Technical Writing Seminar for Researchers and Graduate Students
... shows a pair of paragraphs with topic and supporting sentences that are linked together by a series of keywords ...
... shows a pair of paragraphs with topic and supporting sentences that are linked together by a series of keywords ...
Formal Commands!
... … are pretty easy. You just use a base verb form (without a subject, since it’s always “you”) to tell people what they should do: ...
... … are pretty easy. You just use a base verb form (without a subject, since it’s always “you”) to tell people what they should do: ...
OBJECTS, DIRECT AND INDIRECT
... clitic added to a verb root. Both direct object and indirect object pronouns are expressed by clitics added to the ventive stem. In completive, future, and habitual, ventive + IO and ventive + DO are identical. In subjunctive and imperative, ventive stem + DO adds the clitic -yi, triggering the NON- ...
... clitic added to a verb root. Both direct object and indirect object pronouns are expressed by clitics added to the ventive stem. In completive, future, and habitual, ventive + IO and ventive + DO are identical. In subjunctive and imperative, ventive stem + DO adds the clitic -yi, triggering the NON- ...
Adjectives and Adverbs
... double duty. They are pronouns because they have antecedents, and they are adjectives because they modify nouns by answering the questions which one. • Pronouns become adjectives when they stand before a noun and answer the question which one. • see chart on pg. 382 ...
... double duty. They are pronouns because they have antecedents, and they are adjectives because they modify nouns by answering the questions which one. • Pronouns become adjectives when they stand before a noun and answer the question which one. • see chart on pg. 382 ...
Abbreviations and Initials
... 1. Write a topic sentence that tells the issue and your opinion about it. 2. Give at least three reasons that will convince the reader to agree with you. 3. Explain each reason with one or more examples. 4. Save your strongest reason for last. 5. At the end of your paragraph, tell your feelings agai ...
... 1. Write a topic sentence that tells the issue and your opinion about it. 2. Give at least three reasons that will convince the reader to agree with you. 3. Explain each reason with one or more examples. 4. Save your strongest reason for last. 5. At the end of your paragraph, tell your feelings agai ...
Sometimes there
... Now that we have the verbs out of the way, let's move on to gerunds. Here's an example of a sentence with a gerund: Crying can relieve stress. Here, “crying” is the subject of the sentence. You can see that it's acting like a noun because you can replace it with something that is more obviously a no ...
... Now that we have the verbs out of the way, let's move on to gerunds. Here's an example of a sentence with a gerund: Crying can relieve stress. Here, “crying” is the subject of the sentence. You can see that it's acting like a noun because you can replace it with something that is more obviously a no ...
SAMPLE LESSON FOR SENTENCE IMITATING COMMAS IN A
... ( verb/adjective/subject noun/1st prepositional phrase) ____________________ and ____________________. (2nd prepositional phrase) (3rd prepositional phrase) Examples of Items in a Series: Verb Phrases Mentor Sentence: “He steals food right off the kitchen counter, chases the neighbor’s cats, howls w ...
... ( verb/adjective/subject noun/1st prepositional phrase) ____________________ and ____________________. (2nd prepositional phrase) (3rd prepositional phrase) Examples of Items in a Series: Verb Phrases Mentor Sentence: “He steals food right off the kitchen counter, chases the neighbor’s cats, howls w ...
The Personal a
... persons), you must place an a directly before the mention of that person (or persons). This is known as the personal a. The direct object is that noun which is affected directly by the verb, and it usually follows the verb immediately in both English and Spanish. ...
... persons), you must place an a directly before the mention of that person (or persons). This is known as the personal a. The direct object is that noun which is affected directly by the verb, and it usually follows the verb immediately in both English and Spanish. ...
Image Grammar
... act of creation, the writer, like the artist, relies on fundamental elements.” ...
... act of creation, the writer, like the artist, relies on fundamental elements.” ...
The Eight Parts of Speech
... specific person, place, or thing. What is the proper noun in this sentence? He walked across the Mackinaw Bridge. a. he ...
... specific person, place, or thing. What is the proper noun in this sentence? He walked across the Mackinaw Bridge. a. he ...
Verbals ppt
... He lacked the strength to resist. (adjective) We must study to learn. (adverb) Be sure not to confuse an infinitive—a verbal consisting of to plus a verb—with a prepositional phrase beginning with to, which consists of to plus a noun or pronoun and any modifiers. • Infinitives: to fly, to draw, to b ...
... He lacked the strength to resist. (adjective) We must study to learn. (adverb) Be sure not to confuse an infinitive—a verbal consisting of to plus a verb—with a prepositional phrase beginning with to, which consists of to plus a noun or pronoun and any modifiers. • Infinitives: to fly, to draw, to b ...
a. PPP From the phoneme to the morpheme
... Position and word order Nouns fill certain characteristic positions in relation to other parts of speech. The most obvious is that just before the verb. Examples: The _____ is here. These _____ are beautiful! 5. Function Words –In English, noun determiners immediately precede nouns or precede them ...
... Position and word order Nouns fill certain characteristic positions in relation to other parts of speech. The most obvious is that just before the verb. Examples: The _____ is here. These _____ are beautiful! 5. Function Words –In English, noun determiners immediately precede nouns or precede them ...
An application for translation of Spanish sentences into First
... 2. Basic modules of the application A whole NLP application uses different knowledge types corresponding to the language analysis levels (phonetic and phonological, morphological, syntactical, semantic and pragmatic) which are formalised and used efficiently in the computer (ALLEN 1994). The present ...
... 2. Basic modules of the application A whole NLP application uses different knowledge types corresponding to the language analysis levels (phonetic and phonological, morphological, syntactical, semantic and pragmatic) which are formalised and used efficiently in the computer (ALLEN 1994). The present ...
Appositive Phrases
... adjective; it modifies a noun or a pronoun. • Adjective phrases answer two questions: 1. What kind? - People with bad tempers are unpleasant. (modifies noun) 2. Which one? - My new boyfriend is the cute one on the stage. (modifies pronoun) ...
... adjective; it modifies a noun or a pronoun. • Adjective phrases answer two questions: 1. What kind? - People with bad tempers are unpleasant. (modifies noun) 2. Which one? - My new boyfriend is the cute one on the stage. (modifies pronoun) ...
Simple Sentences
... are two possible antecedents for a pronoun. This error could be corrected: a. by repeating the antecedent; b. using a synonym for the antecedent; or c. changing the sentence construction ...
... are two possible antecedents for a pronoun. This error could be corrected: a. by repeating the antecedent; b. using a synonym for the antecedent; or c. changing the sentence construction ...
Basic English Grammar
... Draw a circle around the correct past tense verb in each sentence below. 1. I (losed / lost) my watch in the park. 2. David (hurt / hurted) his knee when he (falled / fell). 3. I kicked the ball hard and it (breaked / broke) a window. 4. My new shoes (cost / costed) a lot of money. 5. ...
... Draw a circle around the correct past tense verb in each sentence below. 1. I (losed / lost) my watch in the park. 2. David (hurt / hurted) his knee when he (falled / fell). 3. I kicked the ball hard and it (breaked / broke) a window. 4. My new shoes (cost / costed) a lot of money. 5. ...
Grammar, Syntax, and Style Review
... Example: As per the unwritten manual for college students, no homework can be accomplished without three things, procrastination, multitasking, and a sense of humor. Rewrite: As per the unwritten manual for college students, no homework can be accomplished without three things: procrastination, mult ...
... Example: As per the unwritten manual for college students, no homework can be accomplished without three things, procrastination, multitasking, and a sense of humor. Rewrite: As per the unwritten manual for college students, no homework can be accomplished without three things: procrastination, mult ...
The English Dictionary of the Tamil Verb: What can it tell us
... constructed by taking the past participle of collu ‘say’ and prefacing it before the main verb ko u ‘give.’ Other examples, such as ta i vai ‘postpone’, ta ippoo u ‘put off’, and many others like this abound in Tamil and can be found by perusing our entries. Noun plus verb. Another way to make a new ...
... constructed by taking the past participle of collu ‘say’ and prefacing it before the main verb ko u ‘give.’ Other examples, such as ta i vai ‘postpone’, ta ippoo u ‘put off’, and many others like this abound in Tamil and can be found by perusing our entries. Noun plus verb. Another way to make a new ...
CEP 811: StAIR Project
... While you are watching try to figure out what an adverb is based on the cartoon. You will have to answer questions after you finish viewing. ...
... While you are watching try to figure out what an adverb is based on the cartoon. You will have to answer questions after you finish viewing. ...
Adjectives and Adverbs
... Adjectives modify nouns. To modify means to change in some way. For example: "I ate a meal." Meal is a noun. We don't know what kind of meal; all we know is that someone ate a meal. "I ate an enormous lunch." Lunch is a noun, and enormous is an adjective that modifies it. It tells us what kind of me ...
... Adjectives modify nouns. To modify means to change in some way. For example: "I ate a meal." Meal is a noun. We don't know what kind of meal; all we know is that someone ate a meal. "I ate an enormous lunch." Lunch is a noun, and enormous is an adjective that modifies it. It tells us what kind of me ...
`Matching pair` and related locutions
... up and enable us to avoid. What I have called the subject-locution is there, as mostly in Gowers, called the subject, and no single word or phrase is alongside for what I have called the subject. Here is the OED’s definition of ‘subject’ as the word is used in grammar: The member or part of a senten ...
... up and enable us to avoid. What I have called the subject-locution is there, as mostly in Gowers, called the subject, and no single word or phrase is alongside for what I have called the subject. Here is the OED’s definition of ‘subject’ as the word is used in grammar: The member or part of a senten ...
Word Senses
... represents the sense of a particular use of a word is known as Word Sense Disambiguation (or WSD). It is the process of matching up words in a text with their corresponding sense entries in the dictionary. In the examples in this guide, and in most of our annotation projects, we will be drawing our ...
... represents the sense of a particular use of a word is known as Word Sense Disambiguation (or WSD). It is the process of matching up words in a text with their corresponding sense entries in the dictionary. In the examples in this guide, and in most of our annotation projects, we will be drawing our ...
COP_simple-sent_IV-AP
... At the beginning to every class, look at the board to see which number. Then immediately begin working on the assignment. Periodically, I will take up this packet for a grade. 1. Simple sentence A sentence with a single independent clause (may have long phrases within it). Though it can contain a co ...
... At the beginning to every class, look at the board to see which number. Then immediately begin working on the assignment. Periodically, I will take up this packet for a grade. 1. Simple sentence A sentence with a single independent clause (may have long phrases within it). Though it can contain a co ...
