb‚ the preposition‚ the conjunction‚ and the interjection‚ the ones that I remember the most are the verb and the noun. I am not quite sure how such basic ideas of language can be so complicated to actually explain. My previous days
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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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