A Raucous School Board Meeting

A Raucous School Board Meeting The table below presents excerpts from two different news accounts of a school board meeting that happened in Ottawa in November 2022. While the two accounts report on the same event, there are some differences in how they describe it. News Source A News Source B Trustees with Ottawa’s largest school board have postponed a vote on whether to mandate masks in schools. Ottawa-Carleton District School Board (OCDSB) board chair Lyra Evans repeatedly chastised parents and other members of the public for inappropriate screaming and cheering throughout the evening. Evans asked security to begin evicting people from the room, just before the board’s livestream cut off for more than 30 minutes. During a presentation by Dr. Lindy Samson, chief of staff at Ottawa children’s hospital CHEO, people could be heard yelling in the background when Samson explained that evidence supports the effectiveness of masking. A meeting of the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board Tuesday evening ended without a vote on imposing mask rules. Cheers and heckles from the crowd prompted board chair Lyra Evans to warn that people would be asked to leave if they kept causing a ruckus. Police were called at one point and everyone was asked to leave the school board building. Evans announced the in-person meeting was over and would resume virtually CHEO’s chief of staff, Lindy Samson, who appeared virtually, was jeered at when she explained that evidence supports the effectiveness of wearing a mask. Your job is to compare the excerpts from News Source A and News Source B and comment on the linguistic differences between them. You may consider linguistic concepts from any section of the course in your answer. (16 points)

Question 5: Functional Categories Write a coherent paragraph, at least 100 words long, on a topic of your choosing. Your paragraph should be grammatical in your variety of English. The challenge is that your paragraph must contain no auxiliaries and no determiners! Then reflect on your experience of writing this paragraph, answering the following questions: a. What challenges did you encounter in writing? Describe them using linguistics vocabulary from this course. b. How did you have to restructure or rephrase what you wanted to write in order to exclude determiners and auxiliaries? Photo by Helena Lopes on pexelslcom (8 points) Question 6: Clauses Most of the examples of embedded clauses that we’ve considered this semester consist of a clause that is the argument following a verb like know, think or believe But clauses can occupy other positions as well. For each of the following criteria, generate a sentence that is grammatical in your variety of English. a. a sentence with a question clause as the argument following an adjective b. a sentence with a non-finite clause as the argument following an adjective c. a sentence with a finite clause as the argument following a noun d. a sentence with a non-finite clause as the subject (8 points)