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    power of words can make you be down and depressed and they can make you feel good about yourself. The way words make you feel have been used in life history and literature. Words can be hurtful when they are used against you in a argument and say things out of spite. Also words can be make you feel good about yourself when someone complements you or tells you something nice. In my life words have been hurtful and uplifting. There’s a saying “sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never

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    Word Building

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    1522 Word families: building possibilities... Words often come in families. You can expand your vocabulary by becoming familiar with these word families and this can also enable you to become a more fluent speaker and writer of English. If you know all the possible words within a word family‚ you can express yourself in a wider range of ways. For example‚ if you know the verb and the noun forms related to the adjective boring‚ you can say: • The lesson was boring. • The lesson bored me. • That

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    A Life in Words

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    where she stayed briefly.) There is though a mention of one event of her life after college‚ when she was summoned to a court in Lahore‚ Pakistan for an apparently obscene story she had written‚ Lihaaf‚ and that got published in a journal. ‘A life in words’ is an endearing account of Ismat’s growing-up surrounded by her vast and loving family that consisted of her parents‚ nine other siblings‚ a warm entourage of teeming cousins‚ and various aunts and uncles. Born in the first half of the 1900s‚ Ismat

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    Moody chose to make his story very quick paced to the reader and in a way difficult to read‚ but with a purpose. Also how that affects the way the reader may read‚ perceive‚ or understand the story in a different way. And comparing how the similar writing style of Kincaid compares to Moody’s use. In "Boys" we are immediately introduced to a recurring theme‚ event‚ or phrase‚ if you will‚ that pops up throughout the story many‚ many times. "Boys enter the house‚ boys enter the house" (Moody 579). Moody

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    WORD CHOICE

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    WORD CHOICE A writer’s selection of words as determined by a number of factors‚ including meaning (both denotative and connotative)‚ specificity‚ level of diction‚ and tone. "Word choice often determines whether or not you get your message across. Making poor word choices and not writing appropriately for the audience can distract the reader so much that the message you intended to convey is missed." Definition of Slang: An informal nonstandard variety of speech characterized by newly coined

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    The Word Nigga

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    The Connotation and Denotation of the N-Word The word “nigger” has several denotations and connotations. The different emotions and meanings attached are different for each individual. Dictionary.com defines nigger as “a person of any race or origin regarded as contemptible‚ inferior‚ ignorant‚ etc. Slang: a black person” (“Nigger”). The website also states that “the term nigger is now probably the most offensive word in English” (“Nigger”). Nigger as a word has a history‚ a present and it surely

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    The Word "Retard"

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    The Use of the Word “Retard” Have you ever used the word “retard” without thinking about what the word really means? Patricia Bauer author of “A Movie‚ A Word‚ and My Family’s Battle” writes about how the movie industry uses the word “retard” loosely with no regard for the intellectually disabled community. Bauer explains how society has accepted the use of the word “retard” as a common phrase to mean or make fun of a mistake that was made. The writerThere are many qualities needed for a good

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    Learning Styles

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    Learning style is the way human beings take in new and/or difficult information‚ how they process‚ store and retrieve it. (Prashnig‚ B: Debating Learning Styles) Having studied a small number of learning styles I will evaluate my own personal learning style and how I can use this through the next three years of my life at Bucks New University. I will look at the most popular theories in use today and their value in today’s world. The theory of individual learning styles began in the 1970’s and

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    English Word

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    AN ENGLISH WORD 1. Definitions of the word 2. different kinds of motivation in the light of studying any word 3. Semasiology as the branch of linguisics 4. different approaches to the study of word meaning. 1. Word is a basic unit of language consisting of one or more morphemes. Morphemes are meaningful units or sounds of written representation as parts of words. Any word can be a subject of certain linking conditions‚ so we can form a new word adding a derivational affix

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    Words and Morphemes

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    Words and Morphemes The Morpheme In order to describe the form of the linguistic expressions (phrases‚ sentences‚ texts) in a language‚ we must describe how those complex expressions are built from smaller parts‚ until ultimately we which the atoms of linguistic form. The term morpheme is used to refer to an atom of linguistic form. Most languages have a word like the English wordword’‚ that appears at first to refer to precisely the sorts of minimal linguistic objects we have in mind. But

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