english 9 - Mona Shores Blogs
... _______ 5. Sarah never gave Terry a chance to defend himself. _______ 6. If you can afford to spend that much on your girlfriend, you can buy mom something. _______ 7. I intended the remark as a joke, but Olivia took it seriously. _______ 8. Christopher, hating spinach in any form, ate some to pleas ...
... _______ 5. Sarah never gave Terry a chance to defend himself. _______ 6. If you can afford to spend that much on your girlfriend, you can buy mom something. _______ 7. I intended the remark as a joke, but Olivia took it seriously. _______ 8. Christopher, hating spinach in any form, ate some to pleas ...
Introduction to - Sulawesi Language Alliance
... suffixes and single syllable particles.9 From banua ‘house’ (stress on u) are thus formed: banuáku ‘my house,’ banuámu ‘your house,’ banuána ‘his house, her house,’ also ‘their house,’ banuáta ‘our house’ (with inclusion of the person or persons spoken to), also ‘your house’ (very polite), banua kám ...
... suffixes and single syllable particles.9 From banua ‘house’ (stress on u) are thus formed: banuáku ‘my house,’ banuámu ‘your house,’ banuána ‘his house, her house,’ also ‘their house,’ banuáta ‘our house’ (with inclusion of the person or persons spoken to), also ‘your house’ (very polite), banua kám ...
clean - LAGB Education Committee
... for the anaphor to share the same general category of meaning as its antecedent, rather than the individual referent; for example, the common noun one is interpreted as meaning 'newspaper' (rather than some particular newspaper) in I read a French newspaper yesterday and a Spanish one today. Althou ...
... for the anaphor to share the same general category of meaning as its antecedent, rather than the individual referent; for example, the common noun one is interpreted as meaning 'newspaper' (rather than some particular newspaper) in I read a French newspaper yesterday and a Spanish one today. Althou ...
Clauses/Fragments/Run
... A dependent clause can be joined to an independent clause to make a sentence. Fred filled a cardboard tube with gunpowder because he wanted to make his own firecrackers. …or… ...
... A dependent clause can be joined to an independent clause to make a sentence. Fred filled a cardboard tube with gunpowder because he wanted to make his own firecrackers. …or… ...
Neural responses to morphological, syntactic, and semantic
... a linguistic difference between stimuli in languages such as Italian (as in the Perani study) that are marked with inflectional endings specific to verbs and stimuli in English which are typically uninflected and are therefore ambiguous between nouns and verbs (for instance, the unmarked stem walk may b ...
... a linguistic difference between stimuli in languages such as Italian (as in the Perani study) that are marked with inflectional endings specific to verbs and stimuli in English which are typically uninflected and are therefore ambiguous between nouns and verbs (for instance, the unmarked stem walk may b ...
Cuing a new grammar
... were concerned exclusively with language change. They thought of texts as the essential reality and took languages to be entities “out there,” existing in their own right, waiting to be acquired by groups of speakers. For them, languages were external objects and changed in systematic ways according ...
... were concerned exclusively with language change. They thought of texts as the essential reality and took languages to be entities “out there,” existing in their own right, waiting to be acquired by groups of speakers. For them, languages were external objects and changed in systematic ways according ...
Gerunds + Infinitives
... Finally, some verbs are always followed by an object and infinitive. This can be very confusing for ...
... Finally, some verbs are always followed by an object and infinitive. This can be very confusing for ...
“When an author lacks a visual eye, his or her writing has no
... Participle Phrases • Sliding on the gravel, the car chugged into the parking lot. ...
... Participle Phrases • Sliding on the gravel, the car chugged into the parking lot. ...
Practice_skills_test2
... if pronoun comes first and proper noun comes second. (e.g., Because he had a plan to save Peak from jail, Josh flew back from NY.) just indicate to student if unnecessary words are retained, but a correct sentence results (e.g., "Peak was only 14 years old, yet in spite of this, he was a very ...
... if pronoun comes first and proper noun comes second. (e.g., Because he had a plan to save Peak from jail, Josh flew back from NY.) just indicate to student if unnecessary words are retained, but a correct sentence results (e.g., "Peak was only 14 years old, yet in spite of this, he was a very ...
1 The Functions of Non-Final Verbs and Their Aspectual Categories
... Northern Mao (called Màwés Aats’è by its speakers) is one of the Mao languages of western Ethiopia. The Mao group is a primary branch of the Omotic family of Afroasiatic (Hayward 2000: 242 and Bender 2003: 3). The language is endangered and is spoken by fewer than 3,000 people in areas outside of ...
... Northern Mao (called Màwés Aats’è by its speakers) is one of the Mao languages of western Ethiopia. The Mao group is a primary branch of the Omotic family of Afroasiatic (Hayward 2000: 242 and Bender 2003: 3). The language is endangered and is spoken by fewer than 3,000 people in areas outside of ...
Dependent clause
... (The noun clause why you need experience functions as the direct object of the main-clause verb "understands", and within the noun clause why serves as an adverb modifying need.) Noun clause A noun clause can be used like a noun. It can be a subject, predicate nominative, direct object, appositive, ...
... (The noun clause why you need experience functions as the direct object of the main-clause verb "understands", and within the noun clause why serves as an adverb modifying need.) Noun clause A noun clause can be used like a noun. It can be a subject, predicate nominative, direct object, appositive, ...
ENGLISH CONJUNCTIONS
... Each of the letters in this somewhat unlikely word is the first letter of one of the coordinating conjunctions. Remember, when using a conjunction to join two sentences, use a comma before the conjunction. Coordinating conjunctions may join single words, or they may join groups of words, but they mu ...
... Each of the letters in this somewhat unlikely word is the first letter of one of the coordinating conjunctions. Remember, when using a conjunction to join two sentences, use a comma before the conjunction. Coordinating conjunctions may join single words, or they may join groups of words, but they mu ...
Grammatical Relations Author Contact Information Corresponding
... However, these distributional correlations are often probabilistic in nature, rather than deterministic, and exceptions to these generalizations can be abundant and systematic. The confusion is amplified by the fact that traditional grammar does not often distinguish different types of “subjects” a ...
... However, these distributional correlations are often probabilistic in nature, rather than deterministic, and exceptions to these generalizations can be abundant and systematic. The confusion is amplified by the fact that traditional grammar does not often distinguish different types of “subjects” a ...
Typology of Verbs for Scholarly Writing - Mid
... occurred at a specific, definite time in the past, particularly when discussing another researcher’s work and when reporting results (APA, 2001, p. 42; APA, 2010, p. 77). The use of the present perfect tense should be used to express a past action or condition that did not occur at a specific, defin ...
... occurred at a specific, definite time in the past, particularly when discussing another researcher’s work and when reporting results (APA, 2001, p. 42; APA, 2010, p. 77). The use of the present perfect tense should be used to express a past action or condition that did not occur at a specific, defin ...
The Computer Project
... which rake objects to complete their meaning. It is important for us to remember which prepositions go with certain verbs. B)Some intransitive verbs can become transitive by adding particular prepositions after them. C)A verb can combine with different prepositions to have different usage and meanin ...
... which rake objects to complete their meaning. It is important for us to remember which prepositions go with certain verbs. B)Some intransitive verbs can become transitive by adding particular prepositions after them. C)A verb can combine with different prepositions to have different usage and meanin ...
1. -ing participle used as gerund
... objective case (me, him, John, etc.) or the genitive case (my, his John's, etc.). The objective case is generally regarded as less formal than the genitive case. In this construction, we can use common case of the noun or the pronoun of the inanimate things unless the gerund is used initially. ...
... objective case (me, him, John, etc.) or the genitive case (my, his John's, etc.). The objective case is generally regarded as less formal than the genitive case. In this construction, we can use common case of the noun or the pronoun of the inanimate things unless the gerund is used initially. ...
Editorial: A Typology of Verbs for Scholarly Writing
... occurred at a specific, definite time in the past, particularly when discussing another researcher’s work and when reporting results (APA, 2001, p. 42; APA, 2010, p. 77). The use of the present perfect tense should be used to express a past action or condition that did not occur at a specific, defin ...
... occurred at a specific, definite time in the past, particularly when discussing another researcher’s work and when reporting results (APA, 2001, p. 42; APA, 2010, p. 77). The use of the present perfect tense should be used to express a past action or condition that did not occur at a specific, defin ...
Class Notes # 10b: Natural Language Processing
... “He bought a car” — “A car was bought [by him]” — “Did he buy a car?” — “What did he buy?” A well-designed NLP system should recognize these forms as variants of the same basic structure. ...
... “He bought a car” — “A car was bought [by him]” — “Did he buy a car?” — “What did he buy?” A well-designed NLP system should recognize these forms as variants of the same basic structure. ...
Verb Extensions in Abo (Bantu, A42)
... seen in Basaá, a related language. Two extensions that are not clear reflexes of Proto-Bantu extensions are detailed: the passive, which is cognate to the Basaá passive, and the associative which seems not to have a Basaá cognate. Finally, a phenomenon by which multiple semantically empty extensions ...
... seen in Basaá, a related language. Two extensions that are not clear reflexes of Proto-Bantu extensions are detailed: the passive, which is cognate to the Basaá passive, and the associative which seems not to have a Basaá cognate. Finally, a phenomenon by which multiple semantically empty extensions ...
N Ways of Analyzing Syntactic Variation 2
... neglected until recently is the fact that both analysts and users are mostly oblivious to it. In order to go beyond the handful of syntactic variables hitherto identified, and obtain a more aggregate view of syntactic variation in Dutch, we use the bottom-up technology pioneered in Bannard & Calliso ...
... neglected until recently is the fact that both analysts and users are mostly oblivious to it. In order to go beyond the handful of syntactic variables hitherto identified, and obtain a more aggregate view of syntactic variation in Dutch, we use the bottom-up technology pioneered in Bannard & Calliso ...
Prepositions - Lsp4you.com
... To denote the latest time by which something was or is to be done. It implies it may be done before then but not after. E.g. You must be home by ten o’ clock. Applications for the post should be received by April 25th. Used before the words day and night (same as “during”) E.g. Some motorists prefer ...
... To denote the latest time by which something was or is to be done. It implies it may be done before then but not after. E.g. You must be home by ten o’ clock. Applications for the post should be received by April 25th. Used before the words day and night (same as “during”) E.g. Some motorists prefer ...
Chapter 6 Verb stems and incorporation
... contribution to the meaning of the stem, and which is obligatory. In Algonquian verb stems, however, it is difficult to single out any one of the three stem components as consistently functioning as the root. The initial position might be considered a candidate, since every stem is analyzed as conta ...
... contribution to the meaning of the stem, and which is obligatory. In Algonquian verb stems, however, it is difficult to single out any one of the three stem components as consistently functioning as the root. The initial position might be considered a candidate, since every stem is analyzed as conta ...
TENSE, ASPECT AND MOOD IN MESQAN MESERET ESHETU A
... i. Describe the distinction between tense and aspect. ii Identify the grammatical markers of tense, aspect and mood of the language. ii. Analyze whether Mesqan is primarily a tense or aspect language. Mesqan verbs are primarily marked for aspect, i.e. they have distinct grammatical base forms for th ...
... i. Describe the distinction between tense and aspect. ii Identify the grammatical markers of tense, aspect and mood of the language. ii. Analyze whether Mesqan is primarily a tense or aspect language. Mesqan verbs are primarily marked for aspect, i.e. they have distinct grammatical base forms for th ...
tenses – simple past and present perfect
... 2) We use simple past tense to express a habit or custom in the past. a) Everyday he read the bible. b) They never drank whiskey. c) The old man went for walking regularly. d) She went to the church every Sunday during her school days. 3) Sometimes this tense id used without an adverb of time. In su ...
... 2) We use simple past tense to express a habit or custom in the past. a) Everyday he read the bible. b) They never drank whiskey. c) The old man went for walking regularly. d) She went to the church every Sunday during her school days. 3) Sometimes this tense id used without an adverb of time. In su ...
E85-1039 - Association for Computational Linguistics
... Thus, in the (b) sentences a few apples, ~ and a canoe are contextually bound, standing close to a few of those one o f ...
... Thus, in the (b) sentences a few apples, ~ and a canoe are contextually bound, standing close to a few of those one o f ...