Present tense

still maintained speculation regarding Rhys’s early years, wanting to use her past works to give reason to what happened in her present and future pieces. Likewise Woolf wanted none of her past writings to be published after she died, leaving a note to her husband Leonard Woolf, which stated ‘Will you destroy all my papers.’ This showed a desire to only live within present time. However he seemed to disregard Virginia’s wishes and published…

Quine thinks this to be complicating matters unnecessarily. Additionally, he finds that it is demanding “lip service to time even when time is farthest from our thoughts.”2 The remedy to this, according to Quine, would be to allow the form of the present to remain, but consider it as a temporal neutral. Quine contends that such a method is utilized in mathematics and science without second thought. Considering the sentence, “Seven of them remained and seven is an odd number,” the 'is ' seems to…

how to write an essay that’s not just average. I still have a lot to learn since my essays are still flawed in several areas. I believe that I need more practice on basics such as punctuation, grammar, vocabulary, making sure I write in literary present tense, and developing a strong thesis. I’m more comfortable with organizing topics, developing…

The poem “Africa” by Maya Angelou seems to represent a woman and her beauty in the first stanza and then transitions into referring to the whole continent of Africa. Angelou describes the hardships of violence and slavery Africa has underwent over the years. She also refers to the fact the religion had been forced upon the people of Africa. Although Africa has been through a lot, it refuses to let that stop it from becoming a thriving continent. Africa will rise up and move on from these awful…

California dreaming can be so much better than California living; at least that’s what I feel sometimes after taking my gap year. This statement I believe is not only applicable to my gap year, but also my experience as a whole. Acknowledging the great presence of collegen in my face and the silky blonde undyed locks on my head, I realize that I have not gone through an immense amount of “life”, but I still know that my experience on this Earth has taught me a couple of things that make me the…

the wind knocked out of me” the use of the as the first person narrative allows a more powerful way to convey a closer more personal relationship with the reader and the writer which makes the story more entertaining. I switch between past and present tense.…

however, he did use some regular past tense, irregular past tense, and third-person singular verbs. In the speech sample, Arlo had an MLU of 5.84, which is higher than what is expected at this age. Arlo used utterances that ranged from 1 morpheme to 15 morphemes during the play session. Arlo used many utterances of different lengths, but he did not use many grammatical morphemes. For example, Arlo mainly talked about current things and did not use many of the tense marking…

this include: the great warped chest of the hunchback, his hump on his shoulders, and the hunchback's thin and crooked legs. 12c) The change in verb tenses throughout the excerpt holds a very deep meaning because it marks a very important change. This is the establishment of the café. The start of the excerpt first begins with the use of past tense or the…

Carmen is in second-grade student, she is currently having challenges reading and is performing at a kindergarten reading level. When starting the assessment with Carmen, based on previous assessments, I knew her reading level was below second-grade reading level. Her reading over assessment has seen improvement and she is able to apply skills she has learned. Carmen was able to read Walk in the Fall and The First Snow. She demonstrated improvement in her reading based on the reading techniques…

Vocabulary coincide (v)- to occupy the same place in space or time Your track meet will coincide with my soccer game tomorrow since they are scheduled for the same time. taut (adj)- having no give or slack; tightly drawn When he pointed the taut rubber band at me, I knew that it was going to hurt. stifled (adj)- muffled or repressed He tried to say something, but he was stifled from having a lot of popcorn in his mouth. submerge (v)- to go under water The sinking boat slowly submerges into the…