2014-2015 Grammar Tips
... INCORRECT: (compound object): Jeff told me that the job was still available, and that the manager wanted to interview me. INCORRECT: I turned the corner, and ran smack into a patrol car. Correct the sentences by deleting the comma. (Notice that in the above examples there is one subject and two verb ...
... INCORRECT: (compound object): Jeff told me that the job was still available, and that the manager wanted to interview me. INCORRECT: I turned the corner, and ran smack into a patrol car. Correct the sentences by deleting the comma. (Notice that in the above examples there is one subject and two verb ...
European Journal of English Language Teaching CONSERVATION
... types of relative pronouns; namely, general, compound, relative adverbial, and quasirelative, a conservation law in both structures and semantics exists. We start by combining two simple sentences into a resulting sentence with relative pronouns, and, through careful observation and calculation, we ...
... types of relative pronouns; namely, general, compound, relative adverbial, and quasirelative, a conservation law in both structures and semantics exists. We start by combining two simple sentences into a resulting sentence with relative pronouns, and, through careful observation and calculation, we ...
Effective Writing
... words “As much as” make a person wonder how the idea relates to something else. It doesn’t express a complete independent notion of somebody or something being something or doing something. But when I attach it to the first clause, “Nothing matters,” the second clause makes perfect sense: Under what ...
... words “As much as” make a person wonder how the idea relates to something else. It doesn’t express a complete independent notion of somebody or something being something or doing something. But when I attach it to the first clause, “Nothing matters,” the second clause makes perfect sense: Under what ...
Unit-4: Difficulties of Translating from English to Odia
... Culture-specific terms, Parts of speech (nouns, adverbs, adjectives. Adverbs, prepositions), Determiners (Articles, possessives), Compound Words and Neologisms. Homonyms Homonyms are the words which have same spellings or pronounced the same but have different meanings. As the non-native speakers of ...
... Culture-specific terms, Parts of speech (nouns, adverbs, adjectives. Adverbs, prepositions), Determiners (Articles, possessives), Compound Words and Neologisms. Homonyms Homonyms are the words which have same spellings or pronounced the same but have different meanings. As the non-native speakers of ...
Automatic Pattern Extraction for Korean Sentence Parsing
... Table 2 shows the representation of arguments as well. If there are proper postpositions in the noun phrases such as case makers, it is no problem to know the function of the noun phrase in the sentence. However, if there is no specific marker, we should guess the function of noun phrases. In Table ...
... Table 2 shows the representation of arguments as well. If there are proper postpositions in the noun phrases such as case makers, it is no problem to know the function of the noun phrase in the sentence. However, if there is no specific marker, we should guess the function of noun phrases. In Table ...
Thursday Session_Sentence Level Work
... written sentences, from both textbooks and good literature, sometimes serve this purpose well and also offer material for further discussion. c. Students create their own examples in isolation. Students must focus primary attention on creating examples of the concept, in isolation and in applied co ...
... written sentences, from both textbooks and good literature, sometimes serve this purpose well and also offer material for further discussion. c. Students create their own examples in isolation. Students must focus primary attention on creating examples of the concept, in isolation and in applied co ...
A Computational Lexicon of Contemporary Hebrew
... The lexicon was initially populated with a small number of words in order to develop a morphological analyzer. Then, approximately 3000 nouns and adjectives were automatically acquired from the HSpell lexicon (Har’El and Kenigsberg, 2004). We also incorporated many of the lexical items of Segal (199 ...
... The lexicon was initially populated with a small number of words in order to develop a morphological analyzer. Then, approximately 3000 nouns and adjectives were automatically acquired from the HSpell lexicon (Har’El and Kenigsberg, 2004). We also incorporated many of the lexical items of Segal (199 ...
LexOnto: A Model for Ontology Lexicons for Ontology
... The reason for applying this modeling pattern to nouns is that a simple mapping to a class (in the meta-ontology) is not sufficient in general. Nouns can be relational and feature prepositional complements. A relational noun is for example capital which does not denote a class but a relation between ...
... The reason for applying this modeling pattern to nouns is that a simple mapping to a class (in the meta-ontology) is not sufficient in general. Nouns can be relational and feature prepositional complements. A relational noun is for example capital which does not denote a class but a relation between ...
lecture 19 - ELTE / SEAS
... category is lacking in the TL. Grammatical generalisation = the opposite transfer operation, whereby a SL grammatical category with specific meaning (e.g., personal pronoun with gender distinction) is rendered in the TL by a unit with a more general meaning. ...
... category is lacking in the TL. Grammatical generalisation = the opposite transfer operation, whereby a SL grammatical category with specific meaning (e.g., personal pronoun with gender distinction) is rendered in the TL by a unit with a more general meaning. ...
SPEECH ACTS
... 3.SG NEG arrive yet SM PN In cases like this example it is not possible to determine wheter the negative word see should be considered a particle or auxilary verb although for some languages there might be syntactic criteria that indicate how the negative is best classified. ...
... 3.SG NEG arrive yet SM PN In cases like this example it is not possible to determine wheter the negative word see should be considered a particle or auxilary verb although for some languages there might be syntactic criteria that indicate how the negative is best classified. ...
Lecture 11 - ELTE / SEAS
... between the subject and the object, but not between the object and the subject or any element insider the subject and the object is ...
... between the subject and the object, but not between the object and the subject or any element insider the subject and the object is ...
Canonical Types and Noun Phrase Configuration in Fijian
... interpreting subject QPs in situ—in both cases, the position of the noun phrase relative to the predicate enables it to combine with the predicate without the aid of any special semantic rules. There are a few qualifications to be made before moving on. First, the semantic type restriction on possib ...
... interpreting subject QPs in situ—in both cases, the position of the noun phrase relative to the predicate enables it to combine with the predicate without the aid of any special semantic rules. There are a few qualifications to be made before moving on. First, the semantic type restriction on possib ...
Using Modifiers Correctly
... 12. For instance, she taught us to wrap thread behind buttons we sew on, so that they will be more easier to button. 13. We learned how to make skirts, blouses, and all sorts of other things, and now there isn't hardly anything we can't make. 14. I was sad when we left Grandma's house, but I like ou ...
... 12. For instance, she taught us to wrap thread behind buttons we sew on, so that they will be more easier to button. 13. We learned how to make skirts, blouses, and all sorts of other things, and now there isn't hardly anything we can't make. 14. I was sad when we left Grandma's house, but I like ou ...
FREN 1101 (Stephenson)
... before a vowel and replace it with an apostrophe as you do with "est-ce que"]). Notice also that in English we ask questions with dangling prepositions; e.g., "Who are you talking to?", while in French the preposition is included in the interrogative pronoun at the beginning of the question (this mo ...
... before a vowel and replace it with an apostrophe as you do with "est-ce que"]). Notice also that in English we ask questions with dangling prepositions; e.g., "Who are you talking to?", while in French the preposition is included in the interrogative pronoun at the beginning of the question (this mo ...
THE SIMPLE SENTENCE: COMMUNICATIVE TYPES
... Exercise 5. Classify the following sentences into two-member and one-member sentences (say whether they are complete or elliptical): 1. He stared amazed at the calmness of her answer. 2. We must go to meet the bus. Wouldn’t do to miss it. 3. Obedient little trees, fulfilling their duty. 4. Brown kne ...
... Exercise 5. Classify the following sentences into two-member and one-member sentences (say whether they are complete or elliptical): 1. He stared amazed at the calmness of her answer. 2. We must go to meet the bus. Wouldn’t do to miss it. 3. Obedient little trees, fulfilling their duty. 4. Brown kne ...
Les pronoms interrogatifs
... before a vowel and replace it with an apostrophe as you do with "est-ce que"]). Notice also that in English we ask questions with dangling prepositions; e.g., "Who are you talking to?", while in French the preposition is included in the interrogative pronoun at the beginning of the question (this mo ...
... before a vowel and replace it with an apostrophe as you do with "est-ce que"]). Notice also that in English we ask questions with dangling prepositions; e.g., "Who are you talking to?", while in French the preposition is included in the interrogative pronoun at the beginning of the question (this mo ...
Chapter 2 "Writing Basics: What Makes a Good Sentence?"
... In the first sentence, the subject is a thing: project. In the second sentence, the pronoun It stands in for the project. 3. A word that tells who or what the sentence is about. Subjects are usually nouns or pronouns. 4. A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea. 5. A word that substitu ...
... In the first sentence, the subject is a thing: project. In the second sentence, the pronoun It stands in for the project. 3. A word that tells who or what the sentence is about. Subjects are usually nouns or pronouns. 4. A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea. 5. A word that substitu ...
The dependency of the subjunctive revisited
... Researchers also have exploited the idea that the subjunctive denotes a defective tense (Picallo, 1985), or a null ordering source (Giorgi and Pianesi, 1998). I will not summarize the various theories here (see Quer, 1998; Portner, 1999 for quite lucid overviews); instead I will follow my earlier wo ...
... Researchers also have exploited the idea that the subjunctive denotes a defective tense (Picallo, 1985), or a null ordering source (Giorgi and Pianesi, 1998). I will not summarize the various theories here (see Quer, 1998; Portner, 1999 for quite lucid overviews); instead I will follow my earlier wo ...
C05_Giruba_Beulah_onemotion_detection
... manually annotated. Such an approach may work for languages of few cases. However, not all cases in a language may be affect sensitive. Cases in Tamil are eight and only two of these are affect sensitive, namely the instrumental and the accusative case. Thus manually annotating cases in Tamil would ...
... manually annotated. Such an approach may work for languages of few cases. However, not all cases in a language may be affect sensitive. Cases in Tamil are eight and only two of these are affect sensitive, namely the instrumental and the accusative case. Thus manually annotating cases in Tamil would ...
grade 6 - Stanhope School
... Engage and orient the reader by establishing a context and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally and logically. Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, and description, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters. Use a va ...
... Engage and orient the reader by establishing a context and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally and logically. Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, and description, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters. Use a va ...
a proposal for lexical disambiguation
... other on substitutability (Charles and Miller, 1989; Miller and Charles, 1991), usually referred to (Jenkins, 1954) as the syntagmarie and paradigmatic views. The eo-eceurronce or syntagmafie approach holds the target word constant and compares the contexts in which it can appear; the substitutabili ...
... other on substitutability (Charles and Miller, 1989; Miller and Charles, 1991), usually referred to (Jenkins, 1954) as the syntagmarie and paradigmatic views. The eo-eceurronce or syntagmafie approach holds the target word constant and compares the contexts in which it can appear; the substitutabili ...
Exercise on Past Progressive
... At half past seven, Mister Logan was driving home. The children were playing in the sandbox. Claire was visiting her best friend. ...
... At half past seven, Mister Logan was driving home. The children were playing in the sandbox. Claire was visiting her best friend. ...
Complete Subjects and Predicates
... 6. Our brain could be compared to a library, a storage area of information. 7. Even our thoughts and emotions are coming from the brain. 8. No other animals' brains have developed as highly as human brains. 9. I can do many activities impossible for other animals. 10. What other animal can write a s ...
... 6. Our brain could be compared to a library, a storage area of information. 7. Even our thoughts and emotions are coming from the brain. 8. No other animals' brains have developed as highly as human brains. 9. I can do many activities impossible for other animals. 10. What other animal can write a s ...
In this section I show first that nouns are subject to morphological
... to state that there are two types of features (CONCORD and INDEX features in the sense of the Halloway King and Dalrymple (2004)) which give rise to the patterns found in Yaqui. Some of these constraints in table (25) will be used in the final part of this section where agreement patterns are analyz ...
... to state that there are two types of features (CONCORD and INDEX features in the sense of the Halloway King and Dalrymple (2004)) which give rise to the patterns found in Yaqui. Some of these constraints in table (25) will be used in the final part of this section where agreement patterns are analyz ...