http://www.englishforums.com/search/pro.htm?q=tag%3aCapital+letters+tag%3aTenses+tag%3aPluralsSearch results for 'tag:Capital letters tag:Tenses tag:Plurals' matching tags 'Capital letters', 'Tenses', and 'Plurals'en-USCSMOD (Build: 3273.32735)http://www.englishforums.com/English/HiddenRoleOfMassMedia/drjkx/post.htm#253348Mon, 07 Aug 2006 10:58:55 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:253348nona the britHi I ve gone through the first paragraph for you and highlighted problems in the rest Your main difficulty seems to be the use of singular plural verb tenses and knowing when you need a determiner There are other errors as well though Once again NO CAPITAL LETTER AFTER COMMAS Nicely planned essay Sender receiver not the right choice of words You might want to find an alternative to set agenda as well The hidden role of mass media Many people think that the mass media has two roles that is for entertainment and for information In fact the mass media has a hidden role agenda setting Agenda setting is controlling what news can or can t be released Agenda setting has three factors that is media policy media type and government policy Firstly media policy has a role in agenda setting for instance if that newspaper is a sport newspaper and it has two stories one about the football league and one about the World Bank then they will put the football story on the front page and wouldn t use the World Bank story In additional the editor may use agenda setting for the newspaper s image If that newspaper is a hard news newspaper they must put any news on the front page that is compatible with their policy If they put odd news on the front page that may degrade their image Next is media type Much of the mass media chooses news or message that compatible their type and receiver If the sender want to send message about anatomy to well educate people The sender may send in feature or article form On the contrary if the massage want to send in feature or article form and receiver is child or teen The sender must send via another form For example when I was child I have seen cartoon about anatomy If mass media isn t choose message or news in right way and right form that message may be lack of effective message Last about government policy Government policy is greatest factor to be made up agenda setting of mass media In Many country the governments can control mass media via law and policy by prohibit something that may can country to unstable status In addition the dictatorial leader use mass media for propaganda that can convert people attitude In the same way the democratic government may control people via news If the news has effect with cabinet in that country they may bribe news station by broadcast news that can improve their image or distort news in other way All above factor that made up agenda setting that effect public opinion If many mass media have policy about war in Lebanon that isn t important news and put that news in small section People may think about war in Lebanon is unimportant event or ordinarily events Moreover agenda setting can change attitudes about exalted person by report bad news about that person only That may change attitude about that person In advertiser many brands put brand s product in many way especially in film and cartoon that can set agenda in receiver mind everyone use it or do you want to outdate In the same way mass media can change social value by put everyone use it or everyone do it in public mind for example if media want to change attitude about wars cause some people think war is commonly events in the world The media may broadcast about effect of war in many ways Finally agenda setting is used in many way but base on one purpose persuade receiver s mind http://www.englishforums.com/English/GrammarTests/wncw/post.htm#43103Mon, 23 Aug 2004 12:56:23 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:43103guest1 Jane and May are in class right now Names of people always have a capital letter There is more than one person in class Jane and May therefore it is plural 2 Why do you live in this cold place A question always ends with a question mark and has the verb to do in it You need to get a good grammar book and revise questions 3 My name is Takeshi I come from Japan Wait for me I am coming with you Again capital letter as it is a name present simple is used here as you are already here not in Japan and there is no action Use of present continuous Again read up on the difference between Present simple and present continuous 4 I went to the zoo on Saturday Capital letter for Saturaday Past action not happening now use of past simple tense