The sensibility Query Results contains three indefinite articles of a and four of The. Now
I will compare some of the sentences to decide whether sensitivity and sensibility can be
used as the same meaning in different speeches.
1a. Sensitivity Query Result – Line 38 ‘in her arms, and I noticed the sensitivity with
which she used her gesture.
1b. Sensibility Query Result- Line 22 ‘he discovered a love and a sensibility he never
new existed.
Here we can see that both lines are similar. They refer to emotion, love and affective
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feeling of sensation. Both words are used in different actions have a similar meanings,
therefore its possible to use any of the two when it comes to feelings and emotions.
1b. Sensitivity Query Result –Line 34 “organism and its environment and sensitivity to
change in that environment”
1b. Sensibility Query Result –Line 40 “ that it offends me, my aesthetic sensibility. Yes,
I wanted the carpet out of.”
These lines do in one way or another refer to feelings or emotions and also intelligence.
Sensitivity here is reflecting ways in which one can be influenced or can be sensitive to
the environment that it adapts its living to its surroundings without being aware of it.
Sensibility refers to what action should be taken in order to make things look right rather
than having something which looks horrendous. In both lines there a sense of feeling
awareness, and intelligence. Overall I believe what I have calculated about these two
words is that they have similar meanings. Both can be used in sentences and speeches
when trying to describe feelings, appreciation and brilliance.
Affect and Effect have a very common error. “Affect” is usually a verb meaning to
change or influence, for example, ‘one resistance group did affect any of the others.’
“Effect” is usually a noun meaning the result, emotion or feeling though this use is
specialised and rare in everyday speech. Effect can also be a verb meaning to bring about
change for example, ‘the new department head effected sweeping changes in department
policy’. To establish this further whether these words can be used for the same meaning
we will have to look at the Query Results. Affect is a transitive and intransitive
subdivision of verb. The definite article the has appeared twice in lines 20and 38. Five
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prepositions have been recognised. Effect a result of consequence of an action. Five
prepositions and definite articles have been recognised here.
2.Affect Query Result –Line 1 “the psychotic illness hat can affect a woman soon after
she has given.”
2. Effect Query Result – Line 1 “Brown marble effect.”
Here we can already identify the two sentences and can recognise the differences
between both meanings. Affect is the illness and problem which a woman can have.
Effect is the end result, an outward sign, appearance of a brown tile which has created
effect and a distinctive impression of autumn. So to conclude affect and effect cannot be
used as synonyms at all as their meanings are totally different.
Finally is the third group Accept and Except. “Accept” is a means to receive. “Except”
means everything but. (He was happy to accept the Pulitzer Prize. No one except his
mother thought h deserved it.) Accept is a verb to take, receive, allow, agree. The Query
Results Show that it has fourteen prepositions. Except a intransitive and transitive
subdivision of verb.
3. Accept Query Result- Line 2 “The US agreed to accept a limited number of people
freed.”
3.Except Query Result – Line2 “Learning everything about the old man except a
motive for his death.
This group does not in any way come into a synonym. It has two entirely different
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connotations. As accept is to agree, admit and to allow, looking at the sentence. On the
other hand except is excluding one from another. For example, they learnt everything
excluding and apart from the motive of his death.
Overall we can understand is that group 1: Sensitivity and Sensibility is the only pair
which can be a synonym. They both share the same values of feeling inside and
emotions. This means one can be placed instead of another. Group 2 and 3 have entirely
different meanings. If used as a synonym will give a new meaning to the sentence, rather
than its actual meaning. Therefore the sentences can be misinterpreted. When writing a
sentence we must be clear about what words we use that sound the same. We can be
easily mistaken because they sound the same.
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BIBLIGORAPHY
- Lecture Discussions
- Query Results
- www.google .com
- Oxford Dictionary 1996
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