examine if children have rules for making plurals. For example, if a child says that the plural of book is books. Does he really know that he has to add the allomorph /-s/ to the singular to make the plural? Or does he memorize the plural form independently from the singular? The plural allomorphs that children are expected to acquire are /-s/, /-z/, and /-əz/. The child participated in this project is expected to make plurals as adults and add the correct plural allomorph to the end of singular forms
listening to someone talk in a foreign language. As a reader, we feel out of place, perhaps even unwelcome. So why are we bored with some writers while compelled to read some others? In her article “Writing for an Audience” Linda Flower, professor of English at Carnegie-Mellon University, focuses on the importance of knowing your audience for effective writing. She states that persuasive writers analyze their audience and pinpoint fundamental differences in knowledge, attitudes, and needs between themselves
Two types of expletives exist: the swear words, and the pairing. The expletives that most writers use “begin with there or it and are followed by a form of to be, such as is, are, was or were” (Metz 347). Sometimes they can be helpful but other times they can be poorly used and damaging to the writing. The main use of expletives “slows down the opening of a sentence and emphasizes what follows” but isn’t always correct (SMH 682). In order to understand why writers should avoid expletives, one should
In respect to the distinction of voice, Turner uses the example of a Gullah speaker saying, “they beat him” instead of the English syntactic phrase, “he was beaten” (Turner, 209). Thus, distinctive voice is eliminated by the use of the objective case as opposed to passive verbs in English. This syntactical framework can be found in the African languages of Ewe, Yoruba, Twi, Fante, and Ga (Turner, 209). Similarly to the languages of Ewe and Yoruba, the
evident in the history that the origin of the English and Bangla languages is Indo-European language family. But with the passage of time, these two languages had undergone a lot of changes. Although English was dominated by Greek and Latin, Bangla had been greatly influenced by English, specially in some areas of grammar during the British regime in the Indo-Pak subcontinent. However, the earlier Bangla grammar was based on Sanskrit grammar. In English, the term ‘grammar’ comes from Greek meaning
Native language can also affect the acquisition of word formation of English negatively. It is commonly term as interference of the first language. According to Dulay, Burt, and Krashen (1982), interference is an automatic transfer, due to habit, of the surface structure of the first language onto the surface of the target language. Discussions on the extent of word formation in English affecting native speaker of Malay negatively will specifically touch on plurality, mainly in terms of affixes and
They have singular and plural forms. One book / two books A woman /some women Before countable nouns we use a/an and numbers. A cellphone An apple Two chairs We use some and any before plural nouns and uncountable nouns to talk about an indefinite quantity Some pens Some desks Any books Some nouns are uncountable in English, but we can use some expressions to make them countable nouns Milk a glass of milk Rice a bag of rice Uncountable nouns They do not have plural forms. Milk Rice Weather
English grammar has constantly been changing ever since it existed. One of the changes it has suffered has been the decrease of declension, which consists in marking nouns, adjectives and pronouns to indicate a certain grammatical case, gender and number. Together with the loss of declension, Modern English also lost word order freedom, since a certain order needs to be maintained in sentences in order to make meaning. In Modern English, it is only possible to recognize the subject and the object
that these errors occur primarily due to linguistic differences. One should mention that in some languages, there are no forms that can distinguish the singular and plural forms of the verb. For example, one can speak about such a language as Bahasa Malaysia. Thus, these people can use the singular form of the verb, instead of the plural form. For instance, they can utter the following phrase, “Now, people is not looking for appropriate job but a stable one” (Stapa & Izahar, 2010). These mistakes can
1st person singular grɔb 2nd person singular grebst 3rd person singular grebt 1st person plural grɔbn 2nd person plural grɔbt 3rd person plural grɔbn (Fuss, 2005, p. 239) Note the change in stem of the 2nd and 3rd person singular forms from the finite verb grɔben. Over time, these forms have become analogically levelled, resulting in a 2nd person singular of grɔbst
make errors on the use of grammar when they produce an English writing, also in writing essay texts. It is because Indonesian and English have their own grammatical system. This problem may occur due to their lack of knowledge of English grammatical rules. Learning English is a necessity for some people. Learning English cannot be separated from learning grammar. Students sometimes make errors on the use of grammar when they produce an English writing. The students cannot avoid the grammatical errors
accentless English. In life, people have their own accents. However, studies find that the Standard Varieties of English, British or Canadian English, are one of the examples of standard English. There are some nonstandard varieties of English as well in this world. For example, there are varieties such as Irish English, Scottish English, African American English, Newfoundland English, Southern American English, Caribbean English, South American English, Australian English, New Zealand English, and Pacific
called Normandy. The invasion happened under the leadership of Duke William II and William the conqueror (Thomas, 2008). The English people staged several attacks on the Normans with an aim to resist the invasion on their land. However, the strong leadership of the Normans led England to succumb to the pressure. The Norman Conquest had a number of consequences on the English people and their culture. The consequences were the elimination of an elite group from the society, expatriation of people from
corpus-based English grammar reference books, course books and practice books. And the theme of my investigation is how corpus affects the development of English teaching materials. The grammar reference books I intend to analyze and compare are “A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language” (ACGEL) and “Cambridge Grammar of English” (CGE). The former is an indispensable grammar reference book first published in 1985, which has been widely consulted in researches in relation to English linguistic
that there were around 32,000 French immigrants who sought gold. Today, we sti... ... middle of paper ... ...nd the US. Le Lycee Francais de Los Angeles is an example of a private school which strives to make students bilingual in French and English. French is taught in most high school and in every university of California. French is a widespread language in the US and can be found easily in California. Much material can be found in French, including government material and even instructions
Lesson planning is an important component of teaching English language because a good teacher must make a lesson plan in order to achieve the objectives of a lesson. This term, I had a chance to observe grade 6 students.The classroom was composed of 31 students. All of them were native speakers of Turkish and their English proficiency level is elementary. In the lesson which I attended, the teacher taught simple present tense. So,the main objective of this lesson was to make the students
The chosen language for this paper is French. Morphology 1. Information on the language family it belongs to Language families are groups of languages that are related to each other because they come from a common older language. French comes from the Indo-European languages family and is a part of the Romance family along with Italian and Spanish which was spoken a long time ago. 2. Geographic location of the speakers, number of speakers, dialects, etc. French is the first spoken language is various
most notably found in language. In fact, the United States has never formally declared an official language. While English remains the most widely-spoken language in America, almost 60 million people in America speak a language in addition to English in the home. The most popular language for bilingual Americans is Spanish, with nearly 37 million people speaking both Spanish and English – a sizable portion of the bilingual population (Ryan, 2013). This isn’t to mention the population of people who
William Shakespeare is an outstanding pioneer of the English language in Early Modern English period between 1500 and 1700. Undeniably, he made a great contribution to the development of English language. His contribution is strongly related to Elizabethan English (Knowles, 1997). His literary works could reflect his language features and Early Modern English characteristics. King Lear selected in this essay is one of his famous tragedies. It was written by him between 1603 and 1608. This play revolves
Dialect Project 2 A good amount of people when thinking of Vietnamese English, one word come to mind to summarize the dialect is “Broken English”. While it is true that Vietnamese who learned and tried to speak English do use the “broken English” not because they are lazy and don’t want to learn how to speak properly, but because they are using Vietnamese grammar structure that they know their whole life and applying in it to English. That is a much easier thing to do rather than learning a whole new