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    come to regard ambiguity in poetry as one of its most characteristic and valuable features’ (Furniss & Bath, 1996: 207). The literal definition of ambiguous is ‘having more than one meaning, open to more than one interpretation’ (Concise Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford University Press, 2011, p40). Ambiguity in poetry is viewed as an important and an effective feature by literary critics and poets everywhere, with William Empson stating: ‘The machinations of ambiguity are among the very roots

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    Different animals have different grouping names and to most people it seems like just a random selection of how the group name was formed. When ravens group together it is called an unkindness, when lion get together it is called a pride and when tigers get together it is called an ambush. Lions and Tigers seem very similar but have different group names. One is “pride” which means “high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority” and ambush means “an act or instance

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    As one aspect of skill, writing for someone does not come just like that, although some people argue that writing skills are talent since childhood. Writing is one aspect that is very important language skills mastered into learning languages to support the function of language as a communication tool. Therefore, learning a language is learning to communicate both orally and in writing. One of language skills which must be mastered in communication is the result of learning in expressing and developing

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    Jeremy Harmer stated that learners need to be exposed not only to one variety of English (British English, for example) but also to varieties such as American, Australian and Irish English just to name a few. (Harmer, 1998) Understanding regional accents can be overwhelming, however, with the right training, skills and awareness, the students will be better equipped to interpret different

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    The purpose of this writing is to summarize a reading from George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language”. The intended audience is Professor Lindholm. The goals of this draft is to clarify the summary in my own words with no opinions. Also, providing enough information about the main points of Orwell’s essay. Based on this draft, I see the strengths falling under the main points of each paragraph and the introduction paragraph. However, the weaknesses are to clarify more in each paragraph. In

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    Artie aside so Artie could teach him english, because of this friendship he got food, clothes, shoes, spoon, a belt, and a chance for better work.The kapo favored him and protected him from other kapos who would like to take him away for work. The kapo did this so he could learn english to be more important to the Nazis.” He wanted to learn here English! For polish, I had good english.You managed to get the berlitz books here! You already studied to conjugate verbs? And he kept me aside the rest. Listen

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    On the Latest Development of Modern English Vocabulary Abstract: As one of the three elements of language, vocabulary is sensitive to the fastest change. Modern English vocabulary distributed in many areas always keeps developing. Though scholars at home and abroad make great progress on English new words, it is far from satisfaction. This paper, which is based on the previous findings, begins with the definition of English new words and its study actuality. As new vocabulary is a mirror of social

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    Methods Participants The current study sought to evaluate the performance of individuals above the age of 50 on the two narrative discourse tasks. In order to participate in the study, participants had to be above the age of 50 and a native speaker of English. Additionally, participants had to have the cognitive capacity to consent to participate in the study. Individuals were excluded from the current study if they had a concurrent diagnosis of a cognitive disorder and any other condition, such as Alzheimer’s

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    behavioral examples of individuals with a consideration of society, correspondence, traditions, conventions, convictions, morals and so on. In less complex terms, it is the fitness controlled by the local speakers of the vernacular, here alludes to English. Presently, going to the theme of this paper i.e. Etymological Competence, a knowledge is offered through this into the Universal Grammar. According to Chomsky, Linguistic capability is the dialect framework that empowers various individuals to decipher

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    There is a serious demand for this as many cities within the UK have an increasing number of non-native English speakers who find it difficult to participate and become active members of society due to this language barrier. You also have a high number of developing cities abroad (especially in the Gulf states) where there is a demand for English teachers to come and educate the local population. Coupled with my command of the Urdu, Arabic, Hindi and Punjabi languages, I believe

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