“my” in the noun phrase “my friends” unites Martin Luther King with his audience and so has the ability to strengthen the impact of his inspirational speech. The theme of hope is discussed through repetition of adverbs. The adverb “still” in the simple declarative sentence “I still have a dream” is used to motivate the audience and tell them there still is hope and that change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but it comes through continuous struggle. The abstract noun “dream” is repeated
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Part 1: * Phrases/Ordering Template: 1. NP (det) + (adj) + N + (PP) 2. VP (aux) + V + (C/CP) 3. S NP + VP 4. Order of NP in English aside from nouns (what words can appear before noun): Super NP NP + PP, Prepositions can be attached to NPs as modifiers (postnominal modifiers); can expand NP or blow it up with Prep Phrase. Ex. The old man on the bench * Phonology: rules for putting sounds (phonemes) together to form syllables/words. * Morphology: study of words/word
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И. В. АРНОЛЬД Лексикология современного английского языка Издание третье, переработанное и дополненное Допущено Министерством высшего и среднего специального образования СССР в качестве учебника для студентов институтов и факультетов иностранных языков Сканирование, распознавание, проверка: Аркадий Куракин (ark # mksat. net), сен-2004. Орфография унифицирована к британской. Пропущены страницы: 50-53, 134-139, 152-161, 164-171, 201-202, 240-243 Москва «Высшая школа» 1986 Мультиязыковой
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Compare the Ways in Which Chaucer and Duffy Convey the Ideas about Lust and Love Chaucer’s ‘Wife of Bath’s Tale’ is a medieval text set in a patriarchal society in which women were treated in an unequal manner. In contrast to the social factors in medieval society, Chaucer’s story is dominated by women, making this a matriarchal story which presents themes of women‘s independence. This idea is accentuated due to the fact that the Wife of Bath narrates the story. The main character of the knight
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Conception of Language. . 6 Chapter II. Morphemic Structure of the Word 17 Chapter III. Categorial Structure of the Word 26 Chapter IV. Grammatical Classes of Words 37 Chapter V. Noun: General 49 Chapter VI. Noun: Gender 53 Chapter VII. Noun: Number 57 Chapter VIII. Noun: Case 62 Chapter IX. Noun: Article Determination 74 Chapter X. Verb: General
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requires productivity, i.e. the ability to create an infinite number of utterances we have never heard before. This endless novelty requires that some aspects of language knowledge be abstract. Ultimately, “rules” for combining words cannot be rules about particular words, but must be rules about classes of words such as nouns, verbs Introduction Learning to talk is one of the most visible and important achievements of early childhood. In a matter of months, and without explicit teaching, toddlers
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This passage by McBride is located near the very end of the chapter, where most ideas in memoirs tend to end on a particular note and elude to a personal lesson that the author has taken upon themselves to apply to their daily lives. Regarding the context of this passage, it is specifically located after a scene in the chapter where his son is curious about the racial difference between his Jewish grandmother and himself. McBride then imposes on his son that “God made her that way,” which is a simple
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Lexical borrowing = slovní výpůjčky - adoption from another lg with the same meaning English is tolerant to other lgs, nenasytný vypůjčovatel (70% non-anglosaxon origin), welcomes foreign words, not homogenous lg like French (majority of expressions was taken from F.) reasons: lg feels a need for a new word; to pre-denote a special concept (Sputnik, gradually disappeared from lg; certain lg has a kind of prestigious position (matter of fashion, but overuse of English words; matter of political
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reveals why the overbearing Gatsby undergoes a substantial transformation as F. Scott Fitzgerald illuminates through the incorporation of abstract nouns and juxtaposition. Fitzgerald’s elucidative language presents Gatsby as a man without an identity, however as he reinvents himself, his journey highlights the vice of society. The inclusion of abstract nouns promulgates Gatsby’s idealistic characteristics that lead him to live in a fictitious world that is of no real value. This suggests that
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as well as innoncence. Peace comes to him while he ponders on the beauty of nature, and the wonder of God giving him everything around him including Sara. Coleridge personifies nature by comparing it to abstract nouns. For example, the white flower represents innocence. This abstract noun does exactly this: it gives life and character to nature. Coleridge uses unperceived nature to appeal to the human
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