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    horrible accident that crippled George and he could not race any more so his son took his place and George lived a happy life until his son died from a faulty car engine. The End 8/21/15 No bell work today. 8/24/15 Narrative texts tell a story. This type of writing includes novels, plays, and narrative poems. Narrative texts are usually fictional but can sometimes focus on true events. 9/9/15 Using quotations -Always place a comma or a period inside the final quotation mark. 9/14/15 Using Quotations:

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    Critically acclaimed writer, Maya Angelou, explores the concept of oppression and one’s ability to rise above in her poem “Still I Rise.” The piece’s purpose is to inspire African Americans to rise above the implications of oppression and confront individuals who stand in support of injustice. Angelou establishes an ardent tone and evokes a complex emotional response in the reader through her sophisticated utilization of charged language, allusion and imagery; however, she still manages to keep the

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    Cherokee Language

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    Cherokee verbs, having the most important word type, will contain as a "minimum a pronominal prefix, a verb root, an aspect suffix, and a modal suffix" (All Things Cherokee). For example, the verb form ke:ka, "I am going," has each of these elements. The pronominal prefix is k-, which indicates first person singular. The verb root is -e, "to go." The aspect suffix that this verb has for the present-tense stem is -k-. The present-tense modal suffix for regular verbs in Cherokee is -a. Verbs can also

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    Sunsets add alluring and vibrant colors to the world. Ornamental Sketch With Verbs and She Sweeps With Many Colored Brooms achieve the same goal of expressing the beauty of the sunset. In Ornamental Sketch With Verbs, the author describes how the sunset changes the mood of the streets and makes ordinary items beautiful. In She Sweeps With Many Colored Brooms, the author talks about the sun as if it were a housewife sweeping, leaving behind shreds of color that form the sunset. Although, these poems

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    66, 71). If you look ant Contrastive Analysis you can see its roots in behaviorism and more specifically habit formation. The main principle of the theory is transfer, or the idea that one habit will influence another habit or action. There are two types of transfer in this theory; positive transfer and negative transfer, which is also referred to interference (Folder, 60). Positive transfer is the idea that habits formed in the native language assist the development and acquisition of another language

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    Newspaper Headlines

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    Contents Introduction 2 The Language of Newspapers 2 Analysis of Newspaper Headlines 2 Headline Evolution 2 Headline Functions 2 Headline Styles 2 Headline Forms 2 Headline Variants 2 Headline Language 2 Conclusion 2 Bibliography 2 Introduction In today’s hectic world one of the most important factors is information. The means of information provision are quite different which can be summarized in one word: mass media. The media is the whole body of communications that reach large numbers

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    normally in actual discourse, it is found in different types of discourse. In this chapter, the theoretical background of ellipsis will be given in order to trace the development of subject. Chapter two consists of three main parts. The first includes discussions of issues related to the subject of this study: definition of ellipsis, relations within ellipsis, ellipsis in discourse, and difficulties with ellipsis. The second part focuses on the types of ellipsis and shades lights on linguists’ models

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    Commands and directives are used to express a request or give instructions. It is obvious that in a cooking tutorial it will dominate over other types of speech as the audience is continuosly given insctructions, step by step, on how to make a cheesecake in this case. Goodwin, Engle and West researched the use of commands and directives, by observing a group play of boys ang girls in Philadephia. They found that boys used directives more explicitibly to establish their status which were then called

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    be economical in their speech, and to avoid repetition so that their speech would not be tedious and boring. Ellipsis is an important phenomenon which is obligatory omitted in the grammar and normally in actual discourse, it is found in different types of discourse. In this chapter, the theoretical background of ellipsis will be given in order to trace the topic under investigation. It consists of three main parts: the first includes presentation of issues related to the subject of this study: definition

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    The second type of sentence be form sentences, the form sentences or not required main verbs. Sentences represent non action moments like , name designation time name of the situation (for example: she is my colleague, she was my colleague, she has been my colleague, she is my colleague, she will

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