Grammar as process

Is grammar a thing or is it something that happens? This paper will argue that maybe it is a bit of both. When we describe language, as in the grammar of English, grammar is more noun-like than verb-like. It is a body of facts about the language: "The present perfect is formed by the auxiliary have plus the past participle", etc. On the other hand, when we use language in real communication, grammar manifests itself in ways that seem to have little to do with the conscious appli     

Test Your Intelligence

There are some funny questions here.Please use your head and answer them quickly.一、字母谜1.What is it that we only have in November butwe don't have in any other month? 2.What happens twice in every moment,but onlyonce in every minute? 3.What part of New York is in Chicago?     

Disasters of nature

Volcanoes There are thou-sands of volcanoes all over the world. What makes volcanoes? What happens? The inside of the earth is very hot. Be-cause it is very,very hot,the rock has melted like ice.It has become liquid,like water.It is always boiling, like water in a kettle. If you have seen a kettle boiling, you know that the steam and boiling water try to get out. The very hot melted rock inside the earth also tries to get out. Usually it cannot be-cause the outside of the earth is too thick…     

What Is a Life Cycle?

A cycle is something that happens over and over again. The life cycle of any species(物种) repeats again and again. The stages of a life cycle can be drawn in a circle. It doesn蒺t matter which stage you see first. The others always follow in the same order.If you have heard crickets(蟋蟀)“singing”outdoors this year, will you find them there again next year? Where do crickets come from?Early in the fall, male(雄) crickets“sing”. This attracts the female(雌), making it easy for her to fin…     

Riddles

1. There is something strange ( 奇 怪 的 ). It happens twice in a moment, but it never happens in a hundred years. Guess a letter (字母).2. What goes around the world but doesn’t move? Guess a thing.3. What’s the difference between an engineer (工程师)     

On Teachers’ Roles in Internet English teaching Based on Constructivism

The characteristics of Internet English teaching happens to conform to the principles of constructivism.So a new teaching mode comes into being.Here Teachers’ roles in the new mode is to be discussed,which is advanced combined with experence and theoretical analysis.     

两道新型阅读理解题(英文)

A Some people say laughter is the best medicine. Scientists are beginning to agree with this. They arc studying Laughter seriously and finding it is really good for us. So what happens when we laugh? We use fifteen different muscles in our face, and laughing is good for every organ in our body. When we laugh, we     

Style风格

Suppose the girls in yourschool start wearing bells ontheir ears.You laugh.It is fun-ny.But what happens when mostof the girls in the country startwearing bells on their ears,too?Now it seems the right thing todo.It is the style.In early America,men usedto wear wigs.Men in othercountries also had wigs.It wasthe style.     

A Talk on Ellipsis

From the view-point of grammar, it often happens in English sentence that some words may be omitted. The structure of the sentenceseems incomplete but its sense is clear. This phenominon is called "ellipsis". The aim of ellipsis is for the sake of brief and to the point.Thus the main point of a sentence will be stood out and the repeatedpart omitted. So we can achieve a good result of expression. A sentencecontaining an ellipsis is called an "elliptical sentence". For instance:     

Why Astronauts Need Trees

Imagine yourself as an astronaut flying high above the Earth.The most important thing in your spaceship is not your camera or your radio.The most important thing you have is your garden,where you grow food to eat and air to breathe.Growing air?Well,that isn't exactly what happens.But plants do take carbon dioxide from the air and use the light and water that help them grow to make oxygen.Take a deep breath. That came from a plant!It took 1.5 billion years of plants making oxygen before there was enough oxy- gen for us to breathe.     

单项选择题干扰方式例说

一、插入语干扰例1:1 :He believes in himself,_____,in my opinion, is of the most impor-tance.A.that B.which C.what D.as例2: He hasn't come yet. What do you consider_______to him?A.happens B.has happened C.happening D.to happen     

向妈妈道歉

正A boy plays with a ball in the living room."Bang"The ball knocks into the vase on the bookshelf.The vase falls down to the ground and breaks into pieces.The boy is very afraid and pretends to reading a book.After a short time,the boy goes into his mother’s study.He glues the pieces of vase together and puts it back to the bookself.The mother comes in and sees what happens to the vase.At table,she asks,"Son,did you break the vase?"     

Why Do We Fall in Love?

"It is better to have loft(阁楼) and lost than to never have loft at all."—Groucho Marx Everyone does it at one time or another but why? We"re talking about falling in love. Let's explore the dynamics (动力学) of what exactly happens when two people are falling in love:     

我们为何相爱?

"It is better to have loft(阁楼) and lost than to never have loft at all." - Groucho Marx Everyone does it at one time or another but why? We' re talking about falling in love. Let's explore the dynamics (动力学) of what exactly happens when two people are falling in love:     

色颂

What is pink? A rose is pink. By the fountain's brink.What is blue?The sky is blue. Where the clouds float thro.What is white? A swan is white. Sailing in the light.What is yellow? Pears are yellow. Rice,ripe and mello.What is green?The grass is green.With small flowers between.     

Anxiety and Second Language Learning

Anxiety is one of the affective factors which are connected with second language learning.It has negative affects in learning language.It is necessary to know why it happens and how to solve it.     

Feminism, Patriarchy and Culture Dominance ——A review to "The Woman Warrior

1.Feminism and“The woman Warrior”Historically,thinking about gender happens in cultures where gender configurations-the socialmeaning systems that encode sexual difference-undergo changes or shifts.The same is true withthinking about race(thatrace as a constructbecomes apparentwhen ideas of race are shifting) or eco-nomics,or politics,etc.:all of these concepts are reevaluated when social practice(i.e.what peopledo) shifts.So gender,or masculine and feminine qualities,or male/female social …     

A song of colours

What is pink?A rose is pink By the mountain‘s brink.What is blue?The sky is blue Where the clouds float through.What is white?A swan is white Sailing in the light.What is yellow?     

American Idioms （16）

eyes in the back of ones head Ability to know what happens when your back is turned.
Mother must have eyes in the back of her head, because she always knows when I do something wrong. （Even though Mother is not looking, she knows I have done something wrong.）     

邻家女孩Miley二三事(英文)

Miley Ray Cyrus,15,is just like you.She has a crush on The Killers’Brandon Flowers,loves ice cream...and just happens to be one of