Discovering English with Sketch Engine
... As the Sketch Engine website describes it, a word sketch is a one-page, automatic, corpus-derived summary of a word’s grammatical and collocational behaviour1. A word sketch contains dozens of words – it is fascinating to observe that every word keeps so much regular company, although by this stage ...
... As the Sketch Engine website describes it, a word sketch is a one-page, automatic, corpus-derived summary of a word’s grammatical and collocational behaviour1. A word sketch contains dozens of words – it is fascinating to observe that every word keeps so much regular company, although by this stage ...
INFINITIVES AND PARTICIPLES (INCLUDUNG GERUNDIVE AND …
... – The –ns, -ntis ending for the present participle is normally added to the base used in the Imperfect tense – The verb esse had no present participle in the classical period but a form ens, entis came into use in the Middle Ages. – The common irregular verb eō (go) has u before the nt: iēns, euntis ...
... – The –ns, -ntis ending for the present participle is normally added to the base used in the Imperfect tense – The verb esse had no present participle in the classical period but a form ens, entis came into use in the Middle Ages. – The common irregular verb eō (go) has u before the nt: iēns, euntis ...
Appositives and Appositive Phrases
... © Exercise 1 Underline the appositive or appositive phrase in each sentence. Mr. Thompson, Dan’s father, works at a chemical plant. 1. Venus, the second planet from the sun, resembles Earth. 2. Some people prefer soft pretzels, large pretzels that are warmed, to ordinary pretzels. 3. My sister Pam m ...
... © Exercise 1 Underline the appositive or appositive phrase in each sentence. Mr. Thompson, Dan’s father, works at a chemical plant. 1. Venus, the second planet from the sun, resembles Earth. 2. Some people prefer soft pretzels, large pretzels that are warmed, to ordinary pretzels. 3. My sister Pam m ...
J93-2002 - ACL Anthology Reference Corpus
... suggests otherwise. In particular, an occurrence of a potential verb is taken as a nonverbal occurrence only if it follows a determiner or a preposition other than to. For example, was talking would be taken as a verb, but a talk would not. This precaution reduces the likelihood that a singular coun ...
... suggests otherwise. In particular, an occurrence of a potential verb is taken as a nonverbal occurrence only if it follows a determiner or a preposition other than to. For example, was talking would be taken as a verb, but a talk would not. This precaution reduces the likelihood that a singular coun ...
INFINITIVES AND PARTICIPLES (INCLUDUNG GERUNDIVE AND
... – The –ns, -ntis ending for the present participle is normally added to the base used in the Imperfect tense – The verb esse had no present participle in the classical period but a form ens, entis came into use in the Middle Ages. – The common irregular verb eō (go) has u before the nt: iēns, euntis ...
... – The –ns, -ntis ending for the present participle is normally added to the base used in the Imperfect tense – The verb esse had no present participle in the classical period but a form ens, entis came into use in the Middle Ages. – The common irregular verb eō (go) has u before the nt: iēns, euntis ...
`Shona (derivational) Morphology: An Observation in Search of a
... -famb- chaizvo walk very much more ...
... -famb- chaizvo walk very much more ...
Hubert Wolanin Διάθεσις in the "Τέχνη γραμματική" attributed to
... of μεσότηϚ. The point is that as far as the verbs ποιέω and χράϕω are concerned, meanings identifiable unambiguously with πάθοϚ are updated in the aorist by passive formations, i.e. ἐποιήθην ‘I have been made (created)’ and ἐγράϕθην ‘I have been enrolled’, whereas the meanings of the forms ἐποιησάμη ...
... of μεσότηϚ. The point is that as far as the verbs ποιέω and χράϕω are concerned, meanings identifiable unambiguously with πάθοϚ are updated in the aorist by passive formations, i.e. ἐποιήθην ‘I have been made (created)’ and ἐγράϕθην ‘I have been enrolled’, whereas the meanings of the forms ἐποιησάμη ...
Adjective groups & Phrases
... I don’t know much about this topic. 2. I know a little about this topic. 3. I know a bit about this topic and have used it. 4. I could explain this topic to my peers and assist them. ...
... I don’t know much about this topic. 2. I know a little about this topic. 3. I know a bit about this topic and have used it. 4. I could explain this topic to my peers and assist them. ...
THE PASSIVE VOICE Passive Voice – What you need to learn
... a) Highlight verbs in Passive Voice When the American, Mr Otis, bought Canterville Castle, everyone told him that this was very foolish, as the place was haunted. But Mr Otis answered, “I come from a modern country, where we have everything that money can buy. And if there were such a thing as a gho ...
... a) Highlight verbs in Passive Voice When the American, Mr Otis, bought Canterville Castle, everyone told him that this was very foolish, as the place was haunted. But Mr Otis answered, “I come from a modern country, where we have everything that money can buy. And if there were such a thing as a gho ...
13 Noun Clauses
... Grammar Gods. Both ways of thinking are pretty much correct. In some ways, noun clauses are the hardest type to recognize. There’s no subordinate conjunction or relative pronoun to tip you off. The subject of the clause is often vague, sometimes you can drop words altogether, and using them often ma ...
... Grammar Gods. Both ways of thinking are pretty much correct. In some ways, noun clauses are the hardest type to recognize. There’s no subordinate conjunction or relative pronoun to tip you off. The subject of the clause is often vague, sometimes you can drop words altogether, and using them often ma ...
Adverb Clauses
... Subordinate clauses have specific names, thus they have specific functions. Basically, a subordinate clause will always be a subordinate clause, but we will be naming the subordinate clause as either adjective clause, adverb clause, or noun clause. Example: People are human beings, just like subordi ...
... Subordinate clauses have specific names, thus they have specific functions. Basically, a subordinate clause will always be a subordinate clause, but we will be naming the subordinate clause as either adjective clause, adverb clause, or noun clause. Example: People are human beings, just like subordi ...
A Computational Analysis of the Persian Noun Phrase
... will be used in later sections when discussing the structure of the NP. Note that there is no definite article in Persian, only an indefinite, which appears as an affix attached to the noun or adjective. Noun. The Noun is the head of the Noun Phrase. Adjective. Adjectives modify the noun. There is n ...
... will be used in later sections when discussing the structure of the NP. Note that there is no definite article in Persian, only an indefinite, which appears as an affix attached to the noun or adjective. Noun. The Noun is the head of the Noun Phrase. Adjective. Adjectives modify the noun. There is n ...
An auto-indexing method for Arabic text - acc-bc
... document can be constructed. These key words can also be used to define subject headings. Subject headings are phrases composed of more than one keyword. A single document may have many subject headings. The more accurate subject headings are, the more likely it will be for a user to hit that documen ...
... document can be constructed. These key words can also be used to define subject headings. Subject headings are phrases composed of more than one keyword. A single document may have many subject headings. The more accurate subject headings are, the more likely it will be for a user to hit that documen ...
Supersense Tagging of Unknown Nouns using Semantic Similarity
... Some specialist topics are better covered in W ORD N ET than others, e.g. dog has finer-grained distinctions than cat and worm although this does not reflect finer distinctions in reality; limited coverage of infrequent words and senses. Ciaramita and Johnson (2003) found that common nouns missing f ...
... Some specialist topics are better covered in W ORD N ET than others, e.g. dog has finer-grained distinctions than cat and worm although this does not reflect finer distinctions in reality; limited coverage of infrequent words and senses. Ciaramita and Johnson (2003) found that common nouns missing f ...
Degrees of Adjectives
... The opposite or the negative aspect of an adjective can be formed in a number of ways. One way, of course, is to find an adjective to mean the opposite — an antonym. The opposite of beautiful is ugly, the opposite of tall is short. A thesaurus can help you find an appropriate opposite. Another way t ...
... The opposite or the negative aspect of an adjective can be formed in a number of ways. One way, of course, is to find an adjective to mean the opposite — an antonym. The opposite of beautiful is ugly, the opposite of tall is short. A thesaurus can help you find an appropriate opposite. Another way t ...
GF Japanese Resource Grammar
... grammatical elements that are invariable in their structure (formants, clitics). The Japanese name system is almost entirely agglutinative; grammatical relations are expressed by means of postpositive elements (postpositions, particles). Inflectional features are realized in joining word stems and a ...
... grammatical elements that are invariable in their structure (formants, clitics). The Japanese name system is almost entirely agglutinative; grammatical relations are expressed by means of postpositive elements (postpositions, particles). Inflectional features are realized in joining word stems and a ...
rhode island college
... Subject pronouns are used in the exact same way as in English; however all subject pronouns are divided by person, number and gender (with no exceptions). So, you will see that Tigrigna sometimes will use a couple of words where there is only one English equivalent. ● Verb in Tigrigna The verb ኣሎ is ...
... Subject pronouns are used in the exact same way as in English; however all subject pronouns are divided by person, number and gender (with no exceptions). So, you will see that Tigrigna sometimes will use a couple of words where there is only one English equivalent. ● Verb in Tigrigna The verb ኣሎ is ...
Translation of the predicative element of a sentence
... arguments, their semantic features and their syntactic realization. The linguistics data we have examined put forward the additional monolingual lexical information4: - for a predicative noun Npred, its neuter support verb and the aspectual, diathetic and modal variants of this support verb (if any ...
... arguments, their semantic features and their syntactic realization. The linguistics data we have examined put forward the additional monolingual lexical information4: - for a predicative noun Npred, its neuter support verb and the aspectual, diathetic and modal variants of this support verb (if any ...
Exploring Verb Frames for Sentence Simplification in Hindi
... Here we are addressing sentence complexity in the context to NLP applications, and our objective is to propose resolutions which could, in general, assist and improve the performance of the NLP systems. In general, complex sentences have more than one clause (Kachru, 2006) and these clauses are comb ...
... Here we are addressing sentence complexity in the context to NLP applications, and our objective is to propose resolutions which could, in general, assist and improve the performance of the NLP systems. In general, complex sentences have more than one clause (Kachru, 2006) and these clauses are comb ...
Dangling and Misplaced Modifiers PPt II
... If you stay close to the shore for little boats, the risk of sinking is reduced. (For little boats is close to shore and seems to be modifying shore.) Improved: If you stay close to the shore, the risk of sinking for little boats is reduced. Dangling modifier is one where the word modified is no ...
... If you stay close to the shore for little boats, the risk of sinking is reduced. (For little boats is close to shore and seems to be modifying shore.) Improved: If you stay close to the shore, the risk of sinking for little boats is reduced. Dangling modifier is one where the word modified is no ...
VISUAL LANGUAGE: USING COLOR, MYTH AND IMAGE TO
... with Iván and his friends – Martín, Vicente, Jorge and a few rotating others that were a part of la banda. In Martín’s yellow jeep, they pick up their estadounidense counterparts – Jamie, Amy, Jen and me after our university classes. We skateboarded at McDonalds, listened to Red Hot Chili Peppers, ...
... with Iván and his friends – Martín, Vicente, Jorge and a few rotating others that were a part of la banda. In Martín’s yellow jeep, they pick up their estadounidense counterparts – Jamie, Amy, Jen and me after our university classes. We skateboarded at McDonalds, listened to Red Hot Chili Peppers, ...
A database of semantic clusters of verb usages
... is typical for that given pattern or that the described verb is in this case a light verb. We distinguish several types of noun modifiers in the inner structure of the nodes (e.g. possessive pronoun or genitive, adjective or prepositional phrase, quantifier or determiner and pre-determiner would eac ...
... is typical for that given pattern or that the described verb is in this case a light verb. We distinguish several types of noun modifiers in the inner structure of the nodes (e.g. possessive pronoun or genitive, adjective or prepositional phrase, quantifier or determiner and pre-determiner would eac ...
The Grammar of Adjectives
... The second example. Sometimes numbers can look like nouns because of ellipsis (ellipsis is when you do not say all of the words in a sentence because the other person knows what the words will be). For example: Jane has one boyfriend, but Mary has two (boyfriends) one and two are both adjectives. So ...
... The second example. Sometimes numbers can look like nouns because of ellipsis (ellipsis is when you do not say all of the words in a sentence because the other person knows what the words will be). For example: Jane has one boyfriend, but Mary has two (boyfriends) one and two are both adjectives. So ...
Writing Rules 2004-05 - Mount Greylock Regional School District
... Example: Judy went to the movies yesterday. And then she went out with her friends. Corrected: Judy went to the movies yesterday, and then she went out with her friends. Better Correction: Judy went to the movies yesterday; then, she went out with her friends. (see 6B) 1K ...
... Example: Judy went to the movies yesterday. And then she went out with her friends. Corrected: Judy went to the movies yesterday, and then she went out with her friends. Better Correction: Judy went to the movies yesterday; then, she went out with her friends. (see 6B) 1K ...