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  2. English for specific purposes - Wikipedia

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    ESP may use, in specific teaching situations, a different methodology from that of general English; ESP is likely to be designed for adult learners, either at a tertiary level institution or in a professional work situation. It could, however, be for learners at secondary school level; ESP is generally designed for intermediate or advanced ...

  3. Language for specific purposes - Wikipedia

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    LSP can be used with any target language needed by the learners as a tool for specific purposes, and has often been applied to English (English for specific purposes, or ESP). A third approach, content or theme-based language instruction (CBI) has also been confused with LSP.

  4. List of linguistic example sentences - Wikipedia

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    Punctuation can be used to introduce ambiguity or misunderstandings where none needed to exist. One well known example, [17] for comedic effect, is from A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare (ignoring the punctuation provides the alternate reading).

  5. ESP - Wikipedia

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    ESP-Disk, a 1960s free-jazz record label based in New York; The Electric Soft Parade, a British band formed in 2001; Eric Singer Project, a side project founded in the 1990s by musician Eric Singer; E.S. Posthumus, an independent music group formed in 2000, that produces cinematic style music; ESP, a collaboration between Space Tribe and other ...

  6. English grammar - Wikipedia

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    me (esp. BrE) Plural we: us ourselves ourself: ours our Second-person Singular Standard you: you yourself yours your Archaic informal: thou: thee: thyself: thine: thy thine (before vowel) Plural Standard you you yourselves yours your Archaic: ye: you: yourselves: yours: your: Nonstandard: ye you all y'all youse etc. (see above) ye you all y'all ...

  7. Sentence (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics and grammar, a sentence is a linguistic expression, such as the English example "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."In traditional grammar, it is typically defined as a string of words that expresses a complete thought, or as a unit consisting of a subject and predicate.

  8. English as a second or foreign language - Wikipedia

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    Typically, a student learns this sort of English to function in the new host country, e.g., within the school system (if a child), to find and hold down a job (if an adult), or to perform the necessities of daily life (cooking, taking a cab/public transportation, or eating in a restaurant, etc.).

  9. Grammaticality - Wikipedia

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    In an experiment by Cairns et al., preschool children aged 4–6 were presented sentences such as (14) and (15) orally. (To make sure that the meaning of the sentences was clear to the children, sentences were enacted with toys.) While sentence (14) is well-formed in the adult grammar, sentence (15) is not, as indicated by the asterisk (*).