A Informative Speech An Informative Speech is like teaching. The purpose of an informative speech is to try to teach something to the audience. The success of your speech depends on whether the audience learns what you wanted to teach them. You need to tell the audience why the information is useful and valuable. You need to make sure that the audience understands and remembers the essential information. Some examples of an informative speech: A teacher telling students about earthquakes Someone
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Chapter I INTRODUCTION The development of the concept of register reflects a need to explain variation according to use‚ and arises from a concern with the importance of language in action. The term register was first used by the linguist Thomas Bertram Reid in 1956‚ and brought into general currency in the 1960’s by a group of linguist who wanted to distinguish among variation in language according to the user and variations according to use‚ in the sense that each speaker has a range of varieties
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to dig in‚ and get dirty. Word List: Adjectives: unappealing‚ scrumptious‚ tempting‚ infused‚ bold‚ ethnic‚ fat-free‚ indulge Adverbs: quickly‚ extremely‚ completely Pronouns: several‚ (indefinite pronoun) I found that it was an exciting and fun way to enhance my paragraph by introducing plenty of adjectives‚ a few adverbs and just one little pronoun. However‚ even though I thought that I had already used plenty of adjectives to describe my favorite food‚ I realized
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WEEK 7 TEST--9th NAME: __________________________________________ DATE:__________________ 1.______________ A story about extraordinary deeds that has been retold for generations. They are often about a person with historical basis‚ but may also contain elements of magic and myth. 2.______________ Popular narratives (stories) describing adventures of knights and heroes. Its primary purpose is to celebrate the ideals of chivalry (the medieval knight code). 3.______________ Traditional
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Traditional Grammar is the speculative work of the medieval and the prescriptive approach of the 18th Century grammarians basically it refers back to the Aristotelian orientations towards the nature of language as it is shown in the work of the ancient Greeks and Romans. Origin: The very beginning of the twentieth century was typically marked by a new approach to grammar as suggested by linguists such as Ferdinand de Saussure and American linguist like Frantz Boas‚ Bloomfield and Edward Sapir
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and Dependent Clauses _________/10 “The Road” Direct and Indirect Objects _________/10 Common Prepositions _________/10 Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers _________/10 Helping Verbs—Bad HM WOULD chart _________/10 Adverbs _________/10 Adjectives _________/10 Mock 9 wks test corrected – In pocket _________/10 Front cover – Decorated _________/10 Neatness and Creativity _________/10 Total of project __________/150 points Outside
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The Witch Of Blackbird Pond Auspiciously- (adverb) 1. promising success; propitious; opportune; favorable 2. favored by fortune- prosperous; fortunate Synonym: fortunately Antonym: unfavorably Cowed- (verb) to frighten with threats‚ violence‚ etc.; intimidate; overawe Synonym: abash Antonym: encourage disheartening- (verb) to depress the hope‚ courage‚ or spirits of; discourage Synonym: dampen Antonym: encourage fulsome- (adjective) 1.offensive to good taste‚ esp. as being excessive; overdone
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4 Contents Introduction……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………6 Part 1 – Grammar Review 1. Noun……………………………………………….……………………………………………………8 2. Pronoun……………………………………………………………………………………………….13 3. Adjective…………………………………………………………………..…………………………15 4. Verb ……………………………………………………………………………………………..…….17 5. Adverb ……………………………………………………………………………………………….20 6. Preposition …………………………………………………………………………………………21 7. Conjunction..………………………………………………………………………………..……23 8. Interjection..…………………………………………………………………………….………
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Causes for Rise of Articles: In OE the there were two declensions of adjectives – strong (definite) and weak (indefinite) – and the inflections of these declensions indicated whether the noun that followed the adjective was definite or indefinite. At the end of the ME Period the declensions of the Adjective disappeared and there was a necessity to find another way to indicate the definiteness/indefinite ness of a noun. Thus the articles appeared.In OE the word-order was free because inflections
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Participle: Starts out as a verb --- adjective (with ‘ing) Gerund: Starts out as a verb --- noun (with ‘ing’) Infinitive: to + verb (verbs that have not been conjugated) EXAMPLE SENTENCES The starving beggar asked for food. starving: participle‚ verb functioning as an adjective describing beggar Running was the man’s favorite exercise. running: gerund‚ verb functioning as a common noun The boy loved to dance. to dance: infinitive Adjectives: Words that modify nouns and pronouns
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