1 - OnCourse
... Her visitor had been talking for hours. He will have been talking all day. Notice that sometimes the main verb changes form when used with helping verbs. For more on these changes, see pages 96–106. Common Helping Verbs Forms of be ...
... Her visitor had been talking for hours. He will have been talking all day. Notice that sometimes the main verb changes form when used with helping verbs. For more on these changes, see pages 96–106. Common Helping Verbs Forms of be ...
Kraken LATIN 1
... This book covers all five conjugations of verbs in the indicative mood (active and passive), all five noun declensions, first/second and third declension adjectives, personal pronouns, and basic demonstratives. It is divided into four units, each with eight weeks of lessons. The eighth week of each ...
... This book covers all five conjugations of verbs in the indicative mood (active and passive), all five noun declensions, first/second and third declension adjectives, personal pronouns, and basic demonstratives. It is divided into four units, each with eight weeks of lessons. The eighth week of each ...
The Path to Neutralization: Image Schemas and Prefixed Motion Verbs
... completion of the flying activity denoted by the imperfective, unprefixed лететь, but at the same time the perfective verb involves additional information, namely the specific path introduced by the prefix. Since specialized perfectives involves completion it is natural for them to be formed on the ...
... completion of the flying activity denoted by the imperfective, unprefixed лететь, but at the same time the perfective verb involves additional information, namely the specific path introduced by the prefix. Since specialized perfectives involves completion it is natural for them to be formed on the ...
English Grammar Notes
... Proper Noun : Name of specific person, place or thing. Common Noun : Name of common things like boys, chair, girls etc. Collective Noun: Collection of some persons or things and represented as a singular noun. Ex: class , army , herd , flight etc. Abstract Noun :Whom we cannot touch like happiness, ...
... Proper Noun : Name of specific person, place or thing. Common Noun : Name of common things like boys, chair, girls etc. Collective Noun: Collection of some persons or things and represented as a singular noun. Ex: class , army , herd , flight etc. Abstract Noun :Whom we cannot touch like happiness, ...
A Grammar of Ts’amakko Graziano Savà
... 4.1.1. Noun phrases with attributive nouns and adjective as modifier 4.1.2. Noun phrases with numeral as modifier 4.1.3. Noun phrases with demonstrative as modifier 4.1.4. Noun phrases with possessive modifiers 4.1.5. Noun phrases with locative suffix as modifier 4.1.6. Noun phrases with definite as ...
... 4.1.1. Noun phrases with attributive nouns and adjective as modifier 4.1.2. Noun phrases with numeral as modifier 4.1.3. Noun phrases with demonstrative as modifier 4.1.4. Noun phrases with possessive modifiers 4.1.5. Noun phrases with locative suffix as modifier 4.1.6. Noun phrases with definite as ...
Adjective Phrases & Adverb Phrases
... The boy next to the purpled-haired girl went to the stage for his award. Prepositional Phrase The purple-haired girl had to move her feet so he could get around her. Infinitive Phrase ...
... The boy next to the purpled-haired girl went to the stage for his award. Prepositional Phrase The purple-haired girl had to move her feet so he could get around her. Infinitive Phrase ...
Punctuation Pointers
... stylesheets recommend adding only an apostrophe if the singular noun ends in "s" and the additional "s" sound would not be pronounced, but this seems to be a needless complication. PROPER NOUNS ENDING IN "S": The possessive form of a singular proper noun (that is, a capitalized name) ending with an ...
... stylesheets recommend adding only an apostrophe if the singular noun ends in "s" and the additional "s" sound would not be pronounced, but this seems to be a needless complication. PROPER NOUNS ENDING IN "S": The possessive form of a singular proper noun (that is, a capitalized name) ending with an ...
Nominalization – Lexical and Syntactic Aspects
... Some general remarks must be added to this schema: ...
... Some general remarks must be added to this schema: ...
EAGLES Recommendations for the Morphosyntactic Annotation of
... There is a major problem of automatic tag disambiguation, resulting in a substantial rate of error or of failure to disambiguate (typically of several percent), and although these less-than-ideal results can in principle be corrected by hand, in practice the correction of a large corpus (say, of 100 ...
... There is a major problem of automatic tag disambiguation, resulting in a substantial rate of error or of failure to disambiguate (typically of several percent), and although these less-than-ideal results can in principle be corrected by hand, in practice the correction of a large corpus (say, of 100 ...
Resulting States in Niuean
... participle. We argue that this is not the right characterization of ma-. In addition, we demonstrate that ma- is not a stativizer either, nor a detransitivizer. Once we have ruled out so many possible functions, the true character of ma- is puzzling, but we hypothesize that verbs with ma- can be und ...
... participle. We argue that this is not the right characterization of ma-. In addition, we demonstrate that ma- is not a stativizer either, nor a detransitivizer. Once we have ruled out so many possible functions, the true character of ma- is puzzling, but we hypothesize that verbs with ma- can be und ...
Negation in Mauwake, a Papuan language
... North Coast of the Madang Province in Papua New Guinea. Mauwake employs four negative adverbs. Two of them are almost synonymous but used in slightly different syntactic structures. In many environments there is a choice between two or more negators: the use of each is discussed. Negation strategies ...
... North Coast of the Madang Province in Papua New Guinea. Mauwake employs four negative adverbs. Two of them are almost synonymous but used in slightly different syntactic structures. In many environments there is a choice between two or more negators: the use of each is discussed. Negation strategies ...
Participles: Form, Use and Meaning (PartFUM)
... What is ‘adjectival’ and what is ‘verbal’ in the grammatical makeup of participles? Do these ‘verbal’ and ‘adjectival’ properties characterize a participle itself or are they (partially) conditioned by the context in which a participle appears? If we look at their distribution, participles can app ...
... What is ‘adjectival’ and what is ‘verbal’ in the grammatical makeup of participles? Do these ‘verbal’ and ‘adjectival’ properties characterize a participle itself or are they (partially) conditioned by the context in which a participle appears? If we look at their distribution, participles can app ...
Locative and locatum verbs revisited
... with temporal frame adverbials but not with durational adverbials. However, I do not think that Pinker’s generalization must be abandoned, since in any case the change of state undergone by the direct object la paret (‘the wall’) in 14 or les mandonguilles (‘the meatballs’) in 13a must be linguistic ...
... with temporal frame adverbials but not with durational adverbials. However, I do not think that Pinker’s generalization must be abandoned, since in any case the change of state undergone by the direct object la paret (‘the wall’) in 14 or les mandonguilles (‘the meatballs’) in 13a must be linguistic ...
How do I talk about the past
... This sheet is all about the most frequent form of past tense, the perfect tense. You need to be able to use this if you are aiming for a grade C or above in languages. ...
... This sheet is all about the most frequent form of past tense, the perfect tense. You need to be able to use this if you are aiming for a grade C or above in languages. ...
small clauses and participial constructions - E
... 2.1. An ambiguity in the Acc + Ving construction under perception verbs. It has long been known that the Acc + Ving construction under perception verbs is systematically ambiguous, since it can either represent a clausal complement, similar to the Acc + Infintive, or an ordinary Direct Object follow ...
... 2.1. An ambiguity in the Acc + Ving construction under perception verbs. It has long been known that the Acc + Ving construction under perception verbs is systematically ambiguous, since it can either represent a clausal complement, similar to the Acc + Infintive, or an ordinary Direct Object follow ...
towerscommonscho00towe - AUrora Home
... The means of attaining to excellence in any art is twofold by a study of its principles and by judicious exercise. The design of this work is, ...
... The means of attaining to excellence in any art is twofold by a study of its principles and by judicious exercise. The design of this work is, ...
Inanimate nouns as subjects in Mi`gmaq
... In this section, I provide evidence that Blackfoot, another Algonquian language, disallows all semantically inanimate subjects (including the class of semantically inanimate but grammatically animate nouns). Then I present data from Mi’gmaq that shows the opposite: inanimate subjects of transitive v ...
... In this section, I provide evidence that Blackfoot, another Algonquian language, disallows all semantically inanimate subjects (including the class of semantically inanimate but grammatically animate nouns). Then I present data from Mi’gmaq that shows the opposite: inanimate subjects of transitive v ...
Motion events can be segmented into several components
... counterintuitive at first. However, this is due to the possibility in S-languages to express multiple path elements within a single clause. We have seen this in (1), where three path expressions can be combined with a single manner verb. To translate this sentence to a V-language, two or three path ...
... counterintuitive at first. However, this is due to the possibility in S-languages to express multiple path elements within a single clause. We have seen this in (1), where three path expressions can be combined with a single manner verb. To translate this sentence to a V-language, two or three path ...
Keys to the Exercises
... E. A queen is a mighty woman. F. The mountains are great. G. Best interpreted "a king [is] mighty", the copula being left out and understood, but it could also mean "a mighty king" with a somewhat unusual word-order (an attributive adjective would more often come before the noun it describes: taura ...
... E. A queen is a mighty woman. F. The mountains are great. G. Best interpreted "a king [is] mighty", the copula being left out and understood, but it could also mean "a mighty king" with a somewhat unusual word-order (an attributive adjective would more often come before the noun it describes: taura ...
On number and numberlessness in languages without articles
... feature, normally hosted in NumP, which we show to be absent in such nominals. Depending on the language, such number-neutral nominals can be morphologically either singular or plural; furthermore, we show that the morphological expression of number neutrality does not correlate with whether a given ...
... feature, normally hosted in NumP, which we show to be absent in such nominals. Depending on the language, such number-neutral nominals can be morphologically either singular or plural; furthermore, we show that the morphological expression of number neutrality does not correlate with whether a given ...
A Study of the English Grammar Used in Comic Strips A Term Paper
... 5. Conclusion and Recommendations ...
... 5. Conclusion and Recommendations ...
Slide 1
... Reflexive pronouns in reciprocal actions: Reflexive pronouns in reciprocal actions: To indicate what people do to or for each other use “nos” and “se” before the first person and first person plural of the verb ...
... Reflexive pronouns in reciprocal actions: Reflexive pronouns in reciprocal actions: To indicate what people do to or for each other use “nos” and “se” before the first person and first person plural of the verb ...
Phrasal Verbs: A Problem for ESL/EFL Learners and Suggested
... In Helping students sort out phrasal verbs, Blau, Gonzales, and Green (1983, p. 184) posit two categories of student’s problems with phrasal verbs: semantic or vocabulary problems and syntactic or word order problems. In their view of the semantic problem, they highlight that students often do not ...
... In Helping students sort out phrasal verbs, Blau, Gonzales, and Green (1983, p. 184) posit two categories of student’s problems with phrasal verbs: semantic or vocabulary problems and syntactic or word order problems. In their view of the semantic problem, they highlight that students often do not ...