Observation Observer:Valmire Korqaj Date:03.12.2 Class:VII Teacher:Miranda Agaj -In this paper I will describe a teacher and her students in an observation I did in Public school “Deshmoret e Kombit”.Through this paper a variety of pupils' class and teacher's behavior will be discussed. The observation did in ninth class in English lesson the teacher was Miranda Agaj. I arrived in the office ten minutes before the lesson started. So I had a chance to talk with the teacher. We briefly discussed
of English verbs are the auxiliary verbs. Cross-linguistically, auxiliaries mark certain semantic features of a main verb, including whether an action takes place
plethora of verb tenses, and many of them can be quite complex given either their subtle differences, or the irregular nature of the verb itself. Well then, why do English speakers need all these verb forms? Does it even make that much of a difference? Why can’t, “I has been eated the grapes,” just be culturally accepted as a normal way to express the earlier eating of these luscious fruits of the vineyard? “Just because that’s the way it is,” is not a satisfactory answer. The subtleties of verb tense
Learning Chinese-Personal Narrative In 1995, I decided to volunteer as a missionary for my church. On the application form, there was no space for suggestions as to where in the world I would like to serve as a missionary. Church leaders assign missionaries to the place they feel we should go. I was surprised with the assignment to serve in Taiwan, speaking Mandarin Chinese. I had no previous experience with Chinese people or their language, so I felt fortunate that the church provides 2
The words of every language are divided into several word classes, or parts of speech, such as nouns, verbs and adjectives etc. The words of a given class exhibit two or more forms in somewhat different grammatical circumstances. These forms are not interchangeable and each can be used only in a given grammatical situation. This variation in form is required by the existence of a grammatical category applying to that class of words. Thus a grammatical category is "a linguistic category which has
on external argument is affected by the presence of modal auxiliary in the transitive verb string. In such constructions, the external argument is not marked with the ergative Case even when the verb string consists of perfective aspect, which is morphological marked on the modal auxiliary that usually follows the main verb, as shown in (4a) below. Rather, the external argument is marked with the nominative Case and it is in agreement with the verb string for gender, number, and person. On the other
Politeness is known as a courteous manner that displays respects, show deference in society where people live and communicate together (OED online). Furthermore, according to Brown and Levinson (19780, politeness theory is the speaker’s expressions use toward receiver in soft manner of Face Threaten Acts (FTAs) to saving face of addressees. There are four main strategies in politeness theory as: bald-on record, positive politeness, negative politeness and off record. Bald- on record, a type is commonly
Structures The common structure of forming a passive voice is: BE + P.P ( the combine of “to be verb” with the “past participle” (P.P) of the main verb). We call this as “Be passive”. Be passive can be used in various tenses. Numbers Tenses Structure Example 1 Simple Present am/is/are + Past Participle (P.P) I am punished. 2 Simple Present Continuous am/ is/ are + being + P.P I am being punished. 3 Simple Past was/ were + P.P I was punished. 4 Past Continuous was/ were + being + P.P I was being punished
Commentators of Aristotle ABSTRACT: The ancient commentaries on Aristotle's Peri Hermeneias (De Interpretatione) give us important elements to understand more clearly some difficult passages of this treatise. In the case of the indefinite names and verbs (i.e. 'not-man', and 'does not recover', respectively), these commentaries reveal a doctrine which explains not only the nature of the indefinites, but also why Aristotle introduces these kinds of term in Peri Hermeneias. The coherence and explanatory
definition of the word you’re looking for. For example, the word, word, can be either a noun or a verb, depending on the context you’re using it in, for example, in “a word of caution”, word is a noun, but in “he words his request”, words is a verb. There are eight major word classes we have covered during LING101, those being nouns, main verbs, adjectives, adverbs, determiners, prepositions, auxiliary verbs, conjunctions and complementizes, and we have three main criteria for classifying what word class
with “one day a boy swimming” which demonstrates that he knows how to correctly begin the story. He also introduces the audience to the little boy, revealing he is aware that there is a character in every story. Although, he is missing the auxiliary verb “went” to create “one day a boy went swimming” he understands that a story consists of a beginning, a character(s), coordinating conjunctions, and a setting. Throughout the story, he demonstrates his knowledge on pronouns because he introduced the
discourse of war, and you shall hear/A fearful battle render’d you in music’ (line 43-44) compares Henry’s talk of war to a battle of music conveying Henry as a war-mongering king to the audience, stressed by the imperative mood of the command verb ‘list’. The use of the second person pronoun ‘you’ effectively addresses Ely and the audience directly stressing Henry’s status as a King of the people by using an imperative mood. During this extract personification is used to show the audience
Country.” When it is shortened to a simpler version it can be comprehended that it means “Cry, the Country.” One peculiar thing about the grammar on the title is that instead of being just a normal independent clause, which is subject + verb it turns out to be verb + subject. Not only is that uncommon but also automatically means that it would have great significance as to why it is the way that it is. It can also be looked at, as there are many grieving and bitterness in the country. Because the
Emma's Dilemma In my investigation I will investigate the number of different combinations a word can be put in. For example the word… Tim. The letters in this word can be mixed up to show all the possible variations of combinations the letters can be put in. So a variation of the name Tim would be… Mit. E.g. TIM, ITM, MIT, TMI, ITM, MTI. …this shows all the possible combinations the letters can be put into. A total of 6 different combinations can be achieved. I will begin
time as he keeps revisiting the battlefield and the only way to get away from those horrors is to be in the moment-by appreciating that “beauty is everywhere”. A continual sense of movement throughout the passage is evoked through the use of kinetic verbs, demonstrates that time cannot be held back and Septimus must continue to move forward despite his past. Septimus struggles as he tries to live in reality. Every time he opens his eyes, he feels fear as life is moving too fast for him. The terrors
explanation and justification of his actions. Throughout the poem, the repetition of negatives, such as “no falsifying” (2), “no sophistry” (15), and “No arguments” (20) mirrors the negative acts of such a condescending individual’s behavior. The active verb used to describe the hawk in the title, roosting, indicates the animal’s self-assertion. The first word of the poem, ‘I,’ indicates the supreme ego of the hawk, who rules the “wood[s]” (1): his domain. By closing his eyes, the hawk perceives that only
I felt so vague and asked her what that is. She told me DOCTOR stands for description, occupation, characteristic, time, origin, and relationship of the verb “Ser” in Spanish. I recalled one time my manager taught other members in the group to use DOCTOR, LOCO, and BOOT to conjugate verbs in their essay to make it more perfect. These are the verbs that basic Spanish writings must have. However, I realized that I was not a part of this club because I have been in the club for almost a year but I get
Alison Bechdel’s specific, artistic and organized design of Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic is her method of explaining and expressing her sentiments towards her unique transitioning from childhood through to adolescence and onwards into adulthood. Elements such as specific colour use, mise-en-page, panelling, and exploiting the gutter are each examples of how Alison Bechdel communicates her development throughout life and the hardship that came with it. Bechdel’s memoir was written to mirror her life
During my sophomore year in college, I had always restricted myself to a modest diet of long weekend nights alone reading or trying to watch as many films from the Criterion Collection as I could find. I would never get very far. I would always end up re-watching Catherine Breillat’s Fat Girl. A film one critic noted for having a “brutal narrative structure”. Nothing sentimental about it; brutal. The mid-fifteenth century understanding of the word is most compelling to me: to be brutal is to relate
Finding Deeper Meaning in Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat First impressions are important when meeting new people, applying for jobs, and even when reading literature. It provides us with an idea of what is going on, where things are taking place, and who the important characters are. This first impression can be described is the Pre-Critical Response; the average reader performs this type of analysis every time he or she reads. For some people, this simplistic perspective is