expressing attitudes in academic research
... formal categories, which can be classified into six groups: 1. Adverbs and adverbial phrases functioning as sentence adverbials - disjuncts 2. Verb-modifying adverbs functioning as subjuncts - intensifiers 3. Adjectives functioning as subjective complement in sentences with expletive 'it' 4. Adjecti ...
... formal categories, which can be classified into six groups: 1. Adverbs and adverbial phrases functioning as sentence adverbials - disjuncts 2. Verb-modifying adverbs functioning as subjuncts - intensifiers 3. Adjectives functioning as subjective complement in sentences with expletive 'it' 4. Adjecti ...
- St. William the Abbot School
... Run-on sentences are, in some ways, the opposite of comma splices: instead of using the wrong punctuation, they occur when you don’t use any punctuation between two sentences. Many people mistakenly believe that run-on sentences are just long sentences, but run-on sentences are actually sentences th ...
... Run-on sentences are, in some ways, the opposite of comma splices: instead of using the wrong punctuation, they occur when you don’t use any punctuation between two sentences. Many people mistakenly believe that run-on sentences are just long sentences, but run-on sentences are actually sentences th ...
Computer-aided armchair linguistics
... recognition that certain things which the linguist, as a native speaker, intuitively knows about the language are not exhibited in the corpus. In the end, there is simply no way to avoid reliance on intuitive knowledge. The most convincing part of the case for using a corpus was that it makes it pos ...
... recognition that certain things which the linguist, as a native speaker, intuitively knows about the language are not exhibited in the corpus. In the end, there is simply no way to avoid reliance on intuitive knowledge. The most convincing part of the case for using a corpus was that it makes it pos ...
the Persian Complex Predicate Construction
... interest in the context of the present volume because they display a mismatch of lexical and phrasal properties: they act in some ways as a single word, and in other ways like more than one word. They form a central part of the grammar of Persian and many other languages, including Hindi, Japanese a ...
... interest in the context of the present volume because they display a mismatch of lexical and phrasal properties: they act in some ways as a single word, and in other ways like more than one word. They form a central part of the grammar of Persian and many other languages, including Hindi, Japanese a ...
3.1 Verbs
... Solution: Then, the verb is in the passive voice. Helping Verb Branch - Step 2 a. Delete the to be verb. I could have stung by that bee. b. Move the subject (and modifiers, if any) to a position immediately after the verb. could have stung I by that bee c. Move the noun or pronoun after the verb to ...
... Solution: Then, the verb is in the passive voice. Helping Verb Branch - Step 2 a. Delete the to be verb. I could have stung by that bee. b. Move the subject (and modifiers, if any) to a position immediately after the verb. could have stung I by that bee c. Move the noun or pronoun after the verb to ...
Appendix - McGraw Hill Higher Education
... The classroom contained an aquarium, birdcage, and rabbit hutch. ...
... The classroom contained an aquarium, birdcage, and rabbit hutch. ...
Target 1 ※ Different from English
... Region of space or time 有 some event, person, etc. In English we can either say, "There are holes in my shoes," or, "My shoes have holes in them." Target 8 PREDICATE == PREDa (to) ITV 我到城裡去買。 Very frequently we do one thing to set things up for doing something else, e.g., "He went to medical school ...
... Region of space or time 有 some event, person, etc. In English we can either say, "There are holes in my shoes," or, "My shoes have holes in them." Target 8 PREDICATE == PREDa (to) ITV 我到城裡去買。 Very frequently we do one thing to set things up for doing something else, e.g., "He went to medical school ...
THE ADVERB 1- Read the following sentences:
... His wife never cooks. He has never seen a tiger. I have often told him to write neatly. We usually have breakfast at eight. My uncle has just gone out. I quite agree with you. 5. If the verb is am/are/is/was, these adverbs are placed after the verb, as I am never late for school. He is always at hom ...
... His wife never cooks. He has never seen a tiger. I have often told him to write neatly. We usually have breakfast at eight. My uncle has just gone out. I quite agree with you. 5. If the verb is am/are/is/was, these adverbs are placed after the verb, as I am never late for school. He is always at hom ...
Avoiding Run-On Sentences, Comma Splices, and Fragments
... they may actually contain a subject and a verb. However, these nouns and verbs do not form an independent clause when they follow subordinating conjunctions, adverbs, or relative pronouns. (See below for an explanation of these terms.) Example of a sentence fragment: After the party starts. party=su ...
... they may actually contain a subject and a verb. However, these nouns and verbs do not form an independent clause when they follow subordinating conjunctions, adverbs, or relative pronouns. (See below for an explanation of these terms.) Example of a sentence fragment: After the party starts. party=su ...
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... they may actually contain a subject and a verb. However, these nouns and verbs do not form an independent clause when they follow subordinating conjunctions, adverbs, or relative pronouns. (See below for an explanation of these terms.) Example of a sentence fragment: After the party starts. party=su ...
... they may actually contain a subject and a verb. However, these nouns and verbs do not form an independent clause when they follow subordinating conjunctions, adverbs, or relative pronouns. (See below for an explanation of these terms.) Example of a sentence fragment: After the party starts. party=su ...
On the Interpretation of Noun Compounds
... semantically parallel examples, e.g., according to stress patterns, apple cake would be a noun compound, while apple pie would not be. Moreover, the stress criterion is of limited use for most computational approaches to language analysis: they work primarily with written text, where no information ...
... semantically parallel examples, e.g., according to stress patterns, apple cake would be a noun compound, while apple pie would not be. Moreover, the stress criterion is of limited use for most computational approaches to language analysis: they work primarily with written text, where no information ...
Synchronized Morphological and Syntactic
... Phrases and sentences in Arabic have a relatively free word. The same grammatical relations can have different syntactic structures. Thus, morphological information is crucial in providing signs for structural dependencies. Arabic sentences are characterized by a strong tendency for agreement betwee ...
... Phrases and sentences in Arabic have a relatively free word. The same grammatical relations can have different syntactic structures. Thus, morphological information is crucial in providing signs for structural dependencies. Arabic sentences are characterized by a strong tendency for agreement betwee ...
Verb Movement, Objects, and Serialization
... Suppose, however, that the checking position for objects in Edo is lower, perhaps even within the basic VP. Then if the verb raises to combine with an RV suffix in Infl, there will be no procedure for restoring a local configuration between the verb and the object, and the sentence will be ungrammat ...
... Suppose, however, that the checking position for objects in Edo is lower, perhaps even within the basic VP. Then if the verb raises to combine with an RV suffix in Infl, there will be no procedure for restoring a local configuration between the verb and the object, and the sentence will be ungrammat ...
Phrasal Verbs: A Problem for ESL/EFL Learners and Suggested
... In Helping students sort out phrasal verbs, Blau, Gonzales, and Green (1983, p. 184) posit two categories of student’s problems with phrasal verbs: semantic or vocabulary problems and syntactic or word order problems. In their view of the semantic problem, they highlight that students often do not ...
... In Helping students sort out phrasal verbs, Blau, Gonzales, and Green (1983, p. 184) posit two categories of student’s problems with phrasal verbs: semantic or vocabulary problems and syntactic or word order problems. In their view of the semantic problem, they highlight that students often do not ...
This is a good time to discuss the verb "gustar" because using it
... In the first example, "a Juan" clarifies the ambiguous pronoun "le." In the second example, there is no ambiguity. "Me gusta el té" can only mean "I like tea." In this case, "a mí" adds emphasis, drawing attention to the fact that tea is what I like (as contrasted with what Juan likes). Another way ...
... In the first example, "a Juan" clarifies the ambiguous pronoun "le." In the second example, there is no ambiguity. "Me gusta el té" can only mean "I like tea." In this case, "a mí" adds emphasis, drawing attention to the fact that tea is what I like (as contrasted with what Juan likes). Another way ...
Notes on the verbal system of Gulf Pidgin Arabic
... five hours, were of varying lengths. All concentrated on topics that concerned the subjects’ lives, what they want to do, work conditions, home countries, and relatives at home. 3. The verb phrase The verbal system, which is our point of focus in these notes, comprises the head verb and those eleme ...
... five hours, were of varying lengths. All concentrated on topics that concerned the subjects’ lives, what they want to do, work conditions, home countries, and relatives at home. 3. The verb phrase The verbal system, which is our point of focus in these notes, comprises the head verb and those eleme ...
Volition and Non-Volition Markers on the Verb
... 10) general non perfective suffix jis OR perfective suffix ema . OR imperative/reverent suffix kala Footnote: The reflexive is conveyed by an adverb nija in Latropeth and is not marked on the verb. (! Important exception when personal pronouns are used ) Personal pronouns in Latropeth appear as pref ...
... 10) general non perfective suffix jis OR perfective suffix ema . OR imperative/reverent suffix kala Footnote: The reflexive is conveyed by an adverb nija in Latropeth and is not marked on the verb. (! Important exception when personal pronouns are used ) Personal pronouns in Latropeth appear as pref ...
dependent clauses
... Note: It is important to always place an adjective clause pronoun as close as possible to the noun it modifies. If you place the adjective clause beside a noun it is not meant to modify, you will create a “misplaced modifier” error, which could change the meaning of your sentence and cause confusion ...
... Note: It is important to always place an adjective clause pronoun as close as possible to the noun it modifies. If you place the adjective clause beside a noun it is not meant to modify, you will create a “misplaced modifier” error, which could change the meaning of your sentence and cause confusion ...
On the Origin and History of the English Prepositional Type A
... in addition, were sometimes capable of expressing intentionality (cf. Ákerlund "I Go AFishing"), something which was not overtly present in normal progressives. We have also seen that prepositional phrases, in certain contexts and under certain circumstances, were capable of conveying passive meanin ...
... in addition, were sometimes capable of expressing intentionality (cf. Ákerlund "I Go AFishing"), something which was not overtly present in normal progressives. We have also seen that prepositional phrases, in certain contexts and under certain circumstances, were capable of conveying passive meanin ...
Class VIII Infinitive_2015
... ἤκουσαν τοῦτο αὐτὸν πεποιηκέναι τὸ σημεῖον They heard he had done this sign Nuances cannot be translated into English generally ...
... ἤκουσαν τοῦτο αὐτὸν πεποιηκέναι τὸ σημεῖον They heard he had done this sign Nuances cannot be translated into English generally ...
On Gerunds and the Theory of Categories
... primarily a matter of external distribution. There is no need to posit an abstract and theoretically problematic structure where an NP projection dominates a verbal head, these researchers claim. It simply follows from what is essential to being a noun and from what is essential to being a verb tha ...
... primarily a matter of external distribution. There is no need to posit an abstract and theoretically problematic structure where an NP projection dominates a verbal head, these researchers claim. It simply follows from what is essential to being a noun and from what is essential to being a verb tha ...
Morphological Typology and First Language Acquisition: Some
... emerged and recurred in spontaneous production in various contexts, then we can safely assume that such a child has enough pattern variety in its uptake in order to detect the morphological principle of (de)composing form and meaning word-internally. This principle then appears soon to be extended f ...
... emerged and recurred in spontaneous production in various contexts, then we can safely assume that such a child has enough pattern variety in its uptake in order to detect the morphological principle of (de)composing form and meaning word-internally. This principle then appears soon to be extended f ...
281 A FUNCTIONAL AND FORMAL COMPARISON ON ADJECTIVE
... (6) He has two sisters who work in the Ministry. (Allen, 1995) In this case, the speaker of the sentence decides which children are meant for the purposes of identification. The adjective clause who are unruly in the sentence (5) tells which children need supervision. The speaker limits his referenc ...
... (6) He has two sisters who work in the Ministry. (Allen, 1995) In this case, the speaker of the sentence decides which children are meant for the purposes of identification. The adjective clause who are unruly in the sentence (5) tells which children need supervision. The speaker limits his referenc ...
Grammar of the Bórnu or Kanuri language
... c Hausa), Bode, Kareiharei, Gezere on the south by Ptka and Kodna on the south-east and east by BIdndara, Ngdla, Mudzugu, Gdmargu, Mdrgl and Bdb§r. The province of Gdzir is so large, that the saying has ...
... c Hausa), Bode, Kareiharei, Gezere on the south by Ptka and Kodna on the south-east and east by BIdndara, Ngdla, Mudzugu, Gdmargu, Mdrgl and Bdb§r. The province of Gdzir is so large, that the saying has ...
Introducing the Asian Language Treebank (ALT)
... alignment to parallel English, part-of-speech (POS) tagging and constituency parse trees. Additionally, this will be the first open Asian language treebank corpus. The ALT project is one of the language resource development projects of ASTREC and aims to accelerate research of NLP for Asian language ...
... alignment to parallel English, part-of-speech (POS) tagging and constituency parse trees. Additionally, this will be the first open Asian language treebank corpus. The ALT project is one of the language resource development projects of ASTREC and aims to accelerate research of NLP for Asian language ...