In our writing, we use punctuation marks to indicate the pauses and changes in expression. Punctuation marks were invented to clarify the expression in language. It is a set of symbols used in writing to help explain meaning and make sentences easier to read. It helps us organize thoughts, show pauses, indicate emotions, and structure sentences correctly.
Friday, July 11, 2025
Wednesday, July 9, 2025
The Sentence: Subject and Predicate
Without sentences, we would have a great deal of difficulty in communicating with each other. A sentence is a group of words that makes complete sense by itself. In its simplest form, a sentence may consist of just a noun and a verb, or even of a single word.
A sentence has two main parts, called the subject and the predicate.
Monday, July 7, 2025
Introduction to Some Mythical Characters Based on Seneca's Phaedra
Diana
Diana was an ancient Italian goddess whom the Romans identified with the Greek Artemis. She was a patroness of wild things and of birth, both human and animal. Apparently a fertility goddess of the 'mountain-mother' type, she was the patron goddess of the Roman plebians. At Rome Diana was the
Saturday, July 5, 2025
Seneca's Phaedra
Seneca's Phaedra is a Roman tragedy that retells the ancient Greek myth of Phaedra, Hippolytus, and Theseus. It is based on earlier Greek versions, especially Euripides' Hippolytus, but with Seneca’s own intense, philosophical, and psychological style.
Phaedra is a Roman tragedy by Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger, a philosopher and dramatist before 54 A.D. It is 1280 lines of verse. It is a powerful depiction of the disintegration of the character of a woman driven by desire for her stepson, Hippolytus. Her attempt to resist the passion proves futile.
Friday, July 4, 2025
The Rules of Word Formation
Word formation stands for the process of forming new words from words or word groups woth the same root.It refers to how new words are created in a language. It has traditionally been regarded as a branch of lexicology or a branch of grammar equal in importance to jorphology and syntax, or it has been assigned to morphology.
Thursday, July 3, 2025
Free Morpheme and Bound Morpheme:
Morphemes are classified into two types- free morphemes and bound morphemes. A free morpheme can stand alone as a complete word and still have meaning. For example: bag, book, goat, dog, is, and, but, beauty, cruelty, and so on.
Free morphemes are of two types- lexical or referential morphemes and functional or grammatical morphemes.
Punctuation
In our writing, we use punctuation marks to indicate the pauses and changes in expression. Punctuation marks were invented to clarify the...
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Phonology is a level of linguistics that studies the sound systems of languages. Phonology is concerned with the range and function of soun...
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Lenis and fortis are two terms that represent a dichotomy of a voiced/ voiceless pair. Phonetically, lenis refers to the consonants articul...