1. THE GERM. LANGUAGES IN THE MOD. WORLD Languages can be classified acc. to different principles. The historical classification groups lang-s in accordance with their origin from a common linguistic ancestor. English belongs to the Germanic or Teutonic group of lang-s. The modern GL are 11 in number. They all go to ProtoGermanic. And protogerm. goes to the Indoeuropean tongues. The GL fall into: 1. East Germanic (The Gothic Lang.) – nowadays all of them are dead‚ 2. North Germanic : Swedish –
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Grammatical parallelism is the “symmetrical arrangement of words‚ phrases and clauses in sentences” (Turco‚ 1999‚ Page 6). In the first stanza‚ examples of symmetrical clauses include one main clause i.e. the whole stanza followed by two embedded subordinate clauses. The first being ‘For-put them side by side- The one the other will contain With ease-and You-beside’ and the second ‘-put them side by side- ‘. These are both adverbial clauses which makes it easier for the reader to follow the structure
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GERUND PHRASE The gerund phrase consists of the gerund‚ which always ends in -ing‚ and its modifiers and complements. The gerund phrase is always used as a noun. Driving a car takes concentration. (The gerund phrase is the subject of the verb takes). Paul finished painting the ceiling. (The gerund phrase is the direct object of finished). After hiking for two hours‚ we sat down to rest. (The gerund phrase is the object of the preposition after. Part A Identifying Gerund Phrases: Underline
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present tense‚ we can say this as the text say ‘there had not been time YET’. The adverbial times support the tense in this text. There is a use of an auxiliary verb in Matilda which helps complete the sentence ‘had to BE done’‚ without the sentence would be grammatically incorrect. Likewise in The Jungle Book there is a use of an auxiliary verb ‘could’ without it the sentence would not be like the Matilda text correct. Within the text of The Jungle Book there is parallel phrasing evident ‘as well
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Joe’s account: ○ First person pronouns include: ‘I’ such as in the phrases ‘I hit’‚ ‘I jerked’‚ ‘I struck’. Remember such pronouns could include ‘I’ or ‘we’ and refer the to narrator. □ ‘I’ is a first person singular. □ ‘We’ is a first person plural. ○ Activity verbs hat begin paragraphs include: ‘Hung’‚ ‘kicked’‚ ‘dug. • The vocabulary used is emotive rather than technical or factual: ○ The phrase ‘my knee exploded’ has an emotional impact upon the reader. • Language
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Shakespeare." He thus echoes the widespread assumption that phrases such as "to vanish into thin air" from The Tempest (act IV scene 1) or "to make a virtue of necessity" from The Two Gentlemen of Verona (IV i) have become a natural part of the English language and that most people will no longer be aware of the fact that they are quoting. In other words‚ Levin suggests that quotations may leave their original context and become part of the English phrase stock. Shakespeare ’s influence on the English language
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picture the scene of the dog better and help the readers to understand what is wrong with the dog. The pace of the first half of the extract is very slow and cautious this is made clear by the author using phrases like ‘inching him towards us’ and ‘being pulled gradually towards us’. These phrases really help to create the tense and anxious mood. Harper Lee helps to keep the readers on the edge of their seats and keep the mood interesting by completely changing the pace of novel very suddenly. At
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000-word research essay but also assigns a 500-word reaction paper every single week. When you use correlative conjunctions‚ be careful aboutverb agreement. If you connect two subjects with a correlative conjunction‚ the second one must agree with the verb that follows. Every single evening either the horned owl or the squabbling cats wake Samantha with their racket. Every single evening either the squabbling cats or the horned owl wakes Samantha with its racket. When you use correlative conjunctions
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children become better writers. The sequence of introducing the grammar symbols is as follows: Noun (black equilateral triangle) Article (small blue equilateral triangle) Adjective (medium dark blue equilateral triangle) Verb (red circle) Preposition (green crescent) Adverb (small orange circle) Pronoun (purple isosceles triangle) Conjunction (small pink rectangle) Interjection (golden keyhole) NOUN FAMILY Noun - a
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It still makes the reader realize that the two meanings of the word ’stand’ are simultaneously expressed‚ one primary and the other derivative. The pun is another stylistic device based on the interaction of two well-known meanings of a word or phrase. It is difficult do draw a hard and fast distinction between zeugma and the pun. The only reliable distinguishing feature is a structural one: zeugma is the realization of two meanings with the
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