Grammatical number

Dunbar’s number. Dunbar’s number is, in fact, a series of numbers that represent the number of friends a typical person has that fit varying categories of familiarity and closeness. Maria Konnikova writes about Robin Dunbar’s research in her essay “The Limits of Friendship.” Robin Marantz Henig discusses the current plight of American millennials trying and failing to adjust to the world fast enough and become adults in “What is it About 20-Somethings?” Social media allows one to expand the…

Some ordered because they thought it would be fun to have their favorite numbers and letters on the number plates made specifically for them, when custom number plates were first introduced to the members of the general public. Of course, it is a fact that it's usually abundant and famous people with tailored plates hooked up on his or her high class cars. However, it soon turned out to become a very popular trend that not only famous individuals order custom plates from licensed plate makers.…

The measurements of our world strive to quantify the quality of our lives. The scales we use to measure ourselves and how we feel, fail to understand the concept of life itself. The tears of joy felt by a mother; the symphony of silence held by a survivor; the loudness of a murmur spoken as a prayer. Life is a composition, led by a melody, woven piece by piece, tied by our hopes and colored by our sorrows. Like darkness is the absence of light, pain is measured by the absence of happiness.…

Almost all cultures in the world are set up within a binary system. These cultures force people to conform to either adherently masculine characteristics to show they are male or adherently feminine characteristics to show that they are in fact female. From the time a person is born they are taught ways in which they should act in order to conform to their culture’s ideas on their role based on their gender. Anyone who does not conform to these characteristics is chastised and marked as being a…

related to the type of subject in the sentence (D’Alessandro, 2014). The grammatical person, whether it is first, second, or third, and the grammatical number, singular or plural, do not affect the null-subject parameter. For instance, in sentence (2) the unexpressed subject in Italian is the third person plural “loro”, while in sentence (4) the implicit subject is the second person singular “tu”. The grammatical person and number are different; however, the subject remains unexpressed, or…

American Standard English should adopt they as a third person epicene pronoun, also coined a gender neutral, gender-fair, or common-gender pronoun (Adami 281, Baranoski 379). Generic he has persisted since the 1850 Act of Parliament that declared it so, but is he truly generic (Zuber and Reed 519)? The use of he is sexist, excluding females and people who do not fall neatly within the male-female gender binary (Strahan 17). English also lacks a third person pronoun for instances when a person’s…

Modern Chinese grammatical system need to have a particular form that would allow actions or verbs to express various progresses of the state in each situation; therefore, it needs a particle to be added to the sentence to achieve this need. Chinese grammar is not similar to English grammar, in which English can add -ing onto the end of a verb to show the ongoing state of an action. Chinese has many particles such as le, zhe, guo that are being used in the sentences to add aspectual values to…

entry-level mathematics students often encounter difficulties in understanding magnitudes of large numbers. I shall begin my case study from some experiments that how accurately the children could estimate the numbers magnitudes by various aspects of a stimulus. Thus far, my research has followed two lines of inquiry. The first line of study is to identify children’s different understanding levels for number magnitudes and to accurately estimate numbers7. Specifically I am interested in…

2014 pp. 90 identifies that a major cause of student’s difficulties in mathematics has been how they understand and process numbers. The teacher then writes on the board 723- 246. The class is asked to copy and complete the above exercise in their books. The teacher then asked a student the answer. The student says “four hundred and seventy-seven”. The teacher interrupts the student:…

Note: As you begin to insert your responses to the prompts found in this document, please be sure to save it frequently, (and note the location of the file) so as to not lose any of your work. Once completed, you will submit this document to WGU for grading. Instruct What student misconceptions have you encountered related to fraction, decimal, and percentage concepts? How do you help students understand the notion of equivalence among fractions or prepare them for this understanding? One…