1 Using Strong Verbs – Suggested Answers and Teaching Tips
... Answer: The whole house seethed with stress and anger over my parents’ fighting over bills. Answer: The whole house stressed with anger over my parents’ fighting over bills. Answer: The entire household feared my parents’ fighting over bills. Teaching Tip: This sentence is somewhat more troublesome ...
... Answer: The whole house seethed with stress and anger over my parents’ fighting over bills. Answer: The whole house stressed with anger over my parents’ fighting over bills. Answer: The entire household feared my parents’ fighting over bills. Teaching Tip: This sentence is somewhat more troublesome ...
acctg 527 -- comma usage – basics
... three or more items. A comma before the coordinating conjunction preceding the last item in the list is not formally required unless it is necessary to avoid confusion (as in Sentence (a). Note, however, that current practice prefers a comma before the coordinating conjunction even if confusion is n ...
... three or more items. A comma before the coordinating conjunction preceding the last item in the list is not formally required unless it is necessary to avoid confusion (as in Sentence (a). Note, however, that current practice prefers a comma before the coordinating conjunction even if confusion is n ...
the error analysis of students` descriptive writing
... Writing English for a foreign learner is difficult because English is different from Indonesian language in its stucture, spelling and lexical meaning. In this case, students who learn English may produce many errors. Such as in structure, there is no tenses in Indonesian language so many students ...
... Writing English for a foreign learner is difficult because English is different from Indonesian language in its stucture, spelling and lexical meaning. In this case, students who learn English may produce many errors. Such as in structure, there is no tenses in Indonesian language so many students ...
Choices: Examining the Parts of a Sentence
... 1. Until recently, tourists could reach the tiny island only by boat. 2. The island of Bequia remains relatively untouched by the trappings of modern life. 3. A need for economic growth has led to the construction of an airport. 4. Some islanders are worried about the loss of the old way of life. 5. ...
... 1. Until recently, tourists could reach the tiny island only by boat. 2. The island of Bequia remains relatively untouched by the trappings of modern life. 3. A need for economic growth has led to the construction of an airport. 4. Some islanders are worried about the loss of the old way of life. 5. ...
Welsh Lessons 1–10 (Autumn Term) (large )
... spoken at slightly a higher pitch, the same way you raise your voice to indicate a question. As English does not have a pitch accent, learners sometimes hear the syllable with the pitch accent as the stressed syllable. (Singers do not need to worry about this.) There are a few ways to sound more Wel ...
... spoken at slightly a higher pitch, the same way you raise your voice to indicate a question. As English does not have a pitch accent, learners sometimes hear the syllable with the pitch accent as the stressed syllable. (Singers do not need to worry about this.) There are a few ways to sound more Wel ...
1 The Distribution of Negative NPs and Some Typological
... [Lit. I did not read any book.] In (4a-b), for example, negation is solely expressed by the postverbal particle nak, and the indefinite pronoun dare-mo would be suitably translated as ‘anybody’ or ‘everybody’. The same is true of (4c-d), where nani-mo and dono hon-mo would approximate the meanings o ...
... [Lit. I did not read any book.] In (4a-b), for example, negation is solely expressed by the postverbal particle nak, and the indefinite pronoun dare-mo would be suitably translated as ‘anybody’ or ‘everybody’. The same is true of (4c-d), where nani-mo and dono hon-mo would approximate the meanings o ...
Types of Sentences
... simple = independent clause 2. Because Mr. Sidler coaches and teaches he is a busy man complex - adverb and independent clause 3. Ms. Sarcone loves to sing even though she has a terrible voice complex – adverb and independent clause 4. Mrs. Heyl is an active runner when she is not teaching her favor ...
... simple = independent clause 2. Because Mr. Sidler coaches and teaches he is a busy man complex - adverb and independent clause 3. Ms. Sarcone loves to sing even though she has a terrible voice complex – adverb and independent clause 4. Mrs. Heyl is an active runner when she is not teaching her favor ...
Bare nominals and incorporating verbs in Spanish and Catalan
... This paper presents an analysis of bare nominals unmarked for number (BNs) occurring in object position in Spanish and Catalan, on which the BN is a syntactic complement to the verb, but not a semantic argument. After describing the properties that distinguish BNs from other indefinite expressions ( ...
... This paper presents an analysis of bare nominals unmarked for number (BNs) occurring in object position in Spanish and Catalan, on which the BN is a syntactic complement to the verb, but not a semantic argument. After describing the properties that distinguish BNs from other indefinite expressions ( ...
Malinke - Friends of Guinea
... Benedictions used before a trip ................................................................5 Benedictions used before going to sleep ..................................................5 Benedictions used under other circumstances .........................................5 Simple Phrases ........ ...
... Benedictions used before a trip ................................................................5 Benedictions used before going to sleep ..................................................5 Benedictions used under other circumstances .........................................5 Simple Phrases ........ ...
NP-internal possessive constructions in Hoocąk and other Siouan
... Languages usually have more than one construction to express a possessive relationship. Possessive constructions in an individual language usually express semantically different relations, which are traditionally subsumed under the notion of possession such as part-whole relationships, kinship relat ...
... Languages usually have more than one construction to express a possessive relationship. Possessive constructions in an individual language usually express semantically different relations, which are traditionally subsumed under the notion of possession such as part-whole relationships, kinship relat ...
I find the book worth reading.
... lexicon which the German grammarians very significantly call "zuwort" – the "time word". My own birthday passed without ceremony, I would as usual, in the morning and in the afternoon went for a walk in the solitary woods behind my house. I have never been able to discover what it is that gives thes ...
... lexicon which the German grammarians very significantly call "zuwort" – the "time word". My own birthday passed without ceremony, I would as usual, in the morning and in the afternoon went for a walk in the solitary woods behind my house. I have never been able to discover what it is that gives thes ...
Full text
... (Stein 1933: 94), This projection is the lesson Stein, the master, taught her disciples. Yet the single act of using one’s imagination is not enough to qualify one as a ‘genius.’ What makes geniuses exiles among commoners is a particular capacity to talk and to listen at the same time: in other word ...
... (Stein 1933: 94), This projection is the lesson Stein, the master, taught her disciples. Yet the single act of using one’s imagination is not enough to qualify one as a ‘genius.’ What makes geniuses exiles among commoners is a particular capacity to talk and to listen at the same time: in other word ...
Syntax - English sentence structure
... students who understand the information on this page and follow the advice have a better chance of Definition: Linguists have problems in agreeing how to define the word sentence. For this web page, sentence will be taken to mean: 'a sequence of words whose first word starts with a capital letter an ...
... students who understand the information on this page and follow the advice have a better chance of Definition: Linguists have problems in agreeing how to define the word sentence. For this web page, sentence will be taken to mean: 'a sequence of words whose first word starts with a capital letter an ...
The Printable KISS Grammar Workbooks
... Note that you are working with an original complete passage that includes words that you are not expected to get right. For example, "settled" and "to make himself felt" are not verbs that should be underlined twice. (You will learn how to explain them in later KISS levels.) The thousand injuries of ...
... Note that you are working with an original complete passage that includes words that you are not expected to get right. For example, "settled" and "to make himself felt" are not verbs that should be underlined twice. (You will learn how to explain them in later KISS levels.) The thousand injuries of ...
Agree in the Functional Domain: Evidence from the Morphosyntax of
... imperative forms are actually the imperfective forms minus the second person prefix ta-: Both forms have the same vocalic melody and the same number and gender suffixes. That imperative forms are derived from imperfective forms is further supported by the fact that imperatives appear with the socall ...
... imperative forms are actually the imperfective forms minus the second person prefix ta-: Both forms have the same vocalic melody and the same number and gender suffixes. That imperative forms are derived from imperfective forms is further supported by the fact that imperatives appear with the socall ...
How to Speak and Write Correctly by Joseph Devlin, M.A.
... A _Pronoun_ is a word used for or instead of a noun to keep us from repeating the same noun too often. Pronouns, like nouns, have case, number, gender and person. There are three kinds of pronouns, _personal_, _relative_ and _adjective_. A _verb_ is a word which signifies action or the doing of some ...
... A _Pronoun_ is a word used for or instead of a noun to keep us from repeating the same noun too often. Pronouns, like nouns, have case, number, gender and person. There are three kinds of pronouns, _personal_, _relative_ and _adjective_. A _verb_ is a word which signifies action or the doing of some ...
Authier_revised_3_March_2010
... the study of language-contact: genetically related languages will diverge according to which unrelated languages they are in contact with, while genetically unrelated languages will, after some period of bilingualism, show convergence phenomena in their typological features. It is well-known, for in ...
... the study of language-contact: genetically related languages will diverge according to which unrelated languages they are in contact with, while genetically unrelated languages will, after some period of bilingualism, show convergence phenomena in their typological features. It is well-known, for in ...
THE DISTRIBUTION AND CATEGORY STATUS OF ADJECTIVES
... projections including clauses, to those which can be modified only by adverbs. And the (frequently tacit) assumption is made that complementarity also holds of environments in which adjectives function as complements rather than modifiers; in particular, it is often assumed that in the complement po ...
... projections including clauses, to those which can be modified only by adverbs. And the (frequently tacit) assumption is made that complementarity also holds of environments in which adjectives function as complements rather than modifiers; in particular, it is often assumed that in the complement po ...
Placed, Non- Placed and Anaphorically Placed Expressions:
... It has been noted by many that the morphological expression of Tense is strongly interrelated with the morphological expression of Person. As stated in Greenberg’s Universal 30 (Greenberg ,1963), for instance, if a language has Person- Number categories, it always has TenseMood categories. On indepe ...
... It has been noted by many that the morphological expression of Tense is strongly interrelated with the morphological expression of Person. As stated in Greenberg’s Universal 30 (Greenberg ,1963), for instance, if a language has Person- Number categories, it always has TenseMood categories. On indepe ...
281 A FUNCTIONAL AND FORMAL COMPARISON ON ADJECTIVE
... relative clause as a modifier. It cannot be removed from the noun phrase without changing the meaning of the sentence. In other words, “the omission of the adjective clause robs the sentence of a most essential fact. (Allen, 1995)”. However, when the subordinator which introduces the restrictive rel ...
... relative clause as a modifier. It cannot be removed from the noun phrase without changing the meaning of the sentence. In other words, “the omission of the adjective clause robs the sentence of a most essential fact. (Allen, 1995)”. However, when the subordinator which introduces the restrictive rel ...
R-impersonals in Atlantic and Mande languages
... definition in order to ensure the comparability of the phenomena for which it will be used with those for which it has been used previously in the description of other languages. Translational equivalence is clearly not a valid criterion, since it is easy to observe that the meanings expressed by cl ...
... definition in order to ensure the comparability of the phenomena for which it will be used with those for which it has been used previously in the description of other languages. Translational equivalence is clearly not a valid criterion, since it is easy to observe that the meanings expressed by cl ...
Clause processing in complex sentences
... subordinators imply a left-to-right order of processing, an approach centered on the verb implies processing the sentence is both directions, beginning with the verb phrase, which governs the clause, and spreading to the periphery, until the frontiers of the clause are reached. Valence grammar (Borb ...
... subordinators imply a left-to-right order of processing, an approach centered on the verb implies processing the sentence is both directions, beginning with the verb phrase, which governs the clause, and spreading to the periphery, until the frontiers of the clause are reached. Valence grammar (Borb ...
Practice - Macmillan/McGraw-Hill
... Have you ever enjoyed this winter activity? • An imperative sentence tells or asks someone to do something. It ends with a period. Try it sometime if you can. • An exclamatory sentence shows strong feeling. It ends with an exclamation mark. What giant footprints these are! • A compound sentence cont ...
... Have you ever enjoyed this winter activity? • An imperative sentence tells or asks someone to do something. It ends with a period. Try it sometime if you can. • An exclamatory sentence shows strong feeling. It ends with an exclamation mark. What giant footprints these are! • A compound sentence cont ...
Contents - Rainbow Resource
... Take a look at the chart in Chapter 3, Section H. It will show you which concepts are covered at each grade level. You may feel that your students aren’t ready for some of the concepts listed for your grade level, but don’t worry. They will be prepared by the time those concepts come up in the sente ...
... Take a look at the chart in Chapter 3, Section H. It will show you which concepts are covered at each grade level. You may feel that your students aren’t ready for some of the concepts listed for your grade level, but don’t worry. They will be prepared by the time those concepts come up in the sente ...