English - Second Periodical

Types of Conditional Sentences

Conditional Sentence Type 1 - Is possible and also very likely that the condition will be fulfilled.
Form: If + simple present & simple future
Example:
a.) If it rains, we will cancel the picnic.
b.) If you study hard, you will pass the exam.
c.) If she calls, I will answer the phone.
Condition Sentence Type 2 - Refers to a time that is now or anytime, and a situation that is unreal. Hence, it states a hypothetical condition and the probable result of that condition.
Form: If + simple past + (present conditional or present continuous conditional)
Example:
a.) a) if you went to bed earlier you would not be so tired.
b.) if i finished my doctoral degree, i would be receiving a higher salary by now.
c.) if finished my notes earlier, i would not be cramming my notes.
Conditional Sentence Type 3 - It is possible that the condition will be fulfilled because it refers tea situation that is contrary to reality.
Form: If + past perfect + (perfect conditional or perfect continuous conditional)
Example:
a) if you had studied harder, you would have passed the exam.
b.) if you had driven home carefully, you would not have met this accident.

Robert Browning - Born in London in 1812. At age 14, he wrote a poem, “the dance of death”, this early poem features many of the macabre hallmarks of his later poetry, dealing with death, murder, and ugliness as it so often does.
Alfred Lord Tennyson - Born august 6, 1809, Somersby, Lincoln shire, England, died October 6, 1892, aldworth surrey. Was an English poet, often regarded as the chief representative of the Victorian age in poetry.
Prospice - Poem by Robert Browning that offers to the readers another example of browning monologue for which he was famous. Expresses browning’s undauted spirit in the face of death and his firm belief in eventual reunion with his beloved wife.
Crossing The Bar - Poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson that argues that death is in fact a kind of comfort, a point of view based on the speaker's religious faith in the afterlife.

Denotation - Is the literal definition of the word, as seen in the dictionary.
Connotation - Refers to the emotional associations that a word evokes.
Analyzing Poetry:
1. Genre - What type of poem is it?
2. Voice - Who is the speaker? What point of view does the speaker communicate?
3. Thesis - What is the poem about?
4. Structure - What is the poem’s formal structure? What is the matic structure?
5. Setting - What type of world is the poem set in?
6. Imagery - What images does the poem use?
7. Key statements - What direct or indirect statements are made?
8. Sound - How does the sound both rhythm and rhyme, contribute to the poem?
9. Language use - What kind of words are used?
10. Allusion - does the poem have a meaning from another work?
11. Qualities that evoke the reader - What sort of learning or experience does the poem give to its reader?
12. Ideology - What values and basic deals of the world are expressed
Allegory - Is a literary technique similar to symbolism, in which characters, events, and details of setting have non literal meaning.

Using Modifiers Correctly
Modifiers - Should be placed as close as possible to the word they modifies in order to make the meaning of the sentence clear. words modifiers such as only, merely, just, almost hardly, scarely, rarely, quite, nearly, etc. are usually placed before the words they modify.
a.) Only the grade 9 students have literature class on Monday.
b.) She rarely visited her relatives in the province.
Prepositional and Participial Modifiers - Is generally placed after the word it modifies.
a.) The sonnets are poems of great value. (word modified - poems)
b.) I placed the books on the study table (word modified - placed)
Participial Phrase - Is generally placed before the word it modifies.
a.) Reading the sonnet aloud, I shared with the audience my appreciation of poetry.
b) Whistling Furiously the strong winds began to destroy the rice fields.
Clause Modifiers - Generally come after the words they modify.
a.) Robert Browning wrote "Prospice", which is a beautiful poem.
b) "Prospice", which was written in 1861, expressed Browning's Undulated spirit on the face of death.

Correcting Sentences with Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers
Misplaced Modifier - Modify the wrong word or they seem more than one word in a sentence. to modify sentence, move the modifier as close as possible to the word it modifies.
Misplaced Modifier: Towering above us, I admire the majestic Mt. Pulag (In this sentence, the participial modifier Towering above us is placed very Far From the word it modifies, which is Mt. Pulag.)
Clear: I admire the majestic Mt. Pulag, towering above us. (The participial phrase now clearly modifies Mt. Pulag.)
Dangling Modifiers - Seem logically to modify no word at all. You must supply a word that the dangling phrase can sensibly modify.
Dangling modifier: Working all night long, the raging Fire was extinguished. (Who was working all night long? (The participial phrase Working all night long does not modify any word in the sentence.)
Clear: Working all night long, the fire fighters freely extinguished the raging Five. (The participial phrase modify the Fighters)