BASIC ENGLISH NOTES SENTENCE: A group of words which expresses a complete thought. A sentence must contain a subject and a finite verb. There are four types of sentences: (1).STATEMENTS (2). QUESTIONS (3). EXCLAMATIONS (5). COMMANDS (IMPERATIVES) Sentences can be classified as simple sentences‚ compound sentences‚ or complex sentences. A Sentence may be divided into a subject [ (who or what
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ANALYSIS The set up is kind of slow‚ yet story-building. Seeing as this is the last movie of the Blade saga‚ the script becomes more intense that the two prior. A band of vampires finally stumble upon a diamond when they discover the remains of the legendary Dracula in a cave in the middle of the Iraqi Desert. When they reach his body which was buried deep underground they come to realize he is still alive. In a chase with some "familiars" as Blade calls them‚ he rams the back of the car with
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"If I Were a Boy‚" sung by Beyoncé Knowles‚ is a popular song that reached number three on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2008. Surprisingly enough‚ Beyoncé herself did not right the original song. Songwriter‚ BC Jean‚ wrote the hit single around 2005‚ however‚ it was rejected by her label company. Knowles heard it and recorded her own version that was released by Columbia Records. There were rumors speculating that "Queen B" had stolen the song‚ because Jean did not know anything about it until after
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avenging his father’s death. In this soliloquy Shakespeare has revealed Hamlet feelings of inadequacy due to his inability to act and the reasons behind his inaction. Shakespeare also uses this soliloquy to set up the play within the play as the climax at which point Hamlet will be forced to be the revenging son. From the beginning of the play it is obvious that Hamlet is extremely depressed and disillusioned with the world around him. In this soliloquy however Shakespeare has introduced Hamlets
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"Ecological succession" is the observed process of change in the species structure of an ecological community over time. Within any community some species may become less abundant over some time interval‚ or they may even vanish from the ecosystem altogether. Similarly‚ over some time interval‚ other species within the community may become more abundant‚ or new species may even invade into the community from adjacent ecosystems. This observed change over time in what is living in a particular ecosystem
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the people are on the brim of revolution‚ in order to set the context of the story and develop the conflict. War then breaks out in France and Dickens portrays how it can affect life on different levels with the complications and crisis. Through the climax and denouement of the story‚ Dickens attempts to portray a moral in his story‚ with many religious undertones‚ through the sacrifice that Carton makes. With these things in mind‚ the
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get across. It’s a very interesting style of writing‚ as there is a plot to what’s going on but there’s no obvious or exciting climax. You have to sort of find your own climax. I feel as though the main moral of the story is to find your morals and ethics of life‚ to develop your own thoughts and perceptions of life. This means that for the reader you find your own climax in the book‚ when it gets through to your way of thinking and affects your thoughts. I found that the story was told in a way that
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Creating Emotion and Drama: North by Northwest The Montage used in North by Northwest helps impart the viewer with similar emotions that the characters are experiencing while simultaneously providing the viewer with a objective point of view that lends dramatic irony. Nearing the end of the film‚ Roger Thornhill escapes from the hospital to find Eve knowing she is supposed to ‘leave the country within the hour.’ First‚ he is there only because of his love for Eve‚ but he then discovers she is in
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I have just completed the reading of Beowulf‚ which was translated by Burton Raffel. <br> <br>1) Beowulf is an extremely exciting and fascinating story about a character who lived in medieval Europe. The shocking thing for me about this work was to find out that it is the earliest poem in a modern European language. Beowulf is to the English what Homer and the Odyssey were to the Greeks. Although this is the earliest poem‚ it is still fun and exciting to read. I didn’t believe that a poem which has
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Comparison and contrast are literary devices often times used to compare different or similar literary works‚ making a comparison is when you simply associate two or more literary works and show similarities‚ Contrasting is when you emphasize the differences between two or more literary works. For example‚ The Autobiography of Olaudah Equiano and The Slave Dancer contain plenty of similarities and differences throughout the plot of the stories. The Slave Dancer is about a young boy Jessie‚ who lives
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