Grimshaw on Inversion
... will never be satisfied by the movement of a lexical head. This is why main verbs are immobile in English. The more general Stay, however is lower ranked than ObHd, and hence it is possible for movement of some head to satisfied the no empty heads requirement. Specifically if there is a non-lexical ...
... will never be satisfied by the movement of a lexical head. This is why main verbs are immobile in English. The more general Stay, however is lower ranked than ObHd, and hence it is possible for movement of some head to satisfied the no empty heads requirement. Specifically if there is a non-lexical ...
Test 1 (19) Writing Answ
... Choice (A) involves errors in parallelism and coordination. In this sentence, the phrase “called it” requires parallel phrases joined by a logical conjunction. The phrase “its melodious final movement makes it elegant” is not parallel with “confusing because of its unusual structure” and does not co ...
... Choice (A) involves errors in parallelism and coordination. In this sentence, the phrase “called it” requires parallel phrases joined by a logical conjunction. The phrase “its melodious final movement makes it elegant” is not parallel with “confusing because of its unusual structure” and does not co ...
South African discourse analysis in theory and practice
... “The dog which I saw was chasing a cat as if its entire future was at stake”. The main clause of this sentence would be “The dog was chasing a cat”. The subject “dog” in the main clause is qualified by the adjectival sentence “which I saw”, and the main verb “was chasing” is modified by the adverbi ...
... “The dog which I saw was chasing a cat as if its entire future was at stake”. The main clause of this sentence would be “The dog was chasing a cat”. The subject “dog” in the main clause is qualified by the adjectival sentence “which I saw”, and the main verb “was chasing” is modified by the adverbi ...
English - Evelyn Street Primary School
... range of high-quality books with the teacher, other adults and each other to engender a love of reading at the same time as they are reading independently. Pupils’ vocabulary should be developed when they listen to books read aloud and when they discuss what they have heard. Such vocabulary can also ...
... range of high-quality books with the teacher, other adults and each other to engender a love of reading at the same time as they are reading independently. Pupils’ vocabulary should be developed when they listen to books read aloud and when they discuss what they have heard. Such vocabulary can also ...
non-finite verb
... Do you feel like going out? I can't help falling in love with you. I can't stand not seeing you. ...
... Do you feel like going out? I can't help falling in love with you. I can't stand not seeing you. ...
A Guide to Greek Accents - Chiou Lao Shi Home Page
... 2. The acute may fall on all three syllables, the circumflex may fall on ultima and penult, and the grave may fall on ultima only. (aka The Maximum Accent Sustention Rule: The acute can sustain three syllables, the circumflex can sustain two syllables, and the grave can sustain only one syllable.) ...
... 2. The acute may fall on all three syllables, the circumflex may fall on ultima and penult, and the grave may fall on ultima only. (aka The Maximum Accent Sustention Rule: The acute can sustain three syllables, the circumflex can sustain two syllables, and the grave can sustain only one syllable.) ...
Unmarked Case
... This is particularly important when considering the paradigms of Indo-European languages with a rich Case system, such as Latin, Russian, or Icelandic. Note the following clarification by Dixon (1979: 72):3 Generally, the case that is functionally (i.e. [featurally]) unmarked is also formally (i.e. ...
... This is particularly important when considering the paradigms of Indo-European languages with a rich Case system, such as Latin, Russian, or Icelandic. Note the following clarification by Dixon (1979: 72):3 Generally, the case that is functionally (i.e. [featurally]) unmarked is also formally (i.e. ...
Arguments for Pseudo-Resultative Predicates
... sense of being predicates of events. Rather, these ‘pseudo-resultative’ adjectives modify a created individual, along the lines of the proposal of Geuder (2000) for resultative adverbs. However, I propose that, in contrast with resultative adverbs as analyzed by Geuder, the individual argument modif ...
... sense of being predicates of events. Rather, these ‘pseudo-resultative’ adjectives modify a created individual, along the lines of the proposal of Geuder (2000) for resultative adverbs. However, I propose that, in contrast with resultative adverbs as analyzed by Geuder, the individual argument modif ...
the error analysis of students` descriptive writing
... education from secondary school up to high school. It is necessary to be learnt in order to support people the needs to get various information and knowledge in every field such as education, science and technology. In learning English, there are four skills that should be mastered those are listeni ...
... education from secondary school up to high school. It is necessary to be learnt in order to support people the needs to get various information and knowledge in every field such as education, science and technology. In learning English, there are four skills that should be mastered those are listeni ...
Language Arts Diagnostic Tests 500-800
... Environment. Inform students that the test is important, but avoid a tense atmosphere. Help them to feel that the best they can do is good enough. Check comfort factors such as lighting and ventilation. Keep noise and other disturbances to a minimum. Progress. Since the different concepts in Sunrise ...
... Environment. Inform students that the test is important, but avoid a tense atmosphere. Help them to feel that the best they can do is good enough. Check comfort factors such as lighting and ventilation. Keep noise and other disturbances to a minimum. Progress. Since the different concepts in Sunrise ...
gerund clauses - E
... material”senses of words like clothing, fencing, writings. It is difficult, if not impossible, to isolate a common meaning for all the types of -ing isolated above. Several attempts have, however, been made to give a unitary description to the -ing suffix (cf. Milsark (1988), Harley and Noyer (1998) ...
... material”senses of words like clothing, fencing, writings. It is difficult, if not impossible, to isolate a common meaning for all the types of -ing isolated above. Several attempts have, however, been made to give a unitary description to the -ing suffix (cf. Milsark (1988), Harley and Noyer (1998) ...
Linguistic Fundamentals for Natural Language Processing
... #38 When an inflectional category is marked on multiple elements of sentence or phrase, it is usually considered to belong to one element and to express agreement on the others. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 #39 Verbs commonly agree in pe ...
... #38 When an inflectional category is marked on multiple elements of sentence or phrase, it is usually considered to belong to one element and to express agreement on the others. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 #39 Verbs commonly agree in pe ...
Number Words as Number Names
... when arguing for numbers as objects The reasons should be the very same as why he did not appeal to the existence of the term the truth value true in English when arguing for truth values being objects (and objects of reference for sentences). Terms of the sort the number eight and the truth value t ...
... when arguing for numbers as objects The reasons should be the very same as why he did not appeal to the existence of the term the truth value true in English when arguing for truth values being objects (and objects of reference for sentences). Terms of the sort the number eight and the truth value t ...
Grace Theological Journal 9.2 (1988) 233
... by some grammarians "conditional relative clauses" and "relative purpose clauses" (and a few others which, if valid, should be included here but are not). I have previously discussed "conditional relative c!auses," and concluded that, while the clauses may contain a suggestion of condition, they are ...
... by some grammarians "conditional relative clauses" and "relative purpose clauses" (and a few others which, if valid, should be included here but are not). I have previously discussed "conditional relative c!auses," and concluded that, while the clauses may contain a suggestion of condition, they are ...
Boyer`s Relative Clauses in the Greek New Testament: A Statistical
... by some grammarians "conditional relative clauses" and "relative purpose clauses" (and a few others which, if valid, should be included here but are not). I have previously discussed "conditional relative c!auses," and concluded that, while the clauses may contain a suggestion of condition, they are ...
... by some grammarians "conditional relative clauses" and "relative purpose clauses" (and a few others which, if valid, should be included here but are not). I have previously discussed "conditional relative c!auses," and concluded that, while the clauses may contain a suggestion of condition, they are ...
Contents - Rainbow Resource
... The DGP concept is very simple, but the progression is what sets it apart from other daily programs. Students have to know the parts of speech in order to identify the sentence parts. They have to know the sentence parts in order to identify the clauses and sentence type. They need to know about the ...
... The DGP concept is very simple, but the progression is what sets it apart from other daily programs. Students have to know the parts of speech in order to identify the sentence parts. They have to know the sentence parts in order to identify the clauses and sentence type. They need to know about the ...
Usage questions from 2007
... It’s springtime in Växjö, the sun is shining, the crocuses are out, the titmice are chirping, and one gets an irresistible urge to study English grammar and usage! Magnus has found yet another slight difference between American and British English, this time regarding the use or non-use of and in nu ...
... It’s springtime in Växjö, the sun is shining, the crocuses are out, the titmice are chirping, and one gets an irresistible urge to study English grammar and usage! Magnus has found yet another slight difference between American and British English, this time regarding the use or non-use of and in nu ...
The english language - the WAC Clearinghouse
... Written in a clear style, it guides its readers on topics including basic assumptions about language and discourse, pronunciation, word-formation strategies, parts of speech, clause elements and patterns, how clauses may be combined into sentences, and how clauses and sentences are modified to suit ...
... Written in a clear style, it guides its readers on topics including basic assumptions about language and discourse, pronunciation, word-formation strategies, parts of speech, clause elements and patterns, how clauses may be combined into sentences, and how clauses and sentences are modified to suit ...
Open Access - Biblio UGent
... ‘We’ve had it happen to us that our suitcases suddenly ripped open.’ The interpretation of these sentences is close to that of Experiencer patterns: the matrix subject has something happen to them and what happens to them is expressed in the embedded clause. In Flemish the possession of an event can ...
... ‘We’ve had it happen to us that our suitcases suddenly ripped open.’ The interpretation of these sentences is close to that of Experiencer patterns: the matrix subject has something happen to them and what happens to them is expressed in the embedded clause. In Flemish the possession of an event can ...
The Newar verb in Tibeto-Burman perspective
... pl:'et.erite and non-preterite, characteristic of Kiranti languages as well as of K~t.hmandu Newar. The anomaly of the Dolakha four-way tense distinction in the comparative context suggests that the Dolakha tense system is innovatj..ve, and on the basis of internal reconstruction Genetti (1990: 182) ...
... pl:'et.erite and non-preterite, characteristic of Kiranti languages as well as of K~t.hmandu Newar. The anomaly of the Dolakha four-way tense distinction in the comparative context suggests that the Dolakha tense system is innovatj..ve, and on the basis of internal reconstruction Genetti (1990: 182) ...
R-impersonals in Atlantic and Mande languages
... definition in order to ensure the comparability of the phenomena for which it will be used with those for which it has been used previously in the description of other languages. Translational equivalence is clearly not a valid criterion, since it is easy to observe that the meanings expressed by cl ...
... definition in order to ensure the comparability of the phenomena for which it will be used with those for which it has been used previously in the description of other languages. Translational equivalence is clearly not a valid criterion, since it is easy to observe that the meanings expressed by cl ...
ISSN 2354-6948 A CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS BETWEEN ENGLISH
... one indicating relationships with regard to either time, place or direction. Time prepositions include such words as "after", "until" and "during"; place prepositions, on the other hand, consist of location related terms such as "around", in the corner" and "between"; direction prepositions, meanwhi ...
... one indicating relationships with regard to either time, place or direction. Time prepositions include such words as "after", "until" and "during"; place prepositions, on the other hand, consist of location related terms such as "around", in the corner" and "between"; direction prepositions, meanwhi ...
Lectures on Functional Syntax
... example, is clearly a noun. It does not refer to a person or place, so it must qualify as a noun by referring to a thing. But by what criterion is HONESTY a thing? We are left chasing a circle: it must be a thing, because it is labelled by a noun, honesty--and honesty is a noun because it labels a t ...
... example, is clearly a noun. It does not refer to a person or place, so it must qualify as a noun by referring to a thing. But by what criterion is HONESTY a thing? We are left chasing a circle: it must be a thing, because it is labelled by a noun, honesty--and honesty is a noun because it labels a t ...
Expository Writing Tutorial
... refer to (most common: Singular-Plural) E.g. A person’s morality is important to living a life of happiness. Often times, they may not recognize their moral actions at work around them. Pronoun-Pronoun Agreement (Pronoun Shift) – Pronouns used do not agree with the pronouns they refer to E.g. Atticu ...
... refer to (most common: Singular-Plural) E.g. A person’s morality is important to living a life of happiness. Often times, they may not recognize their moral actions at work around them. Pronoun-Pronoun Agreement (Pronoun Shift) – Pronouns used do not agree with the pronouns they refer to E.g. Atticu ...