Prepositional Phrases
... 2. We agreed to the plan without any hesitation. 3. The wagon in the barn once belonged to my grandfather. 4. Paul Revere rode through the countryside on his horse. 5. According to the newspaper, the play will open in three weeks. 6. We walked along the riverbank until sundown. 7. Mom found my keys ...
... 2. We agreed to the plan without any hesitation. 3. The wagon in the barn once belonged to my grandfather. 4. Paul Revere rode through the countryside on his horse. 5. According to the newspaper, the play will open in three weeks. 6. We walked along the riverbank until sundown. 7. Mom found my keys ...
Lesson 5 Verbs--Gerunds, Infinitives, and Participles
... An infinitive is a verbal in its basic form with or without the word to: therefore, do and to do, be and to be, and so on are infinitives. When the word to is absent, the infinitive is said to be a bare infinitive; when it is present, it is generally considered to be a part of the infinitive, known ...
... An infinitive is a verbal in its basic form with or without the word to: therefore, do and to do, be and to be, and so on are infinitives. When the word to is absent, the infinitive is said to be a bare infinitive; when it is present, it is generally considered to be a part of the infinitive, known ...
Writing Center PUG Exam Review
... a) Use a comma when you have two independent clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction (FANBOYS: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so). Example: Georgia has great peaches, but peaches host terrible parasites. Example: Georgia has great peaches, and peaches host terrible parasites. Example: Georgia has ...
... a) Use a comma when you have two independent clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction (FANBOYS: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so). Example: Georgia has great peaches, but peaches host terrible parasites. Example: Georgia has great peaches, and peaches host terrible parasites. Example: Georgia has ...
Using Adjectives and Adverbs
... These words are all adjectives A hot day A happy camper A silly twit A big, smelly mess (both “big” and “smelly” modify “mess”) She is creative (“creative” is a subject complement that follows the linking verb “is”) A boring course (present participle used as an adjective ...
... These words are all adjectives A hot day A happy camper A silly twit A big, smelly mess (both “big” and “smelly” modify “mess”) She is creative (“creative” is a subject complement that follows the linking verb “is”) A boring course (present participle used as an adjective ...
Comma Use and Abuse
... “fanboys”: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so) to combine independent clauses into a sentence Example: Joe woke up next to his girlfriend, but he did not recognize her after a long night. ...
... “fanboys”: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so) to combine independent clauses into a sentence Example: Joe woke up next to his girlfriend, but he did not recognize her after a long night. ...
How to read with key words
... - Comparison and manner: As (+entire clause) like (+noun) - Wal-Mart is one of the largest employers in the US. In fact it’s the largest (A dire il vero) - Industry usually means productive sector. Plant, factory (are the words for the place where things are manufactured) - When a word is not used ...
... - Comparison and manner: As (+entire clause) like (+noun) - Wal-Mart is one of the largest employers in the US. In fact it’s the largest (A dire il vero) - Industry usually means productive sector. Plant, factory (are the words for the place where things are manufactured) - When a word is not used ...
Modifiers
... I think I saw your brother running for a bus. They can be verbs, BUT they will always be used with a helping verb: Joe was fixing his car all day. It seems like I’m always running out of time. 1. Read through one of your assignments looking for words that end in –ing. Identify each one as a particip ...
... I think I saw your brother running for a bus. They can be verbs, BUT they will always be used with a helping verb: Joe was fixing his car all day. It seems like I’m always running out of time. 1. Read through one of your assignments looking for words that end in –ing. Identify each one as a particip ...
Sentence Composing
... that describe whatever is mentioned to the left of them in the same sentence. I used to have a cat, an old fighting tom, who would jump through the open window by my bed in the middle of the night and land on my chest. ...
... that describe whatever is mentioned to the left of them in the same sentence. I used to have a cat, an old fighting tom, who would jump through the open window by my bed in the middle of the night and land on my chest. ...
Participle Phrases (as reduced relative clauses?)
... She left the city with a broken heart. The place looked abandoned. ...
... She left the city with a broken heart. The place looked abandoned. ...
Writing Styleguide and Dictionary of Plain English
... Don’t use “lady,” “woman,” or “female” as adjectives (for example, “lady doctor,” “woman lawyer”) unless gender is relevant. If gender is relevant, use the noun “woman” (for example, “she is the first woman to walk on the moon”) or the adjective “female” (for example, “she is the first female astron ...
... Don’t use “lady,” “woman,” or “female” as adjectives (for example, “lady doctor,” “woman lawyer”) unless gender is relevant. If gender is relevant, use the noun “woman” (for example, “she is the first woman to walk on the moon”) or the adjective “female” (for example, “she is the first female astron ...
Basic English Grammar
... My brother and I do not like football. You see beautiful mountains in Scotland but you do not see much sunshine. Mom does not buy our food at that supermarket. Jenny does not eat lunch at school because she does not like the food. ...
... My brother and I do not like football. You see beautiful mountains in Scotland but you do not see much sunshine. Mom does not buy our food at that supermarket. Jenny does not eat lunch at school because she does not like the food. ...
Beneficiary (indirect object)
... To discover whether a sentence contains a beneficiary, follow these steps. 1) Look for a verb that has a meaning of giving, telling or showing. 2) Look for a direct object (something being given, told, or shown). 3) Look for a recipient, a person who is receiving something, being given, told, or sho ...
... To discover whether a sentence contains a beneficiary, follow these steps. 1) Look for a verb that has a meaning of giving, telling or showing. 2) Look for a direct object (something being given, told, or shown). 3) Look for a recipient, a person who is receiving something, being given, told, or sho ...
outline of ALL the morphology lectures
... Speakers of a language must memorize them as independent words with independent meanings. You don't find this sort of lexicalization with inflectional morphology: walked can't refer to a different kind of movement than walks. The only time this happens with inflectional morphology is when older, irr ...
... Speakers of a language must memorize them as independent words with independent meanings. You don't find this sort of lexicalization with inflectional morphology: walked can't refer to a different kind of movement than walks. The only time this happens with inflectional morphology is when older, irr ...
Adjectives, Articles and Adverbs
... If you can reverse the order and still make sense, put a comma: The gooey, sticky candy or The sticky, gooey candy If you can’t reverse the order, no comma is needed: The three young girls not The young three girls ...
... If you can reverse the order and still make sense, put a comma: The gooey, sticky candy or The sticky, gooey candy If you can’t reverse the order, no comma is needed: The three young girls not The young three girls ...
Phonological typicality and sentence processing
... is available from the input underdetermines its interpretation, so correlated constraints, even if weakly constraining, would help to resolve indeterminacy. What is unexpected about the results from Farmer et al. is that, for skilled adult readers, the speed with which a word is read is influenced b ...
... is available from the input underdetermines its interpretation, so correlated constraints, even if weakly constraining, would help to resolve indeterminacy. What is unexpected about the results from Farmer et al. is that, for skilled adult readers, the speed with which a word is read is influenced b ...
Grammar Unit 2: Nouns
... pronoun. An appositive phrase is made up of an appositive and its modifiers. The Milky Way, our galaxy, is one of many. ...
... pronoun. An appositive phrase is made up of an appositive and its modifiers. The Milky Way, our galaxy, is one of many. ...
slac adjectives aid #1 parts of speech: adjectives
... Use adjectives to make your writing more interesting. "Fast, fun, new, old, red, ugly" are all adjectives. They describe a noun. READ THESE EXAMPLES: It's a fast car. It's a fun car. It's a new car. It's an old car. It's a red car. It's an ugly car. Adjectives can come BEFORE the NOUN (adjective + n ...
... Use adjectives to make your writing more interesting. "Fast, fun, new, old, red, ugly" are all adjectives. They describe a noun. READ THESE EXAMPLES: It's a fast car. It's a fun car. It's a new car. It's an old car. It's a red car. It's an ugly car. Adjectives can come BEFORE the NOUN (adjective + n ...
Common Writing Errors
... Note: It is unclear if only modifies “firefighters” or “he,” which means the sentence’s meaning is unclear. Correct: Thanks to the firefighters, he was the only one rescued. Note: Now “only” modifies “one”—he was the sole survivor. Correct: Thanks only to the firefighters, he was rescued. Note: ...
... Note: It is unclear if only modifies “firefighters” or “he,” which means the sentence’s meaning is unclear. Correct: Thanks to the firefighters, he was the only one rescued. Note: Now “only” modifies “one”—he was the sole survivor. Correct: Thanks only to the firefighters, he was rescued. Note: ...
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... and biology, which is formed accordingly to the body systems. The creation and development of anatomical nomenclature is linked with formation and evolution of anatomy. Anatomical terms were created during centuries on the ground of Greek and Latin languages. The modern anatomical nomenclature consi ...
... and biology, which is formed accordingly to the body systems. The creation and development of anatomical nomenclature is linked with formation and evolution of anatomy. Anatomical terms were created during centuries on the ground of Greek and Latin languages. The modern anatomical nomenclature consi ...
W98-1014 - Association for Computational Linguistics
... those that have a consonant in the stem that is missing in the surface form). Any consonant groupings found in the surface form that have entries in the dictionaries (irregular, mute or main) are potential candidates. For the first potential candidate the lexeme stem part defined as that part of the ...
... those that have a consonant in the stem that is missing in the surface form). Any consonant groupings found in the surface form that have entries in the dictionaries (irregular, mute or main) are potential candidates. For the first potential candidate the lexeme stem part defined as that part of the ...
What will we learn in this topic
... to small children as ‘describing words’. Let’s take our fun noun, Mr Solid, and apply different adjectives to him. Here he is: ONLINE ANIMATION The difficulty with defining adjectives as ‘referring’ to properties of nouns is that there are plenty of adjectives which do not fit the specification. For ...
... to small children as ‘describing words’. Let’s take our fun noun, Mr Solid, and apply different adjectives to him. Here he is: ONLINE ANIMATION The difficulty with defining adjectives as ‘referring’ to properties of nouns is that there are plenty of adjectives which do not fit the specification. For ...
Affect vs. Effect Affect and effect are frequently confused in academic
... article (“a”) occurs before the word. Therefore, effect is not in the infinitive and does not function as a verb. We assume that effect functions as a noun here, and we are correct since effect is preceded by an article. 6. Does effect function as a noun or as a verb in the following sentence? If r ...
... article (“a”) occurs before the word. Therefore, effect is not in the infinitive and does not function as a verb. We assume that effect functions as a noun here, and we are correct since effect is preceded by an article. 6. Does effect function as a noun or as a verb in the following sentence? If r ...