Тема 6 THE PASSIVE VOICE The voice is one of the categories of
... e) with the verbs to resemble, to suit, to become, to have and to possess: Tom resembles his father. We have a lot of relatives. The number of passive constructions in English is much greater than in other languages. Most verbs with an object (transitive verbs) can be made passive. ...
... e) with the verbs to resemble, to suit, to become, to have and to possess: Tom resembles his father. We have a lot of relatives. The number of passive constructions in English is much greater than in other languages. Most verbs with an object (transitive verbs) can be made passive. ...
MSc Introduction to Syntax - Linguistics and English Language
... situation we are dealing with, and there are elements that describe which things are involved as participants in the event or situation. A thing that refers to the type of event or state we are dealing with is termed a predicate, while the things that refer to the participants in the event/state are ...
... situation we are dealing with, and there are elements that describe which things are involved as participants in the event or situation. A thing that refers to the type of event or state we are dealing with is termed a predicate, while the things that refer to the participants in the event/state are ...
Sentence Building Soft Touch™ Dice: Set 1
... Sentence Building Cube Activity One to four students Materials: Selection of Dice, pencil, paper 1. Roll the Dice. 2. Place the Dice in logical order to make a sentence. 3. Record the sentence, changing or adding letters as needed to make it grammatical. ...
... Sentence Building Cube Activity One to four students Materials: Selection of Dice, pencil, paper 1. Roll the Dice. 2. Place the Dice in logical order to make a sentence. 3. Record the sentence, changing or adding letters as needed to make it grammatical. ...
Name: ____________ Hour: ______ Everything You Need to Know
... VII. Reflexive Pronouns reflect the action back on the subject of the sentence. Ex. Charlie asked himself if he really liked Marnie. (himself reflects back over the verb onto the subject Charlie. Himself is a reflexive pronoun). VIII. Intensive Pronouns come right after the antecedent and make the a ...
... VII. Reflexive Pronouns reflect the action back on the subject of the sentence. Ex. Charlie asked himself if he really liked Marnie. (himself reflects back over the verb onto the subject Charlie. Himself is a reflexive pronoun). VIII. Intensive Pronouns come right after the antecedent and make the a ...
Parts of Speech
... The basic form in English is the word. It is very important to find out as much as you can about a word when you learn a new one. One important fact is the word’s part of speech. From the part of speech, you will find out how the word functions or works. In English, there are eight parts of speech: ...
... The basic form in English is the word. It is very important to find out as much as you can about a word when you learn a new one. One important fact is the word’s part of speech. From the part of speech, you will find out how the word functions or works. In English, there are eight parts of speech: ...
Restrictive and Nonrestrictive Clauses -- Debate
... • Relative pronouns and relative adverbs not only introduce adjective clauses, but also function within the subordinate clause. They: – Connect the adjective clause to the modified word and – Act within the clause as a subject, direct object, or other sentence part ...
... • Relative pronouns and relative adverbs not only introduce adjective clauses, but also function within the subordinate clause. They: – Connect the adjective clause to the modified word and – Act within the clause as a subject, direct object, or other sentence part ...
Propbank-Br - Association for Computational Linguistics
... parameters: EP corresponds to parsing errors or inadequacies, EC corresponds to corpus errors, like spelling or punctuation errors, and EV corresponds to invocation errors, like past participles used as adjectives. The other SALTO sentence flags (Reexamine, Interesting and Later) have been similarly ...
... parameters: EP corresponds to parsing errors or inadequacies, EC corresponds to corpus errors, like spelling or punctuation errors, and EV corresponds to invocation errors, like past participles used as adjectives. The other SALTO sentence flags (Reexamine, Interesting and Later) have been similarly ...
General Rules - University of Maryland, Baltimore
... Personal Pronouns Grouped with Nouns or Other Pronouns Sometimes you may be confused about which form of a personal pronoun to use when that pronoun is paired up with another noun or pronoun. Remember “I,” “he,” and “she” are subject forms, while “me,” “him,” and “her” are object forms. A simple way ...
... Personal Pronouns Grouped with Nouns or Other Pronouns Sometimes you may be confused about which form of a personal pronoun to use when that pronoun is paired up with another noun or pronoun. Remember “I,” “he,” and “she” are subject forms, while “me,” “him,” and “her” are object forms. A simple way ...
Automatic Extraction of Cause-Effect Relations in Natural Language Text
... are in a causal relation while in the following sentence the from pattern doesn’t evoke the same type of relation: “A man from Oxford with leprosy was cured by the water.” Although most of the existing approaches for discovering causal relations are centered on the extraction of a pair of words or n ...
... are in a causal relation while in the following sentence the from pattern doesn’t evoke the same type of relation: “A man from Oxford with leprosy was cured by the water.” Although most of the existing approaches for discovering causal relations are centered on the extraction of a pair of words or n ...
Verbal inflection and the structure of IP in German
... assumptions about verb-particle combinations, which are independently called for. ...
... assumptions about verb-particle combinations, which are independently called for. ...
Nostratic grammar: synthetic or analytic?
... *{y}iyo (see above), [3] the pronominal particle *ha 'ille' or *he 'that' + pronominal *sE 'he\she' (see above); the meaning of genitive is expressed here syntactically: in groups "noun N1 + nominal N2" the noun N1 functions as genitive, so that the nominal phrase "N1 *ha|e sE" means 'N1's that', i. ...
... *{y}iyo (see above), [3] the pronominal particle *ha 'ille' or *he 'that' + pronominal *sE 'he\she' (see above); the meaning of genitive is expressed here syntactically: in groups "noun N1 + nominal N2" the noun N1 functions as genitive, so that the nominal phrase "N1 *ha|e sE" means 'N1's that', i. ...
Grammar of Lingua Franca Nova
... Most sentences in LFN contain a verb phrase, typically denoting the occurrence of an action. A verb phrase consists of a verb plus any modifiers such as adverbs or prepositional phrases. Most sentences also contain at least one noun phrase, typically denoting a person or thing. A noun phrase consist ...
... Most sentences in LFN contain a verb phrase, typically denoting the occurrence of an action. A verb phrase consists of a verb plus any modifiers such as adverbs or prepositional phrases. Most sentences also contain at least one noun phrase, typically denoting a person or thing. A noun phrase consist ...
Daily Edit Week 36 May 14-18 Language Arts Horizonte Monday
... An indirect object is really a prepositional phrase in which the preposition to or for is not stated but understood. The indirect object always comes between the verb and the direct object in the sentence. For example: She gave me a gift.---me is the indirect object, indicates WHO it was given to; s ...
... An indirect object is really a prepositional phrase in which the preposition to or for is not stated but understood. The indirect object always comes between the verb and the direct object in the sentence. For example: She gave me a gift.---me is the indirect object, indicates WHO it was given to; s ...
Turkish Participles
... (45) bostan-in ic -in-e dana-lar gir -iyor garden-genin-3s-datcalf -pl enter-prog 'Calves are entering into the garden.' where bostan'garden' is genitive, and consequently a subject participle construction is permitted: (46) i'c-in-e dana-lar gir -en bostan in-3s-datcalf -pl enter-SP garden 'the gar ...
... (45) bostan-in ic -in-e dana-lar gir -iyor garden-genin-3s-datcalf -pl enter-prog 'Calves are entering into the garden.' where bostan'garden' is genitive, and consequently a subject participle construction is permitted: (46) i'c-in-e dana-lar gir -en bostan in-3s-datcalf -pl enter-SP garden 'the gar ...
Adverbs
... Although negative constructions like the words "not" and "never" are usually found embedded within a verb string — "He has never been much help to his mother." — they are technically not part of the verb; they are, indeed, adverbs. However, a socalled negative adverb creates a negative meaning in a ...
... Although negative constructions like the words "not" and "never" are usually found embedded within a verb string — "He has never been much help to his mother." — they are technically not part of the verb; they are, indeed, adverbs. However, a socalled negative adverb creates a negative meaning in a ...
Chapter 5
... in I am not sure whether she is at home. (prescriptive) 4. Definite and indefinite articles come before their nouns in English, as in the library and a restaurant. (descriptive) 5. Words are frequently converted from one part of speech to another; for example, the noun walk from the verb walk. (desc ...
... in I am not sure whether she is at home. (prescriptive) 4. Definite and indefinite articles come before their nouns in English, as in the library and a restaurant. (descriptive) 5. Words are frequently converted from one part of speech to another; for example, the noun walk from the verb walk. (desc ...
Gerundives
... accusative; means is ablative) 2.Put the noun in that case. 3.Make the gerundive agree with that noun in case, number and gender. 1.Remember, when translating a gerund or a gerundive phrase, always translate the gerund/gerundive first ...
... accusative; means is ablative) 2.Put the noun in that case. 3.Make the gerundive agree with that noun in case, number and gender. 1.Remember, when translating a gerund or a gerundive phrase, always translate the gerund/gerundive first ...
Prepositions
... Connecting adverbs and conjunctions • a. Stress and punctuation • In spoken English, a connecting adverb is usually given more stress than a conjunction. Correspondingly, in formal written English a connecting adverb is usually separated from the rest of a clause by commas, whereas a conjunction is ...
... Connecting adverbs and conjunctions • a. Stress and punctuation • In spoken English, a connecting adverb is usually given more stress than a conjunction. Correspondingly, in formal written English a connecting adverb is usually separated from the rest of a clause by commas, whereas a conjunction is ...
A Controlled Language for Knowledge Formulation on the Semantic
... We have found it useful to distinguish two types of applications: 1) knowledge transfer between people, e.g. in teaching or in any reference document, and 2) knowledge transfer from people to a KR system. We are mainly interested in the former, but CT is still highly applicable in the latter. Here o ...
... We have found it useful to distinguish two types of applications: 1) knowledge transfer between people, e.g. in teaching or in any reference document, and 2) knowledge transfer from people to a KR system. We are mainly interested in the former, but CT is still highly applicable in the latter. Here o ...
Valency classes in Yucatec Maya
... • With transitive verbs, the pronominal clitic cross-references the subject, while the suffix crossreferences the direct object. • With intransitive verbs, the pronominal element cross-references the subject. The syntagmatic slot chosen, with its paradigm, depends on the verb’s status, viz.: in comp ...
... • With transitive verbs, the pronominal clitic cross-references the subject, while the suffix crossreferences the direct object. • With intransitive verbs, the pronominal element cross-references the subject. The syntagmatic slot chosen, with its paradigm, depends on the verb’s status, viz.: in comp ...
camws review schedules
... 1 38 Latin Stories is meant to accompany Wheelock, but with some modification can be used to supplement any introductory textbook. Passages from other textbooks would be equally appropriate here - these are just suggestions! ...
... 1 38 Latin Stories is meant to accompany Wheelock, but with some modification can be used to supplement any introductory textbook. Passages from other textbooks would be equally appropriate here - these are just suggestions! ...
Noun incorporation and transitivity in Soninke (West Mande)
... choice of the intransitive variant of the predicative markers that have distinct forms in transitive and intransitive clauses. In other words, Soninke has morphologically unmarked passive constructions. We will return to this question in Section 4.4. 3. Morphologically coded valency alternations 3.1 ...
... choice of the intransitive variant of the predicative markers that have distinct forms in transitive and intransitive clauses. In other words, Soninke has morphologically unmarked passive constructions. We will return to this question in Section 4.4. 3. Morphologically coded valency alternations 3.1 ...