Syntax

Tupac believes that justice and liberty are unfair when it comes to race and status in America. When reading this poem the first thing I noticed was his syntax. The syntax is very interesting because he uses “text talk” to spell some words, such as saying “R” (Line 3) instead of are and “thru” (Line 4) instead of through. He also uses slang terms such as “‘em” (Line 17) and “Trippin” (Line 6) to emphasize the “Thug Life” that he lives. Another thing I noticed was that he seemed to capitalize random

1.….everything that has happened to us during the day ….. MEANING 1. “has happened” is a grammar structure used for actions which started in the past but continue up to now or to talk about actions that have a result now. Timeline: x (x)(x) has happened past present future CQs : Did it happen in the past? Yes. Is the day going on? Yes. Is it likely to happen some more events? Yes.

1.1.1 Introduction: Being the international language, the importance of teaching English has been developing in the EFL Arab world, and the governments of these countries introduced English into school textbooks as a compulsory discipline. In addition, EFL Arab students complete at least eight years of learning English in school upon finishing the secondary education. Therefore, due to the important role of English, it has become to many Arab academics the main focus (Al-Khatib, 2000). Furthermore

Towards the Building of English-Arabic Frame-Based Lexicon Towards the Building of English-Arabic Contextual Lexicon Hameed A. K. Essa, PhD. Lecturer of Linguistics, Department of English, Faculty of Education, Damanhur University   Abstract Although the lexicon has become a main component of the contemporary syntactic theories, the scientific study of English-Arabic lexicography has received little attention in the literature. Most English-Arabic dictionaries are made for commercial purposes:

In this essay, I will be discussing my experiences with modals in English and Russian. The purpose of my project is to investigate the differences in the usage and meanings of modals between the two languages. My focus will be on the modal, “must,” and what contexts it is mainly used for. I will start by discussing what was particularly challenging about this project. Modals are a highly complex area of grammar both in English and Russian. Several of the texts I have consulted for my project remark

PARTS OF SPEECH “Parts of speech, is the sense in which the word is used and not the letters of which it is composed, that determines the part of speech to which it belongs” -William Cobbett In contemporary Linguistics, the label parts of speech by and large discarded in favor of the term word clause or syntactic category. Part of speech is a term in Traditional Grammar for one of the Eight main

A great American mathematician, John W. Tukey, once said “The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see.” This quote relates to stories because the author can use figurative language and descriptive language to paint a picture in the reader’s head. By using these, the author can almost assure the reader that they have the same vision as the author has. In the novel The Pigman by Paul Zindel, many examples of figurative language and descriptive adjectives

Analysis of Descriptive Adjectives in Two Stories In any story, the reader needs some way of imagining what the author is writing about. When writing, authors use descriptive words to illustrate what they are trying to convey to the reader and to enhance their story. In the stories "The Treasure of Lemon Brown" by Walter Dean Myers and "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer, both authors use descriptive words to develop the mood of the setting and the characters. In "The Treasure of Lemon

In the poem "Dover Beach",witten in 1867 Matthew Arnold creates the mood of the poem through the usage of different types of imagery. He uses a dramatic plot in the form of a soliloquy. Arnold also uses descriptive adjectives, similes and metaphors to create the mood. Through the use of these literary elements, Arnold portrays the man standing before the window pondering the sound of the pebbles tossing in the waves as representation of human suffering. The man arrives at the vision of

How do children learn to restrict overgeneralization errors of syntactic structure? As part of language acquisition children make overgeneralisations. Conventionally, the importance in describing the process has been on how children go further than their original utterance and draw out the consistencies that will allow them to produce and comprehend an unlimited number of new sentences. However, in some instances it can be seen that children can overgeneralise, causing them to produce grammars and