chapters 4 and 5
... Four suggestions on identifying the Object Predicate are: (a) only use this label if you have a (direct) object, (b) if you see the verb consider, it is a good candidate for having a direct object and object predicate, (c) if you leave out the Object Predicate, the sentence is incomplete or has a di ...
... Four suggestions on identifying the Object Predicate are: (a) only use this label if you have a (direct) object, (b) if you see the verb consider, it is a good candidate for having a direct object and object predicate, (c) if you leave out the Object Predicate, the sentence is incomplete or has a di ...
Cognition, Grammaticalization and Syntactic Change. The
... and a time expression can be used to anchor it to a particular past moment (‘I worked hard last week’, for example). The Compound Preterite is basically a tense which is not used with adverbs of time referring to specific moments in the past (*Tenho estudado muito The linguistic conditions of this p ...
... and a time expression can be used to anchor it to a particular past moment (‘I worked hard last week’, for example). The Compound Preterite is basically a tense which is not used with adverbs of time referring to specific moments in the past (*Tenho estudado muito The linguistic conditions of this p ...
1 The Functions of Non-Final Verbs and Their Aspectual Categories
... requirement of bound-pronominal subject marking, the utterance-type marker, tense, and (in the case of Realis verbs, at least) a wide range of aspectual possibilities. 2.3 A note on the Northern Mao sentence The last element which needs to be considered before turning to the discussion of non-final ...
... requirement of bound-pronominal subject marking, the utterance-type marker, tense, and (in the case of Realis verbs, at least) a wide range of aspectual possibilities. 2.3 A note on the Northern Mao sentence The last element which needs to be considered before turning to the discussion of non-final ...
Chapter The Many Facets of the Cause-Effect Relation
... kind B to occur if, when A occurs, B always follows, but when A does not occur, B sometimes occurs and sometimes not. On the other hand, if when A does not occur, B never occurs, but when A occurs, B sometimes occurs and sometimes not, then A is a necessary though not a sufficient condition for B to ...
... kind B to occur if, when A occurs, B always follows, but when A does not occur, B sometimes occurs and sometimes not. On the other hand, if when A does not occur, B never occurs, but when A occurs, B sometimes occurs and sometimes not, then A is a necessary though not a sufficient condition for B to ...
a study of parts of speech used in online thai food recipes
... This purposes were studied the general characteristics of the language usage and analyzed pieces of political news in an English newspaper, Bangkok Post. The finding showed that sentence structures used the most was complex sentences and the least was compound-complex sentences. The omission of the ...
... This purposes were studied the general characteristics of the language usage and analyzed pieces of political news in an English newspaper, Bangkok Post. The finding showed that sentence structures used the most was complex sentences and the least was compound-complex sentences. The omission of the ...
Fontenelle, T. 1994. “What on earth are collocations?”.
... recognize and understand a collocation but the converse is far from being true. Using collocations and selecting the appropriate term is much more difficult and may even be considered as one of the most serious stumbling blocks in language learning. This is also why both Aisenstadt and Mackin argue ...
... recognize and understand a collocation but the converse is far from being true. Using collocations and selecting the appropriate term is much more difficult and may even be considered as one of the most serious stumbling blocks in language learning. This is also why both Aisenstadt and Mackin argue ...
The Welsh Vocabulary Builder 1
... Today’s words: i = to / for; mi = I / me; mae e / mae o | mae hi = he is (S) / he is (N) | she is Another leniting word is the preposition iL. It basically means “to” or “for,” but prepositions have so many idiomatic usages that it will take time to come to terms with them all, and few of them are a ...
... Today’s words: i = to / for; mi = I / me; mae e / mae o | mae hi = he is (S) / he is (N) | she is Another leniting word is the preposition iL. It basically means “to” or “for,” but prepositions have so many idiomatic usages that it will take time to come to terms with them all, and few of them are a ...
Adjective and attribution
... Modification of a referential concept produces an endocentric nominal expression. This kind of modification is attribution. At this point, we can propose a provisional definition of the adjective: An adjective is a member of a word class whose primary function is attribution. This definition of the ...
... Modification of a referential concept produces an endocentric nominal expression. This kind of modification is attribution. At this point, we can propose a provisional definition of the adjective: An adjective is a member of a word class whose primary function is attribution. This definition of the ...
A time-relational analysis of Russian aspect. Language
... presenting the situation in its totality. This, however, can be understood in two ways. It is either a neutral form - i.e., IMPERF unmarked whether the situation is 'seen in its totality' or not, or it is supposed to express that the situation does not have this feature. Under the first interpretati ...
... presenting the situation in its totality. This, however, can be understood in two ways. It is either a neutral form - i.e., IMPERF unmarked whether the situation is 'seen in its totality' or not, or it is supposed to express that the situation does not have this feature. Under the first interpretati ...
Writing Curricula: Vertical Articulation
... Present vs present progressive Past progressive vs past Present perfect vs Present perfect progressive vs past Future (be going to, will, present & present progressive) introduced as new: past perfect & past perfect progressive future perfect & future perfect progressive ...
... Present vs present progressive Past progressive vs past Present perfect vs Present perfect progressive vs past Future (be going to, will, present & present progressive) introduced as new: past perfect & past perfect progressive future perfect & future perfect progressive ...
English Grammar Notes
... ' These ' and ' Those ' ..................................................................................................................................21 ' much ' and ' many ' ......................................................................................................................... ...
... ' These ' and ' Those ' ..................................................................................................................................21 ' much ' and ' many ' ......................................................................................................................... ...
writer`s guide for engineers
... familiar to them. Familiar information consists of 2 types of information. The first is something that has already been mentioned fairly recently in the text above (even if not in the same words!). The second type of information is that which is familiar to the readers from their general or speciali ...
... familiar to them. Familiar information consists of 2 types of information. The first is something that has already been mentioned fairly recently in the text above (even if not in the same words!). The second type of information is that which is familiar to the readers from their general or speciali ...
sciwri1(2012)
... Middle portion of an abstract in a recent issue of Cell: … Liver stages of the parasite containing thousands of merozoites grow inside hepatocytes for several days without triggering an inflammatory response. We show here that Plasmodium uses a PEXEL/VTS motif to introduce the circumsporozoite (CS) ...
... Middle portion of an abstract in a recent issue of Cell: … Liver stages of the parasite containing thousands of merozoites grow inside hepatocytes for several days without triggering an inflammatory response. We show here that Plasmodium uses a PEXEL/VTS motif to introduce the circumsporozoite (CS) ...
Remarks on Nominalizationl
... features. The nonterminal vocabulary of the context-free grammar is drawn from a universal and rather limited vocabulary, some aspects of which will be considered below. The context-free grammar generates phrase-Markers, with a dummy symbol as one of the terminal elements. A general principle of lex ...
... features. The nonterminal vocabulary of the context-free grammar is drawn from a universal and rather limited vocabulary, some aspects of which will be considered below. The context-free grammar generates phrase-Markers, with a dummy symbol as one of the terminal elements. A general principle of lex ...
adnuntiatio mariae et nativitas christi secundum lucum
... cum vidisset: This is what we call a “cum Temporal” clause which expresses the time “when” the action of the main verb, in this sentence turbata est, took place. vidisset is the 3 sg. Pluperfect Active Subjunctive form of video, vidēre. We will translate it, however, as though it were an Indicative: ...
... cum vidisset: This is what we call a “cum Temporal” clause which expresses the time “when” the action of the main verb, in this sentence turbata est, took place. vidisset is the 3 sg. Pluperfect Active Subjunctive form of video, vidēre. We will translate it, however, as though it were an Indicative: ...
A Grammar of the Tamil Language, with an Appendix
... inuch difficulty. Those poetical writings contain indeed explanations in prose; and from them something more of Tamil style and diction may be attained; but they also differ much from the style used in civil life, and not unfrequently require another explanation to make them intelligible. The poems ...
... inuch difficulty. Those poetical writings contain indeed explanations in prose; and from them something more of Tamil style and diction may be attained; but they also differ much from the style used in civil life, and not unfrequently require another explanation to make them intelligible. The poems ...
Reteach Workbook
... Samuel had the hiccups he could not get rid of them. • You can correct a run-on sentence by writing each idea as a separate sentence. Samuel had the hiccups. He could not get rid of them. • You can correct a run-on sentence by rewriting it as a compound sentence. • You combine the sentences with a c ...
... Samuel had the hiccups he could not get rid of them. • You can correct a run-on sentence by writing each idea as a separate sentence. Samuel had the hiccups. He could not get rid of them. • You can correct a run-on sentence by rewriting it as a compound sentence. • You combine the sentences with a c ...
Word-class-changing inflection and morphological theory
... all-or-nothing features. Some linguists (e.g. Dressler 1989, Luraghi 1994) have discussed inflection and derivation in terms of prototypicality, pointing out that some types of affixes are prototypically inflectional (e.g. case affixes and person/number agreement affixes), whereas others are prototy ...
... all-or-nothing features. Some linguists (e.g. Dressler 1989, Luraghi 1994) have discussed inflection and derivation in terms of prototypicality, pointing out that some types of affixes are prototypically inflectional (e.g. case affixes and person/number agreement affixes), whereas others are prototy ...
Grammar Handbook - Capella University
... operates just like a noun in a sentence. It’s important to remember, however, to use pronouns carefully. Often times, writers make the mistake of referring to a noun with a pronoun without first providing and introducing the actual noun a pronoun is replacing. This creates confusion for readers sinc ...
... operates just like a noun in a sentence. It’s important to remember, however, to use pronouns carefully. Often times, writers make the mistake of referring to a noun with a pronoun without first providing and introducing the actual noun a pronoun is replacing. This creates confusion for readers sinc ...
Sample pages 1 PDF
... allow you to communicate with your colleagues regardless of their nationality. As you will see immediately, this grammar section uses examples that are directly relevant to a surgeon’s everyday needs for English, so while you review, for example, the passive voice, you can also review the vocabulary ...
... allow you to communicate with your colleagues regardless of their nationality. As you will see immediately, this grammar section uses examples that are directly relevant to a surgeon’s everyday needs for English, so while you review, for example, the passive voice, you can also review the vocabulary ...
Present Simple
... Use the Simple Past to express the idea that an action started and finished at a specific time in the past. Sometimes the speaker may not actually mention the specific time, but they do have one specific time in mind. We use the Simple Past to list a series of completed actions in the past. These ...
... Use the Simple Past to express the idea that an action started and finished at a specific time in the past. Sometimes the speaker may not actually mention the specific time, but they do have one specific time in mind. We use the Simple Past to list a series of completed actions in the past. These ...
The dependency of the subjunctive revisited
... corresponds to the realis (indicative) and irrealis (subjunctive) distinction; but the empirical problems with this division prompted refinements based on modality (Farkas, 1985, 1992a,b), nonveridicality (Giannakidou, 1994, 1997, 1998, 1999), model shift (Quer, 1998), illocutionary force (Rivero an ...
... corresponds to the realis (indicative) and irrealis (subjunctive) distinction; but the empirical problems with this division prompted refinements based on modality (Farkas, 1985, 1992a,b), nonveridicality (Giannakidou, 1994, 1997, 1998, 1999), model shift (Quer, 1998), illocutionary force (Rivero an ...
Mende Grammar Essentials
... follows governing noun, then the adjective likewise follows the noun. U19. When any or all of the items - demonstrative, numeral and descriptive adjective - precede the noun, they are almost always found in that order. U24. If the relative expression precedes the noun either as the only construction ...
... follows governing noun, then the adjective likewise follows the noun. U19. When any or all of the items - demonstrative, numeral and descriptive adjective - precede the noun, they are almost always found in that order. U24. If the relative expression precedes the noun either as the only construction ...
Español IV/V
... (i.e. Lo hicimos para que vinieran.) (We did it so they would come.) 3) Adjectival clauses require subjunctive when there is a negated or indefinite antecedent (i.e. No había nada aquí que me gustara.) (There was nothing there I liked.) (i.e. Buscábamos una criada que hablara español. (We were looki ...
... (i.e. Lo hicimos para que vinieran.) (We did it so they would come.) 3) Adjectival clauses require subjunctive when there is a negated or indefinite antecedent (i.e. No había nada aquí que me gustara.) (There was nothing there I liked.) (i.e. Buscábamos una criada que hablara español. (We were looki ...
Nouns as Adjectives and Adjectives as Nouns
... syntactic (distributional and selectional) and morphological information. It is this intuition that we will make use of in this paper. We propose that the lexical entry of a lexeme generally has to record a variety of different types of information within the three broad categories of morphological ...
... syntactic (distributional and selectional) and morphological information. It is this intuition that we will make use of in this paper. We propose that the lexical entry of a lexeme generally has to record a variety of different types of information within the three broad categories of morphological ...