Linguistic Analysis (Essay Sample)

Linguistic Studies
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The word pipe is a diphthong because it has a combination Of two vowel sounds.

The oxford Dictionary

A teacher teaching students in the You Tube.

A monosyllable is a word with only one syllables for example it.

The Macmillan Dictionary

The mind your language You Tube English lessons.

In the word spoonful,-ful is a suffix

The Longman Dictionary.

The English lessons on the `Daily Nation’ Newspaper.

The sentence, I am a boy is syntactically correct in the active voice but, boy a Iam is syntactically incorrect.

The Syntactical Dictionary.

A teacher teaching a class in Nigeria West Africa.

The words everybody and somebody take singular verbs.

The BBC radio. Focus on Africa Programme.

A journalist with BBC who used this perfectly well.

The word likely as a free morpherme,like and a bound morpheme -ly

The Dictionary for morphemes.

A linguist professor at the Presbyterian university Teaching Students.

In the pronunciation of the word bidet, the letter t is silent.

The Oxford advanced Dictionary.

A BBC reporter from Africa who mispronounced it.

The words meat and meet have the same pronunciation.

Top mark English books

A Nigerian Movie where it was mispronounced.

The words pot and poverty have short letter `o’.

The student companion, English series books.

The president of Kenya who was unable to pronounce them well when interviewed by CNN.

The words desert meaning a barren land and desert meaning to forsake have different pronunciations.

The Macmillan Dictionary.

One of the actors in the Nigerian movies who was unable to differentiate them.

Any statement has a falling intonation while a question that requires a yes/no answer takes a rising intonation.

The Top mark English series

The president of Rwanda, Paul Kagame was unable to use them well when giving a speech.

In the word august which means impressive the stress is on the first part while in August which is the eight month of the year, the stress is on the second part.

The Dictionary of phonetics.

ACNN presenter used them perfectly well.

The difference in pronunciation between the words upset (verb) and upset (noun) is that when it is a verb the stress is on the second part but if it is a noun the stress is on the first part.

The phonetic Dictionary

An article in the `Standard ‘newspaper explaining the difference.

The words luggage and furniture when used in plural s is not added.

Advanced Grammar Series books.

A shop in Nairobi Kenya which is written `we sell fiurnitures,

The word ding-dong has a hyphe.

A newspaper article in `

The Star ‘newspaper in Kenya