I In the following examples, identify the features that belong to non-standard dialects of English. Then rewrite them in standard English trying to keep the meaning as close as possible to the initial utterance. 1. I ain't saying nobody nothing. 2. It ain't what you do, it's the way how you do it. 3. It would have ended in tragedy, if it hadn't have been for the courage of the victim. 4. Me and her sister were caught stealing cookies from the cookie jar. 5. Anyone wants this stuff can have it. 6. She don't pay the rent regular. 7. This is between you and I. 8. Both colloquiums are on Friday. 9. You use a different sort of English in the Times than in a gossip with your best friend. 10. Who's gonna drive you …show more content…
14. The police admitted to having made the biggest mistake possible in accusing an innocent man. 15. My mistakes were quickly forgotten. However, to this day his have never been. 16. He looks quite good for a man who had a life full of hardships. 17. He used to recite me lots of his poems and I pretended to like them, though none of them made much sense to me. IV Match 1-10 with a-j: 1. Descriptive grammar deals 2. Words are classified in part-of-speech categories according to 3. Functional words are 4. Open class words are 5. According to their function verbs can be 6. Adjectives can be used 7. The part-of speech that introduces the relation 8. Variable words are 9. Grammar is used 10. Language can be a) the words that have grammatical meaning only. b) with forms and the structure of words (morphology) and with their customary arrangement in phrases and sentences (syntax ) c) lexical, copulative and auxiliary. d) of coordination and subordination are called conjunctions. e) to describe the structure of one language. f) standard, non-standard, formal and informal. g) the class of words that have grammatical paradigms. h) attributively and predicatively. i) nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs. j) their semantic and grammatical properties. V Fill in the blanks 1-10 with the appropriate term a-j: a) adjectives b) nouns c) verbs d) adverbs e) pronouns f) conjunctions g) determiners h) prepositions i) numerals j)
he was 13 years old, in the year 1977, where he watched the film Star Wars 21 times. But the
15. "Resslich hated this girl, and grudged her every crust; she used to beat her mercilessly. One day the girl was found hanging in the garret. At the inquest the verdict was suicide."
7. He found it appealing because he finally found a home. He felt the sense of brotherhood with guys that he just met.
29. Casey helped Tom out of trouble with the deputy sheriff by taking the blame fir knocking the sheriff unconscious and tripping him and going to jail for Tom.
20. Arthur is upset about Merlyn and Nimue so Merlyn tells him about the guy who fled to Aleppo because he wanted to show Arthur that you can’t escape destiny. If it’s meant to
I really liked the story a lot at the beginning and then it just keep getting better
EIGHT. Then he couldn’t have made the kind of wound which killed his father. (Rose 152).
14. Next spring Jeff may enroll in accounting and business law or he may work for a semester to earn money.
While going to school he uses to get picked on a lot due to his looks.
12. Although the family was most likely happy to be together again, this happiness would not last for long.
Linguistics has been broken down into several sub-categories including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics.
69. Precocious: He was a very precocious child, he learned to walk at the age of 2.
Some linguistic models try to explain the development of second language acquisition. The three most common models are (1) the Universal Grammar Model, (2) the Competition Model, and (3) the Monitor Model. The Universal Grammar Model refers to the system of principles, conditions, and rules that are properties or elements of all human languages. At the same time, each language has grammatical rules that vary from one language to another. Thus, Chomky states that different languages have a limited possibility of different grammatical structures (1975). Therefore, second language learners base their second language acquisition on universal principles common to all languages, and on the force of the particular rules of each language. All of those can be concluded that as a human, especially as children, we have vary form of rules in language, in this case is second language.
Talking about “dialects”, a term often mentioned along is “standard language”. When being brought into comparison with “dialect”, “standard language” usually serves as a legitimate variant with the highest level of excellence (Bex & Watts, 1999). Though positive in nature, standardization - the procedure of standardizing a language – often raises heated controversy because of its consequences on not only linguistics field but also the society. In the second part of the essay, I will focus on the disadvantages of language standardization.
Specialists in descriptive grammar (linguists) examine the principles and patterns that underlie the use of words, phrases, clauses, and sentences. In contrast, prescriptive