Examine and compare the two series of words as to pronunciation.
- Group1: Light – Kitten – Put – Make – Trip – Cotton – Forgotten – What
- Group 2: Apartment – Backseat – Spotlight – Workload – Assortment – Upbeat
The one characteristic shared by all the words belonging to both groups is:
While working with the text and focusing the usage situation of: call off, no kidding, jerk, get away with, loses face, hanging around, ran out of, sniff around, run into, stuff, and way to go, which micro ability of speech, part of sociolinguistic competence, is being explored?
Examine the sentences with regards to comma use/absence.
I. Where she is it doesn’t matter.
II. The driver in the Ferrari, was running at unbelievable speed.
III. Laura enjoys watching movies that employ lots of special effects.
IV. Watching Star Wars, which has lots of special effects, is my favorite thing to do.
V. After we finished dinner we went for a walk together.
The consistent answer is:
In the questions extracted from the song’s lyrics “What have I got to do to make you love me? What have I got to do to make you care? What do I do to make you want me?”
the segments TO MAKE YOU LOVE ME, TO MAKE YOU CARE, TO MAKE YOU WANT ME go in the category of:
Text genres bring components that suit their social use. In the introduction to Puff Daddy’s famous album “No way out”, we observe identification with the genre prayer, mainly because the author employs a text sequence that is:
Point out the verb form to suit the captioned image.
A brand name is a form of a signature that gives credit to the creator of a particular work or service and sets it apart from
those created by others. The main purpose of a brand name is to differentiate a particular product or service from other like
or similar brands.
- Chuck E. Cheese's.
- Coca-Cola.
- Donald Duck.
- Dunkin' Donuts.
- Krispy Kreme.
- Mickey Mouse.
- Peppa Pig.
- Peter Parker.
The wellknown brand names in the spotlight all hold:
Assonance provides rhythm and musicality to change the mood of a text, also helping readers to reach its subject matter. Beyond literary use assonance is also found in pop culture as well as in everyday speech.
In “Fire and Ice” there are several instances of assonance, the same sort of sound effect found in:
Mark the option which suits the meaning of the rising intonation practiced when uttering the question tags.
The use to which language is put, rather than the particular grammar form it takes, constructs language functions. Language is employed in order to fulfill purposes and each one of these purposes can be known as a language function.
Regarding the text above, which language function does it display?
NOTWITHSTANDING in the segment “Notwithstanding that women in Canada have fully enshrined right to this service, that doesn’t mean it’s widely available” establishes a/an:
Choose the answer which is compatible with analysis of the sentences that follow by ruling the correct ones.
I. In 1939, as in 1914, everybody seemed to want war.
II. He believed, like did all his family, that the king was their supreme lord.
III. Please don’t use that knife like a screwdriver.
IV. As your brother, I must warn you to be careful.
V. The meeting will be at 8:30 on Friday like on Tuesday.
VI. Like your father, I will ask you to stop seeing those people.
Unless we as readers are able to identify and to understand the interactions of all the voices in a text, we will not be able to understand what is going on in what we read. Concerning that aspect, it is possible to assert that:
Figurative language makes meaning by asking the reader or listener to understand something by virtue of its relation to some other thing, action, or image. Which figurative language device or “figure of speech” do the sentences exhibit?
1. Marina is a wall flower.
2. You’re a couch potato.
3. Time is money.
4. America is a melting pot.
5. You are my sunshine.
