PART A: INTRODUCTION 1. Rationale Mass media in general and newspapers in particular nowadays play a very important role in our lives. Many people even say that living in the world without newspapers is like living in an isolated island. Newspapers help us become informed citizens and make better decision by providing a lot of facts. Hard news stories‚ vital statistics‚ weather‚ sports stories and scores and even calendars are examples of items that help inform readers. Some newspaper articles
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expressing opinions and attitudes. Modality in general is defined similarly in many reference books. For example Quirk‚ Greenbaum‚ Leech and Svartvik (1985) claim‚ that “at its most general‚ modality may be defined as the manner in which the meaning of a clause is qualified so as to reflect the speaker’s judgment of the likelihood of the proposition it expresses being true” (p. 219). However‚ the authors deal with the term modality mainly in connection with the category of modal auxiliary verbs and the topic
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coherence‚ as well as the use of punctuation. The linguistic features of the text will be discussed with reference to the grammatical parts and lexical categories present in the sentences. This will be done by identifying the different phrases and clauses found in the text and explaining the functions of those that represent constituents of a sentence. Then the functions of the major word classes will be described and a distinction will be drawn between content and structure words. The text being analysed
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When Do I Use A Comma? 1. Use commas before and‚ or‚ nor‚ for‚ so‚ yet‚ and but when they join two independent clauses. Ex. I placed the typed sheet on his desk‚ and he picked it up and read it slowly. I knew he was angry‚ for he rose and stomped out of the room. 2. Use commas between the items of a series. The man looked tired‚ thirsty‚ defeated‚ and sunburned. 3. Use commas between coordinate adjectives preceding a noun. A comma between two adjectives indicates that the two adjectives are
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Late for school On day‚ when I was ten years old I got up for school in the morning but unfortunately I got up late. When I went to where the bus should be stop I considered that I missed the bus. I remembered that there is a bus going late to school but it is in a far area from the place I live. So‚ I ran to that area hoping that the bus hadn’t left yet. I ran to there with lots of ideas of the punishment that my father would give me if he knew. I reached where the bus should be stop
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inter-elemental) and the grammar within sentence elements (i.e. intra-elemental). Concepts of inter-elemental grammar for the English language • subject • predicate • object • predicative (aka complement) • adverbial and adjunct • sentence • clause • phrase Concepts of intra-elemental grammar for the English language • noun • adjective • determiner • verb • adverb • preposition • conjunction • pronoun [edit] Controversy The term is mainly
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When a social actor is activated‚ he or she is the dynamic force behind a social practice or agent of a process. Meanwhile‚ in many instances of representation‚ often a social actor gets passivated; participants are on the ‘receiving end’ of a process or activity due to the intent of a text writer to serve or perpetuate certain ideologies. Passivation of a social actor can be either subjected or beneficialised. A social actor is subjected when he or she takes the role of a goal in a process‚ as in
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there are words that come after the head and they are called post-modifiers. At the same beginning of this chapter it was stated that pre-modifiers of Nouns are always realized as Adjectival Phrases and the post-modifires are either phrases or clauses. In both chapters‚ determiners are similarly explained. They are words somewhat like adjectives which come before a noun. Articles or any of the dependent pronouns and numerals may be determiners. Like in Chapter 7‚ as well in Chapter 6.2 the emphasis
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prepositions‚ and conjunctions. (Determiners‚ traditionally classified along with adjectives‚ have not always been regarded as a separate part of speech.) Interjections are another word class‚ but these are not described here as they do not form part of the clause and sentence structure of the language.[1] Nouns‚ verbs‚ adjectives‚ and adverbs form open classes – word classes that readily accept new members‚ such as the noun celebutante (a celebrity who frequents the fashion circles)‚ the adverb 24/7 (as in
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CAPITALIZATION AND PUNCTUATION The purpose of capital letters and punctuation marks is simply to make reading easier. Without them‚ reading would be a constant puzzle; and we are all much too busy to work out puzzles every time we read. Notice how confusing the following sentence is when it is written without capital letters and punctuation marks: caesar entered on his head his helmet on his feet his sandals in his hand his sword on his forehead a frown and sat down Is the following
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