examples of nonstandard american english
Tài liệu Examples of the Standards for Students’ Writing 2009: English Language Arts Grade 9 ppt
... and letter.Proportion of error to length and complexity of response has been considered. 10Format of a Business LetterThere are three basic business-letter formats. Any of these formats is ... of student writing from only the English Language Arts Part A: Writing tests for inclusion in portfolios of the year’s work. Copies can be made for parents who request them.The Exemplars of ... address is the name and address of the person sending the letter. The return address appears in the top left corner of the envelope and consists of your name, post of ce box number (if applicable),...
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Historical variations of American English
... inclose The future of American English Since World War II, American English has been developing and changing. There is no doubt that American English will enrich the English language greatly.With ... American English has developed a character of its own, reflecting the life and the physical and social environment of the American people.The Americans invented large numbers of new ... development of modern mass media and the common needs of economic, cultural and political exchanges, American English will be more widely used in the world than British English. 4. American...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_2 ppsx
... dis-tinguished from a consensus of authority, of evidence, of faith, of taste, of testimony, and so on.In any case, “consensus of does notgo with “some kind of Mafia involve-ment” (in the third ... description of a market scene in Niger,a book of true adventure contains an ex-ample of the strict use of career:A man trying out a camel careered out of control, much to the amusement of the crowd.The ... reversal of thechronological order of events, often withafter, in an effort to update the news;and (2) use of condition in a specialsense, that of a medical prognosis, a prediction of a patient’s...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_3 pps
... single member of a particular group, which can comprisepeople, things, or animals. Often of fol-lows, as in “every one of our 1,500” and“each and every one of our clients.” The of and its object ... instead of became orwaxed enthusiastic, was disapproved by76 percent of The American HeritageDictionary’s usage panel. “He was con-siderably less enthused by signs of fac-tionalism,” instead of ... Perhaps the writer of the headline knew better and was try-ing to achieve some kind of effect, be-sides the effect of making the newspaperseem illiterate and causing hundreds of English teachers...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_5 potx
... rarekind of stone.”The same principle holds for class of, sort of, and type of. “A gnu is a type of antelope.”3. Properly used with A or ANKind of in another sense may go witha. Being a kind of ... fully. “She’s akind of butterfly.” / “George is a sort of expert.”The same goes for kind of a (or an) orsort of a (or an). “My boss is kind of atyrant.” / “They say Fred is sort of ananimal at ... figuremidway in a set of figures arranged in or-der of size. In the set of three just above,the median is 36. (When the number of items is even, the median is the mean of the two figures in the...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_6 pps
... ending. See Plurals and singulars,2J. OF. See COMPRISE; HAVE, HAS,HAD, 2; OFF and “OFF OF ; ON, 3;Prepositions; SUPPORTIVE. OF ANY, OF ANYONE. See ANY,1, 2. OF COURSE. 1. Benefit. 2. Draw-back. ... the Americans “littlechoice but to blow them out of the sky”(a non sequitur). “Little choice”? TheAmericans had the choice of not blowingthem out of the sky; the choice of talkinginstead of ... been one of the mean-ings of over since the Middle Ages. TheOxford English Dictionary offers eightquotations, from the fourteenth centuryon, to illustrate that over can mean “Inexcess of, above,...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_7 docx
... thought.Their function of setting off part of asentence resembles that of dashes andparentheses. (See 4, 7.) In general, com-mas least interrupt the flow of the sen-tence.When the set-off matter comes ... donewithout unduly raising the price of coalor of jeopardizing new trade.” Omit thesecond of; no preposition belongs thereat all.See also ADVOCATE; FREE, 1; OFFand “OFF OF ; ON, 2; WHENCE and“FROM ... as thesubject of its verb (lives or comes).(See THAT and WHICH; WHO,THAT, and WHICH.)PROOF and EVIDENCE. See EVI-DENCE and PROOF.PROOF OF THE PUDDING. Theproverb about proof and pudding...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_8 docx
... ON, 1.)The derailment of a series ranks highamong the most common errors foundin print. The main cause of it is the fear of repetition, even the repetition of so in-offensive a word as and. ... saveby the lawful judgment of his peers orby the law of the land. . . . . . . For the sake of God, and forthe bettering of our realm, and for themore ready healing of the discordwhich has ... (mainlynon-Indians—many American Indiangroups call themselves that), who foster“Native American as a synonym. Users of that term exclude most native-bornAmericans and several indigenous peo-ples under the American...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_9 doc
... a maga-zine essay by a professor of English, protesting the lowering of standards of behavior: “. . . Common decency hasnot been all that common for longstretches of human history.” May onealso ... lowering of standards of English usage and all that fuzziness?THAT and WHICH. 1. The differ-ence. 2. Indiscriminate WHICH; mix-up of THAT and WHICH. 3. “THAT” inplace of WHICH. 4. Versions of a ... adjective and a sin-gular noun. Any of these work: thosekinds of law or that kind of law or laws of that kind.See also KIND OF, 1; Pronouns, 2(misuse of them); THESE and THOSE.THEMSELVES...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_10 ppt
... of Style, Chicago:The University of Chicago Press,1982.The College Standard Dictionary of thereference works 487REFERENCE WORKSMany of the reference works consulted in the preparation of ... linguist describes a mil-lion-word sample of American writingcontaining 61,805 word forms.As already suggested in our discussion of the frequency of words of differentlength, word utilization ... dissolution of what had been a vir-tual Soviet empire of Communistsatellites in Eastern Europe. . . . While it was never of cially called any-thing like the “Soviet Empire,” itamounted to that.Often...
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The Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_3 pptx
... single member of a particular group, which can comprisepeople, things, or animals. Often of fol-lows, as in “every one of our 1,500” and“each and every one of our clients.” The of and its object ... noun: friends of mine and a dress of hers. Nobody islikely to say “friends of me” or “a dress of her.”In writing, (1) an opinion of the doc-tor and (2) an opinion of the doctor’shave two different ... Perhaps the writer of the headline knew better and was try-ing to achieve some kind of effect, be-sides the effect of making the newspaperseem illiterate and causing hundreds of English teachers...
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