... 'leap' or 'spring,' if we 'slip,''slide,' or 'fall,' if we 'walk,' 'run,' 'swim,' or 'ride,' if we 'creep' ... calling it 'red' or 'yellow,' 'white' or 'black,' 'green' or 'brown.' We areRomans when we speak in a general way of 'moving'; ... aharbour; and +Vallum+, a rampart.CHAPTER II. 12 PART III.PART IV.PART III.CHAPTER I.CHAPTER II.CHAPTER III.CHAPTER IV.CHAPTER V.PART IV.CHAPTER I.CHAPTER II.CHAPTER III.CHAPTER IV.CHAPTER...
... "In' his cham'ber, weak' and dy'ing, Was' the Nor'man bar'on ly'ing."Dactylic "This' is the for'est prime'val. The mur'muring ... exceptions are Ar'abic,arith'metic, ar'senic, cath'olic, chol'eric, her'etic, lu'natic, pleth'oric, pol'itic, rhet'oric, tur'meric. Climactericis ... special accent, as in bi'en'nial and tri'en'nial, em'inent and im'minent, op'pose' and sup'pose', etc.Sounds of Vowels in Different Positions.Let...
... ways ('It's very hot in here', and 'Could you open the window?'), butwe could also say 'Please open the window.'; 'How about opening the24WHAT A LANGUAGE ... 'skinny' or 'emaciated'?Competent speakers of a language also know how to change words -how to make 'possible' 'impossible', how to make interesting' 'interested' and ... between 'I'm sorry I've brokena glass' and 'I'm afraid this glass seems to have broken'). If you want to asksomeone a favour you may well say something like 'Could...
... it language exits only in the brains and mouths and ears and hands and eyes of its users. When they succeed, on the international stage, their language succeeds. When they fail, their language ... to make a language “global” and to keep its status. 3. Why English dominates as a “global language ? English is used as an official or semi-official language in over 60 countries, and has ... vocabulary, and the rich in culture. etc. make a “global languageand language can exit independently. However, the said reasons above only cannot make a language “global”, many languages...
... accommodations can befurther categorized as English- languageand native -language. English- lan-guage accommodations assist the student with testing in Englishand in-clude adjustments such as repeating, ... students as English- language learners.Durán is especially concerned about identification of English- language learners. He has found that the typical practice is to classify students as English- language ... Disabilities and English- Language Learners, Summary of a Workshop. Judith Anderson Koenig, edi-tor. Board on Testing and Assessment, Center for Education, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and...
... a first conjunct, and L-{- for second and later conjuncts, of type L: e.g. [N[Ng~ the cause NSz] and [Nq- the appropriate action N-k]N]. 3 We discovered that the grammar's coverage (to ... San- torini, B., and Strzalkowsld, T A Procedure for Quan- titatively Comparing the Syntactic Coverage of English Grammars. Proceedings of Fourth DARPA Speech and Natural Language Workshop, ... 5. Hopcraft, J. E. and Ullman, Jeffrey D. Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation, Read- ing, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1979. 6. Jehnek, F., Lafferty, J. D., and Mercer, R. L....
... purposes; and adapt speech to context and task. Language: Conventions, Effective Use, and Vocabulary The Language standards include the essential “rules” of standard written and spoken English, ... also approach language as a matter of craft and informed choice among alternatives. The vocabulary standards focus on understanding words and phrases, their relationships, and their nuances, and ... ideas) and situations where informal discourse is appropriate (e.g., small-group discussion); use formal English when appropriate to task and situation. (See grade 4 Language standards 1 and 3...