Sorry I haven't replied your emails about the final papers, I will do it as soon as possible.
This post is to remind you that I will be checking the optional EXTRA activities next class.They will basically help people in their grades. If you get a D, for instance, you may get a C instead, as long as you have done ALL the activities.
I will repost below, an excerpt from an email I sent you on Oct. 7:
"2) No dia 6 de dezembro irei vistar as atividades de vocabulário do extra credit. Elas podem estar respondidas nas próprias folhas dasatividades ou respondidas, A MÃO, COM SUA LETRA, em uma folha separada. "
Also, I intend to correct all final papers until next week so I can inform you who would need a sub, which would be taken on the 13th.
Now, a syntax task:
Below is a list of "grammar rules" from English. Make a comment in order to explain what the rule is demonstrating and how valid it is or isn't.
For example, the first sentence uses alliteration (repetition of the sounds "a" and "al") but tells us not to. In my opinion, this rule is not valid, because depending on what genre you are producing (poetry or music, for instance) you may want to use it on purpose. If used in some contexts, however, it may indeed become irritating.
rules about preposition is not valid.Because phrase can end with preposition. For example: Where are you from? In classic grammar you can't but everybody talks like this
ResponderExcluirGabriel Katecare
Rules about split infinitive words is not valid because we always split it while we are talking to someone. Maybe in formal grammar it´s incorrect to split them, but in conversations we sometimes split it to emphasize something.
ResponderExcluirCliches aren't valid in classic grammar because those are a phase which is considered used too often which can be literal or figurative in meaning.
ResponderExcluirexemple: tip of the iceberg
figurative: only the beginning, or just a small percentage.
literal: The problems we are seeing.
Heloisa Busquim
the passive voice is to be avoided...as well as in Portuguese also the passive voice should be avoided in essays in English too, but language in day-to-day has no problem.
ResponderExcluirRosane Rios
4 Employ the Vernacular
ResponderExcluirVernacular: language or vocabulary peculiar to a class or group.
It’s valid, because using the vernacular all people can understand what is being said. But if you write formally or professionally, you should avoid it.
Elden Richer
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ResponderExcluirEmploy the vernacular.
ResponderExcluirI think this "rule" is valid, but I think it doens't need to be a rule specifically. Employ the vernacular language it's important, because this way the pepole will be able to comprehend each other better. And using the language spoken everday, the people to understand well each other too.
Contractions aren't necessary.
ResponderExcluirI think this rule isn't valid. Because the pepole are used to speak and to write, always contracion the words, because this way I think the people economize time, mainly in the speak. And it's for that We think the natives speak very fast.
15- Be more or less specific.
ResponderExcluirIn my opinion, you have to be completely specific because losing time to think and understand what someone is trying to say by their text is uncomfortable.
Rodolfo Abachi
7. It is wrong to ever split an infinitive
ResponderExcluirIt is necessary to split an infinitive when you need to wildly emphasize something.
2) Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
ResponderExcluirThis isn't valid because we can see the use of prepositions in the end of a sentence very often and the opposite sounds and looks uncommon besides weird.
For example, some common questions:
Where are you from?
From where are you? ... Unheard!
Who did you go with?
With who did you go?...Not common!
How many people are you going to speak to?
To how many people are you going to speak?... Not common
by: Bruna Tassi Tercioti
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ResponderExcluirContrações não são necessárias.Na realidade, dificilmente você encontra uma pessoa falando "corretamente"no sentido de dizer todas as palavras como: (Eu ESTOU indo EM UMA festa)Dizemos:Eu TO indo NUMA festa.
ResponderExcluirSeria uma forma prática de se comunicar no nosso dia a dia,ou seja simplifica tudo usando as contrações em uma fala
Na escrita ou em uma conversa formal já é diferente.Então a minha opinião é que depende muito do caso.
18 One-word phrases? Eliminate
ResponderExcluirI think it might never be a valid rule because in certain cases, instead of a whole complex phrase, an isolated word could make the text easier to read and comprehend (like in the 18th sentence).
We can't ignore that pauses are important in a text and one-word phrases could be perfect sometimes.
23 - Who needs rhetorical questions?
ResponderExcluirThat rule is demonstrating that who makes these questions, has no intention of receiving information and it is valid because to make it the person already knows the answer or doesn't want the other answer, only think about!!
15 - Be more or less specific.
ResponderExcluirA regra é, você tem quer ser MAIS específico, não mais ou menos.
Taís Figueiredo
13-Don't be reduntant,don't use more words than necessary....
ResponderExcluirAs vezes em uma frase a colocação de várias palavras acaba sendo desnecessária.Pois, para se ter um bom entendimento da leitura,quanto mais objetiva e clara for a frase, não haverá redundância e assim obtém-se um melhor o resultado.
Rule number 9- foreign words or phrases are not apropos.
ResponderExcluirA regra diz que nao se deve usar palavras ou frases estrangeiras ,mas isso nao se aplica na fala ou escrita cotidiana,quando as pessoas usam ,por exemplo:
fiancee / employee / i.d.(id est) /carpe diem / et al (nos textos academicos) -esses sao apenas alguns exemplos de palavras usadas no Ingles ,e que vem de uma outra lingua.
Katia Barella de Campos
15- Be more or less specific.
ResponderExcluira forma correta seria "voce tem que ser mais especifico."
e nao mais ou menos, como na frase.
Jessica Brilio