Mechanics may be divided into three branches: statics, which deals with forces acting on and in a body at rest; kinematics, which describes the possible motions of a body or system of bodies; and kinetics, which attempts to explain or predict the motion that will occur in a given situation. These are conventions, and you just have to memorize them. The Ideas are the main message, the content of the piece, the main theme, together with all the supporting details that enrich and develop that theme.
The Ideas are strong when the message is clear, not garbled. The definition of a convention is a meeting or assembly of people who share a common interest or a convention is a method, practice, rule or custom. An example of convention is a national meeting of English teachers.
An example of convention is a rule about comma placement. The convening of a formal meeting. A convention is a selection from among two or more alternatives, where the rule or alternative is agreed upon among participants.
Often the word refers to unwritten customs shared throughout a community. For instance, it is conventional in many societies that strangers being introduced shake hands. Convention is important when there are multiple options available with no clear reason to prefer one over the other.
The best example I have for this is determining which side of the road should you drive on. The answer is whichever side everyone else is driving on.
Choices in language features and text structures together define a type of text and shape its meaning. Understanding language conventions enables students to describe how language works, to make meaning as they speak and listen, to read and to be able to use language to make meaning as they write.
Words and sentences have parts that combine in patterns, exhibiting the grammar of the language. Phonology is the study of patterns in sound or gesture. Syntax and Semantics involve studying patterns in sentence structure, from the vantages of form and meaning, respectively. Emotive language is the term used when certain word choices are made to evoke an emotional response.
Oftentimes, news headlines use emotive language to hook the audience. Here are a few examples. An innocent bystander was murdered in cold blood in Downtown Chicago. Emotive language describes words and phrases meant to evoke an emotional response to a subject. Applied mechanics bridges the gap between physical theory and its application to technology. It is used in many fields of engineering, especially mechanical engineering and civil engineering; in this context, it is commonly referred to as engineering mechanics.
The reason we don't hear much about it is that we don't have the same tradition of university writing schools that America has. It was only really in the nineties that British universities started to introduce writing schools. American university writing school websites, such as the OWL at Purdue University, currently celebrating its 2oth anniversary, can be a great resource for anyone wanting to do any kind of writing, not just creative writing, or to check grammar, punctuation rules etc.
Do you have a question? Submit your question here. Yes No. All Rights Reserved. Share on Twitter. Email will not be published. Plus I have to leave my office soon to teach a night class. Ahh, this gauntlet of modern perils we must endure.
Well, at least we have penicillin. The way I see it, everything pre-antibiotics was pretty much the dark ages. In any case, I appreciate your response and empathize with your travails. If ever there was something that deserves to be at the bottom of this list, this certainly qualifies.
Until you get around to it, I remain your patient and mildly curious ape, D. This is a very tardy reply, but one of my students is using Grammarly this quarter. He showed me a draft with stuff Grammarly had flagged, and I was impressed. The software by and large caught things it should have and then explained what the problem was and offered good suggestions for fixing it.
I read this whole article and several oxford dictionary definitions. Now… I know that punctuation is just referring to the symbols used in a sentence. So, it is NOT the same as grammar. And grammar is not a part of punctuation. But when I read the definition of grammar, includes punctuation when it refers to sentences in the syntax. I saw you cascaded your examples from a phrase, to a clause an then to a compound sentence. Well, a sentence includes punctuation.
So am I wrong when I say grammar does not include punctation? But I also can say grammar is a sentence. Just like you said in your article. Thank you for leaving such a detailed comment and question. To reply, I would say no, punctuation is not a part of grammar. In a purely oral culture no literacy, so no texts you would have a grammar the way of structuring thoughts in language , but you would have NO punctuation.
Punctuation is an artifact of written language. As you point out, these concepts are very closely related. How should we describe the way we structure our thoughts in pictorial symbols? I am the source of my thoughts, based on my years of teaching writing and trying to explain to students something that I understood intuitively from reading and paying attention to language use because it fascinated me. If you would like to read a book to improve your own understanding, I would recommend The Elements of Style , by Strunk and White.
This is a very small, succinct book that introduces rules, explains them, shows an example of the wrong way error , and then shows how to express that same thought in the right way using that rule.
You can find The Elements of Style in any bookstore, in the reference section where they sell dictionaries. God bless you. Data seems to be a collective noun, not a singular unit. This could be added to the paragraph that follows it.
That makes sense to me. It incorporates the plural yet remains a single unit in its entirety. Nice point! Very informative content.
You hit the bulls eye. I want to teach English grammar to a few students who are in need of it for there competitive entrance exams for jobs. Can you guide me by mailing the content or books soft copy if any to mathew. Please ignore if there are any mistakes in my comment. It is widely available in bookstores and libraries around the world, and you can purchase extremely inexpensive used copies in Amazon.
This book is very easy to read, very clear. It gives you a rule and explains the reason for it. Then it shows you an example of a sentence containing an error that breaks the rule and also, right next to it, an example of how the same sentence or phrase could be written correctly.
I want to thank u very much, for the clear explanation, and I hope I would be able to apply the things I learned. Thank you for your kind words! Pingback: What is meant by the term graphics? You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam.
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The rain ended; we went outside. We went outside after the rain ended. Sometimes you can have a compound-complex sentence, which would be some combination of at least one dependent clause and multiple independent clauses: After the rain ended, the sun broke through the clouds and we went outside.
For example, you should never begin a sentence with a numeral: NOT: is an election year. BUT: Twenty-twelve is an election year.
OR: Remember, is an election year. In the United States, collective nouns like committee, audience, faculty are considered singular, but in England, they take the plural form: The audience shows its appreciation through applause. United States The audience show their appreciation through applause.
England OR The committee is meeting this morning. United States The committee are meeting this morning. Like this: Like Loading About Katherine Wikoff I am a college professor at Milwaukee School of Engineering, where I teach literature, film studies, political science, and communication.
I also volunteer with a Milwaukee homeless sanctuary, Repairers of the Breach, as chair of the Communications and Fund Development Committee. This entry was posted in Grammar, punctuation, usage, mechanics , WPLongform posts of words or longer , Writing, blogging and tagged American English , compound complex sentence , dependent versus independent clause , grammar , independent clause , independent clauses , kinds of clauses , language , mechanics , punctuation , spelling , usage , WPLongform , writing.
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