Common Sentence Errors
... Fragment: I need to find a new roommate. Because the one I have now isn’t working out too well. Revision: I need to find a new roommate because the one I have now isn’t working out too well. EXCEPTION: Never use a comma before the word “because.” ...
... Fragment: I need to find a new roommate. Because the one I have now isn’t working out too well. Revision: I need to find a new roommate because the one I have now isn’t working out too well. EXCEPTION: Never use a comma before the word “because.” ...
Conjunction reduction and gapping in clause-level
... Before entering the empirical arena 1 wish t o point out that the remainder of this paper will be based on evidence from Dutch rather than English. Dutch, my native language, features considerable word order variation, in particular between main clauses (SVO, VSO) and subordinate clauses (SOV). This ...
... Before entering the empirical arena 1 wish t o point out that the remainder of this paper will be based on evidence from Dutch rather than English. Dutch, my native language, features considerable word order variation, in particular between main clauses (SVO, VSO) and subordinate clauses (SOV). This ...
Differentiating eventivity and dynamicity: the Aktionsart of
... In the first place, they pattern with statives with respect to their subinterval properties: “while processes involve a lower bound on the size of subintervals that are of the same type, states have no such lower bound. […] If for a certain time interval I it is true that, for example, Eva is standi ...
... In the first place, they pattern with statives with respect to their subinterval properties: “while processes involve a lower bound on the size of subintervals that are of the same type, states have no such lower bound. […] If for a certain time interval I it is true that, for example, Eva is standi ...
Style and Usage Guide - Geneseo Migrant Center
... The National PASS Center was initiated in 1997 as a result of the efforts of many individuals interested in the continuation of PASS (Portable Assisted Study Sequence) as a viable credit accrual option to assist migrant youth to successfully complete secondary education. These committed and dedicate ...
... The National PASS Center was initiated in 1997 as a result of the efforts of many individuals interested in the continuation of PASS (Portable Assisted Study Sequence) as a viable credit accrual option to assist migrant youth to successfully complete secondary education. These committed and dedicate ...
Level 4 Unit 8 - Grammar
... There are people in the world who have never traveled abroad. There’s a store around the corner that sells great bread. I sent some money to my sister who lives in America. ...
... There are people in the world who have never traveled abroad. There’s a store around the corner that sells great bread. I sent some money to my sister who lives in America. ...
Katharina Haude - Hal-SHS
... represented by pronouns or both by full noun phrases, reflecting an equal discourse status, then automatically the direct construction is used. This is the case in elicitation, and it is illustrated by the text example in (9), where both arguments are encoded as noun phrases: even though the actor i ...
... represented by pronouns or both by full noun phrases, reflecting an equal discourse status, then automatically the direct construction is used. This is the case in elicitation, and it is illustrated by the text example in (9), where both arguments are encoded as noun phrases: even though the actor i ...
Pinker, Chapter 4
... pairing of a sound with a meaning. The word dog does not look like a dog, walk like a dog, or woof like a dog, but it means "dog" just the same. It does so because every English speaker has undergone an identical act of rote learning in childhood that links the sound to the meaning. For the price of ...
... pairing of a sound with a meaning. The word dog does not look like a dog, walk like a dog, or woof like a dog, but it means "dog" just the same. It does so because every English speaker has undergone an identical act of rote learning in childhood that links the sound to the meaning. For the price of ...
tracked changes - LAGB Education Committee
... adopted by schools and textbook writers. It has been written and agreed by grammarians in UK universities, with the twin aims of providing the best possible combination of accessibility to school teachers and acceptability to grammarians. At the university level, grammar is a very active research ar ...
... adopted by schools and textbook writers. It has been written and agreed by grammarians in UK universities, with the twin aims of providing the best possible combination of accessibility to school teachers and acceptability to grammarians. At the university level, grammar is a very active research ar ...
Writing Handbook 2017
... A preposition usually indicates a relationship between the noun or pronoun that follows it (its object) and another word in the sentence (around the block, to the quarterback, after dinner). Common prepositions include: about, above, according to, across, after, against, along, along with, among, ar ...
... A preposition usually indicates a relationship between the noun or pronoun that follows it (its object) and another word in the sentence (around the block, to the quarterback, after dinner). Common prepositions include: about, above, according to, across, after, against, along, along with, among, ar ...
The Ergative, Absolutive, and Dative in Basque
... the better candidate for the function. One thing was apparent to everybody: the passivity theory introduced a lopsided view of diathesis, where transitive verbs were always passive, intransitive always active. I t would seem that transitivelintransitive would be a basic classification of verb classe ...
... the better candidate for the function. One thing was apparent to everybody: the passivity theory introduced a lopsided view of diathesis, where transitive verbs were always passive, intransitive always active. I t would seem that transitivelintransitive would be a basic classification of verb classe ...
tracked changes - LAGB Education Committee
... adopted by schools and textbook writers. It has been written and agreed by grammarians in UK universities, with the twin aims of providing the best possible combination of accessibility to school teachers and acceptability to grammarians. At the university level, grammar is a very active research ar ...
... adopted by schools and textbook writers. It has been written and agreed by grammarians in UK universities, with the twin aims of providing the best possible combination of accessibility to school teachers and acceptability to grammarians. At the university level, grammar is a very active research ar ...
clean - LAGB Education Committee
... adopted by schools and textbook writers. It has been written and agreed by grammarians in UK universities, with the twin aims of providing the best possible combination of accessibility to school teachers and acceptability to grammarians. At the university level, grammar is a very active research ar ...
... adopted by schools and textbook writers. It has been written and agreed by grammarians in UK universities, with the twin aims of providing the best possible combination of accessibility to school teachers and acceptability to grammarians. At the university level, grammar is a very active research ar ...
THE SIMPLE SENTENCE: COMMUNICATIVE TYPES
... Exercise 5. Classify the following sentences into two-member and one-member sentences (say whether they are complete or elliptical): 1. He stared amazed at the calmness of her answer. 2. We must go to meet the bus. Wouldn’t do to miss it. 3. Obedient little trees, fulfilling their duty. 4. Brown kne ...
... Exercise 5. Classify the following sentences into two-member and one-member sentences (say whether they are complete or elliptical): 1. He stared amazed at the calmness of her answer. 2. We must go to meet the bus. Wouldn’t do to miss it. 3. Obedient little trees, fulfilling their duty. 4. Brown kne ...
From parts of speech to the grammar
... the structure of dictionary definitions (which must follow what I call the “substitution principle” in my slang classes) and often shows them that grammar can be a lot more fun than they realized. Now, the slang words suck and bite used in (5) are not prototypical verbs (especially as the concept of ...
... the structure of dictionary definitions (which must follow what I call the “substitution principle” in my slang classes) and often shows them that grammar can be a lot more fun than they realized. Now, the slang words suck and bite used in (5) are not prototypical verbs (especially as the concept of ...
Light Nouns and predicative Infinitives
... There is no event of eating implied in the strict sense (one could do something else with this object, e.g. give it to somebody else), specifically there is no control relation between the subject of the matrix and an implied agent of the embedded construction (e.g. give me something to eat for the ...
... There is no event of eating implied in the strict sense (one could do something else with this object, e.g. give it to somebody else), specifically there is no control relation between the subject of the matrix and an implied agent of the embedded construction (e.g. give me something to eat for the ...
X - Louisiana Tech University
... her vocabulary and unwittingly misused words. The malapropism is a common literary device in comedies. Modern examples can be found in Archie Bunker’s use of English in the sit-com “All in the Family,” but earlier examples can be found in many of Shakespeare’s works. Make sure that you know what a w ...
... her vocabulary and unwittingly misused words. The malapropism is a common literary device in comedies. Modern examples can be found in Archie Bunker’s use of English in the sit-com “All in the Family,” but earlier examples can be found in many of Shakespeare’s works. Make sure that you know what a w ...
Checklist for Writing - Louisiana Tech University
... her vocabulary and unwittingly misused words. The malapropism is a common literary device in comedies. Modern examples can be found in Archie Bunker’s use of English in the sit-com “All in the Family,” but earlier examples can be found in many of Shakespeare’s works. Make sure that you know what a w ...
... her vocabulary and unwittingly misused words. The malapropism is a common literary device in comedies. Modern examples can be found in Archie Bunker’s use of English in the sit-com “All in the Family,” but earlier examples can be found in many of Shakespeare’s works. Make sure that you know what a w ...
Slide 1
... different from the subject of the main clause, two constructions are possible: either the genitive / possessive or the accusative: Do you mind him / his studying with us? After nouns in the possessive case. In formal English, nouns denoting persons are put into the possessive case: I couldn’t stand ...
... different from the subject of the main clause, two constructions are possible: either the genitive / possessive or the accusative: Do you mind him / his studying with us? After nouns in the possessive case. In formal English, nouns denoting persons are put into the possessive case: I couldn’t stand ...
ing form - Angelfire
... 10.4 Bare infinitive after had better, would rather, rather than, sooner than, cannot but, and could not but ............................................................................................................................................ 7 10.5 Bare infinitive after help ................ ...
... 10.4 Bare infinitive after had better, would rather, rather than, sooner than, cannot but, and could not but ............................................................................................................................................ 7 10.5 Bare infinitive after help ................ ...
Document
... be a nominal relative clause or an –ing clause. Both the nominal relative clause and the –ing clause have a range of functions similar to that of a noun phrase: 1. Complement as noun phrase Through the window 2. Complement as nominal relative clause From what I heard (from that which I heard) 3. Com ...
... be a nominal relative clause or an –ing clause. Both the nominal relative clause and the –ing clause have a range of functions similar to that of a noun phrase: 1. Complement as noun phrase Through the window 2. Complement as nominal relative clause From what I heard (from that which I heard) 3. Com ...
J93-2002 - ACL Anthology Reference Corpus
... 2.1 Finding Verbs Lerner identifies verbs in two stages, each carried out on a separate pass through the corpus. First, strings that sometimes occur as verbs are identified. Second, occurrences of those strings in context are judged as likely or unlikely to be verbal occurrences. The second stage is ...
... 2.1 Finding Verbs Lerner identifies verbs in two stages, each carried out on a separate pass through the corpus. First, strings that sometimes occur as verbs are identified. Second, occurrences of those strings in context are judged as likely or unlikely to be verbal occurrences. The second stage is ...
Valence change
... changing the valence of a lexical item, and it is such categories that we will deal with in the present article. (In this article, we use the term category in the sense of ‘grammatical morpheme’ or ‘grammeme’; thus, notions like genitive or future are grammatical categories, while sets of categories ...
... changing the valence of a lexical item, and it is such categories that we will deal with in the present article. (In this article, we use the term category in the sense of ‘grammatical morpheme’ or ‘grammeme’; thus, notions like genitive or future are grammatical categories, while sets of categories ...