reading the whole text or to skip it onto another one. Each headline should be a summary of the news which follows. A headline should be a regular sentence structure containing a subject and a verb. It means that only lexical‚ not grammatical words are used. The major reason for that is the space. Then the rule of a sentence may be broken‚ only minor sentences are used‚ and such a headline can be rather difficult to understand. This happens on purpose to make the headline somehow special with the aim
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Fitzgerald contrast “hard rock” with “wet marshes” Fitzgerald contrasts “hard rock” and “wet marshes” by saying how everyone has their own set of beliefs. Someone’s conduct can be engrained within their head‚ but he doesn’t care. In the third sentence‚ note the metaphor and explain Fitzgerald’s choice of this particular metaphor. Fitzgerald mentions a metaphor when he says‚ “When I came back from the East last autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention
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Chapter 3: Business Style: Word Choice‚ Conciseness‚ and Tone I. Word choice Plain style: style of writing that places value on simplicity‚ directness and clarity. -use common everyday words except for necessary technical terms. -use reasonable sentence lengths -use active-voice verbs and phrasal verbs ( active-voice verbs show who or what performs an action/ phrasal verbs are simple and informal‚ continuing verbs =>work out instead of devise) -use personal pronouns -use unambiguous language
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With a determinate sentence the convicted person is given a sentence that has a defined length to be served and cant’ be changed by a parole board or any other agency but may reduced by factors such as “good time”. While with an indeterminate sentence it consists of a range of the years that will be served. There is always a minimum sentence but the release date if any is uncertain. It is determined by a parole board when it periodically reviews the case‚ and could be given the possibility for
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CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION CHAPTER II DISCUSSION 1. COLLOCATION and IDIOM A. Collocation Based on Oxford Learner’s Dictionary‚ collocation is a combination of words in a language that happens very often and more frequently than would happen by chance. Collocation is a term to refer to words that tend to appear together or words that tend to keep company. Frequent examples of collocation are onomatopoeic words‚ that is‚ words which are formed by imitating the sounds associated with the thing
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Proverb‚ Idiom and Phrase. IDIOM An "idiom" is a phrase that has a specific meaning‚ different than you would expect based on the individual words. Idiom is more subtle. It can be informal or merely non-literal‚ and either a phrase or a complete sentence. Here are two examples of idioms that are also phrases: * brick and mortar (a traditional business‚ in contrast to e-commerce) * town and gown (when a school or university is in close proximity with a surrounding community‚ this is a way
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speech’ is often used generically‚ and the big list here includes not only figures of speech but also a wider range of rhetorical and linguistic devices. Discussion: Kinds of Figure of Speech Zeugma is the joining of two or more parts of a sentence with a common word‚ usually a verb. Example: She wore a pink hat and a beatific smile. In the morning‚ happy she was‚ and in the evening and dark night too. Time makes older adults wiser and younger adults less wise. Walking up and down. Discussion:
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rules governing how a language should or should not be used rather than describing the ways in which a language is actually used. 6. Structural grammar is a means of analyzing written and spoken language. It is concerned with how elements of a sentence such as morphemes‚ phonemes‚ phrases‚ clauses and parts of speech are put together. 7. Analytical language is a language that conveys grammatical relationships without using inflectional affixes 8. Syntactical language is a language intended for
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by distinguishing between short and long sentences. The majority of sentences Mairs incorporates in her passage are short to create the emphasis of what her condition is‚ how the condition has affected the way she describes herself‚ and how people should not be pitying the affected patients of the disease‚ such as herself. For example‚ in her first paragraph‚ the first two sentences are short consisting of words not exceeding ten. These definite sentences where she states “I am a cripple. I choose
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“to reduplicate”. It refers to the repetition of a word or words in successive clauses in such a way that the second clause starts with the same word which marks the end of the previous clause. Repetition of the words or phrase at the end of one sentence‚ line‚ or clause at the beginning of the next. “The mountains look on Marathon – And Marathon looks on the sea…” “The general who became a slave. The slave who became a gladiator. The gladiator who defied an emperor. Striking story!” “He retained
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