pronoun “I” is changed to “HE”. (The Pronoun is changed in Person) iii. The verb “am” is changed to “was”. iv. The adverb “now” is changed to “then”. Rules for changing Direct into Indirect Speech: A. When the reporting or principal verb is in the Past Tense‚ all the Present Tenses in the Direct Speech are changed into Past Tense. a. A simple present tense becomes simple past tense. Example: • Direct : He said‚ “I am unwell.” • Indirect: He said that he was unwell. b. A present
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There is no such thing as ’free education fully financed by the government’. A zero-tuition college education simply means that instead of the students bearing the cost of attaining their degrees the taxpayers bear it. Students and parents misperceive the price of education‚ considering it to be free‚ even though it comes out of their pockets in taxes. And why should low-income taxpayers finance the education of wealthier students? Proponents of state-financed education argue that absence of government
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Parts of Speech In grammar‚ a part of speech (also a word class‚ a lexical class‚ or a lexical category) is a linguistic category of words (or more precisely lexical items)‚ which is generally defined by the syntactic or morphological behavior of the lexical item in question. Common linguistic categories include noun and verb‚ among others. There are open world classes which constantly acquire new members‚ and closed word classes‚ which acquire new members infrequently if at all. Almost all languages
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Westboro Baptist Church has the right to protest military funeral are protected by the First Amendment. Although it is within the legal rights of the Westboro Baptist Church‚Picketing at military funerals is neither ethical nor justifiable. The church members should realize the unnecessary harm they have imposed on so many innocent people. Protesters from the Westboro Baptist Church‚ reviled for such acts as showing up at the funerals of U.S. soldiers with signs reading "Thank God for Dead Soldiers"
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While The Kings Speech draws upon a number of historical facts and events‚ this is not its primary concern. The film is about the effect of a person’s family on how the person develops. For example‚ in The Kings Speech‚ King George VI’s brother abdicating and his father’s cruelty played a part in his stammer and lack of confidence. The film is also about the importance of a secure support system‚ for example Queen Elizabeth and Lionel Logue were Bertie’s support system and they helped him overcome
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Attention to Speech. Taglimonte (2006: p.8) suggests that it is “the style from which every other style must be calibrated”. William Labov devised a sociolinguistic interview designed to produce a range of types of speech. His main interest was to obtain and identify data that represented people’s casual speech‚ rather than speech that was altered due to the presence of an observer. Most of the interview was conversational and produced two types of speech‚ these were identified as careful speech “the interviewee
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Unit 14 Support children’s speech‚ language and Communication -T/600/9789 4 credits Outcome 1 Understand the importance of speech‚ language and communication for children’s overall development 1.1 explain each of the terms: e) speech f) language g) communication h) speech‚ language and communication needs 1.2 explain how speech‚ language and communication skills support each of the following areas in children’s development: a) learning b) emotional c) behaviour d) social 1
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Manalili‚ Maper Anne T. III-14 AB/BSE Literature FIGURE OF SPEECH A figure of speech is a mode of expression in which words are used out of their literal meaning or out of their ordinary use in order to add beauty or emotional intensity or to transfer the poet ’s sense. FIGURES OF SPEECH | EXAMPLE (in Filipino Language/Context) | 1. SIMILE - an explicit comparison that is made between two essentially unlike things‚ usually using ‘like’‚ ‘as’ or ‘than’. | Mala-porselana ang kutis
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concept of freedom of speech has constantly been challenged. Outside of school grounds‚ many would argue that hate speech is nevertheless free speech and therefore should not be regulated. However‚ providing an equal educational opportunity for all has become the issue when the question of what constitutes hate speech is brought to college campuses. In light of recent verbal attacks by students against their peers on college campuses‚ many universities have sought to regulate hate speech. Nonetheless‚ although
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Crystal Sotelo Public Speaking November 18‚ 2012 Effective Speech President Obama and John F. Kennedy are both effective speakers. I will critique President Obama’s Tucson Memorial Speech and John F. Kennedy’s Moon Speech. However‚ the speech of Obama was more effective than John F. Kennedy’s speech. An effective speech should have a public speaker who will either‚ persuade‚ inform‚ or entertain their audience. The public speaker should also have good eye contact with his/her audience‚ be
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