greek and latin words in english language
A study on polysemy of antonymous words in English Some related problems facing learners of English and suggested solutions
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... improvement in his health is being maintained.
(English- English-Vietnamese Dictionary- nxb Van Hoa Thong Tin)
The sense of maintain in this context is to cause something to continue: to
keep ... consider the following examples:
Does he work fast or slow?
(Streamline English: lesson 38)
But today English are playing very well and Scotland are playing badly?
(Streamline English: lesson ... melt and take.
2.1. Antonyms of maintain
Maintain is a polysemantic word, because, it has related senses and one of
sense has an antonym, which is analysed in the following examples.
In...
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1000 Most Common Words in English - Numbers Vocabulary
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05/10/2012, 08:20
... minute 492 tire
391
appear
442
strong
493
bring
392
road
443
special
494
yes
393
map
444
mind
495
distant
394
rain
445
behind
496
fill
395
rule
446
clear
497
east
396
govern
447
tail
498
paint
397
pull
448
produce
499
language
398
cold
449
fact
500
among
399
notice
450
street
400
voice
451
inch
401
unit
452
multiply
402
power
453
nothing
403
town
454
course
404
fine
455
stay
405
certain
456
wheel
406
fly
457
full
407 ... tire
391
appear
442
strong
493
bring
392
road
443
special
494
yes
393
map
444
mind
495
distant
394
rain
445
behind
496
fill
395
rule
446
clear
497
east
396
govern
447
tail
498
paint
397
pull
448
produce
499
language
398
cold
449
fact
500
among
399
notice
450
street
400
voice
451
inch
401
unit
452
multiply
402
power
453
nothing
403
town
454
course
404
fine
455
stay
405
certain
456
wheel
406
fly
457
full
407 ... 1000 Most Common Words in English - Numbers 1 - 250 - Vocabulary for ESL EFL
TEFL TOEFL TESL English Learners
Rank Word Rank Word Rank Word
546
brother
686
poor
736
brown
637
sand
687
lot
737
wear
638
soil
688...
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A study on idiomatic variants and synonymous idioms in english and vietnamese
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07/11/2012, 15:01
... English and Vietnamese, is expected to be an
interesting and helpful material for foreign language teachers and learners and for people who
are interested in idioms in both English and Vietnamese.
2. ... distinction between idiomatic variants and
synonymous idioms.
- Gain an insightful look at idioms in general and idiomatic variants and synonymous
idioms in particular in both English and ... quick-minded and active way.
Stage 1: During the process of investigating materials from various sources, the forms,
characteristics and meanings of idioms and their variants and synonyms in English and...
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Writing In English - Language functions
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25/10/2013, 20:20
...
Language functions
Chapter 4 LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS
4.1 Agreeing and Disagreeing
Agreeing and disagreeing are typical elements of spoken English but may also appear in
scientific writing. ...
4.4 Defining
In science and technology, there are generally two kinds of definitions:
the real definition, that is a definition that explains precisely the essential, intrinsic
characteristics ... sentence simply by using stress on important
words. In writing, of course, we cannot do this. Instead, we can emphasise particular words
or phrases by putting everything into a kind of relative...
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The Role of Gestures and Facial Cues in Second Language Listening Comprehension pptx
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10/03/2014, 05:20
... perceptual training of
sounds such as /r/ and /l/, especially in the more phonologically
challenging areas based on their L1: /r/ and /l/ in final position
for Korean participants and in initial position ... pottery and involved description and gesture use.
Materials recording and editing. Two video-recording ses-
sions using the same lecture outline were scheduled, each last-
ing approximately 20 min. ... Lynch, K. (1999).Offeringa
hand to pragmatic understanding: The role of speech and gesture in
comprehension and memory. Journal of Memory and Language, 40,
577–592.
Lansing, C. R., & McConkie,...
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WJEC GCSE in English Language For Teaching from 2010 For Award from 2012 ppt
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10/03/2014, 05:20
... Marks; 60 UMS)
Using language: Speaking and Listening (Communicating and adapting language;
interacting and responding; creating and sustaining roles) (20%)
3
Studying spoken language: Variations, ...
Interacting and responding
Creating and sustaining roles
Band
4
20-26
marks
Candidates
effectively communicate information,
ideas and feelings, promote issues and
points of view ... discussion and in writing.
GCSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE 3
â WJEC CBAC Ltd.
ENGLISH LANGUAGE
1
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Rationale
The skills of reading, writing, speaking, and listening are of...
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Báo cáo " Idiomatic variants and synonymous idioms in English " doc
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14/03/2014, 11:20
... the same
meaning and grammatical structure. Moreover,
their meaning is based on the same image. In
other word, head and mind are two components
belonging to the same field of meaning. We
consider ... a
phrase or sentence whose meaning is not clear
from the meaning of its individual words and
which must be learnt as a whole unit” [1]. Sharing
the same point of view, Thomas Hill (1979 [2]) ... distinction between
idiomatic variants and synonymous idioms
In order to make a clear distinction between
idiomatic variants and synonymous idioms, we
focus on two criteria: meanings and...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "Homophones and Tonal Patterns in English-Chinese Transliteration" doc
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17/03/2014, 02:20
... the training data and thus
missing unlikely but good candidates.
4 Work in Progress
4.1 Datasets
A common set of 1,423 source English names
and their transliterations
2
in Mandarin Chinese ... consid-
ered in addition to grapheme mapping for han-
dling Cantonese data.
5 Future Work and Conclusion
Thus we have compared E2C between Mandarin
Chinese and Cantonese, and discussed work in
progress ... syl-
lable initial /d/ may surface as in Baghdad 巴格
達 ba1-ge2-da2, but the syllable final /d/ is not
represented. This is true for Mandarin Chinese,
but since ending stops like –p, –t and –k are...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "Resolving Translation Ambiguity and Target Polysemy in Cross-Language Information Retrieval" potx
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17/03/2014, 07:20
...
accompanying words is measured by mutual
information. For each word C in a Chinese
query, we augment it with a sequence of Chinese
words trained in the above way. Let these words
be CW~, CW2, , and ... translation equivalents in our
Chinese -English bilingual dictionary. Table 2
shows the degree of word sense ambiguity in
English and in Chinese, respectively. On the
average, an English query term ...
Bian, G.W. and Chen, H.H. (1998) "Integrating Query
Translation and Document Translation in a Cross-
Language Information Retrieval System." Machine
Translation and Information...
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Verb and subject agreement in English
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18/03/2014, 00:09
... types. They contain to-infinitive which is introduced by
WH – word, ing clause and bare infinitive.
+ To – infinitive:
[142] To climb mountains requires courage
( To infinitive clause) ...
3. Indefinite pronoun
The indefinite pronouns are so named because they refer to things or people in a vague or
general way. The indefinite pronoun is classified into indefinite person of thing ... simply random strings of words and morphemes, but conform to specific
patterns determined by syntactic rules of language. From then we have grammatical sentences
(in which string of words and morphemes...
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Reading and writing numerals in English
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18/03/2014, 00:14
... Collecting type of popular numeral in English document and daily
communication.
Instructing writing and reading numeral exactly.
3. Scope of the study
Numeral in English is a wide category including: ... remain the standard system
throughout the Middle Ages, reinforced by Rome's continuing position at the
centre of western civilization and by the use of Latin as the scholarly and legal
language. ... especially in writing and
reading numeral because learners sometimes skip when they think that it is an
unimportant part.
Therefore, it is necessary to collect ground rule of reading and writing
English...
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