DP:

--highlighting (for word-level)

--quoted parts of your text (e.g., from a dictionary): a must!

--use double quotation marks for a start

--starting/opening quotation marks (position, direction)

--in quotes: whose emphasis?--double highlighting?”

--names/titles of dictionaries (i.e., sources) should be highlighted

--punctuation of quotes (inconsistency)

--no double/triple highlighting necessary

-- (no!) contractions (*isn’t, won’t, I’ll, etc.)

--fragments

--concord (of number: *much meanings; /person: /tense)

--*But/And > Yet/Still/However/Nevertheless/At the same time though, …etc.

--general subject inconsistency (we, you, I, etc.)

--the/a dictionary says (which?)

--justification (to the right)

--*thing(s)(> issue, article, object, item, event, incident, entity, substance, idea, etc.)

--on the other hand = másrészt/~ről (> nonetheless, still, however, yet, notwithstanding, etc.)

--inclusive usage of third-person singular personal pronouns: he or she; s/he; his or her, etc.

Thursday class:

--However, many people use jealous to mean the same thing as envious.

--There are some examples below to illustrate the examples and the differences.

--there is a big difference between simply learning a thing and truly understanding. (source?)

--But if we have a close look of their meanings,

--In the Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary,

--The Webster’s New Dictionary of Synonyms,

--And when somebody is inhuman he/she is not so aware what is right and what is wrong.

--he tortured me with that he did not let me go anywhere

--The dictionary describe the word “cruel” as “willfully or knowingly causing pain

--she is not suited for human being.

--Scared is a sudden, shorter feeling on the spot or a specific situation.

--When someone is scared it means it is filled with alarm,

--Although they are used as synonyms for each other in most of dictionaries, there are some quite differences.

--Both of them means to do some kind of job

--the opportunity to choose their way of lifestyle

--Doing a career with meaning is like love such as doing something which makes you happy.

--Everybody is happy to have incentives which make you work better.

--I checked the meaning of incentive and motive and their similarity in dictionaries.

--Although the exaggerated self-confidence can makes you pompous.

--but not every confident people are optimistic

--even during difficult periods of our lives, yet if you have too much self-confidence

--he may give out some unreasonably low deadlines

--even the mentioned dictionary uses one verb to define the other

--I highlighted the words with italics.

--Because you have a fear of losing that person you like or love.

--With a few examples I try to illustrate the difference between these two words.

--When I searched “learn”, this dictionary stated:

--Understanding and learning go hand by hand.

--It would make no sence.

--understanding only las for a few days, but if you learn something it lasts for a complete lifetime

--In this discrimination paper, I would like to talk about 2 synonymous words

--The boy thought that if he has not one, than do not have no one else.

--Because you has fear of lose your partner and he become to the other girl’s one.

--if the own belief is lost

--it shows how should people live in order to achieve peace

--These two goes hand in hand.

--The English uses this verb for students who study very hard.

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Friday class:

--it can be seen on your appearance and behavior

--use optimistic if you are sure, that good things can happen at anytime

--It is important to tell these words apart, because it might cause some confusion later on.

--In many situations you can use them as a substitute for one another

--Let’s analyze the differences with an example!

--This is a perfect example, because we can see, that even the dictionary is explaining one of our words with the other one.

--According to Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, competent is someone whi is “having the necessary ability and quality necessary for doing something”.

--Let’s see some examples, which describe the differences.

--but I am sure not many people would choose my work instead of the work of a competent painter

--will have more knowledge and more experience on that field than a capable one.

--As the dictionary writes he or she is authorized to this activity

--They have really similar meaning, althought it’s not the same.

--Both of them is a bad feeling what eachof us experience at least once in a lifetime.

--As Cambridge dictionary says, jealousy is a feeling of unhappiness and anger because someone has something or someone that you want.

--Envy is to wish something that another person has.

--Learning means that you are studying something and memorise it.

--It takes longer time to learn something,for example, a language.

--if somebody say something or the teacher says a math example and you understand what does is mean.

--When you say I am learning something that means you try to memorise that thing.

--You are maybe sitting in front of your book and try to study what is in it.

--However, you don’t think that you want to study that thing, you do. After that, you will be able to cook a meal or ironing because you learned that passively.

--Finally, to understand something is an other thing.

--The origin of the world dates back to the mid16th century, in the sense “defeat, overcome an argument.”

--In this dictionary, we can read that it is used in situations in which action results.

--Anna really wants a new phone so she tries to convince his father to buy her one.

--Confident is defined in the Oxford Student’s Dictionary of Current English as

--We find other meanings of confident such as on The free Dictionary web site as:

--Other meanings of optimistic can be found on the internet such as that found at Dictionary.com

--I am going to find out the differences or similarities between the meaning of these two words.

--When defining “jealousy” the dictionary stated:

--These few examples might helped to show the differences between the meanings of the words “jealousy” and “envy.”