College Reading and Writing 110 August 11‚ 2010 The English Patient Michael Ondaatje’s book The English Patient was published in 1992. At first this book would appear to be a mystery at first‚ but at heart it is a story of romance‚ growing up‚ and the war. This book takes place at an abandoned villa in Italy toward the end of World War II. Due to the authors writing style he flip flops between characters and settings though out the book making it confusing for some and intriguing for others.
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No one denies the importance of English language in the present time as global language. It is clear that the English language has become more dominant around the world. In some countries it use as the mother tongue and‚ other countries learn it as second language in their schools. This is making English widespread. In addition‚ many reasons which contributed to rising of English spreading. For example‚ use it for communication between people around the world‚ as well as‚ it is language of modern
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turn out to be a failure. We didn’t master the English language and cannot say proper English. What is the reason? We all have read some graded books which are written with a particular amount vocabulary. I found it very surprising that a novel can be written with only 2000 or less words! But we college students cannot write a good assay even when we have a vocabulary of 5000 words. So it’s very obvious that we don’t master a correct way to learn English vocabulary. Lexicologists say that the extant
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of Indian English Indian English refers to dialects or varieties of English spoken primarily in India and also by Indian Diaspora elsewhere In the world. Due to British colonialism for over two hundred years’ as were used more to British English than to American‚ Australian or Canadian English. And due to the presence of vernacular languages in our country‚ English was chosen to be the co-official language of the union of India. Our obvious choice is one of the varieties of British English; which educated
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The English Teacher The English Teacher is the third of the trilogy that began with Swami and Friends‚ and The Bachelor of Arts. This novel dedicated to Narayan’s wife Rajam is not only autobiographical but also poignant in its intensity of feeling. The story is a series of experiences in Krishna’s life - some joyful‚ some sorrowful; and his journey towards achieving inner peace and self-development‚ in the traditional Indian sense. About the Author Rasipuram‚ Krishnaswami Narayanaswami‚ or R
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Chávez Barboza. My Experience Before and After Learning English English is a very important language. Nowadays‚ it is recognized as a universal language. Opportunities to travel around the world‚ to know about other cultures or to get a scholarship to study abroad are some of the advantages of learning English. At first‚ learning English was difficult to me in high school‚ but when I began to understand it through ICPNA‚ I realized English is easy if I relate what I learned with my social environment
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English is considered to be the most common and important language of the world today. A great number of people understand and use English in every part of the world.English is the most useful language. Being good at English‚ we can travel to any place or any country we like. We shall not find it hard to make others understand what we wish to say.English also helps us to learn all kinds of subjects. Hundreds of books are written in English every day in all countries to teach people useful things
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Modern English a) Received Pronunciation is an accent‚ which pronunciate words as they are spelled. RP . is conceived as a more formal way of speaking. b) In the 1800’s when a standard English had been established‚ the upper/upper middle class in the north east of England and especially London‚ began speaking RP. It spread‚ and was considered the educated way of speaking‚ so it became the favorable and more official way of speaking in England. c) Cockney pronunciate letters‚ which may
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the use and importance of English in India. Some speak in favour while some others oppose the idea of retaining English as a subject‚ in our school or college curriculum. The British rules introduced English in Indian schools with a hope that the troubles in administration due to linguistic barrier would disappear. So some Indian nationalists claim that English should be removed from this country when the British rule in India has come to the end. For them‚ English language carries a disgraceful
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Version : 2.0 15/01/12 General Certificate of Secondary Education English/ English Language Unit 1 H Tier Understanding and producing non-fiction texts Mark Scheme Version 2.0 2012 examination - Jan series Mark schemes are prepared by the Principal Examiner and considered‚ together with the relevant questions‚ by a panel of subject teachers. This mark scheme includes any amendments made at the standardisation meeting attended by all examiners and is the scheme which was used by them
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