Introduction The focus of the present thesis is the passive voice, perceived from a semantico-syntactic point of view. My primary aim is to explore the use and functions of the passive voice in English, examining the reasons which motivate an author to prefer the passive form to the active one. Secondary interest is devoted to the function and the use of the passive voice in Czech. As research material I have chosen the short stories by the American writer O. Henry and their Czech translations
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delivering information. Apart from my teachers I still own much gratitude to my fellow friends. You helped me rectify grammatical mistakes that appeared in my paper and gave me a lot of encouragement in finishing this paper. Abstract According to the current situation of English teaching, the cultivation of the students’ cultural understanding is not paid so much attention to as the basic English knowledge teaching. Due to this fact, many foreign language students nowadays have a good
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Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction ‘Jonathan Culler has always been about the best person around at explaining literary theory without oversimplifying it or treating it with polemical bias. Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction is an exemplary work in this genre.’ J. Hillis Miller, University of California, Irvine ‘An impressive and engaging feat of condensation . . . the avoidance of the usual plod through schools and approaches allows the reader to get straight to the heart
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S. H. BUTCHER A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication THE POETICS OF ARISTOTLE trans. S. H. Butcher is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any
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Topic: Money can bring happiness, do you agree or disagree? (Within 300 words, at least 250 words; IELTS for GENERAL TRAINING) As the most significant symptom of wealth, possessing a large sum of money has become a unique pursuit of many people, especially young generation, around the world. They are convinced of that happiness can bought by sufficient money. However, they could neglect the fact that happiness is not just determined by one factor but many others such as your friends, relatives, and
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proposes the use of dynamic clustering mechanism for organizing and storing the dataset according to concept based clustering. Also hashing technique will be used to retrieve the data from the dataset based on the association rules .Related documents are grouped into same cluster by k-means clustering algorithm. From each cluster important sentences are extracted by concept matching and also based on sentence feature score. Experiments are carried to analyze the performance of the proposed work with
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to the English conference (name it according to group number) Presentations are expected to take minimum 5 minutes – max. 10 minutes. NB: remember to not only put headings on your PP – put keywords to your answers + illustrative quotes as analytical ‘proof’/backup as well. GROUP 7: OPENING, TIME, TENSION, PLOT STRUCTURE • Please account for the opening of the short story (type + effect on the reader) • Please account for the time structure of the short story (what is the time
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basic aim of this paper is concerned with identifying the points of similarity and difference between honorifics in Modern Standard Arabic and English with regard to structure. It also aims at giving a brief account of the term honorifics and how are honorific expressions realized in both languages. It is hypothesized that the structure of honorifics in Modern Standard Arabic is different from that in English. 1. The Concept of Honorifics: Honorifics are derived from outputs of politeness strategies
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Craphon. Graphical Means…………………………………………………………...6 Morphemic Repetition. Extension of Morphemic Valency………………………………………………….11 CHAPTER II. LEXICAL LEVEL..............................................……………………………………….…14 Word and its Semantic Structure…………………………………………………………………………….14 Connotational Meanings of a Word………………………………………………………………………….14 The Role of the Context in the Actualization of Meaning…………………………………………………….14 Stylistic Differentiation of the Vocabulary…………………………………………………………………
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Guidelines for Writing Theses and Term Papers Tua Ericsson-Knif Hanken School of Economics Centre for Languages and Business Communication Vaasa February 2010 1 Contents 1 The Format of Theses and Term Papers 1.1 Title Page 1.2 Layout 2 2 2 2 Documenting Sources 2.1 Plagiarism 2.2 Citation in the Text 5 5 6 3 Preparing the List of References 4 Stylistic Features in Academic Writing References 9 13 16 Appendix 1 Sample Title Page of Thesis Appendix 2 Sample Title Page of Term Paper Appendix
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