HELP PLEASE! Unit Activity: Neoclassicism
Choose one of the topics listed below or a topic of your choice that is related to language issues and usage:
• double negatives
• "ain't" (See the controversy regarding the labeling of "ain't" in Webster's Third New International Dictionary C.)
incorrect or nonstandard verb forms
frequently confused words (fewer/less, infer/imply)
• use of around and on to replace more specific prepositions such as about
Write an essay on the language issue you chose in which you explain the background of the issue and take a stance on
regarding the usage rules related to the issue. Be sure your essay addresses the following points:
• Explain the rule or language issue you chose.
• Discuss if there are times when a language rule can be broken or changed.
• Explain the views of language experts on this topic. Do they agree or conflict? Is the usage rule controversial?
. Include the data on usage you gather from your interactions with friends or by listening to people on the radio or on
TV.
• Take a clear stance about the usage rules related to the issue you chose. If possible, specify which rules seem
preferable in specific contexts. Clarify whether you think following the rule is important and under which circumstances
it's best to follow the rule.
Insert your essay in the space provided.

What are the sections included within a business memo

Hich line in this excerpt from jonathan swift's "a modest proposal" uses the rhetorical device of irony? and secondly, (there being a round million of creatures in humane figure throughout this kingdom, whose whole subsistence put into a common stock, would leave them in debt two million of pounds sterling), adding those who are beggars by profession, to the bulk of farmers, cottagers and labourers, with their wives and children, who are beggars in effect; i desire those politicians who dislike my overture, and may perhaps be so bold to attempt an answer, that they will first ask the parents of these mortals, whether they would not at this day think it a great happiness to have been sold for food at a year old, in the manner i prescribe, and thereby have avoided such a perpetual scene of misfortunes, as (they have since gone through, by the oppression of landlords, the impossibility of paying rent without money or trade, the want of common sustenance, with neither house nor cloaths to cover them from the inclemencies of the weather,) and the most inevitable prospect of intailing the like, or greater miseries, upon their breed for ever. i profess, in the sincerity of my heart, that( i have not the least personal interest in endeavouring to promote this necessary work, having no other motive than the publick good of my country,) by advancing our trade, providing for infants, relieving the poor, and giving some pleasure to the rich.( i have no children, by which i can propose to get a single penny; the youngest being nine years old, and my wife past child-bearing. reset next)

At a restaurant, one small drink costs $1.15 and one large drink costs $1.75 a family buys three small drinks and two large drinks. before tax, what is the total cost for the drinks at this restaurant