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.
--Hunglish:
--little differences > minor differences
--use of the definite article in front of the title of dictionaries
--in case >< in the case of (in case of emergency)
--If somebody has a mind then he or she choose car rather than cars
--when/if we/you talk about sg.
Wednesday class
--Love and Romantic (title)
--On one hand, when defining “love”, the Collins Cobuild English Language Dictionary states:
--An example being, “She is romantic as a child of sixteen.” (fragment)
--The difference between “confident” and “optimistic” are easy to point out.
--An optimist person might say:
--We would be talking about optimism if you had never hit that shot successfully in your life,
--For the word’s denotative meaning each dictionary provided a different definition.
--A cruel person is, more often than not, aware that they cause suffering;
--highlight the differences of the two words more easier.
--When a person wants to learn somethings, that means he or she wants to acquire a yet unknown
knowledge.
--To understand somebody means that you know what the other person is talking about, or that
he is speaking a foreign language but you know that language too, so you can understand each
other.
--we can freely say the difference is actually not a slight one.
--All in all, not everyone who is learning understands.
--The second version is the right one because you want that something, the other person has, and
not they want something that’s yours.
--Last but not least to summarise the facts, I wrote above, it is easy to be confused when we use
these two words.
--I am going to bring some examples to clarify the difference between them and also some
similarities.
--After these examples we can clearly see the main difference between optimistic and confident.
--I had looked up them in two different monolingual dictionaries and I have found the following
results in them. When defining „learn” it states:
--In my opinion there is a small connection between the two words
--In general, remember when you learn you usually get knowledge about a stuff;
--I used online dictionary in this essay. These websites were
--I think it is necessary to be confident on the interview and you will get the job.
--I thought that I will not be able to drive in my life .After the fourth lesson my instructor said me:
--Finally, there is a funny story about my cousin, Tom. He often bought lottery, he spent lot of
money for them, but he has never won.
--Summarizing it in my own words, a confident person is well-prepared for a certain situation,
--Using the previously mentioned websites, “optimistic” could be defined as
--Confidence always looks for evidence, while optimism is not.
--To exemplify their differences, read this short dialogue below about two students talking before
an exam.
--That is the answer for the question above because on one hand, “understand” is defined as
knowing the meaning of what someone is telling you or what you learn.
--to express an anger at someone for the behavior that brought negative consequences,
--Let us not go far, everyone has their own problems in their lives. If you have a problem,
--this thought refers to the first mentioned definition of a difficulty, saying: “a difficulty is a problem
--you will not be capable to finish your university studies and consequently you will have less
Thursday class
--Both of them can mean, that the person is sure that the result of something will be favourably for
him. but not exactly in the same way.
--He has too much self-confident, he thinks, he is infallible.
--So these words are alike, but one must pay attention tot he surrounding of them and what you realy
meant to say.
--They almost mean the same, but de dictionary does not use one to define the other. Taking a closer
look on these words will show us the differences between them.
--The meanings of the two verbs I listed are the denotative meanings, which means that these
explanations are the ones being put on the first places in the dictionaries.
--Offence and Insult
In everyday sitruations, we use these two expressions as interchangeable.
--they do not necessarily mean the same thing. Opening the Cambridge Advanced Learner’s
Dictionary, I came across the word
--I hope that I was able to help you to understand better why these two words are synonyms
--that is why jealous and envy are synonyms
--Reffering to the Sixth Edition of Oxford Learner’s Dictionary “confident” is defined as
--The story about a proffessor and his class helps to understand what is confidence.
--These to word belong together and should create important characteristics in other human being’s
lives.
--If he would feel this too, the sentence was like
--Let it be seen by an example –”He is not confident but optimistic because he will pass all the exams.”
--Advisable to take into consideration in case of using them.
--Summarizing it, I have to say that there are more differences between these two words.
--I mentioned their meanings, but to tell you the truth, we use them is different cases.
--Let’s say that two men are got lost.
--he is hopeful that they will meet somebody, who shows them the way
Friday class
--Confident and optimistic, two words with their own meaning.
--Although once you know the difference between them there won’t be any problems with including
them in your writings or your speech.
--So being optimistic still means you look at things positively, but the focus is more on external factors
beyond our control.
--And now let’s talk about the usage of confident.
--so pay attention and try to not mix up them from now on.
--Don’t forget that there are many more words like this.
--The words jealousy and envy are two nouns that have almost the same meaning, however if we search
them in a dictionary we find out the slight difference.
--In the dictionary LDOCE I found the following explanation at the word jealous:
--But correct is more formal than right.These are two words that are similar in meaning.If somebody
--The origin of correct can be found int he Latin word ’regere’,which became
--’Correct’ implies that the given answer is definitive and absolute as might be the case,for
example,with a simple Maths problem.
--The words jealous and envy possess similar meaning. The dictionary even uses one word to explain
the other.
--When defining “jealousy”, the dictionary announces: apprehensive, resentful, be afraid of being
replaced by another person.
--But this situation is always about two person, cause we aren’t threatened by a stranger.
--When she was an only child, the parents only focused on him.. By now, the state of affairs has changed.
--I did not feel the similarity between them at first, thinking of the former as a composing part of the word
‘self-confident’, which means trust in yourself, your abilities.
--The likelihood of success is raised if you are capable and skilled. If we have a look at economical
articles, we can see that both words are used for predictions about future.
--Envy and jealousy are in some ways replaceable, in other ways not.
--Playing games bring joy and happiness
--I can be jealous of everything I envy, but it does not work oppositely.
--Jealousy could be an intense emotion and motivate such drastic actions that drifts the spouse, who is
being the subject of it, towards infidelity or ruins the marriage completely and irreversibly, because the
jealous wife or husband was unable to control her or his jealousies.
--Potential and possible are two word having the same or nearly the same meaning as another.
--“Thanks to the digitization of entertainment goods and the advent of 3-D printing, a host of new
application are possible.”
--Last but not least, I would say that both word has positive impression and often replace each other well
but in many case we can be more accurate if we select carefully the right word.
--In the followings I would like to introduce the connotative and the denotative meanings
--“I learnt how things going in the university just a few month ago.”
--There was another situation, when though I understood the History lesson, I didn’t learnt it.
--A person is confident when he/she overrates oneself and takes oneself better than other people.
--The optimistic person is someone who have a positive attitude, who found a hopeful way and try to
attack problems.
--The Cambridge Dictionaries Online says, learn is
--It contains many options to learn basic knowlegde for example when you have to study a new language.
--Understanding is the consequence of the process what I mentioned previously.
--Or if you go to school to any class you can gain useful knowledge via learning, what you can use later
in your life, or you can utilize it in any situations.
--When you feel sorry or happy for someone, you can understand one’s emotions.
--Maybe if I throw light upon the use of them, then it will be easier to distinguish the different using of
them.
--When you look up a dictionary for logical you find this definition in the 9th Edition of OALD
--Or when your kid don’t understand why 2 plus 2 is equal to 4 not 5 and you say:
--as proud as I will be, if I were your teacher.
--so you will not make the mistake to swap the two.