Modal Verbs
... The audience couldn’t hear the lines spoken by Hermia, which made the production a little weak. The production may not be suitable for very young children. ...
... The audience couldn’t hear the lines spoken by Hermia, which made the production a little weak. The production may not be suitable for very young children. ...
Intro to Phrases
... – A group of words that begins with a preposition – Prepositions tell: direction, time, space, or place – May describe any other part of the sentence ...
... – A group of words that begins with a preposition – Prepositions tell: direction, time, space, or place – May describe any other part of the sentence ...
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... What is the “norm” that ABC refers to? (it is stated in the next sentence). Is the past participle ABC functioning here as an adjective or a reduced relative clause? What features in the sentence structure confirm this? Is X a defining or a non-defining relative clause? What does it refer to? What k ...
... What is the “norm” that ABC refers to? (it is stated in the next sentence). Is the past participle ABC functioning here as an adjective or a reduced relative clause? What features in the sentence structure confirm this? Is X a defining or a non-defining relative clause? What does it refer to? What k ...
The Parts of a Sentence: Subjects and Predicates
... The pirates captured the ship and stole its treasure. (singular subjecct) She captured the ship and stole its treasure. (singular subject with pronoun) John and Peter quit their jobs to pursue a life at sea. (compound subject) 3. Usually a subject appears before the verb, but it may be separat ...
... The pirates captured the ship and stole its treasure. (singular subjecct) She captured the ship and stole its treasure. (singular subject with pronoun) John and Peter quit their jobs to pursue a life at sea. (compound subject) 3. Usually a subject appears before the verb, but it may be separat ...
The Magic Lens
... But not all verbs are action verbs. Some verbs are LINKING verbs. A linking verb is like IS. It says the subject IS something. Quackers IS a duck. IS links duck to Quackers. ...
... But not all verbs are action verbs. Some verbs are LINKING verbs. A linking verb is like IS. It says the subject IS something. Quackers IS a duck. IS links duck to Quackers. ...
LA5 — Subject Verb Agreement Handout
... Note: the words “dollars” and “years” are a special case. When talking about an amount of money or a period of years, a singular verb is required, but when referring to the dollars or the years themselves, a plural verb is required. Five dollars is a lot of money. Dollars are often used instead of r ...
... Note: the words “dollars” and “years” are a special case. When talking about an amount of money or a period of years, a singular verb is required, but when referring to the dollars or the years themselves, a plural verb is required. Five dollars is a lot of money. Dollars are often used instead of r ...
2 Basic Issues in English Grammar
... 3. Use the knowledge to construct well-formed sentences. 2.3 Basic issues in English grammar Grammar is the study of word classes, their inflections and how they function in relation to the sentence. A sentence has words which are classified into parts. These are: noun, verb, adjective, adverb, prep ...
... 3. Use the knowledge to construct well-formed sentences. 2.3 Basic issues in English grammar Grammar is the study of word classes, their inflections and how they function in relation to the sentence. A sentence has words which are classified into parts. These are: noun, verb, adjective, adverb, prep ...
action verbs
... •A sentence may contain up to three helping verbs to the main verb. An example would be: The dog must have been chasing the cat. The helping verbs are: must, have, and been; the main verb is chasing. ...
... •A sentence may contain up to three helping verbs to the main verb. An example would be: The dog must have been chasing the cat. The helping verbs are: must, have, and been; the main verb is chasing. ...
GRAMMAR SYLLABUS Verbs Regular and irregular forms Modal
... Present perfect simple and continuous/Past simple Past perfect Past perfect continuous Future tenses: different uses of will, going to, present continuous + time adverb Future perfect Future continuous Verb forms Passive forms (including it is said that, he is said to) Have something done Conditiona ...
... Present perfect simple and continuous/Past simple Past perfect Past perfect continuous Future tenses: different uses of will, going to, present continuous + time adverb Future perfect Future continuous Verb forms Passive forms (including it is said that, he is said to) Have something done Conditiona ...
Subject-Verb Agreement
... When the pronouns he, she or it are used as a subject in a sentence, the verb is always singular, and therefore will contain an –s or –es ending. • He takes the money. • She stacks the papers. • It chimes hourly. All other pronouns (I, you, we, they) require a plural verb (one without an –s or –es e ...
... When the pronouns he, she or it are used as a subject in a sentence, the verb is always singular, and therefore will contain an –s or –es ending. • He takes the money. • She stacks the papers. • It chimes hourly. All other pronouns (I, you, we, they) require a plural verb (one without an –s or –es e ...
Subject-Verb Agreement
... When the pronouns he, she or it are used as a subject in a sentence, the verb is always singular, and therefore will contain an –s or –es ending. He takes the money. She stacks the papers. It chimes hourly. All other pronouns (I, you, we, they) require a plural verb (one without an –s or –es e ...
... When the pronouns he, she or it are used as a subject in a sentence, the verb is always singular, and therefore will contain an –s or –es ending. He takes the money. She stacks the papers. It chimes hourly. All other pronouns (I, you, we, they) require a plural verb (one without an –s or –es e ...
Focus of the lesson: editing—subject
... verb’s form depend on whether the subject is singular or plural: The old man is angry and stamps into the house, but The old men are angry and stamp into the house. Lack of subject-verb agreement is often just a matter of leaving the -s ending off the verb out of carelessness, or of using a form of ...
... verb’s form depend on whether the subject is singular or plural: The old man is angry and stamps into the house, but The old men are angry and stamp into the house. Lack of subject-verb agreement is often just a matter of leaving the -s ending off the verb out of carelessness, or of using a form of ...
Verbals
... • Participles are verb forms that are used as adjectives. • They will have two forms: – Present (ending in “-ing”) – Past (usually ending in “-ed”) • These contain action, but they are NOT used as verbs in the sentence. ...
... • Participles are verb forms that are used as adjectives. • They will have two forms: – Present (ending in “-ing”) – Past (usually ending in “-ed”) • These contain action, but they are NOT used as verbs in the sentence. ...
Stem-changing verbs
... There is a fairly large group of verbs in Spanish that undergo changes in their stem when conjugated in the present tense. These changes occur in all the forms except nosotros/as. These changes occur to ar, er and ir verbs and do not affect the endings we have learned for our conjugations. THEY AFF ...
... There is a fairly large group of verbs in Spanish that undergo changes in their stem when conjugated in the present tense. These changes occur in all the forms except nosotros/as. These changes occur to ar, er and ir verbs and do not affect the endings we have learned for our conjugations. THEY AFF ...
CAS LX 502
... • Part of an English-speaker’s knowledge of language is the information in the lexicon: lexemes, their pronunciation, their syntactic category, their relationships to other lexemes, … and whatever is left, that we might call their meaning. ...
... • Part of an English-speaker’s knowledge of language is the information in the lexicon: lexemes, their pronunciation, their syntactic category, their relationships to other lexemes, … and whatever is left, that we might call their meaning. ...
Subject and Verb Agreement - Austin Peay State University
... 8. Nouns such as ‘civics,’ ‘mathematics,’ ‘dollars,’ ‘measles,’ and ‘news’ require singular verbs. The news is on at six. Note: The word dollars is a special case. When talking about an amount of money, it requires a singular verb, but when referring to the noun dollars themselves, a plural verb is ...
... 8. Nouns such as ‘civics,’ ‘mathematics,’ ‘dollars,’ ‘measles,’ and ‘news’ require singular verbs. The news is on at six. Note: The word dollars is a special case. When talking about an amount of money, it requires a singular verb, but when referring to the noun dollars themselves, a plural verb is ...
Generative grammar
... what we say or write derived structures which occur after transformation of deep structure statements ...
... what we say or write derived structures which occur after transformation of deep structure statements ...
Sentence Patterns Simple Sentences: SV SSV SVV SSVV Simple
... Compound Sentences: A compound sentence is more than one sentence put together by a comma and a coordinating conjunction: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so (FANBOYS) Any 2 simple sentence patterns can be put together to make a compound sentence. ...
... Compound Sentences: A compound sentence is more than one sentence put together by a comma and a coordinating conjunction: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so (FANBOYS) Any 2 simple sentence patterns can be put together to make a compound sentence. ...
Sentence Fragments
... The Complete Thought The most common type of sentence fragment in most students’ writing has both a subject and predicate, but it also begins with a subordinating conjunction. This kind of conjunction creates dependent clauses, or clauses that depend on other, complete, clauses for meaning. Consider ...
... The Complete Thought The most common type of sentence fragment in most students’ writing has both a subject and predicate, but it also begins with a subordinating conjunction. This kind of conjunction creates dependent clauses, or clauses that depend on other, complete, clauses for meaning. Consider ...
Parts of Speech and Parts of the Sentence
... Part of Sentence Every sentence is divided into a subject and a predicate. Subject= who or what the sentence is about (always a noun or pronoun) Predicate=the action of the sentence; what the subject does ...
... Part of Sentence Every sentence is divided into a subject and a predicate. Subject= who or what the sentence is about (always a noun or pronoun) Predicate=the action of the sentence; what the subject does ...
Adjectives and Adverbs with Transitive and Intransitive Verbs
... She feels bad. We are poor. Linking verbs are used to show a “state of being” of the subject, not what the subject is doing. Some of these are as follows: The forms of be: is, am, are, was, were, been, being The sense verbs: feel (as an emotion), look, smell, taste, sound, Other verbs with linking u ...
... She feels bad. We are poor. Linking verbs are used to show a “state of being” of the subject, not what the subject is doing. Some of these are as follows: The forms of be: is, am, are, was, were, been, being The sense verbs: feel (as an emotion), look, smell, taste, sound, Other verbs with linking u ...
Lexical semantics
Lexical semantics (also known as lexicosemantics), is a subfield of linguistic semantics. The units of analysis in lexical semantics are lexical units which include not only words but also sub-words or sub-units such as affixes and even compound words and phrases. Lexical units make up the catalogue of words in a language, the lexicon. Lexical semantics looks at how the meaning of the lexical units correlates with the structure of the language or syntax. This is referred to as syntax-semantic interface.The study of lexical semantics looks at: the classification and decomposition of lexical items the differences and similarities in lexical semantic structure cross-linguistically the relationship of lexical meaning to sentence meaning and syntax.Lexical units, also referred to as syntactic atoms, can stand alone such as in the case of root words or parts of compound words or they necessarily attach to other units such as prefixes and suffixes do. The former are called free morphemes and the latter bound morphemes. They fall into a narrow range of meanings (semantic fields) and can combine with each other to generate new meanings.