Composition 1

Words

nouns
singular/plural common countable/common uncountable proper indefinite/definite

verb (V)
main verb: I went auxiliary verb: I could go

subject (S)
Subjects are all a type of noun (noun phrase). They can be nouns or pronouns. Some are she, he, we, I, you Some are her, him, us, me, you They tell us the number of the verb phrase. Subject always in front of the verb EXCEPT for questions. Dummy pronoun

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of being and ideal grace. I love thee to the level of every day's Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light. I love thee freely, as men strive for right. I love thee purely, as they turn from praise. I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.

thee= you

Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date. Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimmed; But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st, Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade, When in eternal lines to Time thou grow'st. So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

contextualization
'Contextualization' of words is when we see the words in a meaningful text. For example, when we see the word 'temperate' in this poem, this is the 'contextualization' of the word.

decontextualization
Learning words which have been 'decontextualized' can also be very useful. morphemes: parts of words (prefixes, suffixes, root, stem/base) suffix exercise We have also learned about derivation, inflection and compounding.

Thesaurus
A thesaurus can be helpful when you are looking for different words with a similar meaning.

The World Is Too Much with Us by William Wordsworth

The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers; Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon, The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers, For this, for everything, we are out of tune; It moves us not. --Great God! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathd horn.