“my journey through life...“ Of my earliest recollection of life‚ I remember having a great time‚ full of energy playing along with my sisters and friends. I still nostalgically reminiscence those days. They were truly the innocent times when I could express and be myself. After that… it was otherwise. During elementary school‚ I had difficult times. I was growing so fast physically due to an early puberty with acne‚ facial and body hair as well as my unusual height
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ELEMENTS OF GRAMMAR · Subjects and predicates Large doses of alcohol act as a depressant. doses - A simple subject is the single noun or pronoun which identifies what the sentence is about or produces the action of the sentence act - The simple predicate is the main sentence verb · Types of nouns A noun identifies a person‚ place‚ thing‚ or idea. Nouns are introduced with definite or indefinite articles‚ or with a limiting word (like a number‚ a demonstrative pronoun‚ or a relative pronoun)
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Introduction A bed and breakfast (or B&B) is a small lodging establishment that offers overnight accommodation and breakfast‚ but usually does not offer other meals. Since the 1980s‚ the meaning of the term has also extended to include accommodations that are also known as “self-catering” establishments. Typically‚ bed and breakfasts are private homes with fewer than 10 bedrooms available for commercial use. “ B&Bs are one of the glories of the British tourist industry..
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i Research on Prescriptive Grammar and Its Comparison with Descriptive Grammar ii Abstract In English linguistics‚ there are two approaches which are opposite to each other theoretically: prescriptive grammar and descriptive grammar. These two grammars were born in different historical conditions‚ and the application rules involved in has been still under the dispute through the development of English linguistics. It is significant to study the development trend and application in English
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1. L-ge and speech. We use language in speech. Language is a system of signs‚ of meanings‚ of expressions‚ registered in different written sources. Speech is a kind of manifestation of the system of language in the process of communication. Language as a system consists of material and non-material parts. The system of the language consists of material units (words‚ texts) and rules of their use (non-material). Speech includes the act of producing of utterance. The units of language form hierarchal
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Elbaum‚ Sandra. 2001. Grammar in Context 3rd ed. Boston: Heinle & Heinle Publishers. Grammar in Context by Sandra N. Elbaum is an interesting approach to teaching grammar. Elbaum encases grammar in a much more useful mantle by using real life examples of U.S. culture and history. Grammar is an important part of language‚ but it is technical‚ abstract‚ and boring. In order for a text to engage a student it must be interesting and relevant to their lives. I think Grammar in Context could be effective
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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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conjunction. **Past can also function as a noun or an adjective. ***Since can also function as a subordinate conjunction Should I end a sentence with a preposition? The so-called "rule" about never ending a sentence with a preposition comes from Latin grammar. In Latin‚ the word order of a sentence didn’t matter; subjects and verbs and direct objects could appear in any sequence. However‚ the placement of prepositions was important. Latin sentences could quickly become confusing if the preposition does
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actually learns grammar to learn his/ her own mother tongue. It is a natural phenomenon that we start speaking what everybody speaks around us. We gradually develop a better sense of understanding with the passage of time. We don’t study grammar of our own mother tongue to use it for daily speaking‚ but when we need to polish our own mother tongue‚ we have to study its grammar and we usually do that. When we come to learning a new language like English language‚ we need to study its grammar‚ the importance
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Transformational grammar – is a linguistic theory also known as transformational-generative grammar. It arose in the 1950’s and considers the most important task of descriptive linguistics to be the construction of a transformational grammar. The theory was founded by the American linguist N. Chomsky; other adherents have included R. Lees‚ C. Fillmore‚ E. Klima‚ E. Bach‚ J. Katz‚ J. Fodor‚ M. Bierwisch‚ and R. Rüzicka. In the late 1960’s the concept of deep structure was reexamined owing to a growing
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