One idea is to make an existing language the universal language that will be taught in schools all over the world. ... An idea was proposed that would require every student to learn at least one world language (English, French, Russian, Arabic, or Chinese), one regional language (Spanish, German, Arabic, or Swahili, and the traditional language of their country. Some suggestions have been made to modify the English language to eliminate the unpredictable spelling and grammar rules. Creating an official artificial language with consistent grammar rules was is another proposal being considere...

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Another one of my strengths is that I know how to research really well in the Internet and in books. ... One of my weaknesses is grammar. ... The person like me can only listen and give advice but they have to be the one to take it. ... I was in charge of making sure that everyone was doing there part and that everything was going to be done by our deadline date. ... I think from that point on every assignment that I got that night I would finish it. ...

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One comes of age at 21. ... Of course, not everyone is in a hurry to get married. ... In general, every man wants to marry too, or at least acknowledges that he must. ... What Every Schoolboy Knows In general, only boys go to school. ... The primary study of a grammar school is Latin grammar, using Lily's Grammar as the basic text, with Plautus, Terence, and Seneca as classical sources. ...

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One of my personal strengths is thinking and making decisions quickly. ... My first weakness would have to be English and Grammar. ... Trusting people and understanding them and their behaviors would be another one of my weaknesses. ... I was told one day that I would be the assistant manger of my department. ... English and grammar can usually be fixed with a spellchecker, friends to proof read, and also by reading and writing every chance I get to improve my vocabulary. ...

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It just happens that there's one country that's offered to send forces to protect Bosnia -- Iran. ... Chomsky asserts that society has a "genetic predisposition" to acquire linguistic knowledge (Newmeyer 1986:77). " Every grammar will have certain things in common with every other grammar, as a result of genetic constraints on the ability of human beings to learn languages" (Smith 1979:31). ... There is simply rich knowledge that everyone has automatically. ... As long as humans speak, Grammar will live and change along with society. The term "generative grammar" applies to Chom...

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In a world more accessible to everyone and cultures freely mixing, the acquisition of a second, third, or greater language can be incredibly helpful. ... Compared to the one hundred percent success rate of children, there must be a reason for the discrepancy. ... The unlearned intuitions that native speakers seem to have come from this theory, and by studying these intuitions one can see the remnants of the Universal Grammar that they used. ... This does not immediately mean that every human is imbued with a Universal Typing Skill. ... When a person gets older their mind tends to fossiliz...

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Everyone uses the English language differently on a daily basis, and the English they use is depending upon the audience they are speaking to. In the essay "Mother Tongue," Amy Tan tells a story of how she uses different Englishes in every day life. ... Grammar books, as a rule, describe one of the many Englishes spoken in America as Standard English. ... Speaking in that dialect can cause you a bit of trouble with one of the two, if not both. ... We should try to learn and use Standard English not because it is good grammar or better grammar than we now use, but because it can be the dia...

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Everyone experiences problems that could delay the learning process, but what exactly could some factors be that could affect a person learning the English language. ... Many people are set apart from one another by different dialects. ... A virtually complete grammar will have been developed by age four or four and a half. ... Not every person can be trained to play an instrument or be successful in a sport. ... It changes and, adapts so that we may better understand one another. ...

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If this music had one style, there definitely wouldn't be as many fans of hip hop that there are now. ... They are attracting listeners from all over the world, hitting them from every angle. ... Underground rap is everywhere and is part of every style of hip hop. ... Country Grammar rap is probably the newest style of hip hop. ... Plus, with the development of new styles being added to hip hop constantly, it seems hip hop will gain the interest of everyone somehow. ...

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Schools in the 1770's Schools back in the 1770's were very different, Massachusetts and Connecticut both had laws saying every town with fifty families or more in the town must hire a teacher and build a schoolhouse. Most schools in the 1770's had only one room; witch was freezing cold in the winter. ... The puritans believed that everyone should be able to read the bible. ... Older boys went to grammar schools for the next six years. ... Each one of the schoolmasters had one of the most important tools, a birch stick. ...

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With recent technology, almost everyone is a text message, email, or IM away. ... However, in this day and age, it can be tough to hone in on one's communication skills. ... All of these things are designed to help students in every step of the writing process. ... Purdue OWL is a website that has formatting, grammar, and citations explained in great detail. ... No one learns from being dishonest. ...

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He is considered to be one of the most important writers of the 20th century. ... He was educated at Marlborough Grammar school and at Brasenose College in Oxford. ... The book was rejected by twenty-one publishers but a publishing house called Faber & Faber decided to publish the book. ... The book became a best-seller and was in the booklists of Colleges because every student had to buy it. Everyone started discussing it. ...

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Everyone is capable of communication in a multitude of ways. ... Every time someone speaks, opinions are formulated and the audience makes judgments based on the quality of speech. ... Not everyone is a gifted writer, great thinker or has an expensive vocabulary. ... Concentrate on one specific action that you would like to present. ... Each paragraph should have one purpose and each sentence within that paragraph should contribute to that purpose. ...

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Going to grammar school with white children was obviously a step in the right direction as far as Paul's education because the education he was to receive at that institution would be better one then he would receive at an all black school. ... I think this is (if not the most) an integral role in the development of this book; in almost every instance when Paul is thrown a hurdle in life Lloyd Brown shows how gracefully he overcomes it. ... Granted Paul didn't win over the hearts of everybody (his grammar school principle included) he never set out to win people over in the first pl...

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The Education Act (1870) meant that free compulsory education was made available to everyone up to the age of 10. ... There are two different views of why the government introduced compulsory education, one of which was the Marxists. ... Grammar schools were for the better off middle classes and elementary schools were for the working classes. ... Grammar schools still existed as well as comprehensives. However, the brightest of pupils went to grammar schools which meant that schools were not comprehensive. ...

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To sum it up, its many different languages wrapped up into one. ... Maybe someday Ebonics will be accepted and understood by everyone, but until then it is very important to be able to speak Standard English. ... Every language is as grammatically developed and as valid for communication as any other. "The claim that any one dialect is unacceptable amounts to an attempt of one social group to exert its dominance over another. ... Teachers are responsible for bridging the language gap, so if that means using Ebonics in the classroom, so be it, but like I said before, everyone needs to be...

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The feature that I like most about Microsoft word that Microsoft notepad does not have is the Spelling and Grammar checker. ... Microsoft notepad came with the very first windows package, that is 17 years ago and it hasn't changed every much at all. ... I feel that there are two reasons for this, one being that I have never really used notepad for typing up a word document and the other reason would be that nearly everyone uses Microsoft word to type up word documents. ...

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Drafting is one of the many important aspects of the writing process. ... Every turn, or transition through topics, is smooth and connected. ... Everyone loves a good grade, right? ... Every word has to accurately express my thoughts. ... Writing this paper has helped me realize that one flaw is the beginning of many if it goes uncorrected. ...

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Structurally speaking, grammar and language is not a problem. ... First, the lost of hope is not to be felt, instead one should put his trust to God. ... For every pain, there is joy; for every joy, there is pain. ... "A Walk to Remember" is a title that tells us that in every way, in every situation, every moment is significant. ... It is certainly made for everyone that we may experience our own walk to remember. ...

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Zora Neal Huston is an example of someone who worked hard and strived to be at the top of society when everyone doubted her. ... After she had asked that one question she realized that she shouldn't let her flaws define her. ... He shows that reading a book making yourself educated helps you gain a sense of who you want to become in his case he was in jail a lot of his life and read the dictionary every day. ... In order to seem educated one must be able to use proper grammar, "all I wanted, just to get into a good colleague" (Mali). In the poem she's proving a point t...

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The latter idea is on line with the thought that everyone is born basically mindless and gained their own behavior or knowledge from experiences. ... Nativists truly believe that skills and abilities of every human being are "native" or hard-wired in the brain since birth. ... If language and grammar can be learned this means that they are existing features of the human environment. ... Chomsky believes that every child has his own "Language Acquisition Device" also known as LAD, which has the role to inscribe the basic principles and grammar structures of any language ...

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America's Guilty Pleasure "Everywhere I go, everyone's playing solitaire" (Brewer 1). ... Personally, every time I get on the computer I seem to find it necessary to play at least one game of solitaire. It is not even to just play one game, but win one game. ... We would have to do vocabulary in small groups or do work from grammar books. ... Computer solitaire is everywhere; and everyone is playing it! ...

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The problem with this capitalism, and every capitalism for that matter, is that it is built upon materialism. ... This quote states one of the key and main ideals of utopianism. That is to share equally among everyone and to create a friendly and safe society where everyone is happy. ... This is the total opposite of a utopian society, the idea of a utopia is everyone lives together in harmony looking out for one another with no high power bossing them around. ... It can take just one person to destroy it unless everyone works together to keep it alive. ...

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The crime I talk about is not one of any grave importance to the majority of us. ... The crime: bad grammar, or worse yet bad sentence structure. I myself am guilty of the most insulting atrocity in the "bad grammar book," the dreaded I as part of a formal essay, it is as one might say my Achilles" heal. ... Conveniently he also explains to everyone who reads his essay, how to write. ... On further examination, one would note, every paragraph after has included in it one form of pretentious diction or another. ...

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Each one of these different types of ways of communicating is prominently different between men and women. ... Men and women's styles of communicating are close to being directly opposites of one another. ... This sentence also shows that men have poor grammar, as opposed to women generally have good grammar. (Glass 53) Men also use one-word answers, rarely use conjunctions, and hardly ever use adjectives of adoration. ... The question everyone asks himself or herself after talking with someone of the opposite sex, " I wonder if there's something there?" ...

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