: ENGLISH TENSES

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rmuddasir781

26 Feb 2023

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Harvard University

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English

Course

English 120a

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Mastering english tenses is essential for any student who wants to communicate fluently and confidently in the language. To help, i have created notes of and on each tense, including compare different tenses. I will also provide an overview of all of the english tenses and a special way of understanding them so that they can be learned more easily. Tenses tell us when something happened, and provide structure to the language. To avoid common mistakes, it"s important to be aware of the twelve different tenses in english and how they refer to time. The present tense is an important part of english and can be used to talk about both permanent and temporary states. The present simple tense is used for things that are true in general, such as "we live in. The present continuous tense, also known as the present progressive tense, is used for things that are more or less permanent, such as "i am working".

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Early English literature was written in Old English, which is vastly different from Modern English. Often, these texts are translated into more accessible language for modern readers. When reading these older forms of English, it can be difficult to understand the meaning, even if the language has been modified. In your opinion, what makes this literature so difficult to read? Is it the vocabulary, the characters, the type of storytelling, the density of the language, or something else? As you progressed through Old English texts to Middle English to Modern English, how did your understanding of the literature change? Can you explain what caused the change?

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1. language spoken by educated Americans ⬜ standard English

2. street language that coins new words and new meanings ⬜ language

3. regional variation of the national language ⬜ writing

4. language of a skill, trade, or profession ungrammatical ⬜ speech

5. phrases and expressions unique to a language ⬜ jargon

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7. graphic representation of sounds ⬜ idiom

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Write the following English descriptions of rules using the rule format we’ve learned in class (e.g., rules like [+F]→[−F]/ #). Use features to describe segments and envi- ronments as much as possible. If it’s important for your answer, assume English segments and the corresponding features. (Hint: Suppose the difference between an affricate and a stop is that affricates are post-alveolar and [+strident].)

(1) Laterals delete before a nasal consonant.

(2) Insert a mid front tense vowel between two stops.

(3) Obstruents become voiceless at the end of a word.

(4) At the beginning of words, delete a vowel if there’s another vowel immediately after it.

(5) Nasals become stops if the preceding vowel is nasalized.

(6) Coronal stops become affricates before high front vowels.

(7) All consonants except glides delete if there are two non-glide consonants before them.

(8) A vowel becomes round if there’s another round vowel after it, separated by any number of consonants.

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: ENGLISH TENSES

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