AULIA MAGHFIRAH RAMADHANI

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ENGLISH LITERATURE C 2020

Answer the following questions:

1. What are the functions of PUNCTUATION in Modern English? 
= . In Modern English, punctuation is used to indicate the main players in the
sentence: subject, verb, and object.

2. Take a look at the following sentence:

WOMAN WITHOUT HER MAN IS LIKE A FISH ON A BICYCLE.
How many possibilities of placing commas in the sentence? And do they make different
meanings? Explain
= If they are out of place or provide background information are indicated by
commas. And Yes they do make different meaning because the difference in comma
placement makes a difference in the meaning (the commas are left out, but
experiment a little).

3. Put the following into 21st century standard English. What have you changed and why? 
 a. Be not afraid to go there. > in this sentence a dummy do is added.
 b. Are you going to come here regular? > In this sentence should add -ly because it needed
on adverbs (regularly)
4. Adverbs are sometimes an issue in Modern English. In Old English, first is both an adverb
and an adjective, since -ly is not a regular ending. When second is borrowed from French, it
is an adjective only and secondly is the adverb form. Discuss why we debate whether (a) or
(b) is correct: 
 a. First, I will examine … Secondly, I will discuss … 
 b. Firstly, I will examine … Secondly, I will discuss …
= I think the correct answer is (a) because the first sentence came with an adjective and
adverb. The next sentence came with as an adjective and that point in time adverbs was
formed using -ly.
For (b) both using the -ly in the first and the second sentence and since firstly hadn’t be
entered the dictionary back then, I think it would be the most sensible.