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    English-Zone.Com Pronunciation Worksheet ODD ONE OUT - Vowel Contrasts: [E] [Q] [´] [A] (get / mat / but / dot) NAME:___________________ DATE:______________ One word in each group does not have the same vowel sound as the other words. Find it! Ex. beg A net B again C pain D pen 1. but mat mutt other love 2. gone long lone log lost 3. last tax man Dan Don 4. felt feel flex net pet 5. Texas pepper blender

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    his mother wishes or join the Navy‚ his father’s hope. Neither the potted ivy on the counter nor the dirty dishes in the sink have enjoyed water on their surfaces for the past week. Professor Wilson not only requires a 3‚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

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    7 Cs of Tight Writing The Seven Cs of Tight Writing The Seven Cs include the following writing styles and considerations: Completeness Clearness Concreteness Correctness Conciseness Courtesy Character Although these seven Cs are most often emphasized in business and technical writing books and courses‚ all writers should be aware of the importance of these principles and how to apply them to their prose.  Completeness Remember the Ws of writing: Who‚ Where‚ What‚ Why‚ Where‚ When and

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    voice is lively and more direct. Eg. ‘We had fun’ is written in the active voice; ‘Fun was had’ is written in the passive voice. Alliteration The repetition of the consonant sounds at the beginnings of words. It is used to produce sound that adds to the atmosphere or mood of the words‚ or perhaps even echoes their meaning. Eg. ‘The fair breeze blew‚ the white foam flew‚ The furrow followed free’  (from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samual Taylor Coleridge.) Allusion A reference

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    THE ESSENTIALS OF STYLISCTICS The expressive means (EM) of a language are those phonetic‚ morphological‚ word-building‚ lexical‚ phraseological and syntactical forms which exist in language-as-a-system for the purpose of logical and/or emotional intensification of the utterance. Phonetic EM: pitch‚ melody‚ stress‚ pausation‚ drawling‚ whispering‚ a sing-song manner of speech (onomatopoeia‚ alliteration‚ rhyme‚ rhythm). Morphological EM: the Historical Present (the Present Indefinite instead

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    escaping the hands of the dead people. The phrase also holds horrific imagery because it’s like you’re seeing dead people’s hands which adds to the ‘Gothic horror’ part of the story. Dickens also builds the semantic field up more using phrases such as the word ‘tombstone’ and ‘five little stone lozenges’. ‘Five little stone lozenges’ adds tension to the fact that Pip is the only one still alive out of his brothers. This builds the tension up because the reader will begin to wonder why he out of his brothers

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    Parallelism In My Writing

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    Parallelism is important at the level of ▫ the word ▫ the phrase ▫ the clause Parallelism at Word level • “Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life?” (-- Henry David Thoreau) • In this sentence‚ the words hurry and waste‚ both nouns‚ follow the preposition with; hurry and waste are parallel. Parallelism at Word level (another example) • “In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime.” (-- Henry David Thoreau) • In this sentence‚ the words true and sublime‚ both adjectives‚ modify

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    the changes happening in America. However‚ the writing styles in which Hemingway used‚ compared to Faulkner‚ show many differences. By comparing the styles of Hemingway and Faulkner‚ readers find a contrast in the authors’ use of sentence structure‚ word choice‚ and character development; but overall‚ they achieve a similar tone. In many of William Faulkner’s short stories‚ such as “Barn Burning”‚ the sentence structure is complex; he describes vividly what is happening by including small details

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    purposely. In other cases It seems that he used archaic English unconsciously. So the simples answer is yes and no. I feel some of the vocabulary he uses could have been what people said in the past which are not common words no more . But I don’t believe all the archaic words where common words in the past . Like said in the report “Did Shakespeare Consciously Use Archaic English?” Shakespeare did extract archaisms from variables phrases such as “maugre his head” which hints that he maybe did use archaic

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    Importance of Literacy

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    will demonstrate a basic understanding of culturally diverse written texts. Reading/word identification. The student uses a variety of word identification strategies. The student is expected to (D) use root words and other structural cues such as prefixes‚ suffixes‚ and derivational endings to recognize words (3); and use knowledge of word order (syntax) and context to support word identification and confirm word meaning (1-3). (E) (3.7) Reading/variety of texts. The student reads widely

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