passive i - English6th2009
... 3. A competition is organized every year. Last year a car race ______________ 4. Flowers are planted in the town every year. Last year some trees __________ 5. Blue balloons are hung in the town every year. Last year some pink balloons ___________ in the town. ...
... 3. A competition is organized every year. Last year a car race ______________ 4. Flowers are planted in the town every year. Last year some trees __________ 5. Blue balloons are hung in the town every year. Last year some pink balloons ___________ in the town. ...
Verbs, Adverbs, Prepositions, Conjunctions, Interjections
... I made the meal. Alex baked the cake. I made the meal before Alex baked the cake. I made the meal because Alex baked the cake. I made the meal while Alex baked the cake. In all of the sentences with subordinating conjunctions, “I made the meal” is more important than “Alex baked the cake.” “Alex bak ...
... I made the meal. Alex baked the cake. I made the meal before Alex baked the cake. I made the meal because Alex baked the cake. I made the meal while Alex baked the cake. In all of the sentences with subordinating conjunctions, “I made the meal” is more important than “Alex baked the cake.” “Alex bak ...
Direct objects Vs Indirect objects
... When the pronouns come before the conjugated verb, make the sentence negative by placing the negative word directly before the pronouns. Ella me lo debe explicar. Ella no me lo debe explicar. Te lo quiero decir. No te lo quiero decir. Se la necesitas enviar a ellos. No se la necesitas enviar a ello ...
... When the pronouns come before the conjugated verb, make the sentence negative by placing the negative word directly before the pronouns. Ella me lo debe explicar. Ella no me lo debe explicar. Te lo quiero decir. No te lo quiero decir. Se la necesitas enviar a ellos. No se la necesitas enviar a ello ...
BELL WORK
... Lebron appears at the Boys and Girls club to support their cause. • Action verb, because Lebron is taking an action – to appear at the club. ...
... Lebron appears at the Boys and Girls club to support their cause. • Action verb, because Lebron is taking an action – to appear at the club. ...
50 Years of Stupid Grammar Advice
... so grammatically clueless that they don't know what is a passive construction and what ...
... so grammatically clueless that they don't know what is a passive construction and what ...
English Essentials
... “He assigns two hours of homework for each class. Does he think we have nothing else to do?” Example: “We cannot solve a problem by hoping someone else will solve it for us,” wrote psychiatrist M. Scott Peck. ...
... “He assigns two hours of homework for each class. Does he think we have nothing else to do?” Example: “We cannot solve a problem by hoping someone else will solve it for us,” wrote psychiatrist M. Scott Peck. ...
Using Subject-Verb Agreement
... For each sentence, identify the subject, and then choose the verb in parentheses that agrees with the subject. 1. The water (rushes, rush) down the river. 2. The bees (buzzes, buzz) around the picnic table. 3. The photograph (was, were) a gift from my cousin. ...
... For each sentence, identify the subject, and then choose the verb in parentheses that agrees with the subject. 1. The water (rushes, rush) down the river. 2. The bees (buzzes, buzz) around the picnic table. 3. The photograph (was, were) a gift from my cousin. ...
4 basic sentence structures
... We can add optional information about how, when, where, why: this information is Adverbial, not Direct object, because it can be omitted and we still have a complete sentence: ...
... We can add optional information about how, when, where, why: this information is Adverbial, not Direct object, because it can be omitted and we still have a complete sentence: ...
Using Subject-Verb Agreement
... For each sentence, identify the subject, and then choose the verb in parentheses that agrees with the subject. 1. The water (rushes, rush) down the river. 2. The bees (buzzes, buzz) around the picnic table. 3. The photograph (was, were) a gift from my cousin. ...
... For each sentence, identify the subject, and then choose the verb in parentheses that agrees with the subject. 1. The water (rushes, rush) down the river. 2. The bees (buzzes, buzz) around the picnic table. 3. The photograph (was, were) a gift from my cousin. ...
Using Subject-Verb Agreement
... For each sentence, identify the subject, and then choose the verb in parentheses that agrees with the subject. 1. The water (rushes, rush) down the river. 2. The bees (buzzes, buzz) around the picnic table. 3. The photograph (was, were) a gift from my cousin. ...
... For each sentence, identify the subject, and then choose the verb in parentheses that agrees with the subject. 1. The water (rushes, rush) down the river. 2. The bees (buzzes, buzz) around the picnic table. 3. The photograph (was, were) a gift from my cousin. ...
Agreement of Subject and Verb Rule 5b: Some indefinite pronouns
... territory. When the subject follows the verb, find the subject [women] and make sure that the verb [was, which should be were] agrees with it. 2. The store, the hotel, and the airport is all in a ten-mile radius of the beach. Subjects that are joined by and [the store, the hotel, and the airport] ge ...
... territory. When the subject follows the verb, find the subject [women] and make sure that the verb [was, which should be were] agrees with it. 2. The store, the hotel, and the airport is all in a ten-mile radius of the beach. Subjects that are joined by and [the store, the hotel, and the airport] ge ...
syntax_2
... • Sentence is a general term for a long string of words but sentences can be made up of one or more clauses, syntactic units. e.g. The gorillas thought that they spotted the sandwiches when they were strolling through the jungle. The sentence above contains two smaller clauses. ...
... • Sentence is a general term for a long string of words but sentences can be made up of one or more clauses, syntactic units. e.g. The gorillas thought that they spotted the sandwiches when they were strolling through the jungle. The sentence above contains two smaller clauses. ...
11a ADJECTIVES AND ADVERBS
... While many adverbs do end in -ly (eat swiftly, eat frequently, eat hungrily), some do not (eat fast, eat often, eat seldom). To complicate matters further, some adjectives end in -ly (lovely flower, friendly dog). Use meaning, not an -ly ending, to identify adverbs. E S L N O T E S : (1) In English, ...
... While many adverbs do end in -ly (eat swiftly, eat frequently, eat hungrily), some do not (eat fast, eat often, eat seldom). To complicate matters further, some adjectives end in -ly (lovely flower, friendly dog). Use meaning, not an -ly ending, to identify adverbs. E S L N O T E S : (1) In English, ...
Universidade de São Paulo - USP
... technology to apply to (a version of) the annotated corpus, namely that usual in POS taggers and blind but to a very few words contiguously surrounding the current target word. Therefore, it seemed just fair to avoid all refinement that was really not likely to be learnt, such as NILC Tagset’s anno ...
... technology to apply to (a version of) the annotated corpus, namely that usual in POS taggers and blind but to a very few words contiguously surrounding the current target word. Therefore, it seemed just fair to avoid all refinement that was really not likely to be learnt, such as NILC Tagset’s anno ...
The Present Perfect Tense
... something that was true in the past and is still true. The sentence, "I have lived here for ten years," means that ten years ago I lived here, I still live here, and I have lived here all the time in between. We also use this tense to indicate that an action was completed recendy: I can’t go out to ...
... something that was true in the past and is still true. The sentence, "I have lived here for ten years," means that ten years ago I lived here, I still live here, and I have lived here all the time in between. We also use this tense to indicate that an action was completed recendy: I can’t go out to ...
Part-of-speech tagging, Parsing
... • Possessive pronouns (my, your, her) followed by nouns • Personal pronouns (I, you, he) likely to be followed by verbs • Need to know if a word is an N or V before you can parse • Information extraction • Finding names, relations, etc. ...
... • Possessive pronouns (my, your, her) followed by nouns • Personal pronouns (I, you, he) likely to be followed by verbs • Need to know if a word is an N or V before you can parse • Information extraction • Finding names, relations, etc. ...
latin i form i - Covington Latin School
... 1. Students will pronounce and read Latin with fluency. 2. Students will read and comprehend basic Latin sentences. 3. Students will better understand the English language. 4. Students will become “culturally literate,” particularly in the areas of history and mythology. Course Objectives: 1. Studen ...
... 1. Students will pronounce and read Latin with fluency. 2. Students will read and comprehend basic Latin sentences. 3. Students will better understand the English language. 4. Students will become “culturally literate,” particularly in the areas of history and mythology. Course Objectives: 1. Studen ...
Action and Linking Verbs
... There are no DOs in the following sentences. We arrived on time yesterday. You cannot arrive something so this verb is always intransitive. The audience applauded for three minutes. The audience applauded what? There is no answer to that question in this sentence. The verb APPLAUDED does not have a ...
... There are no DOs in the following sentences. We arrived on time yesterday. You cannot arrive something so this verb is always intransitive. The audience applauded for three minutes. The audience applauded what? There is no answer to that question in this sentence. The verb APPLAUDED does not have a ...
The Simple Present Tense
... It is often used to indicate that an action was going on at a time when something else more important happened. The new action is expressed by the simple past tense. While we were playing, the school bell rang. As I was having breakfast, the postman knocked at the door. The referee blew the whistle ...
... It is often used to indicate that an action was going on at a time when something else more important happened. The new action is expressed by the simple past tense. While we were playing, the school bell rang. As I was having breakfast, the postman knocked at the door. The referee blew the whistle ...
Newsletter 1 - Moreland Primary School
... at your own level so that you can teach and assess children’s work with confidence. The workbook is designed as an activity booklet to help you read and understand the grammar requirements outlined in the English national curriculum programmes of study and English Appendix 2. Please refer to these ...
... at your own level so that you can teach and assess children’s work with confidence. The workbook is designed as an activity booklet to help you read and understand the grammar requirements outlined in the English national curriculum programmes of study and English Appendix 2. Please refer to these ...
Making Virtue of Necessity: a Verb Lexicon
... in the CoNLL-X Shared Task in dependency parsing (2006); and very recently it has been converted to Universal Dependencies [21]. The corpus consists of texts in Portuguese (both from Brazil and Portugal) annotated (and analyzed) automatically by the syntactic parser PALAVRAS [4] and reviewed by trai ...
... in the CoNLL-X Shared Task in dependency parsing (2006); and very recently it has been converted to Universal Dependencies [21]. The corpus consists of texts in Portuguese (both from Brazil and Portugal) annotated (and analyzed) automatically by the syntactic parser PALAVRAS [4] and reviewed by trai ...
full text - Alexandre Rademaker
... in the CoNLL-X Shared Task in dependency parsing (2006); and very recently it has been converted to Universal Dependencies [21]. The corpus consists of texts in Portuguese (both from Brazil and Portugal) annotated (and analyzed) automatically by the syntactic parser PALAVRAS [4] and reviewed by trai ...
... in the CoNLL-X Shared Task in dependency parsing (2006); and very recently it has been converted to Universal Dependencies [21]. The corpus consists of texts in Portuguese (both from Brazil and Portugal) annotated (and analyzed) automatically by the syntactic parser PALAVRAS [4] and reviewed by trai ...
THE PASSIVE
... In this example the subject receives the action of the verb. The performer of the action, if mentioned, is introduced by the word “by”. The performer is called the agent. Verbs in the passive voice can occur in all different tenses. The tense of the auxiliary “to be” indicates the tense of the main ...
... In this example the subject receives the action of the verb. The performer of the action, if mentioned, is introduced by the word “by”. The performer is called the agent. Verbs in the passive voice can occur in all different tenses. The tense of the auxiliary “to be” indicates the tense of the main ...
Linguistic knowledge for specialized text production
... makes sudden, forcible contact with the IMPACTEE. Since frames refer to general situations, they include the verbs that can be used to depict each specific type of context. For example, the verbs crash, collide, impact, smash and strike belong to the IMPACT frame. Thus, they share the same actantial ...
... makes sudden, forcible contact with the IMPACTEE. Since frames refer to general situations, they include the verbs that can be used to depict each specific type of context. For example, the verbs crash, collide, impact, smash and strike belong to the IMPACT frame. Thus, they share the same actantial ...
Noun plurals
... Examples of the first type of persistent error would be using wrong articles, misusing the present and present progressive tenses, confusing present and past participles of verbs used as adjectives, and using the wrong relative pronoun in adjective clauses. Examples of the second type of constructio ...
... Examples of the first type of persistent error would be using wrong articles, misusing the present and present progressive tenses, confusing present and past participles of verbs used as adjectives, and using the wrong relative pronoun in adjective clauses. Examples of the second type of constructio ...