LESSON 10: PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES (ADVERBS)
... In the bushes is an adverbial prepositional phrase modifying landed. Behind the house is an adjectival prepositional phrase telling us more about the noun bushes. Which bushes? The bushes behind the house. This prepositional phrase is modifying the object of the preposition (bushes) from the first p ...
... In the bushes is an adverbial prepositional phrase modifying landed. Behind the house is an adjectival prepositional phrase telling us more about the noun bushes. Which bushes? The bushes behind the house. This prepositional phrase is modifying the object of the preposition (bushes) from the first p ...
the Answer and Commentary - HKU Faculty of Dentistry
... The “person” changes here from impersonal someone to second-person you, so it is confusing why the definite article is used for the dentist to imply a well-known profession in general. The relationship between the two clauses either side of the comma is also not clear, and this is further complicate ...
... The “person” changes here from impersonal someone to second-person you, so it is confusing why the definite article is used for the dentist to imply a well-known profession in general. The relationship between the two clauses either side of the comma is also not clear, and this is further complicate ...
Grammar Exercises Quiz – Comma Splice
... can be long, writers sometimes mistake them as complete sentences. By itself, however, an appositive is not a sentence. An appositive fragment will begin with a noun and usually include one or more clarifying phrases or subordinate clauses after it. Here are some examples: The unprepared student who ...
... can be long, writers sometimes mistake them as complete sentences. By itself, however, an appositive is not a sentence. An appositive fragment will begin with a noun and usually include one or more clarifying phrases or subordinate clauses after it. Here are some examples: The unprepared student who ...
Letters and Syllables in Plato Author(s): Gilbert Ryle Source: The
... circular and the third consists of two straight lines cutting one another at something less than a right angle? Or is he thinking only or primarily of what these three written letters stand for in the realm of pronounced noises, that is, to what the monosyllable "box" sounds like? The reason why it ...
... circular and the third consists of two straight lines cutting one another at something less than a right angle? Or is he thinking only or primarily of what these three written letters stand for in the realm of pronounced noises, that is, to what the monosyllable "box" sounds like? The reason why it ...
MORE THAN ONE MEANING
... dry and hard. There are various tests for ambiguity. One possibility is to have two unrelated antonyms, as with hard, which has both soft and easy as opposites. Another is the conjunction reduction test. Consider the sentence The tailor pressed one suit in his shop and one in the municipal court. It ...
... dry and hard. There are various tests for ambiguity. One possibility is to have two unrelated antonyms, as with hard, which has both soft and easy as opposites. Another is the conjunction reduction test. Consider the sentence The tailor pressed one suit in his shop and one in the municipal court. It ...
Elements of Style: Syntax
... When I heard the concert, I enjoyed it because she sang beautifully. When I really understand grammar and when I actually put it to use, my grades in English will improve. (two dependent clauses, one independent clause) ...
... When I heard the concert, I enjoyed it because she sang beautifully. When I really understand grammar and when I actually put it to use, my grades in English will improve. (two dependent clauses, one independent clause) ...
Semantic change in the grammaticalization of classifiers in
... (1) the lexical meaning before a lexeme enters into the grammatical form, “NUM+NP/CL” (2) the classifier meaning in the grammatical form “NUM+CL+NP” categorical change: verbal/nominalclassifier meaning ...
... (1) the lexical meaning before a lexeme enters into the grammatical form, “NUM+NP/CL” (2) the classifier meaning in the grammatical form “NUM+CL+NP” categorical change: verbal/nominalclassifier meaning ...
Part-of-Speech Tagging Guidelines for the Penn Treebank Project
... appropriate in a particular context. The two sections 4.1 and 4.2 therefore include examples and guidelines on how to tag problematic cases. If you are uncertain about whether a given tag is correct or not, refer to these sections in order to ensure a consistently annotated text. Section 4.1 discuss ...
... appropriate in a particular context. The two sections 4.1 and 4.2 therefore include examples and guidelines on how to tag problematic cases. If you are uncertain about whether a given tag is correct or not, refer to these sections in order to ensure a consistently annotated text. Section 4.1 discuss ...
the conditional tense
... Reflexive verbs are verbs that include a reflexive pronoun and they describe actions that we do to ourselves. You can tell if a verb is reflexive when you look it up in the dictionary as there will be “se” after the infinitive endings (-ar, -er or –ir). Reflexive verbs are conjugated in the same way ...
... Reflexive verbs are verbs that include a reflexive pronoun and they describe actions that we do to ourselves. You can tell if a verb is reflexive when you look it up in the dictionary as there will be “se” after the infinitive endings (-ar, -er or –ir). Reflexive verbs are conjugated in the same way ...
Clear and Emphatic Sentences
... Emphatic sentences can be used in expressing opinions, disagreeing, making strong suggestions, expressing annoyance, etc.Any sentence can be made emphatic by emphasizing on a particular subject, object or verb.There are a number of ways to add emphasis to your sentences in English. Creating an empha ...
... Emphatic sentences can be used in expressing opinions, disagreeing, making strong suggestions, expressing annoyance, etc.Any sentence can be made emphatic by emphasizing on a particular subject, object or verb.There are a number of ways to add emphasis to your sentences in English. Creating an empha ...
MSR-JNU-Sanskrit
... Madhav Gopal and Dr. Girish Nath Jha This is a guideline for annotating Sanskrit text with Parts-of-Speech (POS) tags according to the hierarchical POS tagset framework designed at Special Centre for Sanskrit Studies, JNU, New Delhi following the pattern of Microsoft Research India Private Limited t ...
... Madhav Gopal and Dr. Girish Nath Jha This is a guideline for annotating Sanskrit text with Parts-of-Speech (POS) tags according to the hierarchical POS tagset framework designed at Special Centre for Sanskrit Studies, JNU, New Delhi following the pattern of Microsoft Research India Private Limited t ...
Past Participles Used in Verb Tenses
... Past participles are formed from verbs. Past participles (just like present participles) can be used as adjectives or used to form verb tenses. Let's look at the verb to whisper: Here's the past participle: whispered Here it is used as an adjective: The whispered word Here it is used to form a v ...
... Past participles are formed from verbs. Past participles (just like present participles) can be used as adjectives or used to form verb tenses. Let's look at the verb to whisper: Here's the past participle: whispered Here it is used as an adjective: The whispered word Here it is used to form a v ...
What Are Past Participles? Examples of Past Participles Being Used
... Past participles are formed from verbs. Past participles (just like present participles) can be used as adjectives or used to form verb tenses. Let's look at the verb to whisper: Here's the past participle: whispered • Here it is used as an adjective: The whispered word • Here it is used to form a v ...
... Past participles are formed from verbs. Past participles (just like present participles) can be used as adjectives or used to form verb tenses. Let's look at the verb to whisper: Here's the past participle: whispered • Here it is used as an adjective: The whispered word • Here it is used to form a v ...
A Reanalysis of Nonemphatic Pronouns in Dagbani
... person, number, and animacy, half of the pronouns in this category appear in two forms, and the variation is not simply a case of a muted vowel or truncation as with the emphatic pronouns. Under a cursory analysis, the variation appears to be based on a structural, grammatical consideration akin to ...
... person, number, and animacy, half of the pronouns in this category appear in two forms, and the variation is not simply a case of a muted vowel or truncation as with the emphatic pronouns. Under a cursory analysis, the variation appears to be based on a structural, grammatical consideration akin to ...
lexical decomposition
... Different from all these approaches is the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) account (Wierzbicka, , ; Goddard and Wierzbicka, ), which analyses concepts/words by reductive paraphrases using a small collection of semantic primes (plants: {living things, these things can’t feel something ...
... Different from all these approaches is the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) account (Wierzbicka, , ; Goddard and Wierzbicka, ), which analyses concepts/words by reductive paraphrases using a small collection of semantic primes (plants: {living things, these things can’t feel something ...
Recognizing Sentence Boundaries and Boilerplate
... Riley (Riley, 1989) determined that probabilities of a period occurring in the Tagged Brown corpus (Francis and Kucera, 1982) are about 90% at the end of a sentence, 10% at the end of an abbreviation, and about 0.5% as both abbreviation and sentence delimiters. Many sentence boundary recognizing alg ...
... Riley (Riley, 1989) determined that probabilities of a period occurring in the Tagged Brown corpus (Francis and Kucera, 1982) are about 90% at the end of a sentence, 10% at the end of an abbreviation, and about 0.5% as both abbreviation and sentence delimiters. Many sentence boundary recognizing alg ...
Animacy Constraints on Prepositional Objects in Medumba, a
... The evidence above points to the tonal contour being associated with the animacy of the object of the spatial preposition. However, there is reason to question this. While there are many examples of an animacy distinction on direct and indirect objects of verbs, we have found no evidence in the lite ...
... The evidence above points to the tonal contour being associated with the animacy of the object of the spatial preposition. However, there is reason to question this. While there are many examples of an animacy distinction on direct and indirect objects of verbs, we have found no evidence in the lite ...
Document
... S+ had + M.v (p.p) + O Ex- He refused to go until he had seen his mother. Before I had known him for week, he asked for money. Past perfect is used with the verbs in the sentence before the action that is performed earlier one action in the past time. Such as, The train had gone away before I reache ...
... S+ had + M.v (p.p) + O Ex- He refused to go until he had seen his mother. Before I had known him for week, he asked for money. Past perfect is used with the verbs in the sentence before the action that is performed earlier one action in the past time. Such as, The train had gone away before I reache ...
Drag or Type, But Don`t Click: A Study on the
... Inversion also occurs in a main clause beginning with something other than the subject, where it generally has a pragmatic function. It is used to emphasize the part of the sentence that is placed at the beginning.5 In German a wide range of items may occur at the beginning of the sentence. Among th ...
... Inversion also occurs in a main clause beginning with something other than the subject, where it generally has a pragmatic function. It is used to emphasize the part of the sentence that is placed at the beginning.5 In German a wide range of items may occur at the beginning of the sentence. Among th ...
Subjects and verbs
... Paul Hi, my name is Paul. Are you the new student? Nicole Yes, I am from Belgium. Paul Who is your English teacher? Nicole Mrs. Paterson is my teacher. I like her a lot. She is very funny. Paul Yes, she makes English fun. Nicole But, we have a lot of homework in her class. Paul Would you like to stu ...
... Paul Hi, my name is Paul. Are you the new student? Nicole Yes, I am from Belgium. Paul Who is your English teacher? Nicole Mrs. Paterson is my teacher. I like her a lot. She is very funny. Paul Yes, she makes English fun. Nicole But, we have a lot of homework in her class. Paul Would you like to stu ...
The Grammar Section (PE)
... An independent phrase is just as it sounds—a phrase that, by itself, can stand alone as a sentence. An independent phrase consists of three things: ...
... An independent phrase is just as it sounds—a phrase that, by itself, can stand alone as a sentence. An independent phrase consists of three things: ...
západočeská univerzita v plzni - DSpace at University of West
... creolists' position, or whether they learned the English of British and other immigrants fairly rapidly and directly, without an intervening pidgin or creole stage - the dialectologists’/Anglicist position (p. 157). Rickford (1998) also mentions a divergence issue which is concerned with whether AAV ...
... creolists' position, or whether they learned the English of British and other immigrants fairly rapidly and directly, without an intervening pidgin or creole stage - the dialectologists’/Anglicist position (p. 157). Rickford (1998) also mentions a divergence issue which is concerned with whether AAV ...
Products and services
... grammar sections deals with the English adjectives, with a special emphasis on the comparative forms. There is also a subsection devoted to the adjectives ending in -ed and the adjectives ending in -ing. These adjectives forms pairs (like interested and interesting), which are easily confused althou ...
... grammar sections deals with the English adjectives, with a special emphasis on the comparative forms. There is also a subsection devoted to the adjectives ending in -ed and the adjectives ending in -ing. These adjectives forms pairs (like interested and interesting), which are easily confused althou ...
Actives, passives and ergatives English has active and passive
... The emphasis is entirely on the action. We do not know who is responsible. It is as though the project started all by itself. In some languages you could indicate this with a reflexive verb. In other languages the sentence would not be possible. In English it is possible because of the ergative verb ...
... The emphasis is entirely on the action. We do not know who is responsible. It is as though the project started all by itself. In some languages you could indicate this with a reflexive verb. In other languages the sentence would not be possible. In English it is possible because of the ergative verb ...
Lesson 1. The Verb Phrase: Verbs in English
... The verb form writing in [1] is known as the -ing form, or the -ING PARTICIPLE form. In [2], the verb form produced is called the -ed form, or -ED PARTICIPLE form. Many so-called -ed participle forms do not end in -ed at all: The film was written by John Brown The film was bought by a British compan ...
... The verb form writing in [1] is known as the -ing form, or the -ING PARTICIPLE form. In [2], the verb form produced is called the -ed form, or -ED PARTICIPLE form. Many so-called -ed participle forms do not end in -ed at all: The film was written by John Brown The film was bought by a British compan ...