δάσκαλος | the teacher

Devika Panikar - October 23, 2020

Reports generally involve presenting your investigation and analysis of information or an issue, recommending actions and making proposals. Main Sections of a Report ...

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LANGUAGE

Placement of Adverbs

Devika Panikar - October 22, 2020

Putting the adverb in the wrong spot can produce an awkward sentence at best and completely change the meaning at worst. Place adverbs as...

LINGUSTICS

Complement Clause Transformations

Devika Panikar - October 21, 2020

Complement Clause The Complement clauses ( abbreviated as COMP-clauses) are commonly defined as subordinate clauses functioning as an argument of a predicate. The Complement Clause...

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LANGUAGE

Types of Reports

Devika Panikar - October 20, 2020

Reports are well researched, planned and organized documents that are written for a purpose. A report is written for a specific audience; it must...

LINGUSTICS

Complementation

Devika Panikar - October 19, 2020

A characteristic property of certain types of sentence embedding in English, the Sentential Complementation, is the deletion of the initial Noun Phrase of the...

LANGUAGE

Adverb

Devika Panikar - October 15, 2020

An adverb is a modifying part of speech. It answers the question when, where, how, how much, how long, or how often. ...

LINGUSTICS

Relativization in Subordination

Devika Panikar - October 14, 2020

In transformational grammar, relativization is the process of forming sentences with relative clauses in them. Relativization as a syntactic process, like complementation and coordination...

LANGUAGE

Report Writing

Devika Panikar - October 13, 2020

In academia, there is some overlap between reports and essays, and the two words are sometimes used interchangeably, but reports are more likely to...

LINGUSTICS

Double Based Transformations -Subordination

Devika Panikar - October 12, 2020

In generative grammar, embedding is the process by which one clause is included (embedded) in another. This is also known as nesting. More broadly,...

LANGUAGE

British and American Expressions

Devika Panikar - October 9, 2020

There is an old saying that America and Britain are “two nations divided by a common language.” While they are essentially the same, British...

LANGUAGE

Use of Adjectives

Devika Panikar - October 8, 2020

An adjective is a word which qualifies a noun or a pronoun. An adjective can be used in two ways: (1) Attributively: She is a...

LINGUSTICS

Double Based Transformations -Coordination

Devika Panikar - October 7, 2020

Double-based Transformations A generative grammar of the type proposed by Chomsky makes use of two types of transformational rules- the singe-base or simple transformations, which...

LANGUAGE

A Blog Post in Five Easy Steps

Devika Panikar - October 6, 2020

Step 1: Plan your blog post by choosing a topic, creating an outline, conducting research, and checking facts. ...

LANGUAGE

Structuring a Report

Devika Panikar - October 23, 2020

Reports generally involve presenting your investigation and analysis of information or an issue, recommending actions and making proposals. Main Sections of a Report ...

LINGUISTICS

LINGUSTICS

Complement Clause Transformations

Devika Panikar - October 21, 2020

Complement Clause The Complement clauses ( abbreviated as COMP-clauses) are commonly defined as subordinate clauses functioning as an argument of a predicate. The Complement Clause...

PROSE

Alice in Wonderland

Devika Panikar - May 2, 2020

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under...

POETRY

Poem in October

Devika Panikar - June 9, 2020

Poem In October by Dylan Thomas is about a man who has turned 30, and goes out to have a walk, reflecting on life....

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LINGUSTICS

Passivisation

Devika Panikar - October 5, 2020

In English grammar, passivisation is the transformation of a sentence from an active form to a passive form. Through the process of passivisation, the...

LANGUAGE

Adjectives

Devika Panikar - October 1, 2020

Adjectives are Noun Modifiers, as they generally describe some aspect of nouns. beautiful good ...

LINGUSTICS

Short Response and Emphasis Transformation

Devika Panikar - September 30, 2020

Short Response Transformation In spoken English and informal writing, a short answer is a response made up of a subject and an auxiliary verb or...

LANGUAGE

Blogging

Devika Panikar - September 29, 2020

A blog is a type of website that focuses mainly on written content, also known as blog posts. In popular culture, we most often...

LANGUAGE

Types of Nouns

Devika Panikar - September 24, 2020

Recognising the different types of nouns in English grammar will help to develop one's ability to write and speak with precision. Compound Nouns Compound nouns are...

LINGUSTICS

Tag Question Transformation

Devika Panikar - September 23, 2020

The standard or classical, the model of transformational generative grammar posits two levels of representation for sentences, an abstract deep structure of meaning relationships...

LANGUAGE

Writing an Effective Email

Devika Panikar - September 22, 2020

While most of us are happy to write informal emails to friends, we get jittery when asked to write to people whom we are...

LANGUAGE

Noun Classes

Devika Panikar - September 17, 2020

Nouns are described as words that refer to a person, place, thing, event, substance, quality, quantity, etc. The grammatical categories associated with nouns are...

LINGUSTICS

Disambiguation Using TG Grammar

Devika Panikar - September 16, 2020

TG grammar attempts to describe actual and potential sentences. It aims at generating all and only sentences of a language. It is able to...

LANGUAGE

Email Writing

Devika Panikar - September 15, 2020

Email stands for electronic mail. It is the easiest and the cheapest way of communication. It is used in formal, semi-formal as well as...