Poetry Maret 22, 2008
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Definition: Poetry is an imaginative awareness of experience expressed through meaning, sound, and rhythmic language choices so as to evoke an emotional response. Poetry has been known to employ meter and rhyme, but this is by no means necessary. Poetry is an ancient form that has gone through numerous and drastic reinvention over time. The very nature of poetry as an authentic and individual mode of expression makes it nearly impossible to define. The example of Poetry:
Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. Shovel them under and let me work--- I am the grass; I cover all. And pile them high at Gettysburg And pile them high at Ypres and Verdun. Shovel them under and let me work. Two years, ten years, and passengers ask the conductor: What place is this? Where are we now? I am the grass.
5 Basic Tense Maret 22, 2008
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In English has 5 basic tenses, and we must understand all of 5 basic tenses, that is:
- Present Continuous Tense.
- Simple Present Tense.
- Present Future Tense.
- Simple Past Tense.
- Present Perfect Tense.
Explanation:
- Present Continuous Tense.
Use for to explain about something who happening in present time.
Formula : S + to be (are, am, is ) + Ving
Example : “I am waiting for the bus now.”
- Simple Present Tense.
Use for to explain about habitual action.
Formula : a. S + to be ( are, am, is ) + ….
b. S + Verb + ….
Example : “I wait for the bus everyday.”
- Present Future Tense.
Use for to explain about something who will happen or will do in future.
Formula : a. S + Shall/Will + be + ….
b. S + Shall/Will + Verb + ….
Example : “I will wait for the bus leter.”
- Simple Past Tense.
Use for to explain about something who happen in past time.
Formula : a. S + to be ( was/were ) + ….
b. S + V2 + ….
Example : “I waited for the bus everyday.”
- Present Perfect Tense.
Use for to explain about something who happen since past and to go on keep at until now, or to explain about something in this time has finished.
Formula : S + Have/Has + V3
Example : “I have waited for the bus for 15 minutes.”
Actually total of tense in English no fewer than 14 types. It just composite or combination of 5 basic tenses. Look at this!
o Future Continuous Tense
o Future Perfect Tense
o Past Future Tense
o Past Perfect Future Tense
o Past Continuous Tense
o Past Perfect Tense
o Present Perfect Continuous Tense
o And so on
The application of tense will be easy if we understand 5 basic tense perfectly.
