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.
Furthermore, “troublesome words are those whose meanings appear to be simple, like “true”, “false,” “fact,” “law,” “good,” and “bad””(Postman 24). These words leave the reader with ambiguity. They could be interpreted in many different ways and often creates problems for the reader. Complex words with single, more concrete definitions are much easier to understand.
In order to make it in life, one must have experience and has to be well educated. It is difficult to get through life not knowing how to present oneself appropriately, or even have a fluent conversation. One’s beliefs, values, morals, and behavior can influence how he or she will make it to the top of the ladder. However, in many cases, it is not only the individuals fault for not being as educated or experience he or she should be. Many outside factors such as the community, resources availability, and one’s class can affect someone from being able to reach their high potential. Patrick J. Finn, author of Literacy with an Attitude: Educating Working-Class Children in Their Own Self-Interest, speaks on how language, the education system, and
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
o The individual object or event we are naming has no name and belongs to no class until we put it in one.
I do not totally agree, nor do I totally disagree, with the point about grammar that Kyle Wiens’ argues in his article. As an employer, Wiens has the right to make any of his potential employees write a grammar test and deny jobs to those with poor grammar. In my own experience, I notice that people who have poor grammar skills tend to be less meticulous in their work, just as Wiens suggests in the article. Good grammar is virtually paramount for businesses such as the ones owned by Wiens, which are heavily language based. As well, especially in the new millennium, quality workers and employees are becoming increasingly harder to find among the expanding, figurative sea of qualified post-secondary graduates. Thus, I agree with Wiens’ policy of making all of his potential employees write a grammar test. His policy seems like an effective way of determining the best possible people to hire.
Everyone has an opinion concerning what type of education is most useful. We all know that a college education is important in the competitive world we live in today. For instance, if you want a career in engineering, medicine, chemistry or law, a bachelor's degree or higher is mandatory. We often see people who have made it really big, and yet have little or no formal education. My opinion is, in order to get and keep a good paying job, you need both “street smarts” and “book smarts.” The combination of practical knowledge and explicit knowledge is the key to a successful career. Both types of knowledge have distinct advantages.
The pronoun was a part of a sentence that was used in a place of a noun and indicates a determined person. It has six simultaneous features, person, number, gender, case, form, and
In today’s economy, having a good education can really define who we are especially when it comes to earning a college degree on any specified fields. Although, most people might oppose the idea that being successful doesn’t require a college education but comes in a variety of ways such as skills and talents based on who the person is. Depending on what background you came from, there are different reasons why we go to college. Most of us go due to career change/job position, increase our intellect/knowledge, not to be stigmatized, playing as a role model either to our children or even someone that we care of. In his essay, “A College Education: What Is Its Purpose?” Andrew DelBanco mentioned the reason college still matters, which is: “a college degree has replaced the high school diploma as the minimum requirement into the skilled labor market.” (Pg. 110) I do strongly agree with him because not only does a college degree replaced a high school diploma for job competition, but it also influences the way we’re viewed in society including our work environment.
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.
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.
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’.
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).
Children’s acquisition of language has long been considered one of the uniquely defining characteristics of human behaviour.
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