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    part depends on the other. One must examine Jackson’s linguistic techniques in order to understand how the point of view is so effective in constructing the story’s theme. Her linguistic techniques include: the use of the article “the‚” the lack of adverbs and adjectives in the syntactic structures and the use of words with ambiguous semantic descriptions. Shirley Jackson is a contemporary American writer who has drawn little critical attention; however‚ her short story “The Lottery” has interested

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    miles long. Jeff has bought a new‚ powerful and expensive car. The standing boy is afraid of the running dog. The man walking along the road saw a car accident. 5. Adverb An adverb is a word or group of words used for modifying or describing a verb‚ and adjective‚ another adverb‚ or a whole sentence. Adverbs in English

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    Programme gratefully acknowledges the permission of Gill and Macmillan to reproduce excerpts from Biology Now! by Tommy Murtagh. Contents of this Unit Keywords Vocabulary file Activating students’ knowledge Focus on vocabulary Focus on grammar (verbs/adverbs + prepositions) Focus on reading Focus on writing (writing a paragraph) Answer Key 12 10 11 Page 3 4‚5 6 7‚8 9 © English Language Support Programme for Post-Primary schools - www.elsp.ie Trinity Immigration Initiative 2007-2009 1 NAME:

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    Read each passage carefully. Classify each bracketed word(s) as a noun (N)‚ pronoun (PN)‚ verb (V)‚ adjective (A)‚ adverb (AV)‚ conjunction (C)‚ preposition (P)‚ prepositional phrase (PP). Seek the (35) [LORD] while you can find (36) [him]. (37) [Call] on him now while he is near. Let the wicked change their ways and (38) [banish] the (39) [very] (40) [thought] of doing wrong. Let them turn to the (41) [LORD] that he may have mercy on them. Yes‚ turn to our God‚ for he will forgive (42) [generously]

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    Ray Bradbury uses a lot of different techniques to create tension in his short story‚ "A Sound of Thunder". The techniques used are adjectives‚ adverbs‚ verbs‚ metaphors‚ similes‚ short sentences and he varies the sentence structures to create tension. The first technique Ray Bradbury uses is Adjectives. He uses them in lists of three‚ "... great oiled‚ resilient‚ striding legs." This emphasizes that part of the description and it has more effect on the reader because it creates a strong image.

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    languages.[1] For example‚ Japanese has as many as three classes of adjectives where English has one; Chinese‚ Korean and Japanese have nominal classifiers whereas European languages do not; many languages do not have a distinction between adjectives and adverbs‚ adjectives and verbs (see stative verbs) or adjectives and nouns[citation needed]‚ etc. This variation in the number of categories and their identifying properties entails that analysis be done for each individual language. Nevertheless the labels

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    “COMMONLY MISUNDERSTOOD WORDS AND PHRASES” "Affect" and "Effect" 1.EFFECT ● "Effect" is a noun referring to something that happens as a result of something else. E.g.‚ "The antibiotic had little effect on the illness." ● "Effect" is also a verb meaning to bring something about. E.g.‚ "I have decided to effect a change in the scope of this article." 2.AFFECT ● The verb "affect" means to change something in some way. E.g.‚ "His steady gaze affected my ability to breathe." ● The noun "affect" is used

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    predicate • object • predicative (aka complement) • adverbial and adjunct • sentence • clause • phrase Concepts of intra-elemental grammar for the English language • noun • adjective • determiner • verb • adverb • preposition • conjunction • pronoun [edit] Controversy The term is mainly used to distinguish these ideas from those of contemporary linguistics‚ which are intended to apply to a much broader range of

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    Nowadays‚ theEnglish language is very important and spread widely all around the world. Everybody has their own reason why they study English language‚ for example business contacts‚ study‚ exams‚ and for daily life. In fact‚ the teacher teaches only Standard English in the English classroom. There are few teachers that mention non-standard English such as taboo words in their classroom. What are taboo words? Taboo words are“sanctioned or restricted on both institutional and individual levels under

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    TRANSLATION: The process of turning an original or "source" text into a text in another language. TRANSLATION TECHNIQUES Direct Translation Techniques are used when structural and conceptual elements of the source language can be transposed into the target language. Direct translation techniques include: * Borrowing * Calque * Literal Translation Borrowing Borrowing is the taking of words directly from one language into another without translation. For example software‚ funk. English

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