Essay on Adjectives

the lore of La Llorona. There are plenty of stories of how she could not stop crying for her kids at the river. Moreover, there is also lore about witches in Salem. People tell stories and write books about lore that is passed on. 2. Lucrative; adjective; producing a great deal of profit; something can make a lot of money; Karen had a lucrative idea. She did not want to share it with others because she knew she would produce so much profit that everyone else would go out of business. Her business

I prepare to face any criticism. (After the verb) They worry over the outcome of the result. (After the verb) He is jealous of her achievement. (After the adjective) We are sure of our success. (After the adjective) He is interested in music. (After the adjective) He stays in Coimbatore. (Before the noun) Peter lives with her. (Before the pronoun) On going there, I came to know about this. (Before the gerund) I gave the book to my friend. (Before the modifier)

The phone was ringing. Adjective: An adjective is used to describe pronoun and nouns. Examples: This I-pad, fifty toddlers, some criminals, several bank accounts Lilly told her agents that fifty toddlers were missing from the daycare. Verb: A verb is used to describe an action. Examples: am, are, is, was, has, had, slap, eat I am overwhelmed with all this studying. Simi slapped the security guard with such courage. Adverbs: Adverbs help change verbs, adjective and even adverbs. Examples

In Malala Yousafzai’s book,I Am Malala, she reveals true moments that occurred in her life including tragic, life-changing events. In this excerpt with adjectives and adverbs intact, imagery is incredibly prevalent. As a reader emotions are stirred and anticipation is built as the words fly across the page. Malala poignantly details the struggles she endured in her stand for educational rights and as she was personally attacked by the Taliban. Incredibly, she survived the attack and became an even

What a copy editor does with a draft of a story going to print: --looks for missing words, missing elements of the story, missing attributes. For example, if a person named James Dodd is mentioned, that person’s identity as it relates to the story must be attached to the name when it is first cited, so that if Dodd, a manager at Hudson’s Bay Company, is quoted again, the reader knows who the person is. --corrects the lead and adjusts the structure of the story so that, for instance, the paragraphs

Making Characters Come Alive in Modern Literature A character's description is a large part of who he or she is, and how other characters may initially react to the character. Indeed, giving a description powerful enough may influence the general future of how a character is perceived by others and portrayed by an author as a story develops. The more detailed the description, the more he “pops” off the page and into the reader's heart. One simple example to begin with. John is a good

as seen above, one could manage to say that the term doublespeak was coined in the early 1950s and appeared for the first time in the novel 1984, by George Orwell, under another name called newspeak. In the book George Orwell invented newspeak as the official language of Oceania (the fictional country ruled by an authoritarian regime) and had been designed to meet the ideological needs of Ingsoc or English Socialism. He creates this fictional language to show what would happen if doublespeaking

Lesson 4 Classic Tales Adjectives and adverbs A: Look at the stories below. Who wrote them? Do you know who he was? What is a fable? Can you name one? B: Read the fables silently as you listen. Then match the moral with its corresponding story. • "Quality is better than quantity." • “The gods help the people who help themselves. A fable is a type of story that passes from generation to generation. They are short and fun! Fables teach us lessons and good behavior too. Fables often use animal

EMPHATIC “SO” So what it is about the word so that is so enticing? Is it used by so many people in so many different ways that it has become ambiguous, so to speak? This little word is so versatile that it can function as an adjective, adverb, conjunction, pronoun, or interjection, just so you know. It can also be used idiomatically, but so what? So you may ask, what's my point? I wouldn't pretend there was one if it weren't so, so here it is. OK, enough with the exaggeration. The point here is that

and manifested but to provide evidence for their own method of measuring attitudes as they are automatically activated. Central to their method is the hypothesis of facilitation: Participants will assign positive or negative valences to presented adjectives at a shorter and response latency (i.e. facilitated) if the adjective’s valence is congruent to the evaluation automatically activated by the prime. People are then not asked explicitly asked about their attitudes (which is instead inferred from