5th inaugral lecture - Copy - National Open University of Nigeria
... contain the verbal base alone or verbal base and the complement(s). This complement could either be direct, indirect, circumstantial etc. In their opinion, each sentence must have basic structure and it is to this basic structure that one could add either complements or adjuncts. These complements o ...
... contain the verbal base alone or verbal base and the complement(s). This complement could either be direct, indirect, circumstantial etc. In their opinion, each sentence must have basic structure and it is to this basic structure that one could add either complements or adjuncts. These complements o ...
A brief grammar of euskara - Addi - University of the Basque Country
... write 'the' in the gloss, so you can find it easily. Naming morphemes. You will notice also that I don't follow the standard practice of attaching a dash in front of a morpheme when mentioning it. I simply write the morpheme, or whichever form it takes more generally, as if I were quoting a word. Fo ...
... write 'the' in the gloss, so you can find it easily. Naming morphemes. You will notice also that I don't follow the standard practice of attaching a dash in front of a morpheme when mentioning it. I simply write the morpheme, or whichever form it takes more generally, as if I were quoting a word. Fo ...
Test 12 Writing Explanations
... compete with a large chain of super-stores that can afford to charge very low rates for certain items, the owners of small hardware stores know that they are unlikely to make much profit and may, in fact, go bankrupt. The error in this sentence occurs at (B), where there is a shift of pronoun. The s ...
... compete with a large chain of super-stores that can afford to charge very low rates for certain items, the owners of small hardware stores know that they are unlikely to make much profit and may, in fact, go bankrupt. The error in this sentence occurs at (B), where there is a shift of pronoun. The s ...
Instructor`s Manual to Accompany Understanding English Grammar
... are mome raths (like home bodies) and outgrabe is an irregular past tense (of outgribe perhaps?). They are all formed like regular English plurals. All are nouns though some more obviously so than others, e.g., reds and females with their plural marking and their occurrence after these and two respe ...
... are mome raths (like home bodies) and outgrabe is an irregular past tense (of outgribe perhaps?). They are all formed like regular English plurals. All are nouns though some more obviously so than others, e.g., reds and females with their plural marking and their occurrence after these and two respe ...
They are can, could, may, might, will, would, shall, should, must
... English verbs, in terms of their functions in forming verb phrases, fall into two major categories: main verbs and auxiliaries. Auxiliaries can again be divided into primary auxiliaries, modal auxiliaries, and semi-auxiliaries. ...
... English verbs, in terms of their functions in forming verb phrases, fall into two major categories: main verbs and auxiliaries. Auxiliaries can again be divided into primary auxiliaries, modal auxiliaries, and semi-auxiliaries. ...
Hyphen - Austin Peay State University
... parts to clarify meaning, and divide words at the end of lines. (Harbrace Handbook, 3rd ed.) Certain types of compound words, and certain prefixes and suffixes, require the use of a hyphen to indicate that the hyphenated word is one unit with one meaning. In some cases at the end of a line of text, ...
... parts to clarify meaning, and divide words at the end of lines. (Harbrace Handbook, 3rd ed.) Certain types of compound words, and certain prefixes and suffixes, require the use of a hyphen to indicate that the hyphenated word is one unit with one meaning. In some cases at the end of a line of text, ...
clause - cloudfront.net
... • There are 5 sample texts on the wall. • You will answer the questions for each fable on a separate sheet of paper. – Please write the title of the fable above the questions you are answering. – Please write in complete sentences. ...
... • There are 5 sample texts on the wall. • You will answer the questions for each fable on a separate sheet of paper. – Please write the title of the fable above the questions you are answering. – Please write in complete sentences. ...
Swarthmore College Writing Center
... Because Faulkner has written numerous novels, the writer must specify which one of them he’s referring to. Setting the title off with commas would suggest that it could be removed without changing the meaning of the sentence; however, the title is essential for meaning. For the same reason, restrict ...
... Because Faulkner has written numerous novels, the writer must specify which one of them he’s referring to. Setting the title off with commas would suggest that it could be removed without changing the meaning of the sentence; however, the title is essential for meaning. For the same reason, restrict ...
A grammar of Palula - Language Science Press
... 6.1 Introduction and overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.2 Personal pronouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.3 Demonstratives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.3.1 Relationship to the larger pro-form system 6.3.2 Demonstratives and third person . . . . . 6.3.3 Exophoric use . . . . . . ...
... 6.1 Introduction and overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.2 Personal pronouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.3 Demonstratives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.3.1 Relationship to the larger pro-form system 6.3.2 Demonstratives and third person . . . . . 6.3.3 Exophoric use . . . . . . ...
Arguments, Grammatical Relations, and Diathetic Paradigm
... the a-subject to the d-subject. The obliqueness change, in turn, aims at establishing a d-subject that is different from the a-subject by promoting another argument (typically, the a-object). The second aspect takes into consideration whether all arguments are paired with grammatical relations or a ...
... the a-subject to the d-subject. The obliqueness change, in turn, aims at establishing a d-subject that is different from the a-subject by promoting another argument (typically, the a-object). The second aspect takes into consideration whether all arguments are paired with grammatical relations or a ...
slips of speech - WATA - World Association of Arab Translators
... Avoid pet words, whether individual, provincial, or national in their use. Few persons are entirely free from the overuse of certain words. Young people largely employ such words as delightful, ...
... Avoid pet words, whether individual, provincial, or national in their use. Few persons are entirely free from the overuse of certain words. Young people largely employ such words as delightful, ...
Gros Ventre Student Grammar
... AI and II Verbs (Intransitive Verbs) As you have already gathered from the examples, the different people involved in activities and descriptions, as well as how many of them there are [singular or plural] is indicated by prefixes and suffxes attached directly to the verb, and they become a part of ...
... AI and II Verbs (Intransitive Verbs) As you have already gathered from the examples, the different people involved in activities and descriptions, as well as how many of them there are [singular or plural] is indicated by prefixes and suffxes attached directly to the verb, and they become a part of ...
The Gerund and the to-Infinitive as Subject
... the use of the -ing form in conditional contexts, in which there is no real occurrence of the -ing’s event to be referred to or validated. With regard to a use such as (16), (16) I took a deep breath. Being angry wouldn’t help, Conrad (1982, 116-17) attempts to explain the use of the gerund as due t ...
... the use of the -ing form in conditional contexts, in which there is no real occurrence of the -ing’s event to be referred to or validated. With regard to a use such as (16), (16) I took a deep breath. Being angry wouldn’t help, Conrad (1982, 116-17) attempts to explain the use of the gerund as due t ...
Adjectives and Adverbs
... A is used before words beginning with a consonant sound. An is used before words beginning with a vowel sound. a unit ...
... A is used before words beginning with a consonant sound. An is used before words beginning with a vowel sound. a unit ...
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 ...
Non-canonical applicatives and focalization in Tswana
... Since Tswana has multiple-object constructions, Tswana applicative constructions never imply the demotion of a direct object present in the construction of the same verb in its non-applicative form. Note however that there are limitations to the number of objects in the construction of derived verb ...
... Since Tswana has multiple-object constructions, Tswana applicative constructions never imply the demotion of a direct object present in the construction of the same verb in its non-applicative form. Note however that there are limitations to the number of objects in the construction of derived verb ...
web query structure: implications for ir system design
... query "‘alicia silverstone’ cutest crush batgirl babysitter clueless" serves as a good, and one of the few non-x-rated, examples of this particular pattern. In these cases, it is not clear at all that the words are serving the syntactic capacity that one would expect from their position in the query ...
... query "‘alicia silverstone’ cutest crush batgirl babysitter clueless" serves as a good, and one of the few non-x-rated, examples of this particular pattern. In these cases, it is not clear at all that the words are serving the syntactic capacity that one would expect from their position in the query ...
英语词汇学lecture 1-7
... Basic word stock refers to the words which can describe the basic concept and context and denote the commonest things necessary for life and the most indispensable things. 3. According to the origin ...
... Basic word stock refers to the words which can describe the basic concept and context and denote the commonest things necessary for life and the most indispensable things. 3. According to the origin ...
Template form in prosodic morphology
... as in so-soblak. For the same reason, gemination is impossible in stressed syllables; hence the continuous aspect of ánap ‘look for’ is a-ánap, not *a-ánnap. According to Shetler (1976: 33), stress is characterized by “an added mora of vowel length on non-final CV syllables”; therefore a stress ...
... as in so-soblak. For the same reason, gemination is impossible in stressed syllables; hence the continuous aspect of ánap ‘look for’ is a-ánap, not *a-ánnap. According to Shetler (1976: 33), stress is characterized by “an added mora of vowel length on non-final CV syllables”; therefore a stress ...
7. Specific Verb Classes and Alternations - Humboldt
... ‘Maria arrived.’ Third, there are languages in which the realization of the only argument of intransitive verbs may be different. For example, in Guaraní some intransitives encode their argument like the subject of transitive verbs, and some encode it like the object of transitives (see Mithun (1991 ...
... ‘Maria arrived.’ Third, there are languages in which the realization of the only argument of intransitive verbs may be different. For example, in Guaraní some intransitives encode their argument like the subject of transitive verbs, and some encode it like the object of transitives (see Mithun (1991 ...
Part-of-Speech Tagging
... of some action or process; and temporal adverbs describe the time that some action or event took place (yesterday, Monday). Because of the heterogeneous nature of this class, some adverbs (e.g., temporal adverbs like Monday) are tagged in some tagging schemes as nouns. The closed classes differ more ...
... of some action or process; and temporal adverbs describe the time that some action or event took place (yesterday, Monday). Because of the heterogeneous nature of this class, some adverbs (e.g., temporal adverbs like Monday) are tagged in some tagging schemes as nouns. The closed classes differ more ...
Using Unknown Word Techniques to Learn Known Words
... However, because of data sparseness problems, this method is only able to handle unigrams and bigrams. Another potential problem is the absence of criteria to determine when to use unigrams and when bigrams to represent forms within a given sentence. Consider the trigram w1 , w2 , w3 where w2 is the ...
... However, because of data sparseness problems, this method is only able to handle unigrams and bigrams. Another potential problem is the absence of criteria to determine when to use unigrams and when bigrams to represent forms within a given sentence. Consider the trigram w1 , w2 , w3 where w2 is the ...
A Comparative Study of Imperative Sentences in English and
... In Albanian the verb endings mark the person and in this way the meaning is clear. In 2nd person imperatives the subject should be used in the sentences, where the agent is not definite and the use of the subject is obligatory in order to make the meaning complete and clear: e.g. somebody call the p ...
... In Albanian the verb endings mark the person and in this way the meaning is clear. In 2nd person imperatives the subject should be used in the sentences, where the agent is not definite and the use of the subject is obligatory in order to make the meaning complete and clear: e.g. somebody call the p ...