Present Tense
... If I were you, I would change the font size of the heading. If I were the manager, I would order new computers. ...
... If I were you, I would change the font size of the heading. If I were the manager, I would order new computers. ...
L2 Adjective and Adverb Phrases
... Over the course of the next few years, you will learn about many types of phrases, such as gerund, infinitive and participial phrases; appositive phrases, and a number of others. For the sake of our lesson today, let’s consider two types of prepositional phrases: adjective and adverb phrases. First ...
... Over the course of the next few years, you will learn about many types of phrases, such as gerund, infinitive and participial phrases; appositive phrases, and a number of others. For the sake of our lesson today, let’s consider two types of prepositional phrases: adjective and adverb phrases. First ...
Handbook - Nelson Education
... A phrase is a group of words that lacks either a verb, a subject, or both, and functions as a single unit in a sentence. There are many different types of phrases, each identified by the function it performs. A herd of gazelles grazed peacefully on the African plain. (noun phrase) The conflict has e ...
... A phrase is a group of words that lacks either a verb, a subject, or both, and functions as a single unit in a sentence. There are many different types of phrases, each identified by the function it performs. A herd of gazelles grazed peacefully on the African plain. (noun phrase) The conflict has e ...
Notes on Words, Phrases, Sentences and Clauses
... Notice that adverbial clauses are usually introduced by the subordinating conjunctions although, as, as if, as long as, as soon as, because, before, after, in order that, provided that, that, since, than, though, until, unless, when, whenever, where, wherever, whether, while, if, etc. Adverb(ial) cl ...
... Notice that adverbial clauses are usually introduced by the subordinating conjunctions although, as, as if, as long as, as soon as, because, before, after, in order that, provided that, that, since, than, though, until, unless, when, whenever, where, wherever, whether, while, if, etc. Adverb(ial) cl ...
syntax - Université d`Ottawa
... 2. The syntactic category is only determined when the word enters into a syntactic structure. • We will not resolve the issue in this class. We will assume position 1, although the reasoning behind position 2 may be discussed. ...
... 2. The syntactic category is only determined when the word enters into a syntactic structure. • We will not resolve the issue in this class. We will assume position 1, although the reasoning behind position 2 may be discussed. ...
Lab: Direct and Indirect Objects
... In order to communicate in both English and Spanish in an effective way, a person must know how to replace nouns used in certain contexts with pronouns. By using pronouns, people rid their sentences of redundancy and allow a more efficient way of communicating orally as well as on paper. In English, ...
... In order to communicate in both English and Spanish in an effective way, a person must know how to replace nouns used in certain contexts with pronouns. By using pronouns, people rid their sentences of redundancy and allow a more efficient way of communicating orally as well as on paper. In English, ...
Year 5-6 Spelling
... their ‘hard’ sounds (as in cap and gap) before the a of the –able ending. The –able ending is usually but not always used if a complete root word can be heard before it, even if there i ...
... their ‘hard’ sounds (as in cap and gap) before the a of the –able ending. The –able ending is usually but not always used if a complete root word can be heard before it, even if there i ...
Part-of-Speech Tagging - user.phil.uni
... determiners to serve as the subject of a verb, can be interpreted as singular or plural, can be replaced with a pronoun, and refer to an entity, quality, state, action, or concept [Merriam-Webster] ...
... determiners to serve as the subject of a verb, can be interpreted as singular or plural, can be replaced with a pronoun, and refer to an entity, quality, state, action, or concept [Merriam-Webster] ...
Troublesome Verbs
... himself or herself. It's what grammarians call a complete verb. When accompanied by subjects, complete verbs tell the whole story. • Lay, on the other hand, means that the subject is acting on something or someone else; therefore, it requires a complement to make sense. Thus lay always takes a direc ...
... himself or herself. It's what grammarians call a complete verb. When accompanied by subjects, complete verbs tell the whole story. • Lay, on the other hand, means that the subject is acting on something or someone else; therefore, it requires a complement to make sense. Thus lay always takes a direc ...
Gerunds and Infinitives
... read, to eat, to slurp—all of these are infinitives. An infinitive will almost always begin with to followed by the simple form of the verb, like this: The verb itself preceded by ‘to’ = infinitive (To + Verb = Infinitive) ...
... read, to eat, to slurp—all of these are infinitives. An infinitive will almost always begin with to followed by the simple form of the verb, like this: The verb itself preceded by ‘to’ = infinitive (To + Verb = Infinitive) ...
Adverbs
... sentence. When this is true, as it almost always is, the adverb is called an adjunct. When the adverb does not fit into the flow of the clause, it is called a disjunct or a conjunct and is often set off by a comma or set of commas. A disjunct frequently acts as a kind of evaluation of the rest of th ...
... sentence. When this is true, as it almost always is, the adverb is called an adjunct. When the adverb does not fit into the flow of the clause, it is called a disjunct or a conjunct and is often set off by a comma or set of commas. A disjunct frequently acts as a kind of evaluation of the rest of th ...
MORPHOLOGY I
... b) modifiers (They attend a women’s university. / She lives in a quaint old shepherd’s cottage.) c) independent genitive (Jennifer’s is the only face I recognize/He has a devotion to work like his father’s.) d) post-genitive / double-genitive (A sister of George’s is coming to stay with us.) ...
... b) modifiers (They attend a women’s university. / She lives in a quaint old shepherd’s cottage.) c) independent genitive (Jennifer’s is the only face I recognize/He has a devotion to work like his father’s.) d) post-genitive / double-genitive (A sister of George’s is coming to stay with us.) ...
error correction symbol list
... Active Voice/Passive Voice- Active voice should have been used instead of passive voice, or vice versa. For example, the passive voice sentence “It was seemed interesting” should be written in the active voice: “It seemed interesting.” The passive voice cannot be used with intransitive (non-action) ...
... Active Voice/Passive Voice- Active voice should have been used instead of passive voice, or vice versa. For example, the passive voice sentence “It was seemed interesting” should be written in the active voice: “It seemed interesting.” The passive voice cannot be used with intransitive (non-action) ...
Direct and Indirect Objects
... A direct object (a noun or pronoun) is the person or thing that receives the action of an action verb. An indirect object (noun or pronoun) is the person or thing that receives the direct object; the indirect object always comes before the direct object. The controller gave the pilot the instruction ...
... A direct object (a noun or pronoun) is the person or thing that receives the action of an action verb. An indirect object (noun or pronoun) is the person or thing that receives the direct object; the indirect object always comes before the direct object. The controller gave the pilot the instruction ...
MATHEMATICAL MODEL FOR TRANSFORMATION OF
... Formal work in linguistics has both produced and used important mathematical tools. Motivated by a survey of models for context and word meaning, syntactic categories, phrase structure rules and trees, an attempt is being made in the present paper to present a mathematical model for structuring of s ...
... Formal work in linguistics has both produced and used important mathematical tools. Motivated by a survey of models for context and word meaning, syntactic categories, phrase structure rules and trees, an attempt is being made in the present paper to present a mathematical model for structuring of s ...
Avoiding Comma Splices and Fused Sentences
... Subjects and Predicates Parts of speech have specific tasks to perform when they are put together in a sentence. A noun or pronoun functions as the sentence subject when it is paired with a verb functioning as the sentence predicate. Every sentence has a subject and predicate. A subject can be a nou ...
... Subjects and Predicates Parts of speech have specific tasks to perform when they are put together in a sentence. A noun or pronoun functions as the sentence subject when it is paired with a verb functioning as the sentence predicate. Every sentence has a subject and predicate. A subject can be a nou ...
HFCC Learning Lab Sentence Structure, 4.63 A POSITIVE
... sentence. The passive voice is of course, a legitimate grammatical construction in the English language and does have some practical uses. For example, if a writer finds that he needs a distant or formal tone, he might write. It has been determined that your job is no longer necessary and you are he ...
... sentence. The passive voice is of course, a legitimate grammatical construction in the English language and does have some practical uses. For example, if a writer finds that he needs a distant or formal tone, he might write. It has been determined that your job is no longer necessary and you are he ...
Syntactic Analysis
... having a theory of movement in syntax does not seem so out of place or ad hoc given the empirical evidence. We therefore have our first parameter, which I will simply call the SUBJECT MOVEMENT PARAMETER - languages either move subjects to specifier of IP or keep them inert in the specifier of VP whe ...
... having a theory of movement in syntax does not seem so out of place or ad hoc given the empirical evidence. We therefore have our first parameter, which I will simply call the SUBJECT MOVEMENT PARAMETER - languages either move subjects to specifier of IP or keep them inert in the specifier of VP whe ...
`Matching pair` and related locutions
... (and so, if they are to be consistent, cannot also use it as I have said is natural) or, because of that naturalness, they are found to be using it inconsistently to cover both subjects and subject-locutions, as at QPS2 I point out that Sir Ernest and Rebecca Gowers have done in combining with their ...
... (and so, if they are to be consistent, cannot also use it as I have said is natural) or, because of that naturalness, they are found to be using it inconsistently to cover both subjects and subject-locutions, as at QPS2 I point out that Sir Ernest and Rebecca Gowers have done in combining with their ...
Unit 5: Adverbs_Notes
... In the sentence above this one, you can move in the park to the front of the sentence without changing its meaning. That tells you that it modifies the verb. When prepositional phrases come at the beginning of a sentence, they almost always modify the verb. SOME HANDY LITTLE NOTES: Many adverbs end ...
... In the sentence above this one, you can move in the park to the front of the sentence without changing its meaning. That tells you that it modifies the verb. When prepositional phrases come at the beginning of a sentence, they almost always modify the verb. SOME HANDY LITTLE NOTES: Many adverbs end ...
Grammar Crammer: Verbals A verbal is a verb form which functions
... 1. Running is hard work! 2. The baked bread smelled amazing! 3. After my voice lessons, my singing improved dramatically. 4. To find buried treasure with my metal detector is my dream! 5. I could see the blowing trees out my window. 6. Living in the US is a wonderful opportunity many wish to have. ...
... 1. Running is hard work! 2. The baked bread smelled amazing! 3. After my voice lessons, my singing improved dramatically. 4. To find buried treasure with my metal detector is my dream! 5. I could see the blowing trees out my window. 6. Living in the US is a wonderful opportunity many wish to have. ...
Sentence Connectors and Transitions
... There are many conjunctive adverbs in English; however, some of the most common are: ADDITIONALLY, MOREOVER – connects two similar ideas HOWEVER, NEVERTHELESS, IN CONTRAST – connects two contrasting ideas THEREFORE, CONSEQUENTLY, THUS – connects a result to a preceding cause FOR EXAMPLE, FOR INSTANC ...
... There are many conjunctive adverbs in English; however, some of the most common are: ADDITIONALLY, MOREOVER – connects two similar ideas HOWEVER, NEVERTHELESS, IN CONTRAST – connects two contrasting ideas THEREFORE, CONSEQUENTLY, THUS – connects a result to a preceding cause FOR EXAMPLE, FOR INSTANC ...
Writing technical prose
... Place old information that links back in the subject position, and put new information that you want readers to attend to at the point of emphasis: “A major strength of this study was the detail with which the variables were collected. This detail allowed for more precise estimates [data] of the eff ...
... Place old information that links back in the subject position, and put new information that you want readers to attend to at the point of emphasis: “A major strength of this study was the detail with which the variables were collected. This detail allowed for more precise estimates [data] of the eff ...
English auxiliary verbs
... Auxiliary verbs serve grammatical functions, for this reason they are said to belong to the functional category of words. The main auxiliary verbs in English are DO, BE and HAVE. Others, which serve to mark ASPECT, MOOD and VOICE include, amongst others CAN, MAY, MIGHT, MUST, OUGHT TO, SHOULD, WILL ...
... Auxiliary verbs serve grammatical functions, for this reason they are said to belong to the functional category of words. The main auxiliary verbs in English are DO, BE and HAVE. Others, which serve to mark ASPECT, MOOD and VOICE include, amongst others CAN, MAY, MIGHT, MUST, OUGHT TO, SHOULD, WILL ...
Chinese grammar
This article concerns Standard Chinese. For the grammars of other forms of Chinese, see their respective articles via links on Chinese language and varieties of Chinese.The grammar of Standard Chinese shares many features with other varieties of Chinese. The language almost entirely lacks inflection, so that words typically have only one grammatical form. Categories such as number (singular or plural) and verb tense are frequently not expressed by any grammatical means, although there are several particles that serve to express verbal aspect, and to some extent mood.The basic word order is subject–verb–object (SVO). Otherwise, Chinese is chiefly a head-last language, meaning that modifiers precede the words they modify – in a noun phrase, for example, the head noun comes last, and all modifiers, including relative clauses, come in front of it. (This phenomenon is more typically found in SOV languages like Turkish and Japanese.)Chinese frequently uses serial verb constructions, which involve two or more verbs or verb phrases in sequence. Chinese prepositions behave similarly to serialized verbs in some respects (several of the common prepositions can also be used as full verbs), and they are often referred to as coverbs. There are also location markers, placed after a noun, and hence often called postpositions; these are often used in combination with a coverb. Predicate adjectives are normally used without a copular verb (""to be""), and can thus be regarded as a type of verb.As in many east Asian languages, classifiers or measure words are required when using numerals (and sometimes other words such as demonstratives) with nouns. There are many different classifiers in the language, and each countable noun generally has a particular classifier associated with it. Informally, however, it is often acceptable to use the general classifier 个 [個] ge in place of other specific classifiers.Examples given in this article use simplified Chinese characters (with the traditional characters following in brackets if they differ) and standard pinyin Romanization.