Learning Team Assignment
Sentence Skill Development
Listed below are the seven basic parts of speech accompanied with a description of its use and how they are commonly misused. The list is as follows:
NOUN - A person, place or thing. A noun can be misused when using a plural form of the word, such as mouse and mice. Some nouns do not become plural by simply adding (s) or (es).
PRONOUN – Replaces a noun in a sentence. A common misuse is when the pronoun and verb do not agree. Incorrect: They rides the bus. Correct: They ride the bus.
VERB – An action or a state of being.
Used as an action correctly: The dog ran away.
Used as an action incorrectly: The dog run away.
Used as a state of being correctly: I am well today.
Used as a state of being incorrectly: I is well today.
ADJECTIVE – Describing a noun. The big dog barked. Overuse can be its misuse, making your sentence too long, repetitive and boring. The big, smelly, hairy and ugly dog barked.
ADVERB – Describes a verb. The big dog barked loudly. Loudly describes how the dog barked. Adverbs usually end in “ly”. The dog barked loud; insufficiently describes how the dog barked.
PREPOSITION – A word that links nouns, pronouns and phrases together in a sentence, expressing relationship such as direction, location and time. Examples are: to, from, about, with and after. After several hours, the class finally came to an end. Misusing a preposition is really just using too many words to say them same thing. Incorrect: Inside of the classroom, the students were taking notes. Correct: Inside the classroom, the students were taking notes. Try to avoid using the word of unnecessarily.
CONJUNCTION – A linking word,...
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...solutely! It is especially so in the corporate world, where your grammar and word skills are extremely important. There are blue collar workers who are highly skilled in their trade but lack the required academic education in order for them to advance to a higher level position.
The strategies that can be used to ensure you will not make mistakes such as wrong word usage, is to be sure what it is you want to get across to your reader. Reading your work aloud can help you hear if something is not quite right. Using a dictionary and a thesaurus can aid you in the correct spellings and usage of the words you choose. After making these corrections, re-reading your work will help you see and hear how it should be. A trained ear and eye can help you better detect any possible errors that need to be corrected and lessen the chance of making the same mistakes.
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A college Degree used to be an extraordinary accolade but now its just another thing that we need in order to be successful, at this points its nothing more than a paperweight to some. Mike Rose states, “Intelligence is closely associated with formal education—the type of schooling a person has, how much and how long—and most people seem to move comfortably from that notion to a belief that work requiring less schooling requires less intelligence” (Mike Rose 276). In other words the author of Blue-Collar Brilliance, Mike Rose, believes that blue-collar jobs require intelligence as well. I agree that those who work blue-collar jobs need to be intelligent, a point that needs emphasizing since so many people believe that those who work blue-collar jobs aren't intelligent and that why they have them. Although I also believe that
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To find employment, the quality of jobs we get generally goes up according to how much college education we have. There are employment opportunities for individuals with and without a degree. However, with a degree, it is possible to explore more options and create a better future. While there are employment opportunities for those who do not have a college degree, earning a degree it important because it opens the door to gainful employment, allows one to negotiate benefits, and helps one remain employed.
This kind of sexism is apparent in the English language, for example through the generic use of masculine words such as “spokesman” or “chairman” (Mills 1995:87). Mills (1995:87-89) states that the most common examples are when “he” and “man” are used for referring to both women and men. The word “man” is also used as an affix in generic terms such as “policeman”, “postman” or “manpower” (Mills 1995:91).
In the previous, I don’t pay attention to an English subject as I should. Because at that time, I just think that if I didn’t go abroad, basic English skill is enough for me. Therefore, my English skills are weaker than another friend. Currently, I just notice that I should develop my English skill because I must use it in daily life but, at the beginning it quite difficult to start learning. However, on this day technology take part in our life and can cause many benefits including it can reduce the difficulty of learning the English language until I have better English skill. In this essay, I will share an idea that helps to improve an English skill by Following the 4 main steps that are Prepare, Predict,
Language is perceived as the way humans communicate through the use of spoken words, it involves particular system and styles in which we interact with one another (Oxford 2009). Possessing this ability to communicate through the use of language is thought to be a quintessential human trait (Pinker 2000). Learning a language, know as language acquisition, is something that every child does successfully within a few years.
When you seem smarter, more people want to hire you, when you or your parents have money, people want to please you. “In May 2013, about 39 percent of all jobs in the United States were in occupations that typically require a high school diploma or equivalent, with a median annual wage of $35,580.” As opposed to the jobs that require a doctoral degree “About 3 percent of all jobs in the United States were in occupations that typically require
A preposition is a word that placed before a noun or pronoun to show its relation the person or thing and some other words.
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Learning a new language can be challenging, but you can make it easier and simpler by not creating barriers that will hamper your improvement. If you are in the early stages of English learning, we would like to guide you on how to avoid making mistakes while speaking in English. These tips will help to make your learning process a lot smoother and English learning fun.
Practise more: We must always be sure of ourselves, at the beginning we may have some mistakes, but if you do not put it to the test this can have consequences for our future. Therefore to be practicing continuously we will focus on an explicit point of grammar (seo or not our most common mistake), either as exercises in books, oral, auditory, etc.
Part of speech that modifies a noun or a pronoun is called adjectives, so they add to the information density of registers like academic prose. Adjectives tend to describe states, properties or attributes of things, though as usual, one needs to be careful with semantic definitions of syntactic categories. For example, “a green house across the street”, the adjective ‘green’ describes the noun ‘house’.
I want to improve my speaking and writing through this course so I have set them as my goals. Before the course started, I planned to restrict myself speak only English in the class so as to enhance my speaking. After completing the course, I find that my conversation skills have improve a lot as we have many chances to discuss on different topics in the class, hence I have more opportunities to speak English. Unlike in Secondary school, I only say English when I answer questions in English lesson or other subjects that taught by English. As a result, I can speak English more fluently and express my idea in a concise way. On the other hand, my writing is also improved. When I was working on the argumentative essay, the comments from teacher and peers guided me to advance my work. Their advice inspired me how to write a better essay, also let me see the mistakes that I have made, thus I can correct my grammar and weird sentence