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How we form and describe a sentence plays a major role towards determine the meaning of the sentence. This results in making each sentence very important to structure correctly so as to harness the most powerful meaning from the words used on the sentence (Iny 2006). To understand how word structure affects a sentence, we shall examine 5 sentences from a paper “the Purpose of Government written by Anon. A. Moss.

* Review the formation and use of the perfect active, perfect passive, and present active participles 1.1;1.2

2. “‘It’s a beautiful thing, the Destruction of words. Of course the great wastage is in the verbs and adjectives, but there are hundreds of nouns that can be got rid of as well.’”

Identify the part of speech of the italicized word in the following sentence: Unless the platoon is at close interval, all changes in formation are executed with normal interval and distance between files and ranks.

In the third part, three pedagogical implications will be presented. In addition, a grammar activity and its theoretical rationale will be respectively reported in the fourth and fifth part before the final conclusion is displayed.

Throughout English’s etymological progression many words have been created, utilized to their fullest capability, and then forgotten. Some words, like “affuage”, which means “the right to cut wood in a forest for a family fire”, simply have lost relevance in modern society. Other words have been replaced with a more efficient word, such as “fallaciloquence” being replaced with flattery. Additional archaic words still exist, however, usually only in idioms, as in the case of “sleight of hand”. Often miswritten as “slight of hand”, “sleight” is a word of Middle English origin meaning “sneaky” or “crafty”. Very few people today realize the common misnomer of the idiom, making “sleight” even rarer today. Verbs are not excluded from annihilation either, as hundreds of verbs have either been eliminated from Modern English or have transitioned into different forms and meanings. Some verbs, which originated as “strong verbs”, irregular verbs which have past tense forms without the requirement of an ending, have become “weak verbs”, or verbs that require endings like “-ed”, “-en”, or “-t”. In earlier versions of English, the language contained a higher prevalence of strong verbs compared to weak verbs. However, throughout the centuries there has been a clear decline of strong verbs. Many strong verbs became weak verbs or disappeared completely, as when the language developed and the number of English speakers grew, many strong verbs became rigid in their uses, and the unpracticed,

Specialists in descriptive grammar (linguists) examine the principles and patterns that underlie the use of words, phrases, clauses, and sentences. In contrast, prescriptive

The grammatical constructions in the story are well documented in terms of the content words or functional words which include; the nouns and the verbs. The lexical density of the words in the clause and sentence can also bear more witness to this. Some of the sentences or clauses have not less than twelve content words which imply that there also twelve content words in the sentences. This is in consistent with Halliday (1985b), that a single clause should be able to contain a lexical density of twelve words. The grammatical usage seems very easy and simple for the students to understand when reading the story. This is bound to improve the student’s grammatical knowledge and usage; students improve their grammatical knowledge in this respect, hence, the need for choosing this story.

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There are several interpretations that could be drawn based on the result in the previous section. As we expected that we can see several distinctive differences of how Oxford English dictionary, Collins and Merriam-Webster dictionary treat polysemous words which are being studied.

Tereza Štifnerová The purpose of this essay is firstly to show the word order of a noun phrase (NP) and how the head noun of the NP can be post- and pre-modified, and secondly to focus on meaning of some examples of English anaphors and the distinctions between them and their Czech translations. The first part is going to aim on the internal structure of NPs. Complex nominal phrase consists of the pre-modifying elements, the head noun and the post-modifying elements. The so-called pre-modifiers can be divided into two groups: determiners and prenominals. We have to say that „determiners are obligatory and unique“ (Veselovská:86), and they have a specific place in the noun phrase – they are at the

It is well known that the main, or the matrix, clause of a complex sentence must be fi-nite. While, on the other hand, the finiteness of the embedded clause is related mainly to the complementizer that precedes it. Consequently, the clauses that follow the comple-mentizers that, if, and the Arabic ʔanna are finite clauses.

4. Discourse centre (the point of the speaker´s discourse): Adverbs of time and place, conjunctions

Etymology is the branch of linguistics that studies the origin and development of words and other linguistic forms. The examples of the areas that are studied include the earliest origins of a word, how its meanings and connotations have changed, the meanings and origins of its component parts, whether or how it has

Vocabulary (Norman Pratiyogita DarpanLewis: word power Dec2012 issue: News made easy) and events. Revision (1-5). Grammar (By Wren and martin) - Parts of speech: Articles.