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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A Comparative Analysis of Tenses in Newspapers Headlines and Reports Introduction. The aim of this course paper is to compare tenses used in newspapers headlines and reports on the analytical basis‚ and to find out for what particular reasons the usage of tenses in headlines and newspaper articles differ. First‚ I am going to focus on the characteristics of different functional styles found in the English language. In the light of oratorical‚ colloquial‚ poetic‚ official and other styles‚ we
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The article “Why humans need less sleep than any other primate” published on the Earth section of the BBC website explains how the human brain has developed to need a little amount of sleep compared to the one of other primates (monkeys and apes). We sleep less‚ but we have more quality sleep and this may be the cause of our success as a species. In this essay‚ I will focus on some aspects of the language used by the writer. Both elements of formal and informal writing converge in the text. Firstly
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this stuff somebody else can dry it. 2. clauses: If I wash up all this stuff / somebody else can dry it. 3. phrases: if / I / wash up / all this stuff / somebody else / can dry it. 4. words: If / I / wash / up / all / this / stuff / somebody / else / can / dry / it. 5. morphemes: If / he / wash/ -es / up / all / this / stuff / some / body / else / can / dry / it. In the simplest cases‚ a unit consists of one or more elements on the level below: • A clause consists of one or more phrases. • A
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modifiers tucked in along the way or put at the end. For the most part‚ these sentences are fine. Put too many of them in a row‚ however‚ and they become monotonous. Adverbial modifiers‚ being easily movable‚ can often be inserted at the beginning of the sentence‚ ahead of the subject. Such modifiers might be single words‚ phrases‚ or clauses. • Examples: o A few drops of sap eventually began to trickle from the tree into the pail. Eventually a few drops of sap began to trickle from the tree into
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Seminar 1 I Она окинула взглядом Гофер-Прери. Снег‚ сплошной пеленой затянувший всё от улиц до всепоглощающих прерий‚ срывал с города маску тихого пристанища. Дома были лишь черными пятнами на белом полотне. a) snow stretching without break Semantics: the transference of the mode of action; common semantic characteristic – duration of the process; Originality: genuine; Expressiveness: the gap between associated modes is quite wide; Syntactic function: verb; Vividness: vivid‚ the reality is shown
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Summary of Complex Sentences (1) Subject Clauses That he has helped me is a fact. Whether she will arrive in time is not certain. How the thief stole in last night remains a mystery. What we are doing today is something new and special. It is not certain whether she will arrive in time. (2) Complement Clauses (Predicative Clauses) The fact is that he is really working hard every day. This is what I am looking for. This is who I met at the airport. That is where we change from
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OBLIQUE MOODS IN SUBJECT CLAUSES Subjunctive I a) Of the type: It is necessary (it seems‚ it becomes) that he come. It is important that a young man have real friends. b) In exclamatory sentences beginning with ‘How…’‚ ‘What…’: How strange that she be here! Suppositional mood a) In sentences beginning with: It is necessary that… It is important that a young man should have real friends. (syn. It’s likely + may/might + infinitive It was probable that I might get an excellent
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The experiential metafunction: Clause as representation Metafunctions: Ideational (construes human experience) – Transitivity Interpersonal (enacts human relationships) – Mood Textual (creates discourse) – Theme/Rheme Logical (links between components rather than unit–whole) Ideational function Experiential (modelling a domain of "knowledge" – construing organic ‘wholes’) Processes‚ participants‚ circumstances |[pic]
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■ Its main use is for separating parts of sentences. ■ Commas function in five main ways: 1. Before or after adverbial clauses and groups. e.g. After dinner‚ he walked around the town. If we work at night and sleep during the daytime‚ we have difficulty in adjusting our habits. 2. Before various connectives to join two independent clauses (and‚ but‚ or‚ so nor‚ for yet). e.g. The house badly needed painting‚ and the roof needed repairing. Lord Knollys
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