Around the time a child is 18 months they will start putting together words that form basic sentences in order to communicate their wants and needs. ... Infants start to play with these sounds and practice making them when they babble. ... Syntax usually doesn't occur until infants are a little older and has to do with the structure and formatting of a sentence. Infants will start out with using a single word, but eventually they will figure out that, that word isn't good enough by itself or through caregiver coaxing they will learn to add to it and that's when syntax really sta...

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• Grade Level: High School

However, when other children started forming complete sentences and were able to express themselves, I was unable to string a coherent sentence together until the age of five. ... In order to compensate for my speech delay, I started to use art as a channel to project my thoughts, feelings, and ideas. ... Though there were many moments when I felt lonely and misunderstood because of my speech delay, there were many more irreplaceable moments that I could have never experienced had I not gone through what I did. ... However, when other children started forming complete sentences, I was unable t...

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People need to be able to communicate confidently and appropriately with people of all walks of life: with those who are older or younger, with those in positions of power, with peers and family, with small and large groups. ... Sentences are shorter, and tend to avoid the more formal punctuation of the semi-colon and colon. ... It is the way we compile words and or sentences when we are communicating with others. ... In one of my previous English classes we started a discussion about the Internet, but we got into a variety of subjects, one of which was, basically, "do we need books anymo...

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• Grade Level: High School

Because the meaning of the original poem is unknown, one can't judge a translation on its proximity to the original. ... The poem possesses a specific rhythm where sentences end after completing a specific thought. ... " Reavey's style of writing creates a start-and-stop rhythm which one would expect to see in a bullet-point-list or an encyclopedia. ... The sentence "She wears earrings," just does not seem to belong in the poem. ... Since the original poem is unknown, once can't deem one translation superior in meaning or coherence with the original, but Kunitz&#x...

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It appeared to work at first, but then she started showing signs of frustration and a dislike for school. My quest to make my daughters educational career easier started at this point. ... Their hearing turns out to be fine, but their understanding of certain sounds, words or sentences confuses them. Many people with a receptive language disorder may also have an expressive language disability because the both are strongly related. ... Her main problem because of her attention difficulty is in her writing. ...

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Even though at this stage a child can make sounds, they actually start learning language long before this stage. ... Together, words make sentences. Sentences are put together to make paragraphs, and then stories. ... From this starting point the techniques and skills which are taught in the classroom programme need to be further extended. ... Because children develop at their own rate, particularly with language development, ongoing assessments that continue throughout a year, and further on in a child"s schooling, are probably best. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Language is an important aspect in our day to day life because it enables us to communicate. The effective communication is made possible with the help of language. ... By changing the word order in a sentence, you can change its meaning, and even make it meaningless. ... The starting point for a particular problem is determined by the systems previous experience. Metaphorically speaking, the further away a solution is from the starting point in problem hyper-space, the more difficult it will be to find. ...

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Although Genie scored at the level of a one-year-old on her initial assessment and spoke in one-word snippets, she started to enhance her vocabulary. ... Finally, after a year of treatment, she started putting a few words together the way children do. Genie never went past this stage, and was never able to put real sentences together. ... This really affected Genie, because she had such a strong connection to her mother and needed to see her regularly. ... The most extreme example of this that comes to mind: Because of her obsession, she would notice and covet anything plastic that anyone had....

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• Grade Level: High School

Although Genie scored at the level of a one-year-old on her initial assessment and spoke in one-word snippets, she started to enhance her vocabulary. ... Finally, after a year of treatment, she started putting a few words together the way children do. Genie never went past this stage, and was never able to put real sentences together. ... This really affected Genie, because she had such a strong connection to her mother and needed to see her regularly. ... The most extreme example of this that comes to mind: Because of her obsession, she would notice and covet anything plastic that anyone had....

• Word Count: 1454
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In the first week of class I was over whelmed because of many different parts of signs and how complicated the sentence structure was to learn because it was different than English. ... After time ASL started to become standardized and was used in schools across the country as the means of communication, and this was the birth of modern ASL. ... All this time I thought that ASL was only picture symbols used to communicate English with the deaf. ... The deaf has a common characteristic because they all share the same language. ... Now I feel that I was able to learn ASL, not because it w...

• Word Count: 1955
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• Grade Level: High School

We can demonstrate with pictures or drawings because it might help those who are visual. ... I also like giving about ten sentences for translating as homework or sometimes checking the new grammar during the lesson because they help my students practice the specified grammar or sometimes revise the old one. ... The next difference between the two methods is the dealing with grammar. ... In the Direct Method there is much less attention paid to memorising because the purpose of the language learning is communication. ... In the Direct Method vocabulary is the most significant and as for the sk...

• Word Count: 1851
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Language changes and develops constantly with time to adapt to the users' needs. ... With the war a meeting point of numerous nationalities and people brought together under stressful conditions, German had a significantly different influence with its loanwords to English that mainly refered to vehicles and weapons. ... For instance, the way some sentences were structured in WWI can be associated to older forms of English while WWII English is more related to the present-day English. ... The spelling of words before WWI, a period in which the number of literate people was relatively fewer...

• Word Count: 1515
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate