Word Ladders In Word Ladders‚ as in Making Words‚ students are guided to build a series of words as the teacher points out decoding‚ spelling‚ and word-meaning clues about the words. However‚ in word ladders‚ the letters used for each new word come from the previous word‚ rather than from a preselected word bank. Students add‚ subtract‚ or change one or more letters from the previous word to make new words based on clues from the teacher. Usually‚ words are listed vertically so that students
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insulting me. The word off the chain has become the latest craze in vocabulary words with double meanings to hit the streets and today’s youth is eating it all up. Off the chain is just one of many words in today’s vocabulary that has been revamped by younger generation. The Urban Dictionary‚ an online dictionary of slang words used by teenagers today‚ defines the word off the chain as meaning a great deal of fun. It is meant to describe a great time they had. You may hear them use the word to talk about
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invent words‚ is unknown; in other words‚ the origin of language is a mystery. All we really know is that men‚ unlike animals‚ somehow invented certain sounds to express thoughts and feelings‚ actions and things. So that they could communicate them to each other; and that‚ later‚ they agreed upon certain signs‚ called letters‚ which could be combined to represent those sounds‚ and which could be written down. These sounds‚ whether spoken‚ or written in letters‚ we call words. A word‚ then
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Finding the Ideal Job Review of the book «What colour is your parachute?» By Barbara Kleppinger You are out of work. You hate your job. You aren’t satisfied with your career. You are looking for your first job. Where do you start? If you are like most Americans‚ you’ll probably send your resume to a lot of companies. You may answer newspaper want ads every Sunday. Or you might go to employment agencies. But experts say you won’t have much luck. People find jobs only 5 to 15 per cent of the time
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My first genre is a diary from the perspective of Jing-mei from “Two Kinds”‚ by Amy Tan. Although it is not known if she kept a diary in the story‚ I imagined what it might look like if she did. I wrote what her day might have been like if there was no conflict whatsoever. Her day is uninteresting and just a skeleton of what it could be. Although on the other hand‚ I wrote what her diary would look like for a day filled with conflict. Although she is fighting with her mother‚ the day would be exciting
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Looking into Words An Analysis of the dialogues in The Picture of Dorian Gray [Preface] As we often see in fictions‚ dialogues play a significant role in characterizing heroes. Apart from speaking for the characters in novels‚ Oscar Wilde used dialogues to speak for himself. This is especially the case in The Picture of Dorian Gray in which he ‘hires’ three characters to represent his ideals‚ present situation and the conflict between them. The following passage will mainly focus on the strategic
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as a matter of factin like mannerin additioncoupled within the same fashion / wayfirst‚ second‚ thirdin the light ofnot to mentionto say nothing ofequally importantby the same tokenagaintoandalsothenequallyidenticallyuniquelylikeastoomo- reoveras well astogether withof courselikewisecomparativelycorrespondinglysimilarlyfurthermo- readditionally Opposition / Limitation / Contradiction Transition phrases like but‚ rather and or‚ express that there is evidence to the contrary or point outalternatives
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Linking Words Linking words are essential for your writing to be natural and clear. Linking devices vary in three ways: 1. Position in the text. Some linking words normally form a link between clauses WITHIN a sentence. It is bad style to start a sentence with these words: and but so because then until such as are examples of this type of linking word. Another type of linking device is used to form a link BETWEEN sentences. These words must start with a capital letter and are
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9. Sit down. 10. I shot an arrow into the air. Words are divided into different kinds or classes called parts of speech. In a sentence every word has a job. Some words connect‚ some describe while some provide action. There are 8 parts of Speech: 1. Noun – a noun is a name of a person‚ place‚ emotions or thing‚ like: Akbar is a great king. The rose smells sweet 2. Adjective – is a word used to add something to the meaning of a noun‚ like:
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Word formation From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia In linguistics‚ word formation is the creation of a new word. Word formation is sometimes contrasted with semantic change‚ which is a change in a single word’s meaning. The boundary between word formation and semantic change can be difficult to define: a new use of an old word can be seen as a new word derived from an old one and identical to it in form (see conversion). Word formation can also be contrasted with the formation of idiomatic expressions
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