Friday, September 21, 2007

Kelsie Stephens Vocab Week 2

Paradigm-A template/serves as a basis.
1.noun
2.Pattern(syn), Atypical(ant), Model(syn)
3.The losing team didn't slap hands showing the paradigm of bad sportsmanship.
Philology-The study of history and the relationship of languages.
1. noun
2. Historian(ant), Study(syn), Etymology(syn)
3. During the last decade the philology of the two languages have taken different paths.
Phonology- The study of patterns of speech, sounds in language.
1.noun
2. Translator(syn), Speech Therapist(syn), accents(syn)
3. The phonology of the two languages were completely different at one point in time.
Rhetoric-The art/study of using language effectively.
1. noun
2. Elocution(syn), Address(syn), Composition(syn)
3. The president's speech had a strong rhetoric quality.
Syntax-Organization of words in sentences.
1. noun
2. Structure(syn), Fundamentals(syn), Arrangement(syn)
3. The students paper was full of syntax errors.

2 comments:

Julie Schellenberg said...
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Julie Schellenberg said...

Kelsie, both "rhetoric" and "syntax" are nouns, yet you use them as adjectives in your sentences. (-2)