Reyz Fuendolin C.

Arapon Grammar 101

Mountain Climbing

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.

He asked me if i wanted to go with him. This travel was about 2000 miles. My answer is yes. I was very excited. We began to prepare our stuff. We had taken 5 trains for 20 hours to the place. Then we started to walk to the peak of the Li Hill. Erik found a good place and a campfire started. I really enjoyed and I am looking forward for the next trip because we will be going to Kanji this Sunday.

The employment of simple past form from 1,2 and 4 initiates the first episode narrating the event taken in the past -- interrupted by the simple present tense in number 3 that function as one of the particular event part from the first episode of the narrative. A tense switches to past tense in number 5. This tense shift helps to separate or give another report of event from the past action. In the next sentence (number 6) another report of action is completed and functions as past perfect tense to mark another episode in contrast with the preceding sentence. A tense aspect shift back to historical present in the lines 7 and 8 foregrounding the event signaling an important part of the narrative which is the purpose of the speaker. The last sentence in future progressive tense gives the speaker's personal thought from his advance evaluation of the upcoming event they were planning.

Sariah Dawn C. San Juan ABENG

English 101

Playground Memory

Looking back on a childhood filled with events and memories, I find it rather difficult to pick on that leaves me with the fabled warm and fuzzy feelings. As the daughter of an Air Force Major, I had the pleasure of traveling across America in many moving trips. I have visited the monstrous trees of the Sequoia National Forest, stood on the edge of the Grand Canyon and have jumped on the beds at Caesars Palace in Lake Tahoe. However, I have discovered that when reflecting on my childhood, it is not the trips that come to mind, instead there are details from everyday doings; a deck of cards, a silver bank or an ice cream flavor."

Analysis: The narrative begins in simple past tense to talk about the events and memories. It then shifts to past perfect tense and is implying that the speakers pleasure of travelling is completed in the past. The tense of the third sentence is in the present perfect tense which means that the action (have visited) had occurred at an unspecified time and then suddenly shifted to simple past (stood) to simply state that the action is done but after that, the tense shifted back to present perfect. Although it is grammatically correct, it changes the focus of the sentence slightly. But because this is a narrative, the shifting is suitable.

Professor Maridette Molina Submitted by Jawwada P. Macatangcop Gay marriage foes rally in Illinois a day after supporters By Lisa Maria Garza 1. Chants of "One man! One woman!" filled the Illinois Capitol building on Wednesday as opponents of gay marriage rallied to protest a measure that would legalize same-sex unions in the state. 2. The day before, supporters converged on the same location in Springfield, 3. calling for Illinois to be the 15th state to legalize same-sex marriage. 4. Illinois, a place President Barack Obama calls home, is one of a handful of states with a Democratic legislature 5. and governor that had been targeted by gay rights activists to approve same-sex marriage this year. 6. Fourteen 7. states and the District of Columbia recognize gay marriage, with New Jersey the latest to allow it earlier this week 7. Obama has urged the Illinois state legislature to pass it. 8. The Illinois state Senate voted in favor on Valentine's Day 2013, but the full state House of Representatives, which has a large Democratic majority, 9. The bill did not come up for a vote in the House before it adjourned on Wednesday until November 5. 10. Civil unions are legal for gay and lesbian couples in Illinois but that does not guarantee federal benefits to gay partners 11. Social security payments are limited to same-sex couples living in states which have legalized gay nuptials. 12. The "Defend Marriage Lobby Day" rally opposed to same-sex marriage on Wednesday drew an estimated 2,500 people, according to Secretary of State Capitol Police. 13. They had put the size of Tuesday's crowd supporting gay marriage at about 3,000. 14. A large wooden cross with "God abhors civil unions", written in white paint, was propped against a statue of Abraham Lincoln in front of the Capitol 15. where a rainbow flag representing gay rights had been draped across his shoulders on Tuesday. 16. "We are here today to send a clear message to our state lawmakers that marriage should not be redefined and undermined, but should rather be promoted and protected," said David Smith, director of the Illinois Family Institute, coordinators of the rally against same-sex marriage. 17. A poll of 600 voters - commissioned last week by Equality Illinois, which supports gay rights - found that 52 percent of likely Illinois voters 18. say they would support a law legalizing gay marriage, while 40 percent would oppose it. 18. But the leadership of the Illinois Catholic church, as well as some African-American Christian ministers are strongly opposed and have endorsed ads in key Illinois electoral districts. 19.On Tuesday, Springfield Catholic Bishop Thomas J. Paprocki barred from the local cathedral anyone praying for same-sex marriage, calling it blasphemous.

In this narrative, simple past tense used initially in lines 1-2. In line 1, the statement is stated in past tense but the goal is still on the future. In line 2, the narration get back to historical and then shifts to the present progressive in line 3 as an additional information. Simple present is used in line 4 an additional information to the speech but shifts to the past perfect tense in line 5 to continue the storyline and then goes back to a simple present narration as a back grounding information in line 6. In line 7, present perfect is used to relate the statement of President Obama. The tense shifts in simple past in lines 8-9 to indicate a complicating action. It shifts to simple present tense in line 10-11 to somehow state contributions of the union in Illinois but shifts again to simple progressive to indicate specificity and even the present perfect to indicate a past event and still currently happening. In lines 12-13, the narration is stated in simple past but shifts on past perfect and present progressive to indicate emphasis on the event that is still occuring. The narration get back to simple past in line 14 to indicate an event occured in the past and then shifts to present progressive as a background information to past perfect that signals an ongoing complicating action. In line 16, the reported speech is present tense but still happened in the past by the line, "said David Smith". The tense in line 17 is simple past but the background information is simple present to indicate that the event is still effective today. In line 18, its still in the simple past but the information is stated in simple future. The narration get back to the historical present in lines 18-19 to conclude the background information.