active_passive
... 1. The bandits robbed the bank. 2. The soldiers will dig the foxhole. 3. The first sergeant completed the guard rosters. 4. You must reorganize your desk. OR Reorganize your desk. 5. The C Battery officers are evaluating the field exercises. Drop part of the verb. 1. The headquarters is in the valle ...
... 1. The bandits robbed the bank. 2. The soldiers will dig the foxhole. 3. The first sergeant completed the guard rosters. 4. You must reorganize your desk. OR Reorganize your desk. 5. The C Battery officers are evaluating the field exercises. Drop part of the verb. 1. The headquarters is in the valle ...
Chapter 14 The Subject and Verb
... The cat is [adorable]. The cat is [speckled gray]. Most Linking Verbs are forms of only one Verb, a very important verb, called the to be verb. The to be verb is important because it’s used more than any other verb, and because when you identify a to be verb in the sentence, you know you have th ...
... The cat is [adorable]. The cat is [speckled gray]. Most Linking Verbs are forms of only one Verb, a very important verb, called the to be verb. The to be verb is important because it’s used more than any other verb, and because when you identify a to be verb in the sentence, you know you have th ...
PowerPoint
... Another suggestive piece of evidence comes from Romance languages like French, where passives and verbs like fall act similarly, and differently from other (truly agentive) intransitive verbs. ...
... Another suggestive piece of evidence comes from Romance languages like French, where passives and verbs like fall act similarly, and differently from other (truly agentive) intransitive verbs. ...
Old Church Slavonic as a language with the middle voice morphology*
... answer this description more or less literally. This participant is the subject of the middle clause (Kemmer 1993: 8). Another essential feature of middle predications is “low degree of the elaboration of events” (Kemmer 1993: 8), in other words, the events spelled-out by middle verbs are largely li ...
... answer this description more or less literally. This participant is the subject of the middle clause (Kemmer 1993: 8). Another essential feature of middle predications is “low degree of the elaboration of events” (Kemmer 1993: 8), in other words, the events spelled-out by middle verbs are largely li ...
The Writing Section: Multiple-Choice Questions
... Singular Example: Everyone walks to the park on nice days. Singular Example: It walks to the park on nice days. Plural Example: They walk to the park on nice days. ➤ The following words can identify a singular or plural subject: none, any, ...
... Singular Example: Everyone walks to the park on nice days. Singular Example: It walks to the park on nice days. Plural Example: They walk to the park on nice days. ➤ The following words can identify a singular or plural subject: none, any, ...
OXFORD English Grammar OXFORD
... dam looked for the sun but there was none. Instead a cold wind from the north briefly stirred, like a cough from the old man who watched them. He pulled his patched coat close around himself and squinted along the barrel of the Mauser, itself battered by age. Nervous, they sniffed and pawed the iron ...
... dam looked for the sun but there was none. Instead a cold wind from the north briefly stirred, like a cough from the old man who watched them. He pulled his patched coat close around himself and squinted along the barrel of the Mauser, itself battered by age. Nervous, they sniffed and pawed the iron ...
English Skills with Readings - McGraw Hill Higher Education
... Adjectives modify nouns and pronouns. An adjective usually comes directly before the word it describes or after a linking verb. ...
... Adjectives modify nouns and pronouns. An adjective usually comes directly before the word it describes or after a linking verb. ...
Morpho-syntactic Lexical Generalization for CCG
... in Section 4, model the syntactic and semantic aspects of lexical entries that are shared within each word class. Previous approaches have also used hand-engineered lexical templates, as described in Section 2, but we differ by (1) using more templates allowing for more fine grained analysis and (2) ...
... in Section 4, model the syntactic and semantic aspects of lexical entries that are shared within each word class. Previous approaches have also used hand-engineered lexical templates, as described in Section 2, but we differ by (1) using more templates allowing for more fine grained analysis and (2) ...
A Contrastive Study of Learner English and NS English
... something different in nature with regard to its logic relation to the effect clause. This is actually caused by the mismatch between form and function. It seems that the emergence of such a structure if NOUN must VERB … then … has not been followed soon enough by the implied function. The mismatch ...
... something different in nature with regard to its logic relation to the effect clause. This is actually caused by the mismatch between form and function. It seems that the emergence of such a structure if NOUN must VERB … then … has not been followed soon enough by the implied function. The mismatch ...
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Second Language Knowledge of [+/-Past] vs. [+/-Finite]
... Upon closer examination, however, we can find tendencies in the (spoken) data for many verb types; even those types for which there is only one token in the data appear to conform to a few generalizations regarding the likelihood of being past-marked. These generalizations include the following: ...
... Upon closer examination, however, we can find tendencies in the (spoken) data for many verb types; even those types for which there is only one token in the data appear to conform to a few generalizations regarding the likelihood of being past-marked. These generalizations include the following: ...
AP Lang.. - Bellevue School District
... crossed elsewhere for a considerable distance. The stream passing under it is called Cedar creek. It is a water of James River, and sufficient in the driest seasons to turn a grist-mill, though its fountain is not more than two miles above. Analysis of basic sentence patterns in T. Jefferson’s excer ...
... crossed elsewhere for a considerable distance. The stream passing under it is called Cedar creek. It is a water of James River, and sufficient in the driest seasons to turn a grist-mill, though its fountain is not more than two miles above. Analysis of basic sentence patterns in T. Jefferson’s excer ...
ENGLISH GRAMMAR Pankhudi Bangalore
... 10. What can you tell me about your family? B. Personal Pronouns - Object Form 1. My parents like Latin music. The CD is for them. 2. I like watches. This nice watch is for me. 3. My wife and I love sweets. These sweets are for us. 4. My nephew likes cars. The toy truck is for him. 5. My neighbour w ...
... 10. What can you tell me about your family? B. Personal Pronouns - Object Form 1. My parents like Latin music. The CD is for them. 2. I like watches. This nice watch is for me. 3. My wife and I love sweets. These sweets are for us. 4. My nephew likes cars. The toy truck is for him. 5. My neighbour w ...
The perfect aspect: syntactic interferences on the part of brazilian
... projects being carried out betv;een Polish and English in Poznan, SerboCroatian and English in Zagreb, Rumanian and English in Bucharest;Irish and English in An Teanglann; and German and English in Stuttgart. In fact, world meetings show that inguistcs are interestedin Constrative Linguistcs. The Ni ...
... projects being carried out betv;een Polish and English in Poznan, SerboCroatian and English in Zagreb, Rumanian and English in Bucharest;Irish and English in An Teanglann; and German and English in Stuttgart. In fact, world meetings show that inguistcs are interestedin Constrative Linguistcs. The Ni ...
Bakalářská práce
... My bachelor thesis is focused on the comparison of Czech and English word order in simple sentences. The thesis should contribute to the understandable overview of basic rules of sentence formation in these languages. The thesis consists of five chapters and it is divided into theoretical and practi ...
... My bachelor thesis is focused on the comparison of Czech and English word order in simple sentences. The thesis should contribute to the understandable overview of basic rules of sentence formation in these languages. The thesis consists of five chapters and it is divided into theoretical and practi ...
Questionnaire for property verbs in African languages
... Note: Quality verbs in Western Kabyle distinguish neither person nor gender in the plural. Quality verbs in Eastern Kabyle take subject markers that are formally identical to object markers (Allaoua 1992). 1.3.5. Is it possible for a verb form defined under A.1 to occur in all tense/aspect/mood form ...
... Note: Quality verbs in Western Kabyle distinguish neither person nor gender in the plural. Quality verbs in Eastern Kabyle take subject markers that are formally identical to object markers (Allaoua 1992). 1.3.5. Is it possible for a verb form defined under A.1 to occur in all tense/aspect/mood form ...
II. LITERATURE REVIEW
... 2.3. Classification of Words There are some types of vocabulary in English. According to Fries (1973: 45) classifies English words into four groups namely: 1. Function words Function words are those words, which are used as a means of expressing of grammar structure, such as article (a, an, the) aux ...
... 2.3. Classification of Words There are some types of vocabulary in English. According to Fries (1973: 45) classifies English words into four groups namely: 1. Function words Function words are those words, which are used as a means of expressing of grammar structure, such as article (a, an, the) aux ...
A MARANAO DICTIONARY
... Part I of this work contains over 18,500 Maranao entries glossed generally by two to four English words or phrases. The goal has been to give the prototypical meaning of the Maranao rather than to give the full semantic range of a word. These Maranao entries are either base words or derivations. Mos ...
... Part I of this work contains over 18,500 Maranao entries glossed generally by two to four English words or phrases. The goal has been to give the prototypical meaning of the Maranao rather than to give the full semantic range of a word. These Maranao entries are either base words or derivations. Mos ...
- Goldsmiths Research Online
... question are usually word-forms. So, for example, the forms dogs, cats, and horses are systematically associated with the meaning ‘more than one (dog, cat or horse)’ and can be contrasted with dog, cat, and horse which mean ‘one (dog, cat and horse)’. The presence of /s/, /z/ or /iz/ at the end of t ...
... question are usually word-forms. So, for example, the forms dogs, cats, and horses are systematically associated with the meaning ‘more than one (dog, cat or horse)’ and can be contrasted with dog, cat, and horse which mean ‘one (dog, cat and horse)’. The presence of /s/, /z/ or /iz/ at the end of t ...
Grammar Script - Sprachenzentrum der Universität Bayreuth
... The present continuous (or progressive): I am working Forming the simple present In the affirmative, the simple present tense has the same form as the infinitive, but adds an s for the third person singular: I work ...
... The present continuous (or progressive): I am working Forming the simple present In the affirmative, the simple present tense has the same form as the infinitive, but adds an s for the third person singular: I work ...
ENGLISH FOR PRACTICAL PURPOSES
... The possessive determiners such as my are used as determiners together with nouns, as in my old man, some of his friends. The second possessive forms like mine are used when they do not qualify a noun: as pronouns, as in mine is bigger than yours, and as predicates, as in this one is mine. Note also ...
... The possessive determiners such as my are used as determiners together with nouns, as in my old man, some of his friends. The second possessive forms like mine are used when they do not qualify a noun: as pronouns, as in mine is bigger than yours, and as predicates, as in this one is mine. Note also ...
Validation of Corpus Pattern Analysis
... regular, falling into a comparatively small number of patterns. Human beings are creatures of habit. However, when describing these patterns, getting the details right is difficult, and there has to be a mechanism for dealing with unusual (but authentic) uses of words and relating them to normal use ...
... regular, falling into a comparatively small number of patterns. Human beings are creatures of habit. However, when describing these patterns, getting the details right is difficult, and there has to be a mechanism for dealing with unusual (but authentic) uses of words and relating them to normal use ...
English
... 1 person/number/gender prefix a- used for zero or unspecified. There are 2 productive derivational prefixes ka- ‘ATTRIBUTIVE’ and ma- ‘NEGATIVE’ which are mainly used to derive (positive and negative) possessive verbs from nominal themes, and a fossilised one pa‘DUAL’. There are dozens of suffixes. ...
... 1 person/number/gender prefix a- used for zero or unspecified. There are 2 productive derivational prefixes ka- ‘ATTRIBUTIVE’ and ma- ‘NEGATIVE’ which are mainly used to derive (positive and negative) possessive verbs from nominal themes, and a fossilised one pa‘DUAL’. There are dozens of suffixes. ...
ENGLISH FOR PRACTICAL PURPOSES
... The possessive determiners such as my are used as determiners together with nouns, as in my old man, some of his friends. The second possessive forms like mine are used when they do not qualify a noun: as pronouns, as in mine is bigger than yours, and as predicates, as in this one is mine. Note also ...
... The possessive determiners such as my are used as determiners together with nouns, as in my old man, some of his friends. The second possessive forms like mine are used when they do not qualify a noun: as pronouns, as in mine is bigger than yours, and as predicates, as in this one is mine. Note also ...
Transitivity from a Cognitive Perspective
... advantage of this undertaking is that it will facilitate a more nuanced view of transitivity, as a linguistic category that encompasses several constructions, making it possible to determine which syntactic elements play more or less important roles in expressing transitivity. Thus we can see both t ...
... advantage of this undertaking is that it will facilitate a more nuanced view of transitivity, as a linguistic category that encompasses several constructions, making it possible to determine which syntactic elements play more or less important roles in expressing transitivity. Thus we can see both t ...