Essays about: "verb"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 167 essays containing the word verb.

  1. 6. INSERTIONS IN POPULAR HISTORY TEXTS - A contrastive study on translation from English to Swedish and from Swedish to English

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Gustav Landälv; [2023-02-27]
    Keywords : English; Swedish; readability; insertion; clause; phrase; syntactic position; popular history;

    Abstract : The purpose of this essay is to compare the frequency of insertions in an English popular history text and a Swedish popular history text. Moreover, the purpose is to compare the English text with its Swedish translation and the Swedish text with its English translation as regards the status of the insertions as clauses, phrases or (in the translation) something else than a clause or a phrase. READ MORE

  3. 7. An Errors Analysis of Grammatical Errors in The Written Productions of Swedish Students in a Vocational High School

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet / / Institutionen för sociologi och arbetsvetenskap

    Author : Maryam Nezamabadi; [2023-02-01]
    Keywords : Error analysis; Verb errors; Common grammatical errors; English written productions; Grammar teaching; Second language learning; Errors based on word class categories;

    Abstract : As an approach to spotting and analyzing students' errors, error analysis provides information that gives us a better understanding of students' knowledge of second language grammar, so we can offer them more effective teaching. This study is an error analysis that investigates the most common grammatical errors focusing on verbs, prepositions, articles, and pronouns in English writings produced by first-year high-school students at a vocational school in southern Sweden. READ MORE

  4. 8. How negation influences word order in languages : Automatic classification of word order preference in positive and negative transitive clauses

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

    Author : Chen Lyu; [2023]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : In this work, we explore the possibility of using word alignment in parallel corpus to project language annotations such as Part-of-Speech tags and dependency relation from high-resource languages to low-resource languages. We use a parallel corpus of Bible translations, including 1,444 translations in 986 languages, and a well-developed parser is used to annotate source languages (English, French, German, and Czech). READ MORE

  5. 9. Dances with Deer: The Deadly Entanglements of Becoming Deer in Jægersborg Dyrehave

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för etnologi

    Author : Jorinde Bosma; [2023]
    Keywords : deer; performativity; agential realism; becoming-with; human animal relationships; multispecies ethnography; posthumanism; choreographies; materiality; biopower; Cultural Sciences;

    Abstract : In the small Danish nature park of Jægersborg Dyrehave, there live over two thousand deer. During their lives, they become encounters for visitors, managers of nature, targets to be culled, meat to be eaten, and more. In this thesis, I explore what it means to be deer in Dyrehaven. READ MORE

  6. 10. Subject-Verb Agreement Errors in Swedish 9th and 11th Grade Students’ English Written Production

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Maiko Tsukanaka; [2023]
    Keywords : Second Language Acquisition SLA ; Swedish Learner English Corpus SLEC ; Swedish-speaking learners of English; Error analysis; Subject-verb agreement; Transfer; Overgeneralization;

    Abstract : This study aims to investigate possible factors contributing to subject-verb agreement errors in Swedish junior and senior high school students' English written production. The sample data is collected from the Swedish Learner English Corpus (SLEC), which comprises student texts produced in a classroom setting. READ MORE