LANGUAGE FORMS AND FUNCTIONS 551019_7

ACTIVITY 10: COLLABORATIVE WORK UNIT 2

TITO VIVEROS VIVEROS Code: CAMILO HERRERA Code: 79 908 803-9 LEIDY CAROLINA SANTRICHS DUARTE Code: 1019019667 JABER ALEJANDRO NARANJO PANIAGUA Code: 98561128 DR. ALEJANDRO SOLARTE SURZ TUTOR

NOVEMBER 2013

INTRODUCTION In this essay you are going to find the ways to create a text, taking into account adverbials, auxiliaries and sentence types. For this career it is necessary to know how to summon information in order to deliver it to other people. Also, to identify the level of understanding and knowledge that students of this subject have gained during the period of study or the semester.

ESSAY ABOUT ADVERBIALS, AUXILIARIES AND SENTENCE TYPES When you are trying to explain to yourself different topics to realize a topic or homework, it is really necessary take into account the correct information for implementing your knowledge. For example, you can use the web tools to find all kind of information and to formulate questions; that is a good way to begin an investigation. First of all, everybody needs to talk about the way to form the ideas respecting to a topic and for that, it is really important to know how to form sentences and what kind of words can join their structure. Adverbials for example can modify the verb in a sentence; they can be adjunct, disjunct and conjunct. The first one can be used to answer WH questions responding to a manner, place, time, reason, frequency and duration; depending on the question and in this case, it is necessary to know the correct position of the adverbial. The second one expresses the attitude of the speaker and it modifies the subject too, unlike the adjunct adverbials. The conjunct adverbials express textual relations between clauses; as you can see the adverbials are so important to give a different sentence context. To complement the ideas you can find too the auxiliaries which depend on the verbal tenses, and can specify the noun or the verb. Some of them are primary auxiliaries as have, be, the important auxiliary do and the modal auxiliaries will, can, may, shall. When the structures of a paragraph or a text have a determinate intention, the auxiliaries are the main words to form the sentences and give the correct message. In conclusion, the objective of the creation of a text and to give sense to the ideas, the investigation, it is an essential part. The ways of investigation can give us options to know several points of view and to show unknown information. The sentence types, for example, the yes and no questions which are declarative and show the fundamental information; they can be negative and interrogative depending on the use of auxiliaries. In another context, we can use the tag questions, their structure is simple and depends too on the auxiliaries and tenses of the questions, and they confirm the information given. If the question is affirmative the tag question must be negative and vice versa; if the question is negative, then the tag question must be positive. It is important to recognize the differences between all the grammatical elements when you are giving opinions, because those are responsible for people understanding your position in the text or essay.

CONCLUSIONS We can conclude that the grammar and its structure are essential for the proper development of the writing skills no matter the area, what really matters is the structure and ideas to develop. Many times, we do reflections on how difficult are other languages to learn but what we dont know is that the same low or high level of knowledge that we have in our native language is the same knowledge we will get in the foreign language due to the fact that we use reference in our mother language as a guide in other language and it is exactly there where the bases we have in grammar come to play an important role. This task gives us interesting tools that can help us have more practice and knowledge about the different features of language, its use and the possibility it has to express the way we interpret and make this world a symbolic extension of our mind.

REFERENCES

Briton, L. J. (2000) Structure of Modern English, a Linguistic introduction. John Benjamins, Amsterdam/Philadephia. Livingston, K. (2013 latest update) Guide to writing a basic essay. Extracted from: http://lklivingston.tripod.com/essay/outline.html Phbb group (2013) English Test Net, forum: Complex Transitive verbs explanation. Extracted from: http://www.english-test.net/forum/ftopic6717.html