Clear and Emphatic Sentences
... Emphatic sentences can be used in expressing opinions, disagreeing, making strong suggestions, expressing annoyance, etc.Any sentence can be made emphatic by emphasizing on a particular subject, object or verb.There are a number of ways to add emphasis to your sentences in English. Creating an empha ...
... Emphatic sentences can be used in expressing opinions, disagreeing, making strong suggestions, expressing annoyance, etc.Any sentence can be made emphatic by emphasizing on a particular subject, object or verb.There are a number of ways to add emphasis to your sentences in English. Creating an empha ...
Non-concord in Existential-There Constructions: A Corpus - S
... Language 12, 111-137. Non-concord between the notional subject and the verb is an oft-cited characteristic of existential there-constructions. Recognizing some limitations of the previous studies (Meechan & Foley, 1994; Insua & Martinez, 2003), this paper seeks to resolve them by leading a more focu ...
... Language 12, 111-137. Non-concord between the notional subject and the verb is an oft-cited characteristic of existential there-constructions. Recognizing some limitations of the previous studies (Meechan & Foley, 1994; Insua & Martinez, 2003), this paper seeks to resolve them by leading a more focu ...
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... they may actually contain a subject and a verb. However, these nouns and verbs do not form an independent clause when they follow subordinating conjunctions, adverbs, or relative pronouns. (See below for an explanation of these terms.) Example of a sentence fragment: After the party starts. party=su ...
... they may actually contain a subject and a verb. However, these nouns and verbs do not form an independent clause when they follow subordinating conjunctions, adverbs, or relative pronouns. (See below for an explanation of these terms.) Example of a sentence fragment: After the party starts. party=su ...
Conceptual plural information is used to guide early
... b. collective/plural (assemblage) The gang near the motorcycles. In both of these cases, the appropriate verb would be is – singular – because gang is a singular noun (*the gang are here, in American English). However, participants produced significantly more plural verb continuations (were) with dis ...
... b. collective/plural (assemblage) The gang near the motorcycles. In both of these cases, the appropriate verb would be is – singular – because gang is a singular noun (*the gang are here, in American English). However, participants produced significantly more plural verb continuations (were) with dis ...
Notes on Demonstratives in Kutenai
... Despite the fact that the obviative forms nas ‘this’ and qus (qu÷s) ‘that (more distant) are the two most frequent demonstrative forms in the texts, there is not one clear instance of either of them occurring adnominally with a concrete noun, though there are instances with locational nouns (see bel ...
... Despite the fact that the obviative forms nas ‘this’ and qus (qu÷s) ‘that (more distant) are the two most frequent demonstrative forms in the texts, there is not one clear instance of either of them occurring adnominally with a concrete noun, though there are instances with locational nouns (see bel ...
Comments on Abusch`s theory of tense
... belief: it tells us something about what kind of world he locates himself in, but nothing about where he locates himself in time. As far as this asserted proposition goes, John might have viewed Bill's 40th birthday as past, present, or future, or he might have been agnostic about the matter. Let us ...
... belief: it tells us something about what kind of world he locates himself in, but nothing about where he locates himself in time. As far as this asserted proposition goes, John might have viewed Bill's 40th birthday as past, present, or future, or he might have been agnostic about the matter. Let us ...
Report of group II of the GU project in MT research
... must be included units of such varied structure as individual words serving as headings, as well as elaborate multiclause constructions. We therefore divide MT sentences into the following types: clauseless sentences (those, such as headings, made up of less than a clause) clause sentences single-cl ...
... must be included units of such varied structure as individual words serving as headings, as well as elaborate multiclause constructions. We therefore divide MT sentences into the following types: clauseless sentences (those, such as headings, made up of less than a clause) clause sentences single-cl ...
Investigating the abstractness of children`s early knowledge of
... Tomasello’s experiments rest on faulty assumptions. First, she claims that Tomasello’s experiments rest on the assumption that children will infer ‘ that any new verb could be used transitively ’, which is why when children fail to produce transitives in elicitation tasks, this is taken as evidence ...
... Tomasello’s experiments rest on faulty assumptions. First, she claims that Tomasello’s experiments rest on the assumption that children will infer ‘ that any new verb could be used transitively ’, which is why when children fail to produce transitives in elicitation tasks, this is taken as evidence ...
Run-on Sentences, Comma Splices and Fragments
... they may actually contain a subject and a verb. However, these nouns and verbs do not form an independent clause when they follow subordinating conjunctions, adverbs, or relative pronouns. (See below for an explanation of these terms.) ...
... they may actually contain a subject and a verb. However, these nouns and verbs do not form an independent clause when they follow subordinating conjunctions, adverbs, or relative pronouns. (See below for an explanation of these terms.) ...
AvoidingRun OnsCommaSplicesFragmentsJuly08
... they may actually contain a subject and a verb. However, these nouns and verbs do not form an independent clause when they follow subordinating conjunctions, adverbs, or relative pronouns. (See below for an explanation of these terms.) ...
... they may actually contain a subject and a verb. However, these nouns and verbs do not form an independent clause when they follow subordinating conjunctions, adverbs, or relative pronouns. (See below for an explanation of these terms.) ...
Negation in Mauwake, a Papuan language
... Amele has two particles, qee for statements and cain for commands, but it uses verbal affixes as well. In the indicative verbs there is an intricate interplay of particles and affixes in the different tenses (Roberts 1987: 110). Hua uses a negative prefix ´a´- on verbs, and a negative particle ´a´a ...
... Amele has two particles, qee for statements and cain for commands, but it uses verbal affixes as well. In the indicative verbs there is an intricate interplay of particles and affixes in the different tenses (Roberts 1987: 110). Hua uses a negative prefix ´a´- on verbs, and a negative particle ´a´a ...
phrasal verbs with the particles down and up in english and their
... systems, the reason it is used in the paper as an important starting-point for the indepth analysis of phrasal verbs in English and their Serbian equivalents, becomes rather obvious. The overriding purpose of any translation should be to achieve equivalent effect, i.e. to produce the same effect or ...
... systems, the reason it is used in the paper as an important starting-point for the indepth analysis of phrasal verbs in English and their Serbian equivalents, becomes rather obvious. The overriding purpose of any translation should be to achieve equivalent effect, i.e. to produce the same effect or ...
1 The College Guide to Brushing Up On Grammar and Style
... Identify the sentence’s clauses. A clause is a word group containing a subject, a verb, and any objects, complements, or modifiers. o Independent clauses can stand alone as sentences. o Dependent clauses begin with subordinating conjunctions and cannot stand alone as sentences. The most c ...
... Identify the sentence’s clauses. A clause is a word group containing a subject, a verb, and any objects, complements, or modifiers. o Independent clauses can stand alone as sentences. o Dependent clauses begin with subordinating conjunctions and cannot stand alone as sentences. The most c ...
The impersonal verb in Old Icelandic
... constructions with a modal verb, (b) those with a passive verb, (c) those with a past participle not part of a tense or of the passive, (d) constructions with a direct object in addition to some other feature specified in the main classes, such as another direct object or a prepositional phrase, (e) ...
... constructions with a modal verb, (b) those with a passive verb, (c) those with a past participle not part of a tense or of the passive, (d) constructions with a direct object in addition to some other feature specified in the main classes, such as another direct object or a prepositional phrase, (e) ...
Chapter 8 The verb complex
... Numerous modal, aspectual and tense marking forms may precede a predication's verbal head. Two, the abilitative boka and the desiderative manahagi, function both as main verbs, and as pre-head adverbials. Others are phonologically independent, but occur only as modifiers, while still others combine ...
... Numerous modal, aspectual and tense marking forms may precede a predication's verbal head. Two, the abilitative boka and the desiderative manahagi, function both as main verbs, and as pre-head adverbials. Others are phonologically independent, but occur only as modifiers, while still others combine ...
WRL3410.tmp - Princeton University
... (cf. related proposals in Lakoff 1965; Hale and Keyser 1993). However, such an account would still have to explain the difference between sweep in 1a and the examples in 2-7. What is the independent evidence that would lead one to conclude that verbs in 2-7 are, despite all appearances, derived from ...
... (cf. related proposals in Lakoff 1965; Hale and Keyser 1993). However, such an account would still have to explain the difference between sweep in 1a and the examples in 2-7. What is the independent evidence that would lead one to conclude that verbs in 2-7 are, despite all appearances, derived from ...
Contents - David Crystal
... 'Wh-questions' begin with a question word, such as what, why, where, Cl' h,,~ I1 kind of question can have a wide range of different replies. The answer n1,lYI" I h sentence, or one which leaves out the words that you can guess from knowlllll 11 question. Here too, you need to change the order of su ...
... 'Wh-questions' begin with a question word, such as what, why, where, Cl' h,,~ I1 kind of question can have a wide range of different replies. The answer n1,lYI" I h sentence, or one which leaves out the words that you can guess from knowlllll 11 question. Here too, you need to change the order of su ...
Transformation Of sentences
... C. The students are studying because they have a test tomorrow. D. After they finished studying, Juan and Maria went to the movies. E. Juan and Maria went to the movies after they finished studying. When a complex sentence begins with a subordinator such as sentences A and D, a comma is required at ...
... C. The students are studying because they have a test tomorrow. D. After they finished studying, Juan and Maria went to the movies. E. Juan and Maria went to the movies after they finished studying. When a complex sentence begins with a subordinator such as sentences A and D, a comma is required at ...
Middle Egyptian Grammar
... elephant stands for Abw “Elephantine” and the determinative designates foreign land. The Chinese story we just read raised a few basic issues in the Chinese and Middle Egyptian languages. The past 10 years of teaching an introductory course in Middle Egyptian at Rutgers University-Camden convinced t ...
... elephant stands for Abw “Elephantine” and the determinative designates foreign land. The Chinese story we just read raised a few basic issues in the Chinese and Middle Egyptian languages. The past 10 years of teaching an introductory course in Middle Egyptian at Rutgers University-Camden convinced t ...
International Workshop on Nominalizers and Copulas in East Asian
... People speaking Proto-Tamangic entered Nepal from Tibet between fifteen hundred and two thousand years ago. The center of their radiation is the upper Kali Gandaki Valley; from there the Tamangs and later the Gurungs moved east. The Tamagic languages are notable for the extensive use made of nominal ...
... People speaking Proto-Tamangic entered Nepal from Tibet between fifteen hundred and two thousand years ago. The center of their radiation is the upper Kali Gandaki Valley; from there the Tamangs and later the Gurungs moved east. The Tamagic languages are notable for the extensive use made of nominal ...
10. Essay writing. Sentence Structure
... Why is it important to study sentence structure? Although even native speakers of English instinctively know how to speak grammatically, as writers even they can make errors if they don’t fully understand how the parts of a sentence work together. For writers, another important issue is knowing how ...
... Why is it important to study sentence structure? Although even native speakers of English instinctively know how to speak grammatically, as writers even they can make errors if they don’t fully understand how the parts of a sentence work together. For writers, another important issue is knowing how ...
Practice - Oak Park Elementary School District 97
... 4. her head felt as though it were stuffed with cotton 5. Have you seen her suitcases 6. what time does her flight leave 7. Go get someone to help with those heavy bags 8. She was so excited to fly in an airplane 9. avery anderson is our flight attendant 10. The pilot asked us to take our seats Rewr ...
... 4. her head felt as though it were stuffed with cotton 5. Have you seen her suitcases 6. what time does her flight leave 7. Go get someone to help with those heavy bags 8. She was so excited to fly in an airplane 9. avery anderson is our flight attendant 10. The pilot asked us to take our seats Rewr ...
Writing conventions: Spelling
... • In informal written language, such as personal letters, notes, some advertisements, etc., where words showing emotion are written as if they are being directed at a particular person. The exclamation mark may indicate shock, surprise, or even amusement. You should see it! I nearly died! Buy now, p ...
... • In informal written language, such as personal letters, notes, some advertisements, etc., where words showing emotion are written as if they are being directed at a particular person. The exclamation mark may indicate shock, surprise, or even amusement. You should see it! I nearly died! Buy now, p ...
Now!
... Nouns are varied by Person, Number, Gender, and Case. Person is that relation existing between the speaker, those addressed and the subject under consideration, whether by discourse or correspondence. The Persons are _First_, _ Second _ and _Third_ and they represent respectively the speaker, the pe ...
... Nouns are varied by Person, Number, Gender, and Case. Person is that relation existing between the speaker, those addressed and the subject under consideration, whether by discourse or correspondence. The Persons are _First_, _ Second _ and _Third_ and they represent respectively the speaker, the pe ...