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  Phrase - Structure An alternative way of expressing the information found on a tree diagram is by means of re-write rules or phrase-structural rules. A noun phrase NP followed by a verb phrase deeply is a basic English sentence type. These are developments on IC Analysis. S                                                                                   / \                                                                             NP    VP                                         ...

The Bible has been the most widely read and most frequently quoted of books. The great influence exerted by the Bible on the English language has been recognized by writers such as Tennyson, Macaulay, Carlyle, Huxley and others. More than a book of religion, it has been one of the formative influences on the language. Tyndale and Coverdale are the most important version of the Bible. Along with these we may include the Anglican Prayer Book, first issued in 1549 and later revised in 1662. Tyndale has translated chiefly from the original Hebrew and Greek versions, though at times he consulted more modern versions like Luther's German Bible. The history of the English Bible begins with the work of Tyndale in 1526. Tyndale had a genius for the telling phrase and the idiomatic yet beautiful rendering. A great deal of his phraseology has remained ppart of the language as it had passed unchanged into the Authorised Version. Words and phrases as congregation (in the sense of church), elder...

  PERIL by Toni Morrison   ‘Peril’ was first presented as a speech at the PEN International Festival in 2008. Later it was published as the introductory essay of the book that she edited, Burn This Book: PEN Writers Speak Out on the Power of the Word  in 2009. The organisation known today as PEN International began in London, UK, in 1921, simply as PEN. The name PEN was conceived as an acronym: ‘Poets, Essayists, Novelists’ (later broadened to ‘Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists, Novelists’). They stand for the idea that, “Literature knows no frontiers and must remain common currency among people in spite of political or international upheavals”. Toni Morrison believed that language has the power to change the world and authors have the responsibility to defend free expression. Her essay /speech emphasises on the power of word to inspire and transform the world and the need for it to be protected. The ‘truth’ upheld by writers may challenge despots a...

  The Shape of the Sword Jorge Luis Borges To understand this story better, let’s get introduced to a few places on the world map. Lati n American  countries : Places in and near the South American continent, which were colonies of Spain and Portugal. Even after the colonial period, they use Spanish or Portuguese languages. These two languages originated from Latin. Hence, these countries are called Latin American countries. Argentina: A Latin American country, where our author was born. Uruguay: A Latin American country near Argentina. Our story starts from here. Brazil: The largest Latin American country. England:  A country which is part of the British Isles, a group of islands on the west of the European continent. Ireland:  Another country in the British Isles. Part of our story happens here. The Irish War of Independence In 1801, Ireland became part of the United Kingdom, which also had England, Scotland and Wales in it. Later, the Irish Republicans tried...

The  Modern English Period The Modern English period covers roughly the period from about 1500 which marked the close of the Middle Ages and the full tide of the Renaissance in England, to the present day. The factors which contributed to the important developments in the period are the influence of Renaissance scholarship, the religious controversies of the Reformation, translations of the Bible, changes in the pronunciation of vowels (the Great Vowel Shift), introduction of the printing press, discoveries of new lands, a tremendous growth of vocabulary and semantic changes. The Renaissance The great tide of the Renaissance reached England about the year 1500 and it had a marked influence upon English language and literature. The influence is most clearly seen in the introduction of a large number of Greek and Latin words into English during the early Modern English period. The scholars of this period were proficient in the classical languages and they wanted to enrich the English...

  Dulce Et Decorum Est Modernism and the World War: War Poets Modernism is a movement that originated in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. World War I (1914- 1918) falls in this period. In England, this period saw the origin of a substantial number of important poets who were soldiers, writing about their experiences of war. A number of them died on the battlefield, most famously Rupert Brooke, Edward Thomas, Isaac Rosenberg, Wilfred Owen, and Charles Sorley. Others including Ivor Gurney and Siegfried Sassoon survived but were scarred by their experiences, and this was reflected in their poetry. These poets came to be known as War Poets. A war poet is a poet writing in time of and on the subject of war. The term is applied especially to those in military service during World War I. Visit website:  http://www.warpoetry.co.uk The Poet: Wilfred Edward Salter Owen  MC (18 March 1893 – 4 November 1918) Wilfred Owen is considered as one of the War Poets. He was an E...

Immediate Constituent Analysis (IC Analysis) Sentences are not simply random words strung together by means of various devices. English, like every other language has a limited number of recurring sentence patterns. A fundamental technique of syntactic analysis is to identify these patterns by a process of successive substitution. The linguistic procedure which divides sentences into the component parts or constituents is known as Constituent Analysis. The term was first introduced by Leonard Bloomfield and systematized with theoretical formulations by Roulon Wells and Zelling Harris. eg:                          The dog bit the burglar                                      /              \                             The dog...