Prepositional Phrase Attachment and
... knowledge intensive solution. We have used insights from linguistics, towards solving this problem. We achieved good results based on our strategy of using ‘argument structure information and feature rich lexicon’ for prepositions ‘of ’ and ‘to’. Also, the usefulness of automatic extraction of featu ...
... knowledge intensive solution. We have used insights from linguistics, towards solving this problem. We achieved good results based on our strategy of using ‘argument structure information and feature rich lexicon’ for prepositions ‘of ’ and ‘to’. Also, the usefulness of automatic extraction of featu ...
The Oxford Guide to English Usage
... adverb a word that modifies an adjective, verb, or another adverb, expressing a relation of place, time, circumstance, manner, cause, degree, etc., e. g. gently, accordingly, now, here, why. agent noun a noun denoting the doer of an action e. g. builder. agent suffix a suffix added to a verb to form ...
... adverb a word that modifies an adjective, verb, or another adverb, expressing a relation of place, time, circumstance, manner, cause, degree, etc., e. g. gently, accordingly, now, here, why. agent noun a noun denoting the doer of an action e. g. builder. agent suffix a suffix added to a verb to form ...
The Reduced Relative Clause: A Misnomer?
... participles convey an uncompleted action and so are interpreted as occurring simultaneously with the time referred to by the matrix verb. Unreduced relatives can only be interpreted „deictically‟. This is why sentences such as (9b) and (9d) are perfectly acceptable. Relative to the moment of speakin ...
... participles convey an uncompleted action and so are interpreted as occurring simultaneously with the time referred to by the matrix verb. Unreduced relatives can only be interpreted „deictically‟. This is why sentences such as (9b) and (9d) are perfectly acceptable. Relative to the moment of speakin ...
Veni, Vide, Vince!
... One particular problem concerns those words in Latin that are spelt alike but mean different things. Words like this occur in all languages (English not least) and are always a problem for the learner. They will not cause excessive difficulty if you treat them with care; but jumping to conclusions c ...
... One particular problem concerns those words in Latin that are spelt alike but mean different things. Words like this occur in all languages (English not least) and are always a problem for the learner. They will not cause excessive difficulty if you treat them with care; but jumping to conclusions c ...
Practice - Royal Holloway
... One particular problem concerns those words in Latin that are spelt alike but mean different things. Words like this occur in all languages (English not least) and are always a problem for the learner. They will not cause excessive difficulty if you treat them with care; but jumping to conclusions c ...
... One particular problem concerns those words in Latin that are spelt alike but mean different things. Words like this occur in all languages (English not least) and are always a problem for the learner. They will not cause excessive difficulty if you treat them with care; but jumping to conclusions c ...
... You only really need to know that about 'shall' in modern English. Read the rest of this only if you want to know more about how some older speakers still use 'shall'. Formerly, in older grammar, 'shall' was used as an alternative to 'will' with 'I' and 'we'. Today, 'will' is normally used. When we ...
German 1 Curriculum File
... Vocabulary: Time expressions Expressing opinion using finden Agreeing/disagreeing Grammar: Word order with time expressions Verb stems ending on –d, -n Week 2 Chapter 3-1 Komm mit nach Hause Vocabulary: Talking about where one lives Week 3 Chapter 3-1 Cont. Vocabulary: Food vocabulary ...
... Vocabulary: Time expressions Expressing opinion using finden Agreeing/disagreeing Grammar: Word order with time expressions Verb stems ending on –d, -n Week 2 Chapter 3-1 Komm mit nach Hause Vocabulary: Talking about where one lives Week 3 Chapter 3-1 Cont. Vocabulary: Food vocabulary ...
Fulltext: english,
... When discussing the role of cases in the grammar of a language, a distinction has to be made between cases and case endings. “Case in its most central manifestation is a system of marking dependent nouns for the type of relationship they bear to their head.” (Blake 1994: 13). Case endings or case ma ...
... When discussing the role of cases in the grammar of a language, a distinction has to be made between cases and case endings. “Case in its most central manifestation is a system of marking dependent nouns for the type of relationship they bear to their head.” (Blake 1994: 13). Case endings or case ma ...
HOW TO IDENTIFY THE FUNCTION OF PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE
... Preposition has a very important role in making sentences. It seems that preposition is just a simple word because it can be one word, two words, or more. However, when the speaker or writer does not pay attention to it, he or she will make an incorrect sentence. When preposition is followed by the ...
... Preposition has a very important role in making sentences. It seems that preposition is just a simple word because it can be one word, two words, or more. However, when the speaker or writer does not pay attention to it, he or she will make an incorrect sentence. When preposition is followed by the ...
Annotation Tools and Knowledge Representation for a Text
... to construct a 3D scene. Vignettes inherit high-level semantics from FrameNet via normal frameto-frame inheritance and decompose into low-level graphical frames using a new SUBFRAMEPARALLEL frame-to-frame relation. Vignettes can be defined not only for actions but also for locations or any other com ...
... to construct a 3D scene. Vignettes inherit high-level semantics from FrameNet via normal frameto-frame inheritance and decompose into low-level graphical frames using a new SUBFRAMEPARALLEL frame-to-frame relation. Vignettes can be defined not only for actions but also for locations or any other com ...
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... • I bought his car at an auction. • That is their only choice because he has them over a barrel. In the second sentence, their is used to stand in for the people who have the choice. Them again refers to those same people, and him refers to whoever is giving them the choice. Previous Slide Next Slid ...
... • I bought his car at an auction. • That is their only choice because he has them over a barrel. In the second sentence, their is used to stand in for the people who have the choice. Them again refers to those same people, and him refers to whoever is giving them the choice. Previous Slide Next Slid ...
Some Vietnamese Students` Problems with English
... Tense and Aspect in Vietnamese Like English, Vietnamese also has tense and aspect, but they are expressed differently. Doan (n.d.) pointed out that “In Vietnamese, verbs are not conjugated, and tense and aspect are generally understood in the context” (p. 6). Similarly, Le (1972) and Dam (2001) als ...
... Tense and Aspect in Vietnamese Like English, Vietnamese also has tense and aspect, but they are expressed differently. Doan (n.d.) pointed out that “In Vietnamese, verbs are not conjugated, and tense and aspect are generally understood in the context” (p. 6). Similarly, Le (1972) and Dam (2001) als ...
Electronic Dictionaries viewed from South Africa - Hermes
... which is automatically pronounced in British English and clickable options for both British and American English are provided. Audible pronunciation is an excellent example of how the ED has superseded the paper dictionary. No phonetic transcription comes close to actually hearing, especially proble ...
... which is automatically pronounced in British English and clickable options for both British and American English are provided. Audible pronunciation is an excellent example of how the ED has superseded the paper dictionary. No phonetic transcription comes close to actually hearing, especially proble ...
Dative of Purpose and Reference
... The dative of reference is used when the dative depends not on any one particular word (such as is the case with Dative following special adjectives like amīcus, fidēlis, idoneus, and similis or verbs like crēdō and noceō) but on the general meaning of the sentence. o It is often called the “Dativ ...
... The dative of reference is used when the dative depends not on any one particular word (such as is the case with Dative following special adjectives like amīcus, fidēlis, idoneus, and similis or verbs like crēdō and noceō) but on the general meaning of the sentence. o It is often called the “Dativ ...
On the Linguistic Notion of Transitivity:
... An old friend of mine once told me that there was a student in her class, who had persistently asked her about English grammar in greater detail than was covered in coursework. The student‟s questions were often so meticulous that she occasionally found herself incapable of providing acceptable expl ...
... An old friend of mine once told me that there was a student in her class, who had persistently asked her about English grammar in greater detail than was covered in coursework. The student‟s questions were often so meticulous that she occasionally found herself incapable of providing acceptable expl ...
syntax-1-checklist
... Predicate-Specific Role Names • It is ok to use predicate-specific role names when you want to avoid the vagueness of semantic role names. – E.g., devourer and devouree ...
... Predicate-Specific Role Names • It is ok to use predicate-specific role names when you want to avoid the vagueness of semantic role names. – E.g., devourer and devouree ...
COMMA ERRORS
... together with a comma. Such as -We could prove we’d spent the whole day at the beach, we had the sunburn to prove it! But what you’ve got there is a comma splice, which is a “no-no.” In the case of the above sentences, you could fix the “no-no” in one of three ways: ...
... together with a comma. Such as -We could prove we’d spent the whole day at the beach, we had the sunburn to prove it! But what you’ve got there is a comma splice, which is a “no-no.” In the case of the above sentences, you could fix the “no-no” in one of three ways: ...
MORE THAN ONE MEANING
... unrelated antonyms, as with hard, which has both soft and easy as opposites. Another is the conjunction reduction test. Consider the sentence The tailor pressed one suit in his shop and one in the municipal court. It is evident that the word suit (not to mention press) is ambiguous. It is provided b ...
... unrelated antonyms, as with hard, which has both soft and easy as opposites. Another is the conjunction reduction test. Consider the sentence The tailor pressed one suit in his shop and one in the municipal court. It is evident that the word suit (not to mention press) is ambiguous. It is provided b ...
Particle verbs and a theory of late lexical insertion
... dominating the particle must be transparent. It therefore does not block movement of its verbal part. Notice that in Stiebels's and Wunderlich's analyses, the claim that particles are the only elements inside X°-categories that receive the feature [+max] does not follow from any independently motiva ...
... dominating the particle must be transparent. It therefore does not block movement of its verbal part. Notice that in Stiebels's and Wunderlich's analyses, the claim that particles are the only elements inside X°-categories that receive the feature [+max] does not follow from any independently motiva ...
Spanish 1 Study Guide
... By and large, Spanish-speaking people are very formal and polite. It is always acceptable to be more polite than to err by being too informal. A formal greeting is used when most of the people involved do not know each other well, or are not on a first-name basis. Use a formal greeting the first tim ...
... By and large, Spanish-speaking people are very formal and polite. It is always acceptable to be more polite than to err by being too informal. A formal greeting is used when most of the people involved do not know each other well, or are not on a first-name basis. Use a formal greeting the first tim ...
Reteach Workbook
... • Use the correct end punctuation to end a sentence. • Use a period to end a statement or a command. I like movies. • Use a question mark to end a question. Do you like movies? • Use an exclamation point to end an exclamation. Wow, what a great movie! • Use a comma before the conjunction in a compou ...
... • Use the correct end punctuation to end a sentence. • Use a period to end a statement or a command. I like movies. • Use a question mark to end a question. Do you like movies? • Use an exclamation point to end an exclamation. Wow, what a great movie! • Use a comma before the conjunction in a compou ...
On the Use and Meaning of Prepositions Clearly
... words used as Prepositions Substituted, as Objects of the Preposition, and as Words Modified. These 33 x 3 sets of words constituted the raw data of the sentencecomposition task. Free-Association Task. The Ss in the free association task were 82 Johns Hopkins University male undergraduates, all enro ...
... words used as Prepositions Substituted, as Objects of the Preposition, and as Words Modified. These 33 x 3 sets of words constituted the raw data of the sentencecomposition task. Free-Association Task. The Ss in the free association task were 82 Johns Hopkins University male undergraduates, all enro ...
usage-based theory and grammaticalization
... auxiliaries are not always separable from verbs, and items within categories can have different features—one verb might become an auxiliary earlier than another. Change in category membership is referred to by Hopper (1991) as ‘decategorialization’ because it is typically the case in grammaticalizat ...
... auxiliaries are not always separable from verbs, and items within categories can have different features—one verb might become an auxiliary earlier than another. Change in category membership is referred to by Hopper (1991) as ‘decategorialization’ because it is typically the case in grammaticalizat ...