Content words/Function words Henry Sweet in his famous grammar of 1891 (p.22)‚ writes: "In a sentence such as The earth is round‚ we have no difficulty in recognizing earth and round as ultimate independent sense-units ... Such words as the and is‚ on the other hand‚ though independent in form‚ are not independent in meaning: the and is by themselves do not convey any ideas‚ as earth and round do. We call such words as the and is form-words‚ because they are words in form only. When a form-word
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Bacon’s prose style includes a number of features common to the Elizabethans and the Jacobeans 1) The of Bacon remains for the main part aphoristic. These are a terseness of expression and epigrammatic brevity in the essays of Bacon. In fact‚ the essays of Bacon have to be read slowly because of the compact and condensed thought. There are a number of lines‚ which are read like proverbs. As for example we can quote the essay Of Truth. In this essay Bacon says“ A lie faces God and shrinks pleasure
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• The nouns in the sentence are girl‚ and school. Preposition • A preposition links nouns‚ pronouns and phrases to other words in a sentence. • The man standing on the mountain. • The preposition in this sentence would be on. Verbs • a word used to describe an action‚ state‚ or occurrence. • She heard the dog bark. • The verb in the sentence would be heard. Adverbs • a word or phrase that modifies or qualifies an adjective‚ verb‚ or other adverb or a word group‚ expressing a relation of place
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McDonalds | month‚ day of the week | January‚ Sunday | book‚ film | War & Peace‚ Titanic | | | Verb Is a action word Ex. Walk Adjectives An adjective is a word that tells us more about a noun. (By "noun" we include pronouns and noun phrases.) An adjective "qualifies" or "modifies" a noun (a big dog). Adjectives can be used before a noun (I like Chinese food) or after certain verbs (It is hard). We can often use two or more adjectives together (a beautiful young French lady). Adverbs
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Parts of Speech Chapter 9 - Articles An article is a kind of adjective which is always used with and gives some information about a noun. There are only two articles a and the‚ but they are used very often and are important for using English accurately. The word a (which becomes an when the next word begins with a vowel - a‚ e‚ i‚ o‚ u) is called the indefinite article because the noun it goes with is indefinite or general. The meaning of the article a is similar to the number one‚ but one is
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THE APPOSITIVE PHRASE An appositive is a word placed after another word to explain or identify it. The appositive always appears after the word it explains or identifies. It is always a noun or a pronoun‚ and the word it explains is also a noun or pronoun. Example: My uncle‚ a lawyer‚ is visiting us. My teacher‚ Miss Marshall‚ is very strict. An appositive phrase consists of the appositive and its modifiers which may themselves be phrases. Example: My radio‚ an old portable
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meat. Notice the common theme with bar‚ beriy and barut‚ they all have to do with the slaughtering of livestock. The word beriyt is literally the animal that is slaughtered for the covenant ceremony. The phrase "make a covenant" is found thirteen times in the Hebrew Bible. In the Hebrew text this phrase is "karat beriyt". The word karat literally means‚ "to cut". When a covenant is made‚ a fattened animal is cut into pieces and laid out on the ground. Each party of the covenant then passes through the
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WORKSHEET – UNIT 2 Task 1 - Write 5 examples of each of the following: Countable noun Dog Cat Animal Man Person Uncountable noun Music Art Love Happiness Advice Adjective Average Boiling Broad Ancient Brief Adverb Also Amazingly Always Ahead Angrily Preposition Past About Off Save With Verb Unite twist Untidy Rush Whirl Pronoun He Her Me Your They Infinitive （to + Infinitive) To sleep To eat To wash To love To hate
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International Journal of Linguistics ISSN 1948-5425 2013‚ Vol. 5‚ No. 4 Ideational Grammatical Metaphor in Scientific Texts: A Hallidayan Perspective Bahram Kazemian (Corresponding author) Department of English‚ Tabriz Branch‚ Islamic Azad University‚ Tabriz‚ Iran E-mail: Bahram_kazemian@yahoo.com Biook Behnam Department of English‚ Tabriz Branch‚ Islamic Azad University‚ Tabriz‚ Iran E-mail: Behnam_biook@yahoo.com Naser Ghafoori Department of English‚ Tabriz Branch‚ Islamic Azad
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outside barely Conjunction A preposition combines with a noun or pronoun to form a phrase that tells something about another word in a sentence. from over an an apple an ant until after Interjection A conjunction joins together single words or groups of words in a sentence. An interjection expresses strong feeling or emotion. An interjection can be a single word of a phrase. and but or nor Help! Ugh! My goodness! Oh! Whew! Ouch! Ah! Oh dear
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