idioms

You can quickly add any paper to your favourite. Cool!

Samples for secondary school2  

IDIOM Couch potato DEFINITION A person who is very old. EXAMPLE Bill is a (…) – just ask for help and he is gone!

Term Papers for university65  

... information about idioms originating from ... manuscripts; therefore, idioms disappear from ... literature • classifying idioms according to the ... analysis of selected idioms The present ...

Summaries, Notes for secondary school8  

Introduction Phrasal verbs represent a practically limitless group of verbs that can be combined with short adverbs or prepositions to produce new meanings. Here are some examples ...

Research Papers for university4  

... skill, translation of idioms within a culture ... . If a foreign idiom is transplanted into ... reject that foreign idiom. This kind of ...

Summaries, Notes for secondary school13  

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland represents child’s struggle to survive in the confusing world of adults. In order to understand the “adult world” Alice has to overcome the ...

Research Papers for university33  

... , allusion, euphemism, interjections, idioms, borrowings, epizeuxis, alliteration ...

Research Papers for secondary school32  

Conclusions • Many people do not have the knowledge of the Great Vowel Shift and how the English language appears in its written form. • Some words of 16th century English can ...

Summaries, Notes for university6  

(1)Housing and dwellings. “My home is my castle”. I agree to this statement, because, we choose it and decorate it with our choice and taste in order it looks nice, we could have ...

Research Papers for secondary school12  

Everyone has had problems using English language as effectively as it should be used. Many, if not most, of our problems with English develop when we forget that there are two ...

Research Papers for university13  

... (impossible) (Eagle, 2002). Idioms are distinctive expressions ... list of Scottish idioms in the Appendix ...

Research Papers for university16  

Conclusions After researching and writing this project, I come up with following conclusions: • The word dictionary was created by John of Garland in 1220 (an Englishman). His ...

Essays for university8  

As it has been discussed in the present essay, dictionaries may be of different type, and they may have different target audience. However, for non-native speakers, learner’s ...

Research Papers for university4  

2. Art Nouveau in Latvia Art Nouveau architecture was popular in Riga, the capital of Latvia, during the late 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century – about 40% of the ...

Essays for secondary school1  

Furthermore, linguistic variations not only complicate verbal communication but also offer a significant challenge in nonverbal communication, which individuals from various ...

Summaries, Notes for secondary school13  

Understanding the context; Subject, ideas, thoughts of the text/film: The main context of this book is queen Victorias era in England. Social hierachy in the 19th century ...

Research Papers for university12 Free! 

Languages have been more and more popular in recent years, and the variety of languages that are described is continuously increasing. The employment of contemporary foreign ...

Research Papers for university25  

The theme of my course-paper is 'Word-formation. Conversion'. At the first part of the work I've wrote some lines about the term 'word' as the smallest independent unit of speech. ...

Essays for university8  

German borrowings can be divided into three main groups, plus a separate group of German-related words borrowed into American English via Yiddish. The three groups are: - ...

Summaries, Notes for secondary school4  

KEY PHRASES Good morning, this is Britta Grey calling from Germany. I'd like to speak to Mr/Ms Jones, please. I'd like to leave a message for ... Just a moment, please ...

Summaries, Notes for university18  

1.Ablaut ablout An ablaut is a vowel change, characteristic of Indo-European languages, that accompanies a change in grammatical function; Also called gradation Patskaņu mija; ...

Essays for university2  

The theme of this article is the ways how the government plans to fight the fast growing violence, caused by gangs, in Chicago. This is a non-fictional article from the newspaper ‘ ...

Research Papers for university25  

Introduction Many a man's vices have at first been nothing worse than good qualities run wild. - Augustus and Julius Hare Each person in this world is a personality and he/she ...

Summaries, Notes for university5  

8.4. verbs; Why? To recover, to reconstruct – pointing that Latvia was in the process of recovery and Mr Zagars gave a hand in that. To run a job, run a firm – it’s all about ...

Summaries, Notes for university15  

Then, the legitimising strategies are used, that tell that an individual has to think and do the same as others do, e.g., what he is, thousands and hundreds of thousands are saying ...

Presentations for secondary school11  

Advantages Using jargon can be fun. It describes the world in which we live. The occupations of today have their own jargon. Jargon give a sense of belonging to a specific ...