Essays on English Language Page 6

Phonetics is a scientific discipline that examines the sounds made by humans when speaking. It explains the mechanics and acoustic qualities of sounds and provides ways to classify them. Phonetics is comprised of three major branches. Articulatory phonetics: Studies the nature and limits of the human ability to produce speech sounds and describes the way…

With an excited feeling, I go into the English classroom and sit in the front row on the first day of school. Our class begins reading Richard III by William Shakespeare, whom I know is famous but I don’t have a deep understanding of. After all, who he is because I just arrived in the…

For this assignment you are going to write a report on a student in the TP class you are teaching now. As a practicing teacher, you will at times have to write reports on students for various reasons, e. g. passing on information to a colleague, providing information for a student’s employer, etc. The report…

William Shakespeare, born/baptized on April 26th 1564 and died on April 23rd 1616, is widely known as an English poet and playwright. He is considered by many to be the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s pre-eminent dramatist. Referred to as England’s national poet and the “Bard of Avon,” Shakespeare has a…

This essay will focus on the origin and evolution of the English language in Barbados. As an introduction, it will account for the chief events and tendencies that impacted on the development of the English language in Barbados today. Furthermore, the essay will describe the role of the English language in current Barbadian society. Compared…

Learning any language other than the mother tongue and getting communication ability in it, takes quite some time for anybody. But the vernacular of Kerala in South India Malayalam has a different story to announce. This is due to the invention of a brand new item called “Linguistic Yardstick” by Mr. Jacob Nettikkatt (Nettikkadan). The…

5000BC – Sanskirt – was an ancient Indian language that belongs to the indo-European language group. India preserved samples of this language that are older than any European language. 55BC – Romans first recorded in England at this time. They did not conquer England until 78-85AD. OLD ENGLISH 450 – Saxons – They were the…

My course paper is called the gerund. I have chosen this subject, because I want to know more about the gerund. There are several reasons for it: 1)1 want know more about the gerund, because it will help me in my future studying, will help me not to produce errors ; 2) Since most languages…

Gerunds are funny — they look like verbs, they sound like verbs, but they’re not verbs — they’re nouns! SpSpecificallyecifically, gerunds are action-oriented verbs that function as nouns. This always has the same function as a noun (although it looks like a verb), so it can be used: As the subject of the sentence: Eating…

The freshman research paper appears to be in danger of displacement by controlled research materials in one volume. Such materials have their advantages in controlling cheating and in teaching the student how to use source materials, both of these being difficult problems in beginning research. Controlled materials have the disadvantage, however, of not really teaching…