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Kahraman, Mehmet; Subasi, Gonca – International Online Journal of Education and Teaching, 2022
The present study aims to reveal the use of high-frequency verbs "make" and "do" when they occur in a verb+noun combination in the argumentative essays of Turkish learners of English. In this context, the present study investigated the grammatical and semantic patterns and erroneous productions in the learner corpus. The…
Descriptors: Verbs, Nouns, Language Usage, Persuasive Discourse
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Jimenez, Jeremy – Journal of Social Studies Education Research, 2020
While United States historians' inclination to write in affect-inducing ways has waxed and waned throughout the past 150 years, racial biases concerning such writing have persisted through today. Adapting Mark Phillips' (2013) concept of historical distance coupled with a form of linguistic analysis known as stylistics, I examine 50 U.S. social…
Descriptors: Racial Discrimination, Grammar, Verbs, Disadvantaged