EXPRESSION OF INTRODUCING YOURSELF

Introducing yourself is telling the person who you are. you can use introduction phrases on formal or informal way. before introduce yourself, usually you greet someone as well as formal and informal. in greeting people you have to be polite and respect them.

Greeting people for the first time

 Greeting is something friendly that you say or do when you meet or elcome someone. there are many ways to say hello, sometimes you say a quick hello at other times a greeting leads to conversation.

Example :

-          hi !

-          Hello !

-          Good morning

-          how are you?

-          how are you doing ?

-          how are things going?

-          How do you do?

i Introducing self

Introducing self is an act of a formal or informal personal presentation of one person to another or others.

Formal introduction

Formal introduction	Response
Please, allow me to introduce myself. I am....	How do you do, nice to meet you?
Good morning. I would like to introduce myself. My name is.....	Good morning, how do you do?
May I introduce myself? I am.....	Oh, hello, nice to meet you
How do you do? My name is.....	How do you do? I am....../ my name’s .........
Hi, I’m Tina.	Hi/ Hello Mr/ Mrs

 

Informal introduction

Informal introduction	Response
Hi, I am ...... nice to meet you	Hello, I am ...... nice to meet you
Hello, I am ...... nice to meet you	Hi, I am ...... nice to meet you
Excuse me. I am ....... what’s your name?	I am.......
Hi, what’s your name?	Hello I am.......
Hi, my name’s.........	Hi...... my name is.......

 

Introducing others

 

Formal introduction

Formal introduction	Response
Good morning. May I introduce my mother.....	How do you Mr./Mrs..... nice to meet you
Mr./Mrs.....this is.......my friend......	My name is.....
May I introduce myself? I am.....
I’d like to introduce you my sister, Joane
Rara let me introduce you to...
Sasa, may I introduce you to....

 

Informal introduction

Informal introduction	Response
Let me introduce my cousin, her name is Ana.	Hello Ana, glad to meet you.
Ira this is Joe my friend here.	How do you do nice to meet/ see you
Have you meet my brother, Rizky?	Glad to see you
Oh... Rita, I’d like you to meet my sister....	Hello Rita, Iam Diana’s sister
Do you know my sister, Nadia?	Hello...... pleased to meet you

 

writer's note:

today I wanna give material for senior high school at the teenth grade...

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SEMANTICS : SENTENCE MEANING : Grammaticality, Acceptability and Meaningfulness

 

SENTENCE MEANING : Grammaticality, Acceptability and Meaningfulness

a.       Definition of sentence meaning

Based on Oxford advanced lerners dictionary, sentence is a set of word expressing a statement, a question or an order, usually containing a subject and a verb. In writen English sentence begin with a capital letter and end with a full stop a period ( . ), a question mark ( ? ) or an exclamation mark/ exclamation point ( ! ). Meaning is a thing or idea that a sound, word, sign, etc.

Based on explanation above, sentence meaning is a set of word expressing a statement or a question that have meaning in the sentence.

 

On the other hand, there are three kinds that should attention in the sentence meaning, that are :

1.      Grammaticality

Fromkin and Rodman describe that grammaticality in sentences and phrases as “the confornity to the syntactic rules”.

Grammaticality is description of a well-formed sequence of words, one conforming to rules of syntax. Commonly sentence can say grammaticality is qualify components of basic word order that consist of, at least, a subject and a predicate/ verb.

Example :

a.       Subject + verb = Alex runs.

b.      Subject + verb + compliment = Brandon is a doctor.

c.       Subject + verb + object = Hana reads a book.

2.      Acceptability

Acceptability is accepted in a particular community and in particular culture. Acceptability is related to social etiquette, rationality and logical coherence.

Example :

a.       His father died last night.

b.      His father passed away last night.

Nevertheless, Lyons describes there are other kinds of acceptability and unacceptability which have nothing to do with whether an utterance is meaningfull or not. In other words, the grammaticality do not depend on whether the sentence is meaningfull or not (Fromkin and Rodman). Besides, Gasser cites that the grammaticality or the acceptability can occur in some non-standard dialect, but ungrammaticality in the standard dialect.

Example :

a.       I come back last night.

b.      I came back last night.

 

3.      Meaningfulness

Meaningfulness is conditioned by how well-formed that sentence is semantically. We will see some examples on the different between sentences grammatically right and has no meaning.

Example :

a.       Harmless young children sleep quitely.

b.      The horse raced past the barn fell.

c.       The complex houses married and single soldiers and their families.

d.      Colorless green sleep furiously

 

 Writer's note :

New post about semantics, hope it can be useful.... :)

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