COMMA ERRORS
... your clothes ready for the next morning. (The above sentence makes sense, but it is not PARALLEL because you don’t have a series of grammatical equals. “a hot shower” is a noun with modifiers. “flossing and brushing your teeth” is a gerund phrase. “to get your clothes ready for the next morning” is ...
... your clothes ready for the next morning. (The above sentence makes sense, but it is not PARALLEL because you don’t have a series of grammatical equals. “a hot shower” is a noun with modifiers. “flossing and brushing your teeth” is a gerund phrase. “to get your clothes ready for the next morning” is ...
Exam Study Guide 1st Semester 2014.2015
... _____22. The police investigated the possible robbery. _____23. They’ve lived in New York for a while. _____24. I am very interested in your current proposal. _____25. Y’all come over and stay at my house over yonder. _____26. Finished your work yet? _____27. I haven’t decided if I like my new T.V. ...
... _____22. The police investigated the possible robbery. _____23. They’ve lived in New York for a while. _____24. I am very interested in your current proposal. _____25. Y’all come over and stay at my house over yonder. _____26. Finished your work yet? _____27. I haven’t decided if I like my new T.V. ...
Dangling and Misplaced Modifiers PPt II
... students often make grammatical errors on their signs.” ...
... students often make grammatical errors on their signs.” ...
linguistics
... translation and Shakespeare use the singular verb with a compound subject. Eg:. ‘Hostility and civil tumult reigns”. Group genetives like’ The king of England’s influence,” and someone else’s property have been in existence for a long time. Fowlers, in King’s English, observes that a Southern Englis ...
... translation and Shakespeare use the singular verb with a compound subject. Eg:. ‘Hostility and civil tumult reigns”. Group genetives like’ The king of England’s influence,” and someone else’s property have been in existence for a long time. Fowlers, in King’s English, observes that a Southern Englis ...
Some recent trends in grammaticalization - homepage.ruhr
... To manage: is an everyday word that appears in a context where its use is distinctly grammatical (first sentence) and quite different from its use in a full sense (second sentence). Amy manages(main verb) the sales office of a large corporation. It is typical for grammaticalization to put lexical it ...
... To manage: is an everyday word that appears in a context where its use is distinctly grammatical (first sentence) and quite different from its use in a full sense (second sentence). Amy manages(main verb) the sales office of a large corporation. It is typical for grammaticalization to put lexical it ...
In English, there are three basic tenses: present, past, and future
... The surgeon is going to perform the first bypass in Minnesota. We can also use the present tense form with an adverb or adverbial phrase to show future time. The president speaks tomorrow. (Tomorrow is a future time adverb.) ...
... The surgeon is going to perform the first bypass in Minnesota. We can also use the present tense form with an adverb or adverbial phrase to show future time. The president speaks tomorrow. (Tomorrow is a future time adverb.) ...
Nostratic grammar: synthetic or analytic?
... *{y}iyo (see above), [3] the pronominal particle *ha 'ille' or *he 'that' + pronominal *sE 'he\she' (see above); the meaning of genitive is expressed here syntactically: in groups "noun N1 + nominal N2" the noun N1 functions as genitive, so that the nominal phrase "N1 *ha|e sE" means 'N1's that', i. ...
... *{y}iyo (see above), [3] the pronominal particle *ha 'ille' or *he 'that' + pronominal *sE 'he\she' (see above); the meaning of genitive is expressed here syntactically: in groups "noun N1 + nominal N2" the noun N1 functions as genitive, so that the nominal phrase "N1 *ha|e sE" means 'N1's that', i. ...
chapter 1 nouns, pronouns and determiners
... or things they refer to and their position in a sentence (Subject or Object). Thus I is used as the subject of a sentence (I am happy.), me is used as an object in various ways (He hit me. He gave me a book. Do this for me.), and my is used as the possessive form (That’s my car.) The same is true of ...
... or things they refer to and their position in a sentence (Subject or Object). Thus I is used as the subject of a sentence (I am happy.), me is used as an object in various ways (He hit me. He gave me a book. Do this for me.), and my is used as the possessive form (That’s my car.) The same is true of ...
Joint Parameterization of Honorifics and Terms of Address in
... Following Braun (1988:7) «in most languages forms of address concentrate on three word classes: (1) pronoun, (2) verb, (3) noun, supplemented by words which are syntactically dependent on them». Georgian and Zan are the languages in which the use of personal pronouns, and T/V ones among them, is fac ...
... Following Braun (1988:7) «in most languages forms of address concentrate on three word classes: (1) pronoun, (2) verb, (3) noun, supplemented by words which are syntactically dependent on them». Georgian and Zan are the languages in which the use of personal pronouns, and T/V ones among them, is fac ...
Let and allow
... In English, to talk about giving and refusing permission, we can use both let and allow. Both words mean 'give permission to do something'. First, here's Matt using let. ...
... In English, to talk about giving and refusing permission, we can use both let and allow. Both words mean 'give permission to do something'. First, here's Matt using let. ...
Identifying Verbs and Adverbs
... 5. My younger brother will not become a good doctor. A. Will is a modal. B. Become is the main verb. C. Will not become is the complete verb phrase. D. Will become is the complete verb phrase. 6. He is always asking to be treated as someone special. A. Is is a helping verb. B. Is always asking is th ...
... 5. My younger brother will not become a good doctor. A. Will is a modal. B. Become is the main verb. C. Will not become is the complete verb phrase. D. Will become is the complete verb phrase. 6. He is always asking to be treated as someone special. A. Is is a helping verb. B. Is always asking is th ...
Parsing the Past – Identification of Verb Constructions in
... the historians are manually extracting segments describing work activities from a number of historical texts, and entering them into a database, the Gender and Work Database. Their work so far has shown that the typical segment describing an activity of work is a verb construction, that is, a verb t ...
... the historians are manually extracting segments describing work activities from a number of historical texts, and entering them into a database, the Gender and Work Database. Their work so far has shown that the typical segment describing an activity of work is a verb construction, that is, a verb t ...
Document
... classification of words. For the Russian language the basic principles of the syntactic classification of words were outlined in the works of A.M. Peshkovski. In English the syntactico-distributional classification of words was worked out by L. Bloomfield and his followers Z. Harris and especially C ...
... classification of words. For the Russian language the basic principles of the syntactic classification of words were outlined in the works of A.M. Peshkovski. In English the syntactico-distributional classification of words was worked out by L. Bloomfield and his followers Z. Harris and especially C ...
what are nouns?
... Most, though not all, are uncountable. Many are derived from adjectives and verbs and have characteristic endings such as –ity, -ness, -ence, and -tion. ...
... Most, though not all, are uncountable. Many are derived from adjectives and verbs and have characteristic endings such as –ity, -ness, -ence, and -tion. ...
Grammar Warm-ups
... An adjective modifies nouns and tells you which one, what kind, or how many (ex: this, huge, some, soft, twelve, damp, ...
... An adjective modifies nouns and tells you which one, what kind, or how many (ex: this, huge, some, soft, twelve, damp, ...
Clause Processing in Complex Sentences
... The only study in NLP, to my knowledge, that has explicitly addressed the issue of sentence segmentation into clauses is Stefanini (1993), who, in her multi-agent system for natural language treatment, designates one agent for this task (p. 150 and ff.). This segmenting agent knows the formal indica ...
... The only study in NLP, to my knowledge, that has explicitly addressed the issue of sentence segmentation into clauses is Stefanini (1993), who, in her multi-agent system for natural language treatment, designates one agent for this task (p. 150 and ff.). This segmenting agent knows the formal indica ...
Collective nouns
... Our aim with this paper was to aquire more knowledge collective nouns, in particular if there is a difference between American and British English and whether there has been a change over time. We found that singular concord is used more often in American English than in British but that singular co ...
... Our aim with this paper was to aquire more knowledge collective nouns, in particular if there is a difference between American and British English and whether there has been a change over time. We found that singular concord is used more often in American English than in British but that singular co ...
November 8
... alcohol. Moreover, a particular feature of the diet is the abundant use of virgin olive oil for cooking, frying, spreading on bread, or dressing salads.This leads to a high ratio of monounsaturated fatty acids to saturated fatty acids. This ratio can be used to score adherence to a Mediterranean die ...
... alcohol. Moreover, a particular feature of the diet is the abundant use of virgin olive oil for cooking, frying, spreading on bread, or dressing salads.This leads to a high ratio of monounsaturated fatty acids to saturated fatty acids. This ratio can be used to score adherence to a Mediterranean die ...
Grammatical form and semantic context in verb
... requiring very little exposure to add a new word to their vocabularies (e.g., Carey & Bartlett, 1978). Ultimately they will extend a novel word beyond the particular object or scene in which it was initially introduced. But when they are first introduced to a novel word, what kind of representation ...
... requiring very little exposure to add a new word to their vocabularies (e.g., Carey & Bartlett, 1978). Ultimately they will extend a novel word beyond the particular object or scene in which it was initially introduced. But when they are first introduced to a novel word, what kind of representation ...
Parsing the Past - Identification of Verb Constructions in Historical Text
... contemporary Swedish, in particular a part-ofspeech tagger and a syntactic parser, and automatically normalising the input text into a more modern orthography before running it through the tagger and parser. In order to increase the precision of complement extraction, we use valency dictionaries to ...
... contemporary Swedish, in particular a part-ofspeech tagger and a syntactic parser, and automatically normalising the input text into a more modern orthography before running it through the tagger and parser. In order to increase the precision of complement extraction, we use valency dictionaries to ...
湖南省第一师范学院外语系备课用纸
... He behaves as though he were better than us. Though the whole world were against me, I would do what I consider as right. 2) In certain nominal clauses The were-subjunctive is also used in nominal clauses after verbs like wish, would rather, suppose, imagine, etc to denote a hypothetical situation, ...
... He behaves as though he were better than us. Though the whole world were against me, I would do what I consider as right. 2) In certain nominal clauses The were-subjunctive is also used in nominal clauses after verbs like wish, would rather, suppose, imagine, etc to denote a hypothetical situation, ...
cats
... • M+tu m+zuri m+moja u+le -- that one good person • Ki+kapu ki+zuri ki+moja ki+le -- that one good basket ...
... • M+tu m+zuri m+moja u+le -- that one good person • Ki+kapu ki+zuri ki+moja ki+le -- that one good basket ...
9 Phrases
... expectation of two objects, as in Sally gave [her] [a shot of morphine]; certain other verbs create the expectation of two complements, though one or both need not be an NP, as in She put [her first aid kit] [away/in the truck]. Generally, although verbs (in English) require a subject, subjects are ...
... expectation of two objects, as in Sally gave [her] [a shot of morphine]; certain other verbs create the expectation of two complements, though one or both need not be an NP, as in She put [her first aid kit] [away/in the truck]. Generally, although verbs (in English) require a subject, subjects are ...
Descriptive words in Paresi-Haliti and in other Arawak
... The pr efixes us ed f or po ssessors on nou ns c annot be a p arameter to i dentify nouns because they are the same prefixes indicating person/number of subject on verbs, as seen in (3). The only difference between the set of pronominal markers on verbs and on nouns is for the 3 pe rson singular, w ...
... The pr efixes us ed f or po ssessors on nou ns c annot be a p arameter to i dentify nouns because they are the same prefixes indicating person/number of subject on verbs, as seen in (3). The only difference between the set of pronominal markers on verbs and on nouns is for the 3 pe rson singular, w ...