Modal verbs
... They are used to express meaning connected with the ideas of ability, obligation, freedom to act and opportunity, and to assess the likelihood of events,. Modal verbs convey two main areas of meaning. One is connected to the degree of certainty of something, it has to do with matters of knowledge, b ...
... They are used to express meaning connected with the ideas of ability, obligation, freedom to act and opportunity, and to assess the likelihood of events,. Modal verbs convey two main areas of meaning. One is connected to the degree of certainty of something, it has to do with matters of knowledge, b ...
Le: from pronoun to intensifier*
... is gradient rather than discrete. Since intensifier le is a fairly recent development, it is even more difficult to assign it to a fixed position on the derivational-inflectional continuum. On the one hand, there are often lexical restrictions on derivational processes, even productive ones. This wo ...
... is gradient rather than discrete. Since intensifier le is a fairly recent development, it is even more difficult to assign it to a fixed position on the derivational-inflectional continuum. On the one hand, there are often lexical restrictions on derivational processes, even productive ones. This wo ...
Cumulative periodic and inverted sentences
... CUMULATIVE SENTENCE The women moved through the streets as winged messengers, twirling around each other in slow motion, peeking inside homes and watching the easy sleep of men and women. ...
... CUMULATIVE SENTENCE The women moved through the streets as winged messengers, twirling around each other in slow motion, peeking inside homes and watching the easy sleep of men and women. ...
Course textbook
... are/living/in/the/age/of/big/data./It/turns/out/that/this/is/not/the/case./We/quickly/achieve/ what/psychologists/call/a/ceiling/effect./The/data/does/not/become/more/accurate./Obviously,/ if/you/cast/a/wide/enough/net/you/will/Wind/that/there/is/speaker/variation,/but/once/you/ identify/the/differ ...
... are/living/in/the/age/of/big/data./It/turns/out/that/this/is/not/the/case./We/quickly/achieve/ what/psychologists/call/a/ceiling/effect./The/data/does/not/become/more/accurate./Obviously,/ if/you/cast/a/wide/enough/net/you/will/Wind/that/there/is/speaker/variation,/but/once/you/ identify/the/differ ...
日英両国語比較（XXIV）
... ”might be past participle of “claudere”meaning to close and the suffix“− ula”which is in English“− ule”might to be added at the end of the word“clausla”with conjugation, becoming“clausa.”Taking a slight look at the historical stream of how the word“clause”became as it is now, we can see the Latin wo ...
... ”might be past participle of “claudere”meaning to close and the suffix“− ula”which is in English“− ule”might to be added at the end of the word“clausla”with conjugation, becoming“clausa.”Taking a slight look at the historical stream of how the word“clause”became as it is now, we can see the Latin wo ...
doc - KISS Grammar
... If you have completed KISS Level One, you know that there are some things about grammar that you know—and no one can tell you that you are wrong about them. For example, you know that “am,” “is,” “are,” “was,” and “were” are always verbs. You will always be correct if you underline them twice in ana ...
... If you have completed KISS Level One, you know that there are some things about grammar that you know—and no one can tell you that you are wrong about them. For example, you know that “am,” “is,” “are,” “was,” and “were” are always verbs. You will always be correct if you underline them twice in ana ...
Sentence Types
... the punctuation (comma use) that is part of each sentence type. Review what a fragment, a run on and a comma splice is. Practice writing one sentence of each type. Check your sentences with ...
... the punctuation (comma use) that is part of each sentence type. Review what a fragment, a run on and a comma splice is. Practice writing one sentence of each type. Check your sentences with ...
Revision of English III Grammar
... St Andrew’s Hospital Trust has recently confirmed that yet more instances of food poisoning have come to light in the Scottish resort, and this has alarmed everyone who lives in the town. A spokesperson stated that the illness was not serious and could be easily treated. This appeased community lead ...
... St Andrew’s Hospital Trust has recently confirmed that yet more instances of food poisoning have come to light in the Scottish resort, and this has alarmed everyone who lives in the town. A spokesperson stated that the illness was not serious and could be easily treated. This appeased community lead ...
Designing a tagset for Malay: slots and fillers - ucrel
... 5. Syntactic drift in Bahasa Melayu The class of many words in European languages is made unambiguous by their morphology, and to a lesser extent this is true of Malay. However, in view of the lack of any inflectional morphology, Malay has a large number of simplex forms which belong to no clearly d ...
... 5. Syntactic drift in Bahasa Melayu The class of many words in European languages is made unambiguous by their morphology, and to a lesser extent this is true of Malay. However, in view of the lack of any inflectional morphology, Malay has a large number of simplex forms which belong to no clearly d ...
Trique Clause and Sentence - Nahuatl Learning Environment
... instrumental, occurs here in addition to location and time which are found in other clause types. The transitive predicate (Pt) is manifested by transitive verbs or their expansion. Whether minimal or expanded the structure is that of the three verb phrases, Ph1,3,6.A and 0 are manifested as listed ...
... instrumental, occurs here in addition to location and time which are found in other clause types. The transitive predicate (Pt) is manifested by transitive verbs or their expansion. Whether minimal or expanded the structure is that of the three verb phrases, Ph1,3,6.A and 0 are manifested as listed ...
Basic English Grammar Module Unit 2A: The Verbal Group: Finites
... in meaning, the reader may have difficulty understanding the meanings that you want to convey. Here are some typical and frequent comments made by markers or supervisors on students’ written work. ...
... in meaning, the reader may have difficulty understanding the meanings that you want to convey. Here are some typical and frequent comments made by markers or supervisors on students’ written work. ...
Contents - Kite
... 3. Wrestlers wage individual battles but can earn points for a team. 4. Although basketball was invented in the United States, it is now played throughout the world and is a part of the Olympics. 5. Soccer and lacrosse are sports that are gaining popularity in America. 6. A club sometimes sponsors s ...
... 3. Wrestlers wage individual battles but can earn points for a team. 4. Although basketball was invented in the United States, it is now played throughout the world and is a part of the Olympics. 5. Soccer and lacrosse are sports that are gaining popularity in America. 6. A club sometimes sponsors s ...
Chapter 9
... Noun phrases (NP) fill core or peripheral argument slots in clause structure. Their phrasal heads can be made up of a solitary noun (including nominalized verbs), pronoun, or compound. Noun phrases may also include one or more modifiers such as: demonstratives, quantifiers, possessive phrases, or re ...
... Noun phrases (NP) fill core or peripheral argument slots in clause structure. Their phrasal heads can be made up of a solitary noun (including nominalized verbs), pronoun, or compound. Noun phrases may also include one or more modifiers such as: demonstratives, quantifiers, possessive phrases, or re ...
Subject, Topic and Topic Chain in Chinese
... 1. Introductory • Tsao (1979)’s two comments on Li and Thompson ...
... 1. Introductory • Tsao (1979)’s two comments on Li and Thompson ...
The Syntactic Operator se in Spanish
... The last clarification in the description of the data that follows concerns the so-called “strength” of the Agreement nodes. Here I again follow minimalist assumptions in considering that a functional node is “strong” when its features have to be checked overtly (that is, by the time the sentence is ...
... The last clarification in the description of the data that follows concerns the so-called “strength” of the Agreement nodes. Here I again follow minimalist assumptions in considering that a functional node is “strong” when its features have to be checked overtly (that is, by the time the sentence is ...
Semantic Features in Argument Selection
... linking rules that select subjects and direct objects. In the following, this will be shown to be true for English. Not only languages that do not have subjects (like Tagalog, which has a predicate-topic structure; Schachter & Otanes, 1972), but also other languages with a subject-predicate structur ...
... linking rules that select subjects and direct objects. In the following, this will be shown to be true for English. Not only languages that do not have subjects (like Tagalog, which has a predicate-topic structure; Schachter & Otanes, 1972), but also other languages with a subject-predicate structur ...
3 Principles of English Phrase Structure
... consequences. It simply turns the true statement in (23) into the false statement in (24). The difference between the semantics of restrictive and non-restrictive relative clauses can be explained in terms of sets. Assume that there are four members of the board, {Ann, Beth, Cecily, Dot}. Assume fur ...
... consequences. It simply turns the true statement in (23) into the false statement in (24). The difference between the semantics of restrictive and non-restrictive relative clauses can be explained in terms of sets. Assume that there are four members of the board, {Ann, Beth, Cecily, Dot}. Assume fur ...
English Grammar: Revision and Practice
... 2. Yohan is very kind because he always shares his sweets. 3. We enjoyed watching the match. It was very exciting. 4. The two boys like English. They think it is very interesting. 5. I agree with them. Extension Write a sentence of your own that uses two different pronouns. ...
... 2. Yohan is very kind because he always shares his sweets. 3. We enjoyed watching the match. It was very exciting. 4. The two boys like English. They think it is very interesting. 5. I agree with them. Extension Write a sentence of your own that uses two different pronouns. ...
Busey-ETD-1stdraft ( PDF ) - UFDC Image Array 2
... German word order is more flexible than English word order. Since every word has some sort of identifying marker that identifies its function in a given sentence, (the case endings reflect the gender, number, and whether the nouns are subjects or objects), most of the words can be rearranged accordi ...
... German word order is more flexible than English word order. Since every word has some sort of identifying marker that identifies its function in a given sentence, (the case endings reflect the gender, number, and whether the nouns are subjects or objects), most of the words can be rearranged accordi ...
Agreement: Matching Sentence Parts
... the two most challenging issues: hard-to-find subjects and intervening phrases. 1. Identify hard-to-find subjects. Some subjects can be harder to find than others. Subjects that come before the verb are especially tricky. However, a subject must still agree in number with its verb, as the following ...
... the two most challenging issues: hard-to-find subjects and intervening phrases. 1. Identify hard-to-find subjects. Some subjects can be harder to find than others. Subjects that come before the verb are especially tricky. However, a subject must still agree in number with its verb, as the following ...
complete paper - Cascadilla Proceedings Project
... This article addresses a highly instructive example of inflectional class change: the emergence of a new weak conjugation class (the so called 3rd conj.) in Swedish and Norwegian, e.g. SWE tro – trodde – trott ‘believe’. As inflectional classes are mostly looked upon as formal complication without f ...
... This article addresses a highly instructive example of inflectional class change: the emergence of a new weak conjugation class (the so called 3rd conj.) in Swedish and Norwegian, e.g. SWE tro – trodde – trott ‘believe’. As inflectional classes are mostly looked upon as formal complication without f ...