V - UA Campus Repository
... The principal word In the complete subject Is the simple subject. It is always a noun or pronoun. The principal word In the complete predicate le the sim ple predicate. It is always a verb. Since we can now pick out the simple subject and the simple predicate of the sentence, we shall begin to diag ...
... The principal word In the complete subject Is the simple subject. It is always a noun or pronoun. The principal word In the complete predicate le the sim ple predicate. It is always a verb. Since we can now pick out the simple subject and the simple predicate of the sentence, we shall begin to diag ...
Writing Skills: Section 5
... should be replaced with “including,” which functions as a preposition in this context. Choice (C) results in a comma splice. Two independent clauses (“As senior speech writer for President Clinton, Carolyn Curiel crafted many of Clinton‟s major speeches” and “they include some of his most famous”) a ...
... should be replaced with “including,” which functions as a preposition in this context. Choice (C) results in a comma splice. Two independent clauses (“As senior speech writer for President Clinton, Carolyn Curiel crafted many of Clinton‟s major speeches” and “they include some of his most famous”) a ...
The Newar verb in Tibeto-Burman perspective
... Samser Riir.ta, who simultaneously changed the name of the language officially to Nepal!, although the British had already begun to use the term 'Nepali' to refer to the Indo-Aryan tongue ofNepal. Historically speaking, the very name of the native Tibeto-Burman language of the Kathmandu Valley was i ...
... Samser Riir.ta, who simultaneously changed the name of the language officially to Nepal!, although the British had already begun to use the term 'Nepali' to refer to the Indo-Aryan tongue ofNepal. Historically speaking, the very name of the native Tibeto-Burman language of the Kathmandu Valley was i ...
Grammar and Language Workbook, Part 1
... 16. They made sand castles on the beach, but waves soon washed away their work. 17. He raked the leaves, but the sudden wind scattered them all over our yard. 18. Your new puppy looks as if it will turn out to be a beautiful, large dog. ...
... 16. They made sand castles on the beach, but waves soon washed away their work. 17. He raked the leaves, but the sudden wind scattered them all over our yard. 18. Your new puppy looks as if it will turn out to be a beautiful, large dog. ...
pronouns - Laing Middle School
... You and he thought the movie was scary. He and I ate popcorn. ...
... You and he thought the movie was scary. He and I ate popcorn. ...
The Project Gutenberg EBook of Higher Lessons
... sentence. To study thought through its outward form, the sentence, and to discover the fitness of the different parts of the expression to the parts of the thought, is to learn to think. It has been noticed that pupils thoroughly trained in the analysis and the construction of sentences come to thei ...
... sentence. To study thought through its outward form, the sentence, and to discover the fitness of the different parts of the expression to the parts of the thought, is to learn to think. It has been noticed that pupils thoroughly trained in the analysis and the construction of sentences come to thei ...
The english language - the WAC Clearinghouse
... Written in a clear style, it guides its readers on topics including basic assumptions about language and discourse, pronunciation, word-formation strategies, parts of speech, clause elements and patterns, how clauses may be combined into sentences, and how clauses and sentences are modified to suit ...
... Written in a clear style, it guides its readers on topics including basic assumptions about language and discourse, pronunciation, word-formation strategies, parts of speech, clause elements and patterns, how clauses may be combined into sentences, and how clauses and sentences are modified to suit ...
A Distributed Morphology-based analysis of Japanese
... verbal affix –s of English expresses both person and tense (Bobaljik, 1995) so the morpheme –s in English is actually the Fusion of the person and the tense nodes. Consider the form: *He walk-s-ed, where tense and number are not fused. FISSION is a morphological process that splits one terminal node ...
... verbal affix –s of English expresses both person and tense (Bobaljik, 1995) so the morpheme –s in English is actually the Fusion of the person and the tense nodes. Consider the form: *He walk-s-ed, where tense and number are not fused. FISSION is a morphological process that splits one terminal node ...
Object agreement, grammatical relations, and information structure. In
... Honti 1984, and many others). The term “definite,” in its turn, is taken to denote the formal properties of object NPs. According to Honti (1984, 99-100), the definite objects that trigger agreement in Ostyak are: a possessive NP, a personal pronoun, an embedded complement clause, and a null object. ...
... Honti 1984, and many others). The term “definite,” in its turn, is taken to denote the formal properties of object NPs. According to Honti (1984, 99-100), the definite objects that trigger agreement in Ostyak are: a possessive NP, a personal pronoun, an embedded complement clause, and a null object. ...
The Grammatical Internal Evidence For Ἔχομεν In Romans 5:1
... likewise argues strongly for μὴ . . . μόνον being linked with κατεργάζεσθε. He points to three issues, however, that are problematic in this verse: (1) the fact that the correlative phrase “not only . . .but also” precedes κατεργάζεσθε rather than follows it (which is unusual); (2) the word παρουσία ...
... likewise argues strongly for μὴ . . . μόνον being linked with κατεργάζεσθε. He points to three issues, however, that are problematic in this verse: (1) the fact that the correlative phrase “not only . . .but also” precedes κατεργάζεσθε rather than follows it (which is unusual); (2) the word παρουσία ...
An outline of Proto-Indo-European
... An outline of Proto-Indo-European Indo-European is a branch of Indo-Uralic which was radically transformed under the influence of a North Caucasian substratum when its speakers moved from the area north of the Caspian Sea to the area north of the Black Sea (cf. Kortlandt 2007b). As a result, Indo-Eu ...
... An outline of Proto-Indo-European Indo-European is a branch of Indo-Uralic which was radically transformed under the influence of a North Caucasian substratum when its speakers moved from the area north of the Caspian Sea to the area north of the Black Sea (cf. Kortlandt 2007b). As a result, Indo-Eu ...
Typological variation of the adjectival class
... Ask a layperson what they know about grammar and you are likely to get an answer that has something to do with parts of speech; ask a linguist what they know about parts of speech and the answer is quite likely to be much less enlightening. Parts of speech systems or, as I will refer to them here, l ...
... Ask a layperson what they know about grammar and you are likely to get an answer that has something to do with parts of speech; ask a linguist what they know about parts of speech and the answer is quite likely to be much less enlightening. Parts of speech systems or, as I will refer to them here, l ...
Semantics and Pragmatics - School of Computer Science, University
... • Special colloquial use of “they” to mean roughly “people in authority over us or with authority about a topic” – as in “What are they going to inflict on us now”, “Do they know how to cure baldness yet?”. • Special colloquial use of “they” as convenient replacement for “he or she”. NB: grammatical ...
... • Special colloquial use of “they” to mean roughly “people in authority over us or with authority about a topic” – as in “What are they going to inflict on us now”, “Do they know how to cure baldness yet?”. • Special colloquial use of “they” as convenient replacement for “he or she”. NB: grammatical ...
(2005). Some thoughts on Balto-Finnic passives and impersonals
... 2.1 Personal and impersonal passives Languages that have passives may have more than one type of passive construction. For example, Keenan (1985) talks about a ‘basic’ passive, while Siewierska (1984) distinguishes between ‘personal’ and ‘impersonal’ passives. Personal passives are in many languages ...
... 2.1 Personal and impersonal passives Languages that have passives may have more than one type of passive construction. For example, Keenan (1985) talks about a ‘basic’ passive, while Siewierska (1984) distinguishes between ‘personal’ and ‘impersonal’ passives. Personal passives are in many languages ...
Grammar - Macmillan/McGraw-Hill
... a period. • A question is a sentence that asks something. It ends with a question mark. Statement: There are many ways to make new friends. Question: What do you do to make friends? Write statement if the sentence tells something. Write question if the sentence asks something. Put the correct end ma ...
... a period. • A question is a sentence that asks something. It ends with a question mark. Statement: There are many ways to make new friends. Question: What do you do to make friends? Write statement if the sentence tells something. Write question if the sentence asks something. Put the correct end ma ...
additive conjunction choice in english children short stories
... (6) We will have finished by Tuesday. Verb phrase In example above, will have finished is a verb phrase with finished as its head. Syntactic Categories A syntactic category is a set of words and/or phrases in a language which share a significant number of common characteristics. The classification i ...
... (6) We will have finished by Tuesday. Verb phrase In example above, will have finished is a verb phrase with finished as its head. Syntactic Categories A syntactic category is a set of words and/or phrases in a language which share a significant number of common characteristics. The classification i ...
clause - cloudfront.net
... She couldn’t eat (anything, nothing) at dinner tonight. I didn’t see (nothing, anything) in the room. We (could, couldn’t) hardly see through the fog. She did not have (anything, nothing) to read in class. I could not see (no, any) way to help the alien. I cannot find my money (anywhere, nowhere). Y ...
... She couldn’t eat (anything, nothing) at dinner tonight. I didn’t see (nothing, anything) in the room. We (could, couldn’t) hardly see through the fog. She did not have (anything, nothing) to read in class. I could not see (no, any) way to help the alien. I cannot find my money (anywhere, nowhere). Y ...
Gustar and similar verbs
... Gustar is used to express preferences, likes, and dislikes; however, gustar means “to be pleasing,” and is constructed very differently from the English “to like.” ...
... Gustar is used to express preferences, likes, and dislikes; however, gustar means “to be pleasing,” and is constructed very differently from the English “to like.” ...
CTE - 02 Vardhaman Mahaveer Open University, Kota Written English
... between inflection and derivation (along with other uses that are not). One very regular use of -ing is to indicate progressive aspect in verbs, following forms of "to be": She is going; he will be leaving; they had been asking. This use is generally considered an inflectional suffix, part of the sy ...
... between inflection and derivation (along with other uses that are not). One very regular use of -ing is to indicate progressive aspect in verbs, following forms of "to be": She is going; he will be leaving; they had been asking. This use is generally considered an inflectional suffix, part of the sy ...
02Story - Faculty Web Sites at the University of Virginia
... that the contract was its act, whether by corporate action, that of an authorized agent, or by adoption or ratification. A court will infer such ratification from the acquiescence or the acceptance of the benefits of such contract. It is essential to implied ratification that the acceptance be with ...
... that the contract was its act, whether by corporate action, that of an authorized agent, or by adoption or ratification. A court will infer such ratification from the acquiescence or the acceptance of the benefits of such contract. It is essential to implied ratification that the acceptance be with ...
The morphome vs. similarity-based syncretism
... identity in caesus-caesor shows that this pattern belongs to a cluster of productive SAS cases that become predictable when their phonology is understood. This opens up the possibility that closer analysis will reveal comparable regularities elsewhere. The overall programme is to identify the non-ar ...
... identity in caesus-caesor shows that this pattern belongs to a cluster of productive SAS cases that become predictable when their phonology is understood. This opens up the possibility that closer analysis will reveal comparable regularities elsewhere. The overall programme is to identify the non-ar ...
The limits of deponency - Jonathan Bobaljik
... characteristics at a descriptive level, do not constitute a natural class, subject to a uniform analysis, but instead, deponent configurations may arise in different languages for a variety of unrelated reasons. The paper is organized as follows. In section 2, I lay out the basic case for treating t ...
... characteristics at a descriptive level, do not constitute a natural class, subject to a uniform analysis, but instead, deponent configurations may arise in different languages for a variety of unrelated reasons. The paper is organized as follows. In section 2, I lay out the basic case for treating t ...