assigment 05

1. what are the similarities and differences between idioms and phrasal verbs?
Similarities between Idioms and phrasal verbs are that they both have different meanings of the actual words in the case of the Idiom is in its phrase and in the case of the phrasal verbs it's on its verb.

The differences are that the Idioms have words that are totally out of logical meaning and are made out of adapted forms to express some idea without saying all the real words or terms needed.
Example:A life of it's own, really means or the complete expression is:An independent existence with some characteristics of life.

2. Approximately, how many idioms are there in the English language?
There are estimated to be at least 25,000

3. What is the effect of using a double negative in a sentence or phrase in English?
Well if you say something like ,I don't like nobody, means ,you like everybody.
It means that if you say a negation in double negative you end up giving your favor to the positive side,the total opposite of what you might want to really say.

4. What is a cliché? Give 2 examples of clichés about Chile/Chileans.
1.Cliché is a phrase that's been overused and as time passes it looses it's real meaning.
Example 1:We are going to help the middle class.2.All politicians are corrupted.

5. What is the difference between a euphemism and a dysphemism? List 2 examples of each.

Euphemism:In short words is a polite way of saying some sad or awful truth.
Dysphemism:The total or ugly truth.

The difference between both is that the Euphemism gives some awareness of something and the Dysphemism takes the freak out of you,it tells you the total truth with the direct words.In some other cases it could be the other way arround this depends on the purpose of the speaker.

Euphemism
Example 1:It's nobodys fault ,we're a team,our goalkeeper just made a mistake.If we win we all win,if we loose we all loose.
Example 2:He's been involved in some sexual matters but this is all under investigation.

Dysphemism:
Example 1:People we are at war because we want the oil from Irak,we want to own Irak.
Example 2:We Spanishs stole america from the Indians and we also killed them so they could leave us more space to build up our culture.