English Grammar in Conversation Geoffrey Leech DEPARTMENT OF LINGUISTICS AND MODERN ENGLISH LANGUAGE LANCASTER UNIVERSITY‚ LANCASTER LA1 4YT‚ UK A thorough description of spoken English grammar is felt to be overdue. After all‚ spoken language has largely been neglected by grammatical tradition; the word grammar itself descends from the classical Greek word for writing. The grammarian ’s bias towards the written language remains strong today‚ and is reflected in such terminology as ’left
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English IV/ Capstone Research Mitchell Annotated Bibliography Holmes‚ G: Britain after the Glorious Revolution 1689-1714. Macmillian and Co LTD‚ 1969. Print. Much of the excitement of history lies not in the narrative of events‚ but in the process of discussion. This book is wholly concerned with problems. Problems such as corruption took place in the 16th century. This book covers more than the corruption in the English church but every event that could lead up to this event. It defies
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INTRODUCTION Oral Communication The word Communication is a process whereby meaning is defined and shared between living organisms. Communication requires a sender‚ a message‚ and an intended recipient‚ although the receiver need not be present or aware of the sender’s intent to communicate at the time of communication; thus communication can occur across vast distances in time and space. Communication requires that the communicating parties share an area of communicative commonality. The communication
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Pretoria ENG1502/1/2013–2014 98917056 InDesign CGM_Style CONTENTS Page Preface Learning unit 1: What is Language? 1.1 An Introduction to Foundations in Applied English Language 1.2 What are texts and domains? 1.3 What is language? 1.4 Why study language? Conclusion References Learning unit 2: Let’s listen to the sounds of the English Language 2.1 The discrepancy between spelling and sound 2.2 Basic concepts of the sound system 2.3 Sound production 2.4 Variation in pronunciation 2.5 Attitudes and
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Haynes Bayly Absence makes the heart grow fonder but makes the mind forget. The acorn (apple) never falls far from the tree. Act today only‚ tomorrow is too late Action is the proper fruit of knowledge. Actions speak louder than words. (a common English saying) Advice most needed is least heeded. After dinner sit a while‚ after supper walk a mile. All cats love fish but hate to get their paws wet. All flowers are not in one garden. All for one and one for all. Alexandre Dumas‚ The Three Musketeers
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ASSIGNMENT COVER PAGE 1. TESOL English for Adults 2. Dung Nguyen 3. Mailing address: 140/11B Binh Quoi Street - Ward 27th - Binh Thanh District - Ho Chi Minh City - Vietnam. Contact number: 00-84-8-355-624-41 or 00-84-8-903-974-993 Email address: nancynguyen_4293@yahoo.com 4. I have completed my “TESOL Traing Coure”. Date: 25th January‚ 2013 City: Ho Chi Minh City‚ Vietnam 5. I am taking this specialization course as part of CERT IV. 6. I have completed one more specializations
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considerable challenge to non-native speakers. Spoken English has an unusually high number of vowel sounds - from 5 written vowels (a‚ e‚ i‚ o‚ u) we produce 19 vowel sounds (see chart below). Do you know how many vowel sounds your language has? If it has less than English‚ you will need to learn the new sounds. Types of Vowel Sound A vowel sound is made by shaping the air as it leaves the mouth. There are four types of vowel in English: Short monothongs (2‚ 3‚ 4‚ 7‚ 10‚ 12 in the diagram)
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before it was too late. Someone should tell their side of the story‚ and maybe people would understand then and wouldn’t be so quick to judge a boy by the amount of hair oil he wore. It was important to me. I picked up the phone book and called my English teacher. "Mr. Syme‚ this is Ponyboy. That theme--- how long can it be?" "Why‚ uh‚ not less than five pages." He sounded a little surprised. I’d forgotten it was late at night. "Can it be longer?" "Certainly‚ Ponyboy‚ as long as you want it."
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English Eulogy Me: Brett Dead man: Sam Hello ladies and gentlemen‚ my name is Brett Dalton and we are here to celebrate the life of Sam. Today we mourn for someone who was a father figure to most of us helping us through the good and bad times. No matter how well you knew Sam he was there to help like brothers in arms. As most of you will know Sam started off as a stockman‚ in the vast land of Mungindi. Rounding up horses and cattle all day long in the blistering heat was just what he
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2. Peculiarities of English modality 1. Modality 2. The linguistic expression of modality 3. Types of modality (according to Bybee) 4. Epistemic‚ deontic and dynamic modality 5. Flexibility of meaning 3. Practical part 3.1. English advertisements analysis 4. Conclusions 5. References 6. Summary in Lithuania 7. Appendix Introduction I chose “Modality in English Newspaper Advertisements”
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