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MODULE 1 / ELng 121

ASSESSMENT 1.1
Name: Logroño, Mutya Kismet A.
Course: BSED-ENGLISH I-A

1. Read the following passage from Encarta Dictionaries.


Question: What does the passage above imply in regard to the use of nouns? (Limit
your answer to 4-5 sentences.)

The passage above from Encarta Dictionaries, suggest that we should be careful in
choosing words to describe things or person to avoid misunderstanding and misconceptions. It
is important to learn and apply the correct usage of noun in each paraphrase, selecting words
without thinking can interrupt your main objective.

2. Rewrite the following passage using Quillbot® emphasizing the replacement


of nouns.
Question: How does Quillbot® affect the use of nouns and our understanding of
sentences?
(Write a sentence-by-sentence analysis/explanation of the Quillbot®-rewritten
passage. Limit each analysis/explanation to 2-3 sentences.)

Original Sentence Rewritten Sentence Analysis

I was… disappointed to find When I unlocked the door The Quillbot uses a simple
the shades still drawn and and entered the apartment, I noun. It rephrases the
the family fast asleep when I was... disappointed to find sentence into a simplified
unlocked the door and the shades still drawn and the and organized manner.
stepped into the apartment. family fast asleep. Through this, the readers can
easily get and understand
what the sentence is
conveying.
I stood in the doorway of I stood in the kitchen In this sentence, Quillbot
the kitchen… and gazed at doorway... looking at my organized the uses of
the sleeping figure of my sleeping brother on the Collective and compound
brother on the daybed in the daybed in the dining room, nouns. So that, the readers
dining room, and beyond it and beyond that, at the can understand easily on
at the closed door of the closed door of the one what the message is trying to
one bedroom where my bedroom where my parents convey.
parents slept. slept.
The frayed carpet on the I had crawled over the frayed The noun carpet is a singular,
floor was the carpet I had carpet on the floor before I common, concrete noun.
crawled over before I could could walk. Quillbot rephrase this
walk. sentence into direct meaning.
Each flower in the badly Every flower in the badly Both concrete and abstract
faded and worn design was faded and worn design was noun in this sentence is
sharply etched in my mind. vividly imprinted in my clearly emphasize. In order to
mind. correct the right passage of
this sentence Quillbot is
trying to replace some words.
Each piece of furniture in Each piece of furniture in the The concrete and abstract
the cramped dim rooms cramped, dim room seemed noun in this sentence is
seemed mildewed with a mildewed with a thousand almost in correct position,
thousand double-edged tainted memories. some words mat change but
memories. same meaning.
The ghosts of a thousand The specters of a thousand 'ghost' can be a verb or a
leaden meals hovered over leaden meals hung over the noun and meals is
the dining-room table. dining-room table. unaccountable plural noun.
Quillbot rewritten the
passage into more specific
noun so the readers can
understand.
The dust of countless The dust of countless dark- Quillbot rewrite a passage in
black-hearted days clung to hearted days clung to every a simple noun and abstract
every crevice of the crevice of the filthy, ugly noun in order to flow the
squalid ugly furniture I had furniture I'd known since sentence in correct manner
known since childhood. childhood. and the words can be
readable and conveying.

Name: Logroño, Mutya Kismet A.


Course: BSED-ENGLISH I-A

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