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This is a short paper I wrote for an Introduction to American English course at the University of Tampere in 1999. My prof asked my permission to publish it online and after a few years I noticed that my paper had started live a life of its own. It was cited around the web and…

Passage A describes a canoe journey into the jungle, as recounted by Redmond O’Hanlon. James, a poet, reluctantly agreed to join Redmond on their expedition to the heart of Borneo. At noon, we embarked on our journey up-river in a dugout canoe. After approximately ten miles, the cultivated fields transformed into a mature secondary forest,…

Romance (heroic literature) As a literary genre of high culture, romance or chivalric romance is a style of heroic prose and verse narrative that was popular in the aristocratic circles of High Medieval and Early Modern Europe. They were fantastic stories about marvel-filled adventures, often of a knight errant portrayed as having heroic qualities, who goes on a quest. Popular literature also drew on themes of romance, but with ironic, satiric or burlesque intent. Romances reworked legends, fairy tales, and history to suit…

English literatureI. INTRODUCTIONEnglish literature, literature written in English since c.1450 by the inhabitants of the British Isles; it was during the 15th cent. that the English language acquired much of its modern form. II. The Tudors and the Elizabethan AgeThe beginning of the Tudor dynasty coincided with the first dissemination of printed matter. William Caxton’s…

Introduction Theme really. It is no intelligence that any prepositional content – any « thought » – can be verbalized in several different ways. So, « May I offer you are chair? » , Take a place, please, « Sit down » – have the same proposition but differ in the mode of look, which,…

The Revolution presented both advantages and disadvantages for both English and American colonists. During the Revolutionary War, both the British and American colonists faced advantages and disadvantages that led to numerous deadly battles. The British had a highly trained and professional army, giving them an apparent upper hand. Additionally, Britain boasted the most powerful army…

English Literature From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search William Shakespeare English literature is the literature written in the English language, including literature composed in English by writers not necessarily from England; for example, Robert Burns was Scottish, James Joyce was Irish, Joseph Conrad was Polish, Dylan Thomas was Welsh, Thomas Pynchon is…

Abstract Having students to produce an organized, neat and error-free piece of writing has always been the life long dream and the ambition of all EFL teachers. The purpose of this study is to explore the common types of grammatical errors made by Emirati secondary male students in their English essay writing. The study was…

In society there are often people who do not fall into the typical regime of normality. Society often fears the unknown so those who do not follow the classic rule of what is considered ‘normal’ are often classed as foreign and minute. These people are often isolated and alienated by those around them giving them…

Language is a powerful communication tool the user holds to express their individual identity and ingroup solidarity. The use of Standard English helps to direct this, as it acts as the structure of communication, ingroup and between speech communities to effectively present a standard for mutual understanding. Outside of Standard English comes the use of…