A preposition (eg; of, with, at, from, into, during, until, etc.), is any word that can be used to introduce a preposition phrase. Prepositional phrase are phrases that are used as modifiers of nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs. For example, the sentence, She is a friend of mine uses the prepositional phrase of mine to […]
“ Human Nature-Sleep or not to sleep.”
How does one’s body knows when it’s time to sleep? There are two main factors that determine when you want to sleep and when you want to be awake. The first factor is a signal beamed out from your aproximately twenty-four-hour clock located deep within your brain. The clock creates a cycling, day-night rhythm that […]
”The myth of proper English.”
There is no such thing as “proper English” as per Oliver Kamm.. Nor is there “correct grammar”. These concepts have no place in the classroom — not because they are reactionary and anachronistic, but because they are false, and children should be taught things that are reliable rather than mythical. The notion that radical academics […]
“1-What are Angolanisms?”
Portuguese language shares its position with the other native languages spoken in Angola. Having a leading position in several linguistic situations, like work, politics, administration and press, Portuguese is also influenced by languages spoken by native Angolans, most of them bilingual, and provides conditions for a new variety, referred to the Angolan Portuguese. Words used […]
“1-Mozambique Portuguese Dictionary.”
DIPOMO – Dicionário do Português de Moçambique, is the first Portuguese dictionary written and edited in an African country’. It follows the construction and publication, in 2014, of the Vocabulário Ortográfico Moçambicano da Língua Portuguesa – VOMOLP (Mozambican Spelling Vocabulary of the Portuguese Language), a resource that allowed for the description of Mozambican Portuguese (MP) […]
“Prepositions and Contractions in Portuguese.”
Prepositions are short words that usually occur before a noun (or pronoun). They show how the noun relates to another element in the sentence in terms of time, location, movement, or other parameters. For example, the English prepositions in, at, on, and through could be used to create prepositional phrases such as in the morning, […]