Passive Voice
... a. This programme _______________________ (watch) by millions of people. b. Paper __________________________ (make) from wood. c. Hundreds of people _______________________ (kill) in accidents every year. d. London __________________________ (visit) by thousands of tourists every year. e. The biolog ...
... a. This programme _______________________ (watch) by millions of people. b. Paper __________________________ (make) from wood. c. Hundreds of people _______________________ (kill) in accidents every year. d. London __________________________ (visit) by thousands of tourists every year. e. The biolog ...
10. Essay writing. Sentence Structure
... Why is it important to study sentence structure? Although even native speakers of English instinctively know how to speak grammatically, as writers even they can make errors if they don’t fully understand how the parts of a sentence work together. For writers, another important issue is knowing how ...
... Why is it important to study sentence structure? Although even native speakers of English instinctively know how to speak grammatically, as writers even they can make errors if they don’t fully understand how the parts of a sentence work together. For writers, another important issue is knowing how ...
General English Mahmoud Alimohammadi Hassan Khalili
... In ‘b’, the noun ‘people’ is modified by three adjectives: ‘several’, ‘hundred’ and ‘million’. In ‘d’, the noun ‘language’ is modified by ‘the most frequently taught second’. ...
... In ‘b’, the noun ‘people’ is modified by three adjectives: ‘several’, ‘hundred’ and ‘million’. In ‘d’, the noun ‘language’ is modified by ‘the most frequently taught second’. ...
Case and Event Structure
... This, however, leads to a peculiar state of affairs, in that the other formal features postulated to account for grammatical processes generally have some semantic content. The system of feature checking developed by Chomsky (Chomsky 1998 inter alia) postulates, in core cases, pairs of features in w ...
... This, however, leads to a peculiar state of affairs, in that the other formal features postulated to account for grammatical processes generally have some semantic content. The system of feature checking developed by Chomsky (Chomsky 1998 inter alia) postulates, in core cases, pairs of features in w ...
+++Notes on Editing:2009
... Because of the nature of the printing industry in early America, however, consistency usually extended only to an individual shop or printer. Of course, certain printers did such good work that they were imitated. And because printing was a trade, apprentices picked up approaches they were to use an ...
... Because of the nature of the printing industry in early America, however, consistency usually extended only to an individual shop or printer. Of course, certain printers did such good work that they were imitated. And because printing was a trade, apprentices picked up approaches they were to use an ...
COPULAR INVERSION AND NON-SUBJECT AGREEMENT Alex
... In examples like (2) not only can the copula agree with the postverbal DP, but it cannot agree with the preverbal DP, as in (2b). We refer to the construction illustrated in (2a) as copular inversion, or CI. In this paper we build on the claim in Alsina (2007) that the agreeing postverbal DP in CI i ...
... In examples like (2) not only can the copula agree with the postverbal DP, but it cannot agree with the preverbal DP, as in (2b). We refer to the construction illustrated in (2a) as copular inversion, or CI. In this paper we build on the claim in Alsina (2007) that the agreeing postverbal DP in CI i ...
When is New Year?
... o A HINT: If a student can’t decide whether a verb is active or linking, have them try to substitute one of these words--am, is, was, were--in the sentence. Mary APPEARS snobbish. Mary IS snobbish. Mr. Smith LOOKED unhappy yesterday. Mr. Smith WAS unhappy yesterday. The speaker SEEMED nerv ...
... o A HINT: If a student can’t decide whether a verb is active or linking, have them try to substitute one of these words--am, is, was, were--in the sentence. Mary APPEARS snobbish. Mary IS snobbish. Mr. Smith LOOKED unhappy yesterday. Mr. Smith WAS unhappy yesterday. The speaker SEEMED nerv ...
Head-to-Head Movement
... In sum, X-bar theory undergenerates, it does not produce all the possible grammatical sentences in a language. Although based on very different problems than the ones in (1) and (2), Chomsky (1957) observed that a phrase structure grammar (such as X-bar theory) cannot generate all the sentences of a ...
... In sum, X-bar theory undergenerates, it does not produce all the possible grammatical sentences in a language. Although based on very different problems than the ones in (1) and (2), Chomsky (1957) observed that a phrase structure grammar (such as X-bar theory) cannot generate all the sentences of a ...
Cryptic Crossword Clues - Association for Computational Linguistics
... points1 to each chunk: one specifying the relationships that can occur to the left, another those that can occur to the right, and the third specifying upward attachments. For example the chunk wild lionesses has, amongst many others, an extension point to the left indicating that it can attach as d ...
... points1 to each chunk: one specifying the relationships that can occur to the left, another those that can occur to the right, and the third specifying upward attachments. For example the chunk wild lionesses has, amongst many others, an extension point to the left indicating that it can attach as d ...
segmentation of french sentences - Association for Computational
... In general, it is fairly easy to identify the beginning of a subordinate clause. It is a striking peculiarity of the French language that every (or nearly every) subordinate clause is introduced by some kind of introductory word, a conjunction or the like. Or to put it otherwise: the first word in a ...
... In general, it is fairly easy to identify the beginning of a subordinate clause. It is a striking peculiarity of the French language that every (or nearly every) subordinate clause is introduced by some kind of introductory word, a conjunction or the like. Or to put it otherwise: the first word in a ...
8. ADJECTIVES The adjective system includes all the words and
... attributively and the ability to function predicatively are central features of Adj. 1. Attributive Adj. are the words that come between a determiner and the noun in a NP. They can only modify N. my favourite book 2. Predicative Adj. are Adj. that occur without a N in a predicate of a sentence (usu ...
... attributively and the ability to function predicatively are central features of Adj. 1. Attributive Adj. are the words that come between a determiner and the noun in a NP. They can only modify N. my favourite book 2. Predicative Adj. are Adj. that occur without a N in a predicate of a sentence (usu ...
english back-formation: recent trends in usage
... seen as one of the primary ones, though it is not without problems just as the concept of productivity. In purely quantitative terms, the sheer numbers of acronyms in modern English would certainly argue for acronymization as a good candidate for a major rather than minor word-formation process, as ...
... seen as one of the primary ones, though it is not without problems just as the concept of productivity. In purely quantitative terms, the sheer numbers of acronyms in modern English would certainly argue for acronymization as a good candidate for a major rather than minor word-formation process, as ...
4. Modelling Lexical Resources for Slavic Languages in KPML
... when the clause it is part of is in active voice and its OBJECT is realized as a nominal group, that nominal group should be in the dative case rather than the accusative case (which would be the default case for realizing an OBJECT as nominal group with a clause in active voice). Thus, we need to o ...
... when the clause it is part of is in active voice and its OBJECT is realized as a nominal group, that nominal group should be in the dative case rather than the accusative case (which would be the default case for realizing an OBJECT as nominal group with a clause in active voice). Thus, we need to o ...
Sum and Perfect System Review PPT
... The actual root of the verb sum is “*es-”, which helps explains many of its forms. The present infinitive, for example, esse, is a combination of the root “*es-”, plus the infinitive ending “-se” > esse. Note: the infinitive ending that you know as “-re”, is really the rhotacized form of the word. I ...
... The actual root of the verb sum is “*es-”, which helps explains many of its forms. The present infinitive, for example, esse, is a combination of the root “*es-”, plus the infinitive ending “-se” > esse. Note: the infinitive ending that you know as “-re”, is really the rhotacized form of the word. I ...
The telicity parameter revisited
... stem and the measured or quantified Incremental Theme argument. Crucially, it is the latter that supplies the individuation ‘tool’ for each single atomic event. In so far as the direct object arguments in (5a-c) are in the accusative case, Russian patterns with other languages that use the accusativ ...
... stem and the measured or quantified Incremental Theme argument. Crucially, it is the latter that supplies the individuation ‘tool’ for each single atomic event. In so far as the direct object arguments in (5a-c) are in the accusative case, Russian patterns with other languages that use the accusativ ...
Practice sheets, for the sentences in this booklet, are available in a
... Students are constantly exposed to “see it, hear it, say it, do it” activities that meet the visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learning styles of students. ...
... Students are constantly exposed to “see it, hear it, say it, do it” activities that meet the visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learning styles of students. ...
Syllabus - Harvard University
... Punctual attendance and completion of all assignments, midterms, and exams are required. More than two absences may result in a failing grade for the course. The course grade will be based on pe ...
... Punctual attendance and completion of all assignments, midterms, and exams are required. More than two absences may result in a failing grade for the course. The course grade will be based on pe ...
Listeners Exploit Syntactic Structure On
... of a syntactic structure is one of the cues that listeners may use to construct strong expectations about the possible words they will be exposed to. For example, speakers of verb-final languages use pre-verbal arguments to predict on-line the kind of arguments that are likely to occur next (e.g., K ...
... of a syntactic structure is one of the cues that listeners may use to construct strong expectations about the possible words they will be exposed to. For example, speakers of verb-final languages use pre-verbal arguments to predict on-line the kind of arguments that are likely to occur next (e.g., K ...
A step-by-step introduction to the Government and Binding theory of
... rumor (that all is well) ...
... rumor (that all is well) ...
The Passive and the Notion of Transitivity
... station. (The meeting was scheduled.) (John met Mary at the station.) An accident was likely to be met in the course of the air voyage. (meet = happen) All these sentences are in the simple present. The utterer merely validates the relation between the grammatical subject and the predicate, and pres ...
... station. (The meeting was scheduled.) (John met Mary at the station.) An accident was likely to be met in the course of the air voyage. (meet = happen) All these sentences are in the simple present. The utterer merely validates the relation between the grammatical subject and the predicate, and pres ...
Unit 7 - GFF3 - Modals Part 2 Interactive
... May, Could, Can = Ask Permission Example, “Could I check this book out?” “May I use your phone?” “May” and “Could” are more polite than “Can” “Please” usually goes after the subject or at the end of the sentence. Example: “Could I please borrow the car?” “Could I borrow the car, please?” “Coul ...
... May, Could, Can = Ask Permission Example, “Could I check this book out?” “May I use your phone?” “May” and “Could” are more polite than “Can” “Please” usually goes after the subject or at the end of the sentence. Example: “Could I please borrow the car?” “Could I borrow the car, please?” “Coul ...
W14-0104 - Association for Computational Linguistics
... In contrast to NKJP annotation, we decided to annotate tokens with very fine-grained semantic types represented by wordnet synsets. For this goal, we used P LWN (Piasecki et al., 2009). P LWN is a network of lexico-semantic relations, an electronic thesaurus with a structure modelled on that of the ...
... In contrast to NKJP annotation, we decided to annotate tokens with very fine-grained semantic types represented by wordnet synsets. For this goal, we used P LWN (Piasecki et al., 2009). P LWN is a network of lexico-semantic relations, an electronic thesaurus with a structure modelled on that of the ...
How to Find Serial Verbs in English
... construction (SVC) is a sequence of verbs which act together as a single predicate, without any overt marker of coordination, subordination, or syntactic dependency of any sort. Serial verb constructions describe what is conceptualized as a single event. They are monoclausal; their intonational prop ...
... construction (SVC) is a sequence of verbs which act together as a single predicate, without any overt marker of coordination, subordination, or syntactic dependency of any sort. Serial verb constructions describe what is conceptualized as a single event. They are monoclausal; their intonational prop ...
Clinical coreference annnotation guidelines
... The SHARP team is performing several layers of annotation (POS tagging/Treebanking, UMLS, Propbank) as well as coreference annotation. The output of these layers can be used to automatically extract most Attributes when not already inherent in the data (such as definite and indefinite noun phrases). ...
... The SHARP team is performing several layers of annotation (POS tagging/Treebanking, UMLS, Propbank) as well as coreference annotation. The output of these layers can be used to automatically extract most Attributes when not already inherent in the data (such as definite and indefinite noun phrases). ...