between the ‘social networking language’ and ‘academic writing’ This means that the students might later suffer in university when it comes to writing a professional report in their field of interest. In the meantime, the effect of adolescents using up-to-date smartphones has given more evidence to linguists on how the English language is being misused. From the beginning, students are starting to make more unintended grammatical errors in their writing assignments at school. The cause of students
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UPPER- INTERMEDIATE WORD LIST UPPERINTERMEDIATE WORD LIST HEADWORD 1 Abandon 2 Absorb 3 Abuse VERB NOUN ADJECTIVE abandon absorb abandonment abandoned absorbent 4 Account 5 Acquire 6 Adapt abusive accountable COLLOCATION to be forced to abandon to abandon stg completely/entirely to absorb quickly/rapidly to be abused emotionally/physically/sexua lly/verbally to be/become abusive take sth into account bank account to be accountable for
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It happened more times last year than I can even recall, but I clearly remember the first time, I was grading a paper and came across a sentence that surprised me. It just didn’t fit in with what I had read up to that point. I was surprised partly because the sentence made proper use of the word “implacable,” whereas in the paragraph before, the student had used an abstract noun ending in “-ship ” as a verb. Twice. I read more and found more seismic shifts in the writing style. Magisterial paragraphs
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Prepositions “at”, “on” and “in” The prepositions “at”, “on” and “in” are function words which do not have clear lexical meanings and obvious concepts associated with them. However, these prepositions are important because they specify grammar relations by connecting the content words such as nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs to a larger grammatical context. For instance, polar bears hibernate in the winter. This sentence shows that polar bears hibernate during or throughout the winter by
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Common Uses for the Comma Here are the main ways to use the comma in the average sentence. 1. Use a comma to separate three or more items in a series. T xxxx, yyyy, and zzzzz. The results of the election came in late from Utah, Colorado, and California. Trains, buses, and planes are just a few of the main modes of transportation. 2. Use a comma after the first part of a two-part sentence (compound sentence). T subject verb c.t. , and the subject verb c.t. . The race began on time, and all
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the 8th or 9th grade. To get estimated grade level I used Fry's Readability Formula. To get this estimation, I randomly selected three passages from the textbook of one hundred words each. For each section of one hundred words, I counted the number of sentences and the number of syllables. For the first one hundred word sample, the number of sentences was roughly 4.9 with 180 syllables, the second sample was roughly 3 sentences with 131 syllables, and the last sample was roughly 5.3 sentences with
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My Word Family -um Word Family + initial single consonant- sum, yum Word Family + consonant blend- glum, chum Word Family + three letter consonant blend OR consonant digraph- strum Word Family+ inflectional ending- humming Word Family as part of a 2-syllable word- triumph Word Family as part of a 3-syllable word- triumphant Word Family as part of a larger, multisyllabic word- not found For my student, I have chosen to create a phonetic flip chart. He or she will create their
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am comfortable with, so that I will make the least amount of mistakes as possible. My signing production was terrible, I froze up so many times even though I really did know how to sign the correct questions. For example instead of signing university I signed school. Also I noticed that when signing I left out accurate meanings of words such as our and we that I mixed up. Many of my signals were not complete so I noticed that I need to assure that I completely finish a sign, and then move on to the
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Huizhen Long 09/22 Assignment 1 English 205 1.8 B. Tyson’s words were full of ambiguity and were very euphemistic. The problem arose because he lacked language skills. Help means assistance, and making things easier for the person seeking for help. It does not mean that the helper has to do all the work. As a team leader, Tyson is responsible for contribution to the team. It is inevitable that Alicia was resentful when she found out that Tyson counted on her to finish the entire customer inquiries
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____________ Word Bank Word | Definition | Picture | Connections | Word | Definition | Picture | Connections | Word | Definition | Picture | Connections | Word | Definition | Picture | Connections | Date _________________________ | Subject: Reading Questioning/Answering | | Reading Comprehension As students read the story then I will ask them to draw attention to a few vocabulary words by inserting
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