'One picture is worth more than a thousand words'. A medical artist should always consider an illustration with this in mind. Unlike the brilliant illustrators of Dickens's novels, who needed to portray larger than life characters, a medical illustrator has to portray small, often complex structures, which may never be seen in the way it is illustrated, something a photograph could never achiev...

Speakers’ intuitions, philosophical categories and traditional grammars have long considered some types of sentences, namely passives and middles, as the reversed or semantically synonymous mirror image of another construction type, namely active sentences. As soon as by Aristotle, pathos was proposed as a category that represented a way of approaching the relationship between participants in a...

the present study deals with exploring the concept of syntactic devices and surveys its development by the traditional and modern syntacticians. syntax expert have related this concept to other notions such as rhetorical devices and some other recent grammarians have included it in parts of speech, a point which old grammarians neglected. however, the results of scholarly research have helped t...