French Grammar Note 13 – The Conjunction “parce que”
... 1. Adjectives are describing words. 2. Adjectives of colour describe the colour of something. 3. In French adjectives of colour follow the noun they are describing. e.g. un crayon rouge = a red pencil (The French say a pencil red) 4. The spelling of the colour adjective depends on whether it describ ...
... 1. Adjectives are describing words. 2. Adjectives of colour describe the colour of something. 3. In French adjectives of colour follow the noun they are describing. e.g. un crayon rouge = a red pencil (The French say a pencil red) 4. The spelling of the colour adjective depends on whether it describ ...
South African discourse analysis in theory and practice
... Nouns/noun phrases embedded in the VP, like the traditional direct and indirect object, may also contain embedded elements. It should be added that, minimally, there may be only one noun/noun phrase functioning as subject of the VP, but there can be more such nouns/noun phrases connected to the same ...
... Nouns/noun phrases embedded in the VP, like the traditional direct and indirect object, may also contain embedded elements. It should be added that, minimally, there may be only one noun/noun phrase functioning as subject of the VP, but there can be more such nouns/noun phrases connected to the same ...
Subject Complements Linking Verbs—such as be, appear, become
... 11. Chardon and Chesterland were the sites of the most snow. 12. The winds were fierce. 13. The turnpike became impassable around two o’clock in the morning. 14. The next morning, schools were empty. 15. The outdoors became children’s playgrounds. 16. The snacks of the day were hot chocolate and pop ...
... 11. Chardon and Chesterland were the sites of the most snow. 12. The winds were fierce. 13. The turnpike became impassable around two o’clock in the morning. 14. The next morning, schools were empty. 15. The outdoors became children’s playgrounds. 16. The snacks of the day were hot chocolate and pop ...
Exemplar-learning and schematization in a usage
... of this, these categories are graded with fuzzy boundaries so that they are not necessarily linearly separable from other categories. That is, there is no obvious way to determine to which category marginal members belong simply by comparing features or behavior. A number of linguists have since pre ...
... of this, these categories are graded with fuzzy boundaries so that they are not necessarily linearly separable from other categories. That is, there is no obvious way to determine to which category marginal members belong simply by comparing features or behavior. A number of linguists have since pre ...
Direct and Indirect Object Pronouns
... The familiar plural form os, corresponding to vosotros, is used only in Spain. In Hispanic America, les is used as the plural of te. Les is the form that will be used in class and the text. ...
... The familiar plural form os, corresponding to vosotros, is used only in Spain. In Hispanic America, les is used as the plural of te. Les is the form that will be used in class and the text. ...
Pronouns - Alexis Kitchens
... • An indefinite pronoun is a pronoun referring to an identifiable but not specified person or thing. An indefinite pronoun conveys the idea of all, any, none, or some. • The most common indefinite pronouns are "all," "another," "any," "anybody," "anyone," "anything," "each," "everybody," "everyone," ...
... • An indefinite pronoun is a pronoun referring to an identifiable but not specified person or thing. An indefinite pronoun conveys the idea of all, any, none, or some. • The most common indefinite pronouns are "all," "another," "any," "anybody," "anyone," "anything," "each," "everybody," "everyone," ...
Brain Potentials Elicited by Garden-Path Sentences
... 1987), who used a self-paced reading task in which phrasesized segments were sequentially presented. Large increases in reading times for sentences similar to Sentence 1 were observed when readers encountered a clausal complement, Continuation b, but only when the main verb was biased toward a trans ...
... 1987), who used a self-paced reading task in which phrasesized segments were sequentially presented. Large increases in reading times for sentences similar to Sentence 1 were observed when readers encountered a clausal complement, Continuation b, but only when the main verb was biased toward a trans ...
Active/agentive Case Marking and Its Motivations
... 1. INTRODUCTION.It has been known for some time that languages can differ substantially in their marking of case. For centuries, descriptions have been available of languages whose core (direct) case categories differ fundamentally from the subjects and direct objects of more familiar European langu ...
... 1. INTRODUCTION.It has been known for some time that languages can differ substantially in their marking of case. For centuries, descriptions have been available of languages whose core (direct) case categories differ fundamentally from the subjects and direct objects of more familiar European langu ...
A Contrastive Study of Learner English and NS English
... To better interpret the implication of the second example, Leech expands it to “If you are under compulsion to smoke (but of course you aren’t – smoking is just a nasty habit you could break if you wanted to)…” As thus, he finds a tone of irony the modal must carries in the structure. Apart from the ...
... To better interpret the implication of the second example, Leech expands it to “If you are under compulsion to smoke (but of course you aren’t – smoking is just a nasty habit you could break if you wanted to)…” As thus, he finds a tone of irony the modal must carries in the structure. Apart from the ...
Syntax and Morphology
... iron. They can also denote abstract entities, such as qualities and states: e.g. freedom, wish, friendship. Lexical Verbs Words such as admit, build, choose, write are lexical verbs. They are distinct from Auxiliary verbs like can and will, which we treat as function words. The primary verbs be, hav ...
... iron. They can also denote abstract entities, such as qualities and states: e.g. freedom, wish, friendship. Lexical Verbs Words such as admit, build, choose, write are lexical verbs. They are distinct from Auxiliary verbs like can and will, which we treat as function words. The primary verbs be, hav ...
Pronoun Agreement
... Agreement in Person • pronouns must agree with antecedents in person (1st, 2nd, or 3rd). – 1st person pronouns = I, me, my, we, us, our – 2nd person pronouns = you, your ...
... Agreement in Person • pronouns must agree with antecedents in person (1st, 2nd, or 3rd). – 1st person pronouns = I, me, my, we, us, our – 2nd person pronouns = you, your ...
COMPOUND SENTENCE A compound sentence contains two
... because, possibly, he didn't have anything else to do, for or because "Maria went shopping." How can the use of other coordinators change the relationship between the two clauses? What implications would the use of "yet" or "but" have on the meaning of the sentence? COMPLEX SENTENCE A complex senten ...
... because, possibly, he didn't have anything else to do, for or because "Maria went shopping." How can the use of other coordinators change the relationship between the two clauses? What implications would the use of "yet" or "but" have on the meaning of the sentence? COMPLEX SENTENCE A complex senten ...
brand-new television
... hard job, bad movie. Therefore, good writers use adjectives in moderation and use them in combination with details and good development. They also tend to use more verbs than adjectives. ...
... hard job, bad movie. Therefore, good writers use adjectives in moderation and use them in combination with details and good development. They also tend to use more verbs than adjectives. ...
A corpus study of some rare English verbs
... Span as a past tense of SPIN ‘turn on the spot’ is extremely rare: only one example in the BNC, with another one where span is a form of SPIN ‘make thread’. In general terms both the past tense and past participle of both these verbs is spun. There is a also a verb SPAN, which inflects regularly. Th ...
... Span as a past tense of SPIN ‘turn on the spot’ is extremely rare: only one example in the BNC, with another one where span is a form of SPIN ‘make thread’. In general terms both the past tense and past participle of both these verbs is spun. There is a also a verb SPAN, which inflects regularly. Th ...
3015 FRENCH MARK SCHEME for the May/June 2011 question paper
... total. An essay with 10 ticks or fewer will score 0. Count subsequent ticks up to a maximum of 60 and divide the total by 3 (round up or down to the nearest whole number – see separate scale on p. 9 for reference). This gives a maximum mark of 20. Impression: The 5 marks will often be awarded in dir ...
... total. An essay with 10 ticks or fewer will score 0. Count subsequent ticks up to a maximum of 60 and divide the total by 3 (round up or down to the nearest whole number – see separate scale on p. 9 for reference). This gives a maximum mark of 20. Impression: The 5 marks will often be awarded in dir ...
Parallelism
... 4. To donate money to the homeless shelter is helping people stay warm in the winter. 5. Jim not only likes working outside but also getting dirty. 6. We followed the path through the forest, over the hill, and we went across the river. ...
... 4. To donate money to the homeless shelter is helping people stay warm in the winter. 5. Jim not only likes working outside but also getting dirty. 6. We followed the path through the forest, over the hill, and we went across the river. ...
SPAN 2311
... student to acquire greater proficiency in the four skills in a greater variety of situations. At this level, students should be able to narrate and describe in present, past, and future time and handle many survival situations. Since the focus is on developing the conversational skills, much listeni ...
... student to acquire greater proficiency in the four skills in a greater variety of situations. At this level, students should be able to narrate and describe in present, past, and future time and handle many survival situations. Since the focus is on developing the conversational skills, much listeni ...
The South Caucasian languages - Friedrich-Schiller
... in words with a secondary, dissociated meaning, only the latter preserves syncope: tval-i (1) genitive tval-is ‘eye’, (2) genitive tvl-is ‘gem, jewel’. 2.3.2 Similarly, quantitative ablaut in Georgian verb stems occurs before full-grade suffixes. Again, the extension formant -i- (in first and second ...
... in words with a secondary, dissociated meaning, only the latter preserves syncope: tval-i (1) genitive tval-is ‘eye’, (2) genitive tvl-is ‘gem, jewel’. 2.3.2 Similarly, quantitative ablaut in Georgian verb stems occurs before full-grade suffixes. Again, the extension formant -i- (in first and second ...
Abstract
... while the perfective aspect allows for four tenses: - perfectum (obljubil sem, 'I have promised'(PF)), - plusquamperfectum (obljubil sem bil, 'I had promised'(PF)), - futurum exactum (obljubil bom 'I will promise’(PF)), - aorist (obljubim, 'I promise’(PF)). One thing is certain for Skrabec (1887:VII ...
... while the perfective aspect allows for four tenses: - perfectum (obljubil sem, 'I have promised'(PF)), - plusquamperfectum (obljubil sem bil, 'I had promised'(PF)), - futurum exactum (obljubil bom 'I will promise’(PF)), - aorist (obljubim, 'I promise’(PF)). One thing is certain for Skrabec (1887:VII ...
Lecture 13 -- May 22: Aspect and Quantification II.
... (1) State-predicates in English resist progressive (perhaps because they already contain the ‘continuity’-content that progressive aspect normally adds): *The towel is being wet; *John is knowing the answer. (*John is loving Mary: OK but only when ‘love’ is coerced to a nonstative meaning.) (OKJohn ...
... (1) State-predicates in English resist progressive (perhaps because they already contain the ‘continuity’-content that progressive aspect normally adds): *The towel is being wet; *John is knowing the answer. (*John is loving Mary: OK but only when ‘love’ is coerced to a nonstative meaning.) (OKJohn ...
The Two be`s of English
... have discovered anything 'new' about English grammar in this section.1 Rather I would like simply to put all the facts before the readers of Understanding English Grammar in a clear fashion, and explore how they potentially affect the teaching and learning of English. 2.1. The lexical verb vs. auxil ...
... have discovered anything 'new' about English grammar in this section.1 Rather I would like simply to put all the facts before the readers of Understanding English Grammar in a clear fashion, and explore how they potentially affect the teaching and learning of English. 2.1. The lexical verb vs. auxil ...
LOCATIVE SENTENCES AND RELATED CONSTRUCTIONS IN
... In spite of this difference, I assume that the way to check case for the subject clitic in (17a) is essentially the same as for the subject clitic in (16). The elitie hi in (17a) checks its oblique or dative case with a [-person] Agreement head.!! In a case where the clitic hi moves to a specifier p ...
... In spite of this difference, I assume that the way to check case for the subject clitic in (17a) is essentially the same as for the subject clitic in (16). The elitie hi in (17a) checks its oblique or dative case with a [-person] Agreement head.!! In a case where the clitic hi moves to a specifier p ...
Exercise 27
... action. In this case, contributes implies a more precise action than include. Avoid overusing verbs like make, come, take, is, are, was, and were which often have a general meaning rather than a precise one. Consider the following examples: ...
... action. In this case, contributes implies a more precise action than include. Avoid overusing verbs like make, come, take, is, are, was, and were which often have a general meaning rather than a precise one. Consider the following examples: ...
Sentences
... The participants are entities playing different roles in the event, referred to as thematic roles (sometimes called semantic roles). The study of entities belongs to lexical semantics, while the roles entities play in an event is an important part of grammatical semantics. Roles differ somewhat from ...
... The participants are entities playing different roles in the event, referred to as thematic roles (sometimes called semantic roles). The study of entities belongs to lexical semantics, while the roles entities play in an event is an important part of grammatical semantics. Roles differ somewhat from ...
An Introduction to Second Language Vocabulary
... American English was done by Liu (2003), who examined three corpora containing a total of six million words. The composite list contains three bands according to the usage. Here are the top 15 idioms (in order of frequency) from Band 1, the most frequently used idioms in spoken American English: kin ...
... American English was done by Liu (2003), who examined three corpora containing a total of six million words. The composite list contains three bands according to the usage. Here are the top 15 idioms (in order of frequency) from Band 1, the most frequently used idioms in spoken American English: kin ...