ESL 970G Advanced Grammar and Editing
Compose ten sentences of 150-175 words using different action verbs in general truth (habitual action, factual) time frame. Use third person singular subjects and verbs; pay attention to subject-pronoun-verb agreement.
Possible topics: Possible topics: a basic scientific principle or a basic principle in your field of study of work; things that Americans do differently from people from other countries; a regularly occurring procedure, activity, or event in your job, your workplace, your college, or your community.
Language elements: Refer to the different verb forms in Chapter 3 and words from the Academic Word List. Use at least one of each sentence type, in any order: simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex. Pay attention to verb forms suitable for the general truth time frame and habitual actions. Use mainly simple present verb forms: use present perfect and can if appropriate. Edit your sentences for topic, length, time frame, vocabulary, verb forms, structure, unity. Identify the sentence type s and the verb forms.
To examine the vocabulary in your writing, copy and paste your paragraph in the Web Vocabulary Profiler at the Compleat Tutor.
Most babies in America grow up learning only English, and most American adults speak only English. Nowadays, due to immigration and changing attitudes towards bilingualism, more infants are being raised bilingually than before. How do bilingual babies learn two languages? We donšt really know much about how bilingual babies acquire language. The reason is because most research on babies is conducted on monolingual infants. Bilingual and monolingual babies speak their first words around the same age, but bilinguals learn words somewhat differently from monolinguals, which is information from a 2007 study in child development. Babies in bilingual homes hear the sounds of two languages, unlike babies in monolingual homes. Bilingual babies apparently need a few more months to associate the sounds of each language to the objects that the sounds represent. Monolingual babies use consonant sounds to direct their language learning at the age of 17 months, but bilingual babies do so at 20 months. Scientists believe that this difference is advantageous for bilingual infants.
Word Count: 165
1. Most babies in America grow up learning only English,
and most American adults speak only English. Compound:
IC + IC
2.
Nowadays, due to
immigration and changing attitudes towards bilingualism, more infants are
being raised bilingually than before. Simple
3.
How do
bilingual babies learn two languages? Simple
4.
We donšt
really know much about [how bilingual babies acquire language]. Complex: IC + DC (Noun Clause)
5.
The reason is
[because most research on babies is conducted on monolingual infants]. Complex: IC + DC (Adverbial Cl)
6.
Bilingual and
monolingual babies speak their first words around the same age, but
bilinguals learn words somewhat differently from monolinguals, which is
information from a 2007 study in child development.
Compound-Complex: IC + IC + DC (Adj
Cl)
7.
Babies in bilingual
homes hear the sounds of two languages, unlike babies in monolingual
homes. Simple
8.
Bilingual babies
apparently need a few more months to associate the sounds of each
language to the objects [that the sounds represent]. Complex: IC + DC (Adjective Cl)
9.
[Monolingual babies
use consonant sounds to direct their language learning at the age of 17
months], but bilingual babies do so at 20 months. Compound: IC + IC
10. Scientists believe [that
this difference is advantageous for bilingual infants]. Complex: IC + DC (Noun Clause)
Babies Raised In Bilingual Homes Learn New Words Differently Than Infants Learning One Language, Science Daily, Accessed September 2007
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/09/070928092050.htm
K1 Words (1-1000): 75.30%
K2 Words
(1001-2000): 6.63%
AWL Words
(academic): 4.82%
Off-List Words: 13.25%
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the same age but bilinguals learn words somewhat differently from monolinguals which is information from a number study in child development babies in bilingual homes hear the sounds of two
languages unlike babies in monolingual homes bilingual babies apparently need a few more months to associate the sounds of each language to the
objects that the sounds represent monolingual babies use consonant sounds to direct their language
learning at the age of number months but bilingual babies do so at number months
scientists believe that this difference is advantageous for bilingual infants
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