Understanding Real Rights and Possession in Property Law
Item 17: Real Rights
So far, we have seen credit or personal rights relating to the obligation of the debtor, while property rights are defined by the ratio of a person holding about one thing. This implies a duty of respect for all others from its ownership by such owner, so they are said to be absolute rights.
We said that the receivable was a relative one between the creditor and the debtor. Here, the right of the holder, such as suppliers, holds the owner against all others. The classification
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Text and Its Properties
1. Concept of Text
A text is the maximum unit of linguistic analysis and communication, whether spoken or written. It’s a self-contained unit of any length. Texts vary by:
- Transmission Channel: Oral (instantaneous, dynamic, spontaneous) or written (prepared, organized, including images and typography).
- Intention: News, legal, persuasive (advertising), or aesthetic (literary).
- Structure:
- Narrative: Presents facts or fiction, using verbs, coordinate and subordinate structures.
- Descriptive:
Narrative Style and Language in Literary Works: An In-Depth Analysis
Narrative Style
The speech responds to the double point of view adopted by the author, who lies on the side of innocent characters and reveals their world through language records to coincide with the speech of such characters. The narrator adopts the language of oral baseline, called narrator. On the other hand, we perceive an external narrator to the narrative. This is the narrator-witness, who knows the world that moves the novel. This is a writer who dominates the literary use of language and
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Item 14: The Novel
1. Narrative Texts
Narrative texts are those in which events that happen to characters in a specific space and time are recounted. In the dominant narrative, objectivity is key. The author invents a story and strives to make it plausible, which does not necessarily mean it should be real, but rather believable. The main elements of narrative texts are as follows:
The Narrator
The narrator is the voice that tells the story, a fundamental element. It is important not to confuse the
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Understanding Verb Tenses in English
Present Tense
- (+) Albert avoids letting me use the car because he is afraid of me crashing. That’s why Albert insists on me not driving.
- (-) Albert doesn’t avoid letting me use the car because he isn’t afraid of me crashing. That’s why Albert doesn’t insist on me not driving.
- (?) Does Albert avoid letting me use the car because he is afraid of me crashing? Is that why Albert insists on me not driving?
Past Tense
- (+) Albert avoided letting me use the car because he
Understanding Literary Genres and Forms of Discourse
Literature is the art that uses words as its instrument. It refers to all productions created by a nation, a period, or a genre, and the whole of literature relating to art or a science. Authors use literary language to tell stories or to communicate impressions, feelings, or emotions. Literature is distinguished by making special use of language, which we call literary language. One feature that identifies the language of literature is the use of stylistic devices such as simile, metaphor, antithesis,
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