English

• Collocation - refers to a group of two or more words that usually go together
• Types of english collocation

  • adverb + adjective
  • adjective + noun
  • noun + noun
  • verb + noun
  • verb + preposition
  • noun + preposition
  • adjective + preposition
• biography- commonly considered nonfictional, the subject of which is the life of an individual
• autobiography- the biography of oneself narrated by oneself
• used in objective -biography
• used in subjective -autobiography
• it can be written anytime -biography
• Transition Signals- these are words and phrases that connect ideas of sentences and paragraphs for coherence
• types of functions of transition words

  • comparison/contrast
  • chronology
  • cause/effect
  • illustration/example
  • addition
  • clarification
  • qualification
  • summary/conclusion
• “in the same way”

  • comparison/contrast
• on the contratry

  • comparison/contrast
• “specifically”

  -illustration/example
• “therefore”

  -summary/conclusion
• comparison/contrast

  -points out alternatives or differences
• chronology

  -it helps define time
• cause/effect - it shows the consequences of an action
• illustration/example - it adds emphasis or introduce evidence
• addition - it adds information or reinforces ideas
• clarification - it shows support
• qualification - it presents conditions or intentions
• summary/conclusion - it restates ideas