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4.1 child language acquisition theory – chomsky, crystal, Aitchison & piaget | i love english language
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Skip to search - Accesskey = s. I love english language. 41 child language acquisition theory – chomsky, crystal, Aitchison & piaget. Noam Chomsky believes that children are born with an inherited ability to learn any human language. He claims that certain linguistic structures which children use so accurately must be already imprinted on the child’s mind. Evidence to support Chomsky’s theory. Children learning to speak never make grammatical errors such as getting their subjects, verbs and objects in th...
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Académie Française challenged to update language with fresh bon mots | i love english language
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Skip to search - Accesskey = s. I love english language. Académie Française challenged to update language with fresh bon mots. By aggslanguage on November 27, 2011. Could attachiant, eurogner or bête seller win approval from the French-language watchdog and make it into the dictionary? Attachiante: a woman you can’t live with but can’t live without, as personified by Jeanne Moreau’s character Catherine in François Truffaut’s Jules et Jim. Photograph: The Ronald Grant Archive. It was followed closely by.
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the language police | i love english language
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Skip to search - Accesskey = s. I love english language. By aggslanguage on December 17, 2011. Why do they adopt an error-hunting mindset? 8216;The debate about how far language ought to be allowed to evolve is an old one.’ Illustration: Adam Howling for the Guardian. At this point, it’s surely time for a UN intervention. We must act to halt this outrage! Except that all the words just quoted come from discussions of the uses and abuses of English. Simon Heffer, in his recent book Strictly English. But i...
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1.7 Sentences | i love english language
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Skip to search - Accesskey = s. I love english language. Subject, Direct Object, Indirect Object, Complement, Transitive Verb, Intransitive Verb. First off, some basic definitions:. A group of words which makes sense on their own, which always has both a subject and a verb. I killed the cat. A group of words with a subject and a verb which cannot grammatically stand on its own. Because I killed the cat. The person or thing doing or being what the verb describes. I killed the cat. A man slapped me. When a...
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Disgust: How did the word change so completely? | i love english language
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Skip to search - Accesskey = s. I love english language. Disgust: How did the word change so completely? By aggslanguage on December 4, 2011. Originally “disgust” was used to express distaste for rotten food or filth. Today it’s deployed against looters, phone hackers and others whose actions many find morally murky. So how did the meaning change so much? He instead wrote of “gorge rising”. Same emotion. Different phraseology. But what disgusts us most? A new morality test. This sense of a purely moral d...
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1.8 Clauses | i love english language
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Skip to search - Accesskey = s. I love english language. Simple Sentence, Compound Sentence, Complex Sentence, Main Clause, Subordinate Clause, Connective, Conjunction, Finite Verb, Non-finite Verb, Non-Finite Clause, Relative Clause. Taking the basic sentence types:. I gave the football to John. He is an idiot. As well as adding adjectives, adverbs and adverbials, a lot more can be added by using extra verbs and so having more happening around the basics of any account. Is an example of a simple sentence.
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1.4 Adverbs/Adverbials | i love english language
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Skip to search - Accesskey = s. I love english language. Adverb of Time, Adverb of Space, Adverb of Manner, Intensifying Adverb, Adverb of Emphasis, Adverb of Modality, Adverb of Degree, Adverb Phrase = Adverbial = Prepositional Phrase. Adverbs tell us how something is done, why, when or where. They answer questions for the reader and show us what additional information the writer feels we need to see things from their point of view. The bus was quick. The bus turned the corner quickly. They are added in...
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1.6 Verbs | i love english language
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Skip to search - Accesskey = s. I love english language. Dynamic Verbs, Stative Verbs, Infinitive, Past Participle, Present Participle, Modal Verb, Lexical Verb, Auxiliary Verb. Past/Present tense, Perfective Aspect, Progressive Aspect. Starting with the most basic sentence:. To the shop. I open. The door. I look. At the man behind the counter. I nod. Can we change the tense? To the shop. I opened. The door. I looked. At the man behind the counter. I nodded. How does this read differently? 8230;the progr...
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How Americans Have Reshaped Language | i love english language
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Skip to search - Accesskey = s. I love english language. How Americans Have Reshaped Language. By aggslanguage on January 22, 2012. Published: January 20, 2012. A History of English in the United States. By Richard W. Bailey. 207 pp. Oxford University Press. $27.95. And was 17th-century America really unlike almost any other community in the world because it was a cluster of various ways of speaking? The history of American English has been presented in more detailed and precise fashion elsewhere by J...
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1.3 Pronouns | i love english language
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Skip to search - Accesskey = s. I love english language. P Pronoun, Possessive Pronoun, Reflexive Pronoun, Interrogative Pronoun, Indefinite Pronoun, Demonstrative Pronoun. What is a Pronoun? The easiest way to define a pronoun is any word which takes the place of a noun. Went to the Mary’s. Also included in this group is the pronoun. Though this pronoun does not usually refer to a person.). There are three personal pronouns, and each has a singular and a plural form:. The first set of forms (. This car ...
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