summary of the passage is provided below. Complete the summary by selecting the THREE answer choices that express the most important ideas in the passage. Some sentences do not belong in the summary because they express ideas that are not presented in the passage or are minor ideas in the ...
According to paragraph 3, all of the following are true of cuneiform writing EXCEPT: •It was composed of very simple shapes. •It was perfected by the ancient Sumerians. It influenced the choice of material on which it was written. •It was understood by very few Sumerians. The Akk...
Those sounds, whether spoken or written in letters, we call words. The power of word, then lies in their association with the things they bring up before our minds. Words became filled with meanings for us by experience; and the longer we live, the more certain words recall to us the ...
It was composed of very simple shapes. It was perfected by the ancient Sumerians. It influenced the choice of material on which it was written. It was understood by very few Sumerians. The Akkadians conquered the Sumerians around the middle of the third millennium B.C.E.,and they took...
C. Words did not haven written form, at firs t. D . Words wer e invented to represent meaning S.【小题2】 T h e power of words lies in A. th e fact that it can associat e th e things i n th e world with th e ideas in our minds. B. th e fact that onc e word is ...
C. words did not have written form at first D. words came from sounds 2.The power of words lies in the fact that ___. A.it can associate the things in the world with the ideas in our minds B.one word is connected with another C.it can associate...
One element of speech that can’t cross into the written word? Gestures—and it’s possible we’re using emoji to fill the gap.“If you look at the actual data of what people write, it’s not so much using emoji as substitutes for specific words,” says McCulloch. “You don’t ...
How men first learned to invent words is unknown; (1) , the origin of language is a mystery. All we really know is that men, unlike animals, somehow invented certain (2) to express thoughts and feelings, actions and things, (3) they could communicate with each other; and that later ...
2.a formal document, as a proclamation, suitably written in a calligraphic hand and often illuminated. —engrosser,n. grammalogue Shorthand,a word that is represented by a single symbol or character. graphanalysis the reading of character or personality from a person’s handwriting.Cf. graphology...
How man first learned to invent 1(word) is unknown; in other words, the origin of language is a mystery. All we have really known is that man, unlike 2(animal), somchow invented certain sounds to express thoughts and feelings,3 (action) and things, so that they could communicate with...