Activity 1 - Mandatory
After reading the suggested sources of information, do the following task.
Answer the following using your own words:
1. What is inflection? How does it work? Give two examples of inflection in the English language. Do not use examples from the materials you read.
It is a word formation process consisting in adding a “bound morpheme” to a word without changing its main meaning.
It takes places because of syntactic needs, to illustrate let us take the following cases:
• Ann worked yesterday.
• Ann works very hard.
In both cases, we can note that there is a syntactic relation between the words of each sentence with the verb “work”, that is why the inflectional morphemes “–ed” and “–s” must be added. In the first example we must attach the inflection (-ed) because of “yesterday”, and in the second because of “Ann” (third person).
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In spite of the fact that there are only eight inflectional morphemes, this process is very productive since it can be applied to a wide range of words:
• Nouns, to form possessives and plurals (Marco´s books).
• Verbs, to form the present tense of the third person in singular, the progressive tenses, the past tense and the past participle of some verbs (takes, walked, taking, taken).
• Adjectives, to form comparatives and superlatives (quicker, quickest)
2. What is derivation? How does it work? Give two examples of derivation in the English language. Do not use examples from the materials you read.
It is another morphological process consisting in attaching either a prefix or a suffix to a word; yet, this attachment does change the meaning of the original word. In derivation, the relation involved only has effect within the word. For instance
One of methods that very interesting is that words just transformed their meanings completely for no reason. He gives an example whereby the meaning for the word had entirely changed in their meaning: counterfeit and brave. Counterfeit now means a fake copy of a genuine good, such as fake money, but in the past it meant a legitimate copy.
1. Identify the sentence with the correct form of the verb/verbs. 13. a) Santos is the most fast skater on our team. b) Santos is the faster skater on our team. a) Please sit the groceries on the sink. c) Santos is the more faster skater on our team. b) Please set the groceries on the sink. d) Santos is the fastest skater on our team. c) Please sat the groceries on the sink. 14. a) That restaurant is the most casual of the two. d) Please sits groceries on the sink. b) That restaurant is the more casual of the two. 2. a) My nose has froze on cold winter days. c) That restaurant is the mostest casual of the two. b)
9. Compare the tone or attitude expressed towards the British people with that towards King George III. List and explain those words that aid you to understand this tone.
In the first example, grammar is being compared to a pole that a writer grabs hold of. In the
In Part One how does the diction (word choice) and syntax (sentence style) change between the segments focused on the Clutter family versus those focused on Dick and Perry? Explain these differences and find three strong examples for each (6 total) which are illustrative of your claim.
Diction: the denotative and connotative meanings of words! What specific words did the author choose? Consider her word choice compared to another. Why did the author choose that particular word? What are the connotations of that word choice? • different words for the same thing often suggest different attitudes (happy vs. content vs. ecstatic) • denotative vs. connotative (dead vs. passed away) • concrete vs. abstract (able to perceive with 5 senses, tangible, vs. an idea or concept that exists in one’s mind, intangible) • monosyllabic vs. polysyllabic (Cats eat meat; felines are carnivorous animals.) • simple vs. ornate • positive vs. negative (slender vs. skinny, determined vs. stubborn) • colloquial / informal / formal / technical • cacophonous vs. euphonious (e.g., harsh sounding, raucous, croak or pleasant sounding, languid, murmur)
One of the most important things about words may not be the actual content of what is being written, but rather the structure of what is being written. More specifically, the mechanics of our sentences often sway readers towards unexpected directions.
himself during the activity. The second task required the child to use four or five word sentences. I asked the child to tell me what he wanted to do for his birthday. The child replied “I want to go to the phone store and I want to go to IHOP”. The child was able to use a fifteen word sentence. The child paused multiple times during his thought process in formulating his sentences. The third task evaluated the child usage of the past tense. I asked the child to tell me what he did yesterday. The child replied “I played the game; I played on a friend phone, watched a scary movie at night, and went to bed”. The child was able to use the past tense to describe his prior day. The child had continuous movements swaying side to side in his chair
We’ve allowed a natural approach to language instruction to dominate our schools, hoping our English learners “will just figure it out.” (SCOE, 2009) This approach suggested by Kevin Clark proposes that teachers explicitly teach ELL by giving them a set of skills. Teacher will have to teach students not just vocabulary, but the sound system of language, the words and their word parts and meanings, and also rules for structuring sentences grammatically. Teaching students from this perspective can support a deeper understanding of the language. When the
words which modify a noun by showing a form of possession or a sense of belonging to a particular person or thing.
Some of these include the process of changing the meaning of a word and the language gap between children and adults. Since
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When people stick too much to the verbal term itself, people became fixated that the initial meaning was lost.
Semantic development is the process of learning words and their meanings while creating a connection to the two. Usually studied
In the third part, three pedagogical implications will be presented. In addition, a grammar activity and its theoretical rationale will be respectively reported in the fourth and fifth part before the final conclusion is displayed.