position it in front of phrases like "the box" or "the sides of the box" and see if the phrase makes sense. For prepositions concerning time‚ try positioning the preposition in front of a phrase like "the movie." (This rule works for about nine out of ten prepositions). Here are some examples: across the box under the box around the box near the box on top of the box along the sides of the box Such a phrase that begins with a preposition is called a prepositional phrase. The noun that comes after
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Phonemic pronunciation: / pʊt ɒf / There is linking with the weak form of off in this verbal phrase. The sentence stress in on the phrasal verb put off and the continuous verb sleeping Appropriacy: Informal‚ can be used when you are talking with people. It should not be used when writing a business letter. Anticipated problems and solutions Problem: Students might not understand the lexical phrases meaning. Solution: Use physical gestures and graded language to simplify the meaning also use
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weaknesses from my writing and my poor focus to get my work done. Many of the weaknesses are phrase fragment‚ avoid biased and exclusionary language‚ vague word and lastly‚ sentence snarls. The Key for Writers handbook had shown me much descriptive information in very deep details that tell me what or what not to do in my writing. In chapter nineteen‚ the chapter explains to me what is phrase fragments. Phrase fragments are a group of words without a subject‚ subject‚ and a verb. The Key for Writers
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JORDAN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE A constituent college of st. of Augustine University of Tanzania (SAUT) FACULTY OF EDUCATION P.O BOX 1878‚ Morogoro-Tanzania. COURSE; ENGLISH STRUCTURE CODE; LL 214 DEPARTMENT; ENGLISH SUBMITTED BY; GERALD‚ RICHARD REGISTRATION NUMBER; 2011/ 0237 SUBMITTED TO; MADAM MARY JIBREA TASK: THE RELEVANCES OF ENGLISH SRUCTURE TO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. Structure of English We can study the English structure to relate to the English
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Introduction Changing of sentences from one form to another is a favorite exercise in public school English. Thus from a sentence like John is writing a letter. May be formed‚ among others‚ the following: John isn’t writing a letter. Is John writing a letter? A letter is being written by John. Very little is ordinarily given by way of clearly formulated rules for these processes‚ yet students seem to learn the technique more or less readily. On the other hand‚ a little examination will show that
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fictional. Ambiguity The presence of two or more possible meanings in any passage. Analogy Reasoning or arguing from parallel cases. Anaphora The repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or verses. Antithesis The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in balanced phrases. Aphorism (1) A tersely phrased statement of a truth or opinion. (2) A brief statement of a principle. Apostrophe A rhetorical term for breaking off discourse to address some absent
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INTRODUCTION English is one of the most important and most spoken languages in the world. It is the native language of more than 350 million people. Undoubtedly‚ the popularity of the language has termed English as the international language of business‚ education‚ science‚ technology‚ banking‚ computing‚ medicine‚ aviation‚ engineering‚ tourism‚ UN & NATO armed forces‚ Hollywood films and the best pop and rock music of the world. So‚ it is seemed to be the only language that truly links the
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place‚ or thing. • The girl went to school. • 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
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Frasier claims that the longer a sentence‚ the more grammatical rules needed to be applied. With each word added to a simple phrase‚ the structure of the sentence becomes more complicated and more time is spent in trying to understand the meaning of it. The smaller the sentence‚ the easier to comprehend it since the numbers of grammatical rules are limited. The garden path is a metaphor intended to compare the maze in a garden path with how difficult a sentence can be to understand if many word
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Persian is Typologically known as an SOV language; verbs mostly appear at the end of the verb phrase. But it shows the word order properties of SVO languages‚ too. Persian has a free word order‚ that is‚ it is possible to change the order of the verb‚ its complements‚ and adjuncts in different ways‚ without affecting the grammaticality of the sentence. The properties of Persian regarding three parameters of the Minimalist Program that is relevant to the topic are the following: - Head Position
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