Essays on Passive Voice

A) I got your point and had something to say about both portfolios. David’s collection ("David Castillo’s ePortfolio") is excellent, no doubt. It is well outfitted with appropriate quotation and picture of the author to provide an adequate introduction. The chosen color palette characterizes David as a person of good taste. It is evident that he cares about the impression he made on the public. ‘My Connections’ section is excellent. David gathered all possible destinations in case someone wants to reach him. You are completely right regarding the section ‘My iPhoneography' where we can see what touches ...

The preliminary title of the proposed research project is “A contrastive study of transitivity and intransitivity in formal and colloquial Arabic and English”. The final title of the research project is not carved in stone and will likely be subject to change, if some nuanced corrections are suggested.

Background

In the languages that are widely spoken in the world today, all verbs can be categorized as transitive, intransitive or ambitransitive. Historically, linguists have understood transitivity as a “transfer of energy from one entity to another” (Hoche, 2009, p. 148). It appears from this definition that transitive verbs presume the transfer ...

Review on the article “Sexual Exploitation: Prostitution and Organized Crime”

Full reference of the work: Fondation Scelles Group. (2012). Sexual Exploitation: Prostitution and Organized Crime. Retrieved from http://www.fondationscelles.org/en/prostitution/prostitution-by-countryhttp://www.fondationscelles.org/pdf/rapport_mondial/sexual_exploitation_prostitution_Fondation_Scelles.pdf

The article of the Fondation Scelles Group (2012) is against prostitution, and considers prostituion as sexual exploitation in whichever cultural, economic or political contexts. The article gave overview of the prostitution globalization, commoditization and trivialization. Global prostitution is possible because it surpasses borders since human go from one country to another so as to perchance sex or practice prostitution. Some people leave their country with the hope of a better opportunity but were caught by traffickers who exploit them around the ...

Introduction.

When teaching science, instructors use a specialized language that has many dissimilarities from the language that students generally use throughout the day (O’Toole, 2003). Each different occasion for language has a set of intrinsic purposes, values and characteristics, and the purpose of these different traits is to demonstrate the unique properties of that category of language. For example, in scientific language, there is an emphasis on precision in diction, as well as conciseness and clarity. No matter what the language is, writers hope to achieve a style that is comprehensible to its readers while remaining true to the aims of the ...

Review of Public Housing: The Way of the Future?

The article is informative providing the history, present and the future state of the public housing sector. The use of authoritative quotes from different articles and economists gives this article credibility. The use of an abstract provides the reader with a snippet of what is covered by the report, hence making it easy to read and understand even before you read the whole paper. In addition, this paper is long enough and covers most of the issues in the housing sector. The style of writing is friendly and easy to follow, making it an interesting article for any audience –whether ...

It is important to study about language and verbal behavior because it helps understand other people in a better way. Language or verbal behavior is defined as an operant behavior, which is strengthened by other people’s mediation (Skinner, 1957). This can be well explained as a practical relationship existing between the behavior of a person speaking, as well as the conditions in their environment. However, in this relationship, an important question, on how reinforcement between the speaker and the other people occurs arises. According to research, it is clear that children acquire a number of language skills mainly without any instructions. ...

Chinese state media presentation is direct to the point, with active voice, and devoid of unnecessary stories compared to their counter part of the foreign media, which is full of political indifferent, passive voice characterized with feeling of negativism. To be fully informed one need to read both of them so to be fully informed. Maybe is true to say the fear of the government has reduced the reporting reflected in Chinese media is pro-government. One can hear the government tone just from reading the article. In fact the reader especially from liberal nation would confuse the report ...

Language has different systemic functional perspectives which allow a writer to express and connect ideas, interact with others and create cohesive and coherent texts for the readers (Derewianka 2012). The first text is an information report written to give generalized information about Antarctica and its food web. An information report structure involves a general statement identifying the topic of the report, followed by various descriptions of the topic. The second text is a narrative about a dramatic event that occurred during a family holiday at the beach. It was written as a first person narrative with the clear intent to entertain and instruct through ...

In the document presented, there are various grammatical errors, which involve colloquialism, passive voice, simplifying, use of commas and long sentences. For instance, a whole new world is a colloquialism that should be replaced with a completely new world. The first sentence also contains passive voice by placing the phrase “was begun” where it was not supposed to be. The sentence would rather read as follows. “The begun of the History of Education was in the very beginning of time”. The writer had also made a simplifying mistake by not considering replacing the last of the conjunction with a comma. For example put into ...

WRITING IMPROVEMENT EXERCISE 6

Writing Bad-News Messages

Passive Voice: A major error was made in the report. (simply states that a mistake was made without “pointing the finger” at someone – softens the sentence)

Active Voice: We accept returned merchandise only when you provide a sales receipt.

Passive Voice: Returned merchandise is accepted only when a sales receipt is provided. (by taking the people out - we & you – the focus switches to the things – merchandise & receipt)

Convert the following active voice sentences into passive voice:

- You cannot have a cash refund for merchandise that you purchased 30 or more days ago.

Cash refund is not allowed for merchandise purchased for 30 or more days.

- We can’t allow you to attend the conference because our budget has been cut.

Attending the conference is not possible due to the budget cut

- I am unable to accept your speaking invitation because of ...

Speaking a second language is one of the most important skills that an individual can have in the business world today. Because of the increasingly globalized nature of the world, more and more business is taking place in a variety of languages; individuals who speak a second language are at a definite advantage in the world of business. However, research suggests that the advantage of speaking a second language is not merely a practical advantage; there are definite cognitive and social benefits that the individual who studies or speaks a second language gleans from the process. Most theorists believe that language is imbued with social-cultural values, ...

Part 1: Essay: How to have a successful first year in college

28% of students in public 4-year institutions of higher learning do not continue beyond their first year in college. This figure accrues from the failure to adapt to the challenging transition from high school to college. In their high first year college students may have been members of a respectable honour societies, the president of their high school, graduated top of class or one may have been a valedictorian. It is important to note that success in high school is never a guarantee of success in college. The admission to a college brings with it new challenges of life in new place and ...

Examining and understanding linguistics in criminal and domestic setting involve language evidence. The language evidence exists in trademark area disputes, question authorship and product liability. Heffer, 2005 asserts that some forensic language view language analysis to be the only content in the discipline. Language analysis adheres to the definition of discipline in which the language derives its foundation. I, therefore, determined the conception of forensic linguistic, which is the intersection of law and language. After reading Heffer, 2005, I established the aim of the intersection, and I realized the bases that support the language. I realized that language differs ...

Question one: “What are the errors of accidence and syntax with reference to parts of speech?”

While giving a speech, there are certain repetitive errors of accident and syntax that narrators make. These errors may be found in either pronunciation or in the format in which the words are arranged in a sentence (Pennington, 2008). Errors of accident occur in different cases one is omission of a word, change of tense, pluralizing or singularizing, use of wrong article and repetition. In a sentence like, “a car overturned the bridges and the car caused the accident.” All these errors occur. The article “a’ is used instead ...

1. Identify at least three business (or marketing) strategies Samsung uses now or has used in the past. In danger of getting lost in the market they made a good moving from low end to high end products. Then they solidified it by moving from low end to high end retailers. Next they consolidated their advertizing going from 55 advertizing agencies into one to create a global brand image. With this strong foundation in place they exploited the opening created by the new digital technology 2. What suggestions can you offer Samsung leaders so they can become even more successful ...