Division-Classification Chapter 6: Nadell‚ Judith‚ John Langan and Eliza A. Comodromos. The Longman Reader (10th Edition). New York: Pearson Education Inc. 2012. 10/11/2013 Prepared by Wendy K. Campbell for Roytec 1 Division-Classification Defined What would your life be without any order? Division-Classification is a logical way of thinking that allows us to make sense of a complex world. Although they are separate processes‚ the two are used together as complementary techniques
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next class. Questions 1-6 FINDING SUBJECTS AND VERBS On the answer sheet‚ for each of these sentences‚ write the main subject(s) in the first blank and the main verb(s) in the second blank. Careful – beware of prepositional phrases or dependent clauses that might lurk in between the real subject and verb to fool you. Also remember that verbs‚ sometimes‚ can have more than one word (called a verb phrase). EASIER TO FIND THE VERB FIRST THEN FIND THE DOER The end of the story was very unexpected
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Descriptions - Tom Stringer Russell’s theory attempts‚ using systematic formal logic‚ to pin down conditions by which we ascribe significance and meaning to descriptive nouns or definite description’ (DD) phrases in idiomatic natural language (NL). Russell’s theory covers the functions of these phrases in NL and outlines his ideas on their nature. From this‚ he goes on to delineate implications that their transposition into a schema of propositional logic has for NL through examining them within the
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the sequence of your paragraphs‚ no transition will help you. Transitions can be made with particular words and phrases created for that purpose--conjunctive adverbs and transitional phrases--or they can be implied through a conceptual link. Conjunctive Adverbs and Transitional Phrases Conjunctive adverbs modify entire sentences in order to relate them to preceding sentences or paragraphs; good academic writers use many of them‚ but not so many that they overload the page. Here is a list
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structure‚ sentence length‚ vocabulary‚ and other literary features to portray a sense of passing time in this excerpt from “A Game of Polo with a Headless Goat‚” where the author experiences a donkey race with Karachi locals. Levine utilizes sentence length to create a sense of passing time. She describes the impending conclusion to the race with a long‚ descriptive sentence followed by “the race is over‚” a four word sentence. The employment of a long sentence followed by a short sentence creates
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me assume that Pip was a young boy. - Reread the sentence highlighted in orange. Notice the intense descriptive language Dickens uses. What do you think is the author’s purpose for including such an extraordinarily long descriptive sentence? From rereading the orange highlighted sentence I believe Dickens was trying achieve sympathy for Pip because he lost both his mother and father; and he also never knew them. - List 10 words from this same sentence that produce a frightening tone. 1- bleak - unwelcoming
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to rock like silver darts thrust like scattershot by some unseen hand. Analysis: The descriptive images in the paragraph above are obscured by unfortunate and unnecessary comparisons. Note the figures of speech in the highlighted words and phrases in the copy of the same paragraph below: Cool water flows through the rocky banks of the creek and into a wide pond. Reeds and cattails surrounding the bank embrace the pond like a mother’s enfolding arms reaching out to caress her sleeping child
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‘ing’ is a noun i.e running: a noun‚ but ‘to run’ is a verb EXAMPLE SENTENCES The boy is in love. boy: common noun‚ functioning as the subject of the sentence love: common noun Skipping through Central Park is energizing. Skipping: gerund noun‚ functioning as the subject of the sentence Central Park: proper noun Watching the movie made me feel sick. Watching: gerund noun‚ functioning as the subject of the sentence movie: common noun *When using a gerund‚ use the possessive pronoun
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Shauna Hwang Day 1 * Prepositional phrases – generally consist of a preposition and a noun or pronoun Ex: The sweet potatoes in the vegetable bin are green with mold. * Appositive phrases – a noun or pronoun with modifiers that adds information by identifying‚ renaming‚ or explaining a noun or pronoun Ex: I can’t find my notebook‚ the one I use for history class. * Participial phrases – a participle modified by an adverb or adverbial phrase accompanied by a complement Ex: Feeling
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published on the 4th October 2012. The first text I am analysing is Text A which was written by Andrew Charlesworth‚ and begins with the minor sentence ‘Why Facebook is bad for you’. It is bold and in a bigger font than the rest of the article; this graphology attracts your attention and tells you immediately what the text is about. The complex sentence ‘Networking website…mates’ gets you to relate to it if you use Facebook as a form of entertainment‚ and we agree with the attributive adjective
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