Practice Time : Me,Myself And I

A.1 Glance through the text and complete the statements with words or phrases used In the text
1. The majuscule ………. appears only in English.
2. The supposedly snobbish French leave all……… in………
3. The word …….comes from ‘capital”.
4. ……….was not majuscule in most cases.
5. Early ……..and …….played a major role in shaping the national character of English speaking countries.
6. The origin ……..and consequences of our civilised ‘I’ went largely unchanged.
7. Try ………..those whom you address while leaving yourselves.
8. The first evidence of the growing ‘ I ’ as a grammatical shift was found in ……
9. The generally accepted linguistic explanation for the capital ‘ I ‘ is that it could not ………
10. According to Charles Bigelow , scribes made ‘ I ‘ bigger because ……….
Ans: 1.I. 2. pronouns , lower case 3. Capitalize. 4. The first person pronoun. 5. Manuscript, typography 6. Meaning 7. To capitalize 8. The 13 th and 14 th centuries 9. Stand alone 10. It was too wimpy to carry the semantic burden.
A2.State whether the following statements are true or false.
1. Arabic and Hebrew have no capitalized letters.
2. In French language the formal form of ‘you’ is capitalised.
3. The word ‘capital’ is associated with significance , wealth and physical assets .
4. Capitalism is linked to markets, investments and ownership.
A.3 : You try to capitalize those whom You address while leaving yourselves in the lower case.
It implies that….
A.4 : Vocabulary
Use the following words into your sentences
1. Manuscript 2. Scribes
A.5 Modern e-mail culture has shown the ruin of English Language . Do you agree or not ? Explain.
A6 Do as directed
1. It was too wimpy to carry the semantic burden. ( Choose the complex Structure of it.)
a. It was so wimpy that it can not carry the semantic burden.
b. It was so wimpy that it could not carry the semantic burden.
c. It was so wimpy that it could carry the semantic burden.
d. It was so wimpy which could not carry the semantic burden.
2. It’s impossible to know. ( Use ‘not’ and rewrite the sentence without changing the meaning of the sentence)
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