DEALING WITH IGNORANCE/RACISM 07/09/2010
1 Comment THE BASICS OF SPEECH 4 07/09/2010
Adjectives are words that qualify or limit the meaning of nouns or pronouns by adding distinct descriptions about them. In describing nouns or pronouns, adjectives are likely to answer the following questions: What kind of...?; Which one of...?; and How many of...? Consider the two sentences below: Tall people experience a bit of difficulty getting through small doors. The red Honda is the car I recently purchased. (In the first sentence, the adjectives Tall and small describe the nouns people and door respectively: Tall answers the question, “What kind of people...?”; and small answers the question, “What kind of door...?” In the second sentence, the adjective red gives a distinct description about a particular Honda: red answers the question “Which one of the cars...?”) Adjectives can be common or proper. Common adjectives are created from common nouns and are not capitalized – unless they begin a sentence. Proper adjectives are created from proper nouns and are capitalized. Examples of proper adjectives in use: Libyan doctor Renaissance era Lutheran followers Most adjectives come in three (comparison) forms called the positive, the comparative, and the superlative. The positive form adjective describes a noun or a pronoun without making comparisons: Here is the wonderful art studio. “That is one quick runner,” noted the journalist. To read more about Adjectives, click here. FTP Consultancy ![]() This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License. Please provide a link back to the FTP Blog or website from wherever you choose to use this essay.
CONFUSING WORDS 10 07/09/2010
Be sure to consult a dictionary as some of the words below have other meanings not described here. 1. to, too, two: As a preposition, to means “in the direction of”; “reaching as distant as”; “toward a given condition.” Too is an adverb that means “as well”; “exorbitantly.” Two is a number. It makes the two of us going to the Cayman Islands for a deserved break. Are your children coming along too? 2. try and: Nonstandard for try to. We try to [not try and] be understanding of his past, but it does not seem to matter to him. 3. vain, vane, vein: As an adjective, vain means “excessively holding one's self in high regard”; “fruitless or not yielding the desired result.” When used in the phrase in vain, as an idiom, it means “to no success.” Vane is a noun that means “an instrument set on an elevated object to show the direction of the wind.” Vein is also a noun meaning “a blood vessel”; “one of the ribs that support the wings of an insect.” For someone with considerable financial wealth, he was not the least vain. The vane always makes that creaky noise even with the slightest breeze. It is my body's symptom for stress whenever veins bulge out of my forehead. For the rest of the words, click here. FTP Consultancy ![]() This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License. Please provide a link back to the FTP Blog or website from wherever you choose to use this essay.
JOTS ON HIP-HOP FROM ON-THE-GROUND 4 07/09/2010
(Fourth Entry) Precisely what makes Hip-Hop and/or Hip-Hop culture unique (if it is)? And, is it too grand a leap to go from the realm of the DJ (that primarily deals with sound) to the realm of ideas?
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