A place for English 11 students from the Pearson Adult Learning Centre in New Westminster, BC, Canada to read work in progress, critique, and ask or answer questions (of other students and of the teacher).
Thursday, March 5, 2009
The Semicolon: Rita, Frank, Wahzma, Jane
Put your examples here. Each student makes one comment before next Wednesday's class.
Semicolon example in “Adopting the Dim-Sum Strategy”: They’ve clearly read those studies about children and second languages: Children lose their ability to learn a language fully and perfectly by age 4; more languages equates with higher intelligence.
The semicolon here is used to combine and separate.
In my example, semicolon has same function as the example above.
My son agrees with me that learning Chinese is important to him because we came from China and have the Chinese face; however, he feels difficult to learn a language that he hardly uses.
I made a little change on my previous example, and have a new one. My son agrees with me that learning Chinese is important to him because we came from China and have Chinese faces; however, he feels it is difficult to learn a language that he hardly uses.
Mary has to get up early for her job and works long hours; in addition, she takes courses in the night school.
Semicolon example in “Adopting the Dim-Sum Strategy”:
ReplyDeleteThey’ve clearly read those studies about children and second languages: Children lose their ability to learn a language fully and perfectly by age 4; more languages equates with higher intelligence.
The semicolon here is used to combine and separate.
In my example, semicolon has same function as the example above.
My son agrees with me that learning Chinese is important to him because we came from China and have the Chinese face; however, he feels difficult to learn a language that he hardly uses.
My example:
ReplyDeleteLearning English involves studying in several areas; for instance, listening, speaking, reading and writing.
My writing class is helping me a lot in improving my English; I also take English 11 and biology 12 classes in this semester to progress.
ReplyDeleteI made a little change on my previous example, and have a new one.
ReplyDeleteMy son agrees with me that learning Chinese is important to him because we came from China and have Chinese faces; however, he feels it is difficult to learn a language that he hardly uses.
Mary has to get up early for her job and works long hours; in addition, she takes courses in the night school.