Language Issues from Student Papers

Number agreement

I conducted three experiments to figure out what sense a pet chipmunk rely on when it recognizes its master.

As for [Train Car 3], there is a sharp declination of congestion in Hamadayama because the stairs in that station is placed there.

Verbs

Acid rain is one of the serious environmental problems, so scientists research on rain and give information to the general public.

If you research something, you try to discover facts about it.

* She spent two years in South Florida researching and filming her documentary...

* So far we haven't been able to find anything, but we're still researching.

VERB: V n, V

COBUILD English Dictionary

In this research, I could not spend enough time to search cats.

1 If you search for something or someone, you look carefully for them.

* The Turkish security forces have started searching for the missing men...

* Nonetheless there are signs that both sides may be searching for a compromise.

VERB: V for n, V for n

2 If you search a place, you look carefully for something or someone there.

* Armed troops searched the hospital yesterday...

* She searched her desk for the necessary information...

* Relief workers are still searching through collapsed buildings looking for victims.

VERB: V n, V n for n, V prep

Therefore, parents’ eyesight inherits children.

1 If you inherit money or property, you receive it from someone who has died.

* He has no son to inherit his land.

* ...paintings that he inherited from his father.

* ...people with inherited wealth.

VERB: V n, V n from n, V-ed

Conjunctions and Semicolons

This distortion is categorized into three types; distance, area, angle.

The effectiveness followed in this order; double mock ribbing, garter stitch, single stitch.

I selected four patches of the area and named each of them A, B, C, D. I added no salt to A, a pinch of salt to B, two pinches of salt to C, three pinches of salt to D. ... I added salt on June 25, 26, 29, July 2.

Articles

Most of plants are damaged by sodium.

They [Komaneko] are important since their pretty looks provide all of tired people with good feelings.

My research will help many users of the library to gain the practical knowledge about the best time to use the library.

Therefore, it is necessary to research when population density of roads affects walking speed.

Formality

In fact, a lot of Komaba students are depressed by their life and use gloomy words.

The relationship between walking speed and the density of roads isn’t clear.

Miscellaneous

In addition to that, our research also shows that there are relatively less people in lines 5 and 7 than in lines 2 and 4.

Vocabulary

So far there are some kinds of maps, each of which has some good points but also some bad points. This new type of the world map might dissolve these bad points.

Currently, Japanese comics are so well-known all over the world that the word “manga” can make foreigners understand that the word means Japanese comics.

The reason why the team at bat were more likely to obtain more scores [a higher score] when a sacrifice bunt was completed is mysterious.

To discover the fastest line is important for students, because they only have 50 minutes for their lunch break, and spending their precious time in a slow line is a complete waste of time.

The Inogashira Line, which first came into use in 1933, has always been cherished by people in that it obviates their transfer between the Yamanote Line and Chuo Line, and greatly annihilates the time needed for Todai students who live in MID to go to Komaba Campus.

Hence I researched the percentage. Especially, I concentrated on which throw people tend to select after they draw.

Figure 3 shows that, as unpredicted, one can walk at almost the same speed regardless of the population density of streets.

Although various other ingredients are used in the frozen shrimp pilaf, their price is rather small compared to those which appears on Text 1, and can be overlooked.