The Fundamentals of Written English‚ Comm. 117 Progressive Outline from Friday 25th January 2013 to Friday 3rd May 2013 Session One: Friday 25th January 2013‚ City Campus at Bretton Hall Building (BHB)‚ Room 330‚ from 5pm to 8pm‚ CRN: 26368 Objectives: to improve our critical thinking‚ to advance grammatical techniques that will enhance our essay writing skills and to more fully appreciate the values we learn daily and how they are still dominated by Eurocentric principles. 1/ Explain course
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FOUNDATIONS IN GENERATIVE GRAMMAR Any native speaker of a language can be said to know the grammar of his/her own language‚ they know how to form and interpret any expression. However‚ this grammatical knowledge is subconscious. Native speaker have grammatical competence in their native language. This means that they have tacit knowledge of the grammar of their own lang. We have to make a difference between competence (the fluent native speaker’s tacit knowledge of his lang) and performance (what
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Comm 315 Week Three Assignment Personal Action Plan Observation Personal Action Plan Observation “When we are judging everything‚ we are learning nothing.” -Steve Maraboli American social classes can be defined as: lower‚ middle and upper class. Social classes systems are defined by various factors and characteristics such as: income levels‚ occupations‚ educational background‚ net worth‚ personal possessions and
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The importance of grammar can be learned‚ but effort must be put forth to achieve the ends you seek. The importance lies in the fact that there is more to it than making sure commas and apostrophes are in the right places‚ or that you have corrected misplaced modifiers or incorrect pronouns. However‚ comma rules are important. You must know how to use commas appropriately to apply the meaning you intend within your writing. It is also essential to learn how to write in such a way that you are
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Modern universal grammar is a result of the advancement of evolutionary psychology as portrayed by Charles Darwin’s evolutionary theories. Darwin believed that evolutionary psychology gave the human race it’s “first systematic way of understanding ourselves”. Grammar‚ while varying by language‚ is understood to be a systematic and proper for humans to communicate with each other and its use a result of natural selection given the youtube video‚ “Charles Darwin’s Legacy”. In “Charles Darwin’s
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In linguistics‚ traditional grammar is a theory of the structure of language based on ideas Western societies inherited from ancient Greek and Roman sources. The term is mainly used to distinguish these ideas from those of contemporary linguistics. In the English-speaking world at least‚ traditional grammar is still widely taught in elementary schools. |Contents | |1 History | |2 Key concepts | |3 Controversy | |4
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Grammar Test Revision Unit 1- Sentence Types A simple sentence has one subject and one predicate (verb) Example: My brother is not a very good basketball player. An independent clause is one which can stand-alone it also has a subject and a predicate. Example: We walk home from school. Building on from this you can make a complex sentence made from an independent clause and one or more dependent clauses. A dependent clause in one which cannot stand alone although it to has a subject and
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Part One (Flame Test) 1. Create and complete a data table for Part One of the lab. It should include the name of the element (or unknown) examined and the color of the observed flame. Solutions Names Known 1 Barium Known 2 Calcium Known 3 Sodium Known 4 Rubidium Known 5 Potassium Known 6 Lithium Unknown 1 Sodium Unknown 2 Potassium 2. Identify each unknown from Part One of the lab and briefly explain why you identified each unknown as you did. The first unknown from part one from this virtual lab
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Theoretical grammar thesaurus. By Kuchukov Anvar‚ group 201 1. Language is a system of communication which consists of a set of sounds and written symbols which are used by the people of a particular country or region for talking or writing. 2. Speech is the expression of or the ability to express thoughts and feelings by articulate sounds 3. Descriptive Grammar is an objective‚ nonjudgmental description of the grammatical constructions in a language. Contrast with prescriptive grammar. 4. Theoretical
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conversation with the foreigners I meet in the street will enable me to acquire a proper accent. Compared with French‚ English grammar is much easier. However‚ this does not mean that learners meet no difficulties in learning it. It took me a long time to learn how to master the tenses in English grammar‚ to endeavor to do as many grammar exercises as possible and read various grammar books. In writing English‚ English language has its own style. In order to drill writing skills‚ I have tried to read
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