... in a good piece of writing There is an element of truth in the fact that grammar rules help to generate sentences However, if the writer has no real understanding ofthe lexis ofthe English language ... relevant to the topic under discussion The organization of ideas requires a clear understanding ofthediscourse structure ofthe target language, which is English in this case Here the non-native ... of a fine piece of writing Viewed as a process, writing involves the following major skills The skill of much use during the first stage is that of planning Before starting off, the writer has...
... if the timing ofthe output in logical time of these two are the same, FORMULA can minimize the difference in the output timing of these two events in real time when these events are sent to the ... abstraction” (28) For instance, the lack ofthe bitwise operators in the early versions ofthe Lua is one ofthe widely-known examples of abstraction inversion While the bitwise-and operation can ... integration ofthe objects and manipulations for microsound synthesis in the sound synthesis framework) 1.3 Roadmap The rest of this thesis is organized as follows In the next chapter (Chapter 2), the...
... that means of transport - What the advantages of that method of travelling are - What the disadvantages are And say if you think you will use that means of transport more or less often in the future, ... buy there - What the most popular shops are - Any changes there have been over the years And say if you think shopping there will become more or less popular in the future, and why Describe the ... day ofthe year You should say: - When it is - Why you like it - What you usually And say how it compares to other special days ofthe year Talk about the last time your whole family got together...
... refers to the consideration of meaning in an incongruent way at the level ofthe organization ofthediscourseThe most congruent form of joining two ideas is An investigation into the role of metaphor ... → various and the occurrence of types 13 are due to the driving force of type or type - There is the appearance ofthe ‘wrong order’ when considering the syntax ofthe verves - There is similarity ... and the results ofthe study were presented An investigation into the role of metaphor in description of emotion in poetic discourse • Part is the conclusion ofthe study which summarized the...
... about the products in part B Discuss these questions What new features the products have nowadays? Are the latest products all improvements over the older versions? Do you have any ofthe products? ... have any ofthe products? Is there anything you don’t like about them? Activity Pair work Can you identify these things? Match the names with the pictures Then discuss the questions below a Chopstick ... letters C Join another pair Discuss these questions Which gadgets in part A you own? How often you use them? What you use them for? I talk on my cell phone two or three times a day I often use mine...
... to tasks These tasks are the operational end ofthe “what” you have to do, the end ofthe action chain They are at the opposite end ofthe goal Be careful in defining tasks because they can overwhelm ... to the target based on the previous description ofthe situational analysis Repeat the process until targets are set for the remainder ofthe objectives Avoid the twin dangers of setting the ... market analysis they determined exactly who they were attempting to reach with their product By first defining the market and then the profile ofthe actual customer within that market they were able...
... target of management theorists Usually the wants and needs ofthe individual are compared to the wants and needs ofthe organization That takes you nowhere Too often the wants and needs ofthe organization ... Properties-driven companies understand the value of their capital assets Those properties are the core of their income generation They are the center of their universe Because the properties are subject ... A payoff-driven organization is one that understands the basic human need of individualism These organizations base their products and services on some form of payoff for the users The payoff...
... from the generator’s strategic component) E.g., the tag “7” is attached to the root and head nodes of both exemplars of NP Hans in Fig 1, indicating their coreferentiality For the sake of computational ... records the ‘elliptical mechanism(s)’ applied: “g” for Gapping; “gl”, “gll”, etc., for LDG levels// check whether the HEAD verb of LC and the HEAD verb of RC have the same reference tag; if not then ... (recursively for every S-node) the set of immediate constituents (grammatical functions) ofthe two conjuncts, and their reference tags Complete constituents ofthe right-hand conjunct may get...
... very well that there are plenty of traders who try to squeeze the juice out of these stocks, and they have the best of their best traders assigned to these monsters I see plenty of online traders ... most ofthe time, and they don’t get frustrated or overexcited Their plays are easy to distinguish; they have a very distinctive style The trades they make are apparently “their” plays They often ... stood the test of time, it’s necessary to revive an in-depth understanding of how tape-reading principles can take us to the root of price and rate of volume They show us the footprints of the...
... Experiencer Location Source Goal The boy kicked a ball In that sentence, the person who executes the action is called AGENT The agent in that sentence is the boy The THEME is the object or person that ... by the action In this case a ball Agent & theme The boy cut his hair with the scissors In this example, we can notice that there is a tool that helps the Agent to perform the action That is the ... second, the semantic role of Source In the third one, the semantic role of Goal Not just the semantic roles provide a meaning to the words, phrases or sentences Sometimes meaning comes from the...
... 0.05) more common in The Times than in the BNC with both the preterite and the past participle of learn and with the past participle of burn The formation ofthe preterite and the past participle ... team-teach There are a number of reasons to be observed for the different treatment of compound verbs in the two dictionaries of AmE They deviate from one another, for example, in the number of entries ... instantiations of one ofthe patterns which have the verb hop as their second element The schema underlying these verbs is the following: [[ _ ]N [hop]V]V ‘to move quickly from one N to another’ The pattern...
... tender, unfair) As the addition ofthe -er and more-comparatives is always 100%, the missing segment of each column provides the percentage for the synthetic -er The selection ofthe 54 adjectives ... to the pattern which predicts an incremental use ofthe synthetic variant at the expense ofthe analytic form For fourteen out of sixteen adjective groups investigated the trend is from synthetic ... formal broadsheets These findings are indicative ofthe interplay of style, complexity and explicitness outlined above The less formal in terms of style, the higher the ratio ofthe explicit more-variant,...
... decreased, the share of knitted has increased and the pre-determiner placement of quite has gained ground, at the expense of their respective competitors These historical 22 The results ofthe chi-squared ... instead ofthe original; the purpose ofthe task was not revealed in advance The results are given in Table 7.1, abstracting the relevant parts ofthe verb phrase I will refer throughout to the two ... sections and 8.2 below The history of substitute v 2.1 The evidence ofthe OED According to the OED, the earlier history of relevant uses of substitute can be summed up as follows The first, now obsolete,...
... one The use of direct objects after verbs One ofthe long-term consequences ofthe collapse ofthe English case system has been the expansion ofthe sentence pattern S-V-O As a result, both the ... it.11 There is no doubt, then, that the rivalry between the reflexive use and the zero variant fails to be accounted for in terms ofthe Complexity Principle The task of disentangling the numerous ... (7) a b c d They got themselves into (great) trouble They got themselves in (great) trouble They got into (great) trouble They got in (great) trouble From the stylistic point of view, the more highly...
... frequent, at the expense ofthe preterite, taking over more and more ofthe semantic functions of that verb form The growth and spread ofthe present perfect does not continue in the same way in the Modern ... prestige in the political and cultural world ofthe early 1900s, the surviving morphological subjunctive along with the influence ofthe subjunctive in the languages ofthe vast numbers of European ... constructions may be seen as a test ofthe influence ofthe current relevance ofthe past situation on the choice of verb form In any case the preference for the present perfect is much more marked...
... but there have been some changes in their form and use since the classic descriptions ofthe first half ofthe twentieth century.1 The aim of this chapter is to outline the general system of tag ... side ofthe Atlantic The results are presented in Figure 15.3 The data show that the situation in AmE differs in several respects from that in the mother country First of all, the decline of modal ... entrenchment ofthe subjunctive: It is very often of a qualitative nature The corpus used for the four analyses is provided by the collection of newspapers from the 1990s described in Table 15.2 of section...
... dreamt of in our philosophy, and then count the ways – or at least some of them – in which the differences manifest themselves, also stressing the need to consider the multidimensional nature ofthe ... frequent in the LCSAE as in the BNC In the Longman Corpus approximately 43 per cent ofthe tokens are adverbs (calculated on the basis of 100 examples of sure randomly chosen from the corpus) The corresponding ... change of mind, these have to be represented as a movement across the chart; this is shown with an arrow, such that the starting point ofthe arrow indicates the previous view ofthe speaker, and the...
... varieties around the end ofthe nineteenth century In the light of these facts, the low rate of to in present-day AmE appears to result from a U-turn in the early twentieth century 17 Another recent ... in 99 per cent ofthe total in AmE Apart from the use or omission ofthe adverbial suffix in items like real/ really and whole/wholly, the domain of degree adverbs offers several other contrasts ... 19.14a The distribution of selected sentence adverbs across different positions in British and American newspapers (The figures at the bottom ofthe columns give the overall frequency ofthe adverbs...