examples of nonstandard american english
a discourse analysis of opening and closing speeches by masters of ceremonyon reality television showsin american english versus vietnames
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A comparative study of insults in vietnamese and american english
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Tài liệu Examples of the Standards for Students’ Writing 2009: English Language Arts Grade 9 ppt
... and letter. Proportion of error to length and complexity of response has been considered. 10 Format of a Business Letter There are three basic business-letter formats. Any of these formats is ... of student writing from only the English Language Arts Part A: Writing tests for inclusion in portfolios of the year’s work. Copies can be made for parents who request them. The Exemplars of ... address is the name and address of the person sending the letter. The return address appears in the top left corner of the envelope and consists of your name, post of ce box number (if applicable),...
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Historical variations of American English
... inclose The future of American English Since World War II, American English has been developing and changing. There is no doubt that American English will enrich the English language greatly. With ... American English has developed a character of its own, reflecting the life and the physical and social environment of the American people. The Americans invented large numbers of new ... development of modern mass media and the common needs of economic, cultural and political exchanges, American English will be more widely used in the world than British English. 4. American...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_2 ppsx
... dis- tinguished from a consensus of authority, of evidence, of faith, of taste, of testimony, and so on. In any case, “consensus of does not go with “some kind of Mafia involve- ment” (in the third ... description of a market scene in Niger, a book of true adventure contains an ex- ample of the strict use of career: A man trying out a camel careered out of control, much to the amusement of the crowd. The ... reversal of the chronological order of events, often with after, in an effort to update the news; and (2) use of condition in a special sense, that of a medical prognosis, a prediction of a patient’s...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_3 pps
... single member of a particular group, which can comprise people, things, or animals. Often of fol- lows, as in “every one of our 1,500” and “each and every one of our clients.” The of and its object ... instead of became or waxed enthusiastic, was disapproved by 76 percent of The American Heritage Dictionary’s usage panel. “He was con- siderably less enthused by signs of fac- tionalism,” instead of ... Perhaps the writer of the headline knew better and was try- ing to achieve some kind of effect, be- sides the effect of making the newspaper seem illiterate and causing hundreds of English teachers...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_5 potx
... rare kind of stone.” The same principle holds for class of, sort of, and type of. “A gnu is a type of antelope.” 3. Properly used with A or AN Kind of in another sense may go with a. Being a kind of ... fully. “She’s a kind of butterfly.” / “George is a sort of expert.” The same goes for kind of a (or an) or sort of a (or an). “My boss is kind of a tyrant.” / “They say Fred is sort of an animal at ... figure midway in a set of figures arranged in or- der of size. In the set of three just above, the median is 36. (When the number of items is even, the median is the mean of the two figures in the...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_6 pps
... ending. See Plurals and singulars, 2J. OF. See COMPRISE; HAVE, HAS, HAD, 2; OFF and “OFF OF ; ON, 3; Prepositions; SUPPORTIVE. OF ANY, OF ANYONE. See ANY, 1, 2. OF COURSE. 1. Benefit. 2. Draw- back. ... the Americans “little choice but to blow them out of the sky” (a non sequitur). “Little choice”? The Americans had the choice of not blowing them out of the sky; the choice of talking instead of ... been one of the mean- ings of over since the Middle Ages. The Oxford English Dictionary offers eight quotations, from the fourteenth century on, to illustrate that over can mean “In excess of, above,...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_7 docx
... thought. Their function of setting off part of a sentence resembles that of dashes and parentheses. (See 4, 7.) In general, com- mas least interrupt the flow of the sen- tence. When the set-off matter comes ... done without unduly raising the price of coal or of jeopardizing new trade.” Omit the second of; no preposition belongs there at all. See also ADVOCATE; FREE, 1; OFF and “OFF OF ; ON, 2; WHENCE and “FROM ... as the subject of its verb (lives or comes). (See THAT and WHICH; WHO, THAT, and WHICH.) PROOF and EVIDENCE. See EVI- DENCE and PROOF. PROOF OF THE PUDDING. The proverb about proof and pudding...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_8 docx
... ON, 1.) The derailment of a series ranks high among the most common errors found in print. The main cause of it is the fear of repetition, even the repetition of so in- offensive a word as and. ... save by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land. . . . . . . For the sake of God, and for the bettering of our realm, and for the more ready healing of the discord which has ... (mainly non-Indians—many American Indian groups call themselves that), who foster “Native American as a synonym. Users of that term exclude most native-born Americans and several indigenous peo- ples under the American...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_9 doc
... a maga- zine essay by a professor of English, protesting the lowering of standards of behavior: “. . . Common decency has not been all that common for long stretches of human history.” May one also ... lowering of standards of English usage and all that fuzziness? THAT and WHICH. 1. The differ- ence. 2. Indiscriminate WHICH; mix-up of THAT and WHICH. 3. “THAT” in place of WHICH. 4. Versions of a ... adjective and a sin- gular noun. Any of these work: those kinds of law or that kind of law or laws of that kind. See also KIND OF, 1; Pronouns, 2 (misuse of them); THESE and THOSE. THEMSELVES...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_10 ppt
... of Style, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1982. The College Standard Dictionary of the reference works 487 REFERENCE WORKS Many of the reference works consulted in the preparation of ... linguist describes a mil- lion-word sample of American writing containing 61,805 word forms. As already suggested in our discussion of the frequency of words of different length, word utilization ... dissolution of what had been a vir- tual Soviet empire of Communist satellites in Eastern Europe. . . . While it was never of cially called any- thing like the “Soviet Empire,” it amounted to that. Often...
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The Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_3 pptx
... single member of a particular group, which can comprise people, things, or animals. Often of fol- lows, as in “every one of our 1,500” and “each and every one of our clients.” The of and its object ... noun: friends of mine and a dress of hers. Nobody is likely to say “friends of me” or “a dress of her.” In writing, (1) an opinion of the doc- tor and (2) an opinion of the doctor’s have two different ... Perhaps the writer of the headline knew better and was try- ing to achieve some kind of effect, be- sides the effect of making the newspaper seem illiterate and causing hundreds of English teachers...
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