Possessive Pronouns Possessive pronouns take the place of nouns and denote ownership. They have similar forms as possessive adjectives but are commonly used with a definite article. The article is generally omitted if the possessive pronoun is preceded by the verb “ser”. The gender and number of a possessive pronoun must agree with the noun it replaces. Possessive Pronouns: mine el mío, la mía los míos, las mías yours (familiar) el tuyo, la tuya los tuyos, las tuyas yours (formal), his
The other poem shows character even in the title 'My Last Duchess' with its possessive pronoun 'my'. From the repeated use of possessive pronouns 'my' and 'mine' the reader soon realizes how controlling the Duke is 'That's my last duchess painted on the wall'. Even though both the women in the poems loved and cared for both men, they still wound up dead. In 'Porphyria's Lover' we find the character is also possessive and anxious about his lover when he states that she has 'vainer ties'. Indicating
husband’s attributes but demonstrates their intimate relationship in Love Song for Alex. Margaret Walker is able to immediately draw the reader into the context of her poem, beginning it with a descriptive metaphor of her husband, while using singular, possessive pronouns which exemplify her love. By beginning “My monkey-wrench man is my sweet patootie,” Walker evokes not only her personal ties to her husband through the pronoun my, but she also uses the metaphor to demonstrate her husband is hard-working
1. Introduction This squib is a comparative study on the DP hypothesis and proper names parameter in Italian and Hijazi dialect of Arabic. The Hijazi dialect of Arabic is the speech of around 6,000,000 people spoken in the West Coast of Saudi Arabia mainly in the large cities of Jeddah, Mecca, Medina, Yanbu, and some inhabitants of Al-Taif (Ethnolougue, 2013). Following Longobardi’s (1994) principles for the DP structure in Romance languages, particularly for Italian in terms of N-to-D raising,
1. Count and non-count nouns Form Nouns can be countable or uncountable Countable nouns They have singular and plural forms. One book / two books A woman /some women Before countable nouns we use a/an and numbers. A cellphone An apple Two chairs We use some and any before plural nouns and uncountable nouns to talk about an indefinite quantity Some pens Some desks Any books Some nouns are uncountable in English, but we can use some expressions to make them countable nouns Milk a glass of milk
What are the possible functions that have been proposed for the Ife heads? The Ife head exudes naturalism, it is characterized for its large stature, as well as being the most elaborate finished part of a typical figural sculpture. Portrait like realism displays the importance of the head for the Yoruba culture of southwest Nigeria. “One of the fundamentals of this worldview is that the visible head (ori ode) is no more than an enclosure for the inner, spiritual head, called ore inu, which localized
know the types of phrase and its grammatical rule and structure clearly. There are 5 types of phrase including Gerund Phrase that will begin with –ing word and always function as noun. They can wo... ... middle of paper ... ..., verb, adverb, adjective and preposition. For example, to identify noun phrase, you only have to look for noun (I, He, Tommy) and to identify verb phrase, only look for verb (run, swim, watching, jump). If you want to identify which type, you just look for that word type
Depth of Processing and the Self Reference Effect There have been many experiments done on depth of processing and the self reference effect. The Depth of Processing model of memory maintains that how deep something is encoded into a person's memory depends on using certain types of processing. This relates to the self reference effect because it is believed that people have the tendency to remember something better when they can relate it to themselves. People who can personally relate to
Thomas Hardy sometimes uses the landscape to reflect mood of his characters. Choose two brief extracts (about two pages each) where he does this; one when Tess is happy and another when she is not. How does Hardy reflect Tess's mood through landscape in these extracts? 1) Thomas Hardy sometimes uses the landscape to reflect mood of his characters. Choose two brief extracts (about two pages each) where he does this; one when Tess is happy and another when she is not. How does Hardy reflect
complex sentences similar to the preceding one, it is often difficult for me to distinguish whether a prepositional phrase is acting as an adverb or an adjective. In the introductory sentence, it is challenging for me to tell whether the prepositional phrase “in the Super Bowl” acts as an adverb of place for the verb “playing” or as an adjective for the noun phrase “NFL players”. Furthermore, complex sentences can make identify the function of the prepositional phrase even more challenging by adding
words are more firmly married to each other than the other’ while Thornbury (2006) states that ‘if two words collocate, they frequently occur together’. I chose to agree with Hill (in Lewis 2000) that collocations are content words (nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs) occur together predictably. Collocations can be categorised as strong, fixed and weak (O’Dell & McCarthy, 2008: 8). In his book, Lewis (1997) describes these categories in accordance with their fixedness and restriction. • Weak collocators:
In the two articles, Rizzi’s The Fine Structure of the Left Periphery and his Locality and the Left Periphery, there does not seem to be any incompatibility but instead a steady focus on fist elucidating the structure of the left and using the left to refine the Relativized Minimality principle. The major issue is that issues presented in the first are not necessarily addressed in the second, like details about the null constant. The second paper can be viewed as an additional paper that relies
i. Identify Lexical Ambiguity The Lexical database contains the possible ambiguity indicators such as: bound, break, call, content, continue, contract, count, direct, even, express, form, forward, function, get, job, level, name, notice, number, out, part, position, record, reference, return, set, source, special, standard, string, subject, switch, tail, throw, throw, throw, translate, try, under, value , way. ii. Identify Referential Ambiguity The Referential database contains the possible ambiguity
Affixation is a prefix is added before and after the root and steam to produce new words. Affix used to form different words by adding words such as insert prefix, suffix, and inflix forming new meaning. Prefix when used in verbs can be meaningfuly negative and positive. Inflix can be inserted in the middest of formiong a new meaning of the word. Suffix is the word inserts that are added at the and of the word. The affixes are words at the front, mid or rear which affects the meaning and form of
reflexivity of his action. Here we see polyptoton with “petit” and “petitur” as in the line above. Assonance links these two verbs, conveying again the reflexivity of Narcissus’ admiration of his image. This is a version of a golden line, in which the adjectives precede and the nouns follow the verb in symmetrical order, in this case with an adverb as well. Its use may be ironic here, recounting Narcissus’ repeated, ineffective actions. The fountain is ironically described as “deceitful,” when really it
Compare my last duchess and Porhyria's lover considering in particular how the 2 central characters are presented. Both poems, "My Last Duchess" and "Porphyria's Lover" have similarities and differences. This can be seen in the two central characters, content and language. In "My Last Duchess" the duke, a rich upper class man, is talking to a messenger of a count whose daughter he wishes to marry. This poem begins in front of his last Duchess painting which is on the wall in the Duke's home
Listening and Viewing Strawberry Day "Come on, Bilal! It's time for dinner," mother called from downstairs. "Coming Mom! Just give me five minutes," replied Bilal switching off the TV. He was watching a documentary on the health benefits of fruit on a food programme. He washed his hands and went downstairs. "Good evening everyone! What special dish are we going to have today?" he asked curiously. "Mom has made strawberry cheesecake for us. It looks really yummy. I can't wait to eat it! Let's start
ways to use have as a verb. The Oxford Dictionaries and the Oxford English Dictionaries have expanded on the word "have." They have both shown readers to use "have" as a noun and an adjective by using it as a phrase instead of just one word. This essay will describe how the word "have" can be used as a noun, adjective, and verb. The definition of "have" as a noun according to (Oxford English Dictionary [OED], 2016) "the fact of having something; possession, or a person, nation, etc., that has plenty
poem. The noun phrase has four possible rewrites. One of which is [Det N-bar]. Det N-bar rewrite is composed of a Determiner which include the articles (a, an, the) a Demonstrator which consists of (this, these, those, that) a Possessive (my, your, his, her, its, our, and their), Quantifiers such as (many and all) and Wh (which, what, whether). In the noun –bar there are three possible rewrites. [AP] Adjectival phrase, [N] Noun and [PP] Prepositional
situation, through the category of person (Halliday and Hasan, 1976: 37). The personal category includes the three classes of personal pronouns, possessive determiners usually called ‘possessive adjectives’) and possessive pronouns (Halliday and Hasan, 1976: 43). The items of the reference are as follows: Personal Reference Function Determinative Possessive Class Singular Masculine He/ him His His Feminine She/ her Hers Her Neuter It [its] Its Plural They/ them Theirs Their (Halliday, 1985: 295)