Thursday, September 20, 2007

Peter J's Vocab

1.PARADIGM:
Description: Explains the archetype very well.
Part of speech: noun
Related Words: Example, Instance
Sentence: The new $20 bill seems to be a paradigm to the old one.
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2.PHILOLOGY:
Description: Shows the history of words and phrases.
Part of speech: noun
Related words: Etymology, Literature
Sentence: The philology of the English language is interesting.
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3.PHONOLOGY:
Description: Studies the sounds and pronunciation of a language
Part of speech: noun
Related words: Phonemics, Speech
Sentence: In the book Pygmalion the man studied the phonology of the girl.
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4. RHETORIC:
Description: To write and speak efficiently.
Part of speech: noun
Related words: Linguistics, Language
Sentence: her rhetoric skills were horrible.
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5.SYNTAX:
Description: The assembling of words to make phrases or sentences.
Part of speech: Middle French
Related Words: Sentence, Rhetoric
Sentence: The syntax of the sentence was all wrong.
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1 comment:

Julie Schellenberg said...

Peter, rhetoric is a noun, you use as an a\djective...and ytou did not capitalize your sentence! (-2)