A corpus-based study of ‘talk’ and ‘speak’ Wang Bingran Student ID: 11820787d Introduction This study compared ‘talk’ and ‘speak’ in terms of their senses‚ grammatical patterns and collocations. The comparison is based on data drawn from the British National Sampler Corpus (the BNC Sampler Corpus).The vast majority of the examples in this essay were selected from the BNC Sampler Spoken Corpus‚ one example was drawn from the BNC Sampler Written Corpus.
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MIXTURES‚ SOLUTIONS‚ SUSPENSIONS AND COLLOIDS MIXTURES A mixture is a combination made up of two or more different substances which are mixed but are not chemically bonded. There are also types of mixtures such as homogeneous mixtures and heterogeneous mixtures. SOLUTIONS A solution is defined as a homogeneous mixture composed of a solute; a substance dissolved into another substance known as a solvent. They can also be defined as groups of molecules that are mixed up completely in even
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Mission Statement • To live every day for the betterment of my life and the lives of those around me. • To have only a positive effect on the lives of the people whom I interact with on a daily basis. • To see each day as an important stepping stone to eventually achieving my goals‚ and contributing to the greater good of society. Vision Statement In five years I intend to be happily married‚ and continuing to live a happy life as I am now. I intend to be planning a family
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in cutting. The boy asks the wise old man about the present and how could he get it. He had heard about how wonderful it was and how happy and successful it would make him. As the boy grows into his teens he keeps trying to find out how to attain this present. The old man tells him he already knows how to attain it‚ the present is a gift we all have to give to ourselves. As the boy grows into a young man he gives up the search for The Present‚ and he begins running into problems at work and in his
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Explain your interest in the major you selected. You may describe a related experience you’ve had to that area of study and/or your future career goals. Please limit your response to approximately 300 words. Wheels crunched over the landscape of rock and sand‚ pushing forward into the desert abyss where maroon vista stretched endlessly into ashen horizon. Imprints trailed behind Curiosity‚ its metal body shining brighter than the white sun casting indigo streaks in the cloudless sky. A buzzer snaps
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The Building of a New Nation Following the Civil War‚ the United States was a country that had experienced great loss and had gone to great lengths to either maintain or abolish slavery. As a nation‚ they were given the difficult task of repairing the damaged country as a whole‚ but especially the south and its economy. Their job was to not only to restore the country‚ but to modernize it and make it stronger compared to other nations. The task presented to the United States‚ its president‚ and
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A People’s History of the United States: 1492-Present Chapter 18 “The Impossible Victory: Vietnam” For this assignment I chose to to find bias in Chapter 18 from Howard Zinn’s book‚ A People’s History of the United States: 1492-Present. The chapter is entitled “The Impossible Victory: Vietnam”. In this chapter of his book‚ Zinn covers the Vietnam war and the resistance to it. As the chapter title states‚ Zinn argues that the U.S was fighting a war that they could not win as the Vietnamese
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Robert Beverley is the author of The History and Present State of Virginia (1705). He was an educated English and became the member of the House of Burgesses in 1699. He considered himself as a Virginian‚ and he used his family background to benefit himself in social status and wealth making. He wrote this book‚ a document of the history of early life in the Virginia colony‚ purposely wanted to earn more support to raise his reputation on his political status (). In this book‚ the author first wrote
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physically possible for a man to sustain life inside of another mammal after being digested. Scientifically the person would begin to be decomposed and turned into energy just as any other “food” would be converted. I think this is where we must use our suspension of disbelief and understand that while we were not there we cannot know for sure that God did not allow this to happen. God has and continues to perform miracles daily. Why are people given only days to live because
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these sights is complete without mentioning their historical and seasonal aspects. Because of these aspects‚ Quebec is a place where you can find some of the most interesting sights you will ever see. Old Quebec City is the living witness of our history. The first example is the church Notre-Dame des Victoires. Located at the bottom of Cap Diamant‚ this church was the first one built in North America. It commemorates the establishment of Quebec in 1608. It is a modest and charming church‚ constructed
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