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Simple Sentences The adroit pianist had to problem sight reading Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13, Pathétique, by Beethoven. This is a simple sentence and establishes through the sentence how the word “adroit” means skilled. The sentence state that a pianist had no trouble sight reading one of the most difficult piano sonatas in the world. First of all, all musicians know that sight reading is difficult, but to show how the pianist had no sight reading one of the most difficult sonatas in…

CaBr2 is an ionic compound, because the second element is a non-metal so it will form an ionic compound. The next step in naming an ionic compound, is to name each component as if they were ions. The first component is a cation so you leave the name alone. The second component is an anion, so you change the ending of bromine to "-ide" and it’s becomes bromide. The last step is to combine the names so, CaBr2 becomes Calcium bromide. The first element of the formula NBr₃ is nitrogen a nonmetal,…

The Greek roots ped or pedo means child, Iatri means medical care, and the suffix ician means practitioner of. When combining the meanings of the roots and the suffix the overall meaning comes as basically a doctor who specializes in medical care of children. A Pediatrician is a doctor who specializes in the medical care of children from the birth of a child to around 18 or even 21. Due to some past experiences, my goal has become to be a successful Pediatrician. To become a Pediatrician one…

1.4 Active vocabulary knowledge VS. Passive vocabulary knowledge: Many researches in the field of vocabulary have distinguished two distinct types of vocabulary knowledge as Nagy, Richards, and Herman, in relation to the four language skills in which it is used, i.e.: vocabulary knowledge was sectioned accordingly to the types of the language skills, respectively, receptive skills as reading and listening, and productive skills as writing and speaking. Therefore, it was divided into passive…

treated. Most people come in contact with diseases throughout their lifetime. One common disease is Pertussis. Pertussis can also be known as tussis convulsive, or more commonly as whooping cough. The prefix per- means thoroughly/extreme, and the suffix –tussis means cough (merriamwebster) This disease is “a communicable, potentially deadly illness characterized by fits of coughing followed by a noisy whooping indrawn breath” (medicinenet n.d.). The disease, Pertussis, comes from bacteria. The…

From god, to many gods, to no god, religion today varies from one another. Hinduism take no exception to that. Starting from the 8th century, Hindus first rose up to be a label after Muslims invaded India, referring to “…the term Hindu as a generic designation for non-Muslim Indians… (Klostermaier 17). Then the term Hinduism later became cemented to refer as the practice of Hindus, after Englishmen in the 1830s “…writing about the religions of India, added –ism to Hindu and coined the term…

Routier, a Texas mother is no doubt one of the most infamous cases of filicide in US history. Filicide is the deliberate act of a parent killing their own child. It comes from the Latin word “filius” meaning “son” or filia meaning “daughter” and the suffix - cide meaning to kill, murder, or collide death. Filicide goes back…

Affixes are “mini-words” that are tacked on the beginning, prefixes, or end, suffixes, to give a word a slightly different meaning, such as the suffix -ing changing the verb drive into the action of driving. An example is the Anglo-French suffix –ure¬, which is similar to the already present –ing because it changes a verb into an action. An example of this suffix is the Anglo-French word departure, the act of departing (Rothwell 146). More examples of affixes include ¬–ment, -able, -ance (Roth…

forms new words by direct merging of two lexical items graphically as if they are legitimately one word-form, such as “babylegs” and“bluegreyblue”. She comes up with the inventive adjectives by hyphenating two items and sometimes with an adjectival suffix, such as “angrycoloured”, “fan-whirring” and…

Throughout time immemorial, Grammar has been among the utmost essential components in the English language. The English language would not similarly exist if grammar did govern the language. If grammar did not control the language, chaos would exist in the language: frequent misunderstandings would be quite common in the language, and individuals would have a certain amount of difficulty communicating to one another. Society as it exists would collapse without proper communication. Communication…