Conflicting cues and competition in subject–verb agreement
... effects of distributivity can also be found in English under certain circumstances, and she attributed the difference between her results and the failure to find effects of distributivity in Bock and Miller (1991) to differences in the imageability of the preamble phrases. Similarly, Bock et al. (1999) ...
... effects of distributivity can also be found in English under certain circumstances, and she attributed the difference between her results and the failure to find effects of distributivity in Bock and Miller (1991) to differences in the imageability of the preamble phrases. Similarly, Bock et al. (1999) ...
Guide to Transitioning to Reading Continuous Greek Texts
... possible answers to questions like these: what are the possible uses of the dative (or another case)? what are possible uses of a subjunctive or optative in a subordinate clause? what are the possible uses of a subjunctive or optative in a main clause? what constructions use the infinitive? Similarl ...
... possible answers to questions like these: what are the possible uses of the dative (or another case)? what are possible uses of a subjunctive or optative in a subordinate clause? what are the possible uses of a subjunctive or optative in a main clause? what constructions use the infinitive? Similarl ...
Purpose/Result Clauses PPT
... • can be the subject of… – a verb of causing or bringing about (when used in the passive, e.g. fiō) – a verb of happening (accidit – this can be pres. or perf.) – the impersonal verb necesse est ...
... • can be the subject of… – a verb of causing or bringing about (when used in the passive, e.g. fiō) – a verb of happening (accidit – this can be pres. or perf.) – the impersonal verb necesse est ...
Gerunds and Infinitives
... Factual: I started doing my homework and question #1 is really hard. Possible: Did you start to do your homework? A Gerund will follow a preposition: e.g. Thank you for helping me. The negation NOT is always placed in front of the gerund or the infinitive. e.g. I enjoy not having to do study tod ...
... Factual: I started doing my homework and question #1 is really hard. Possible: Did you start to do your homework? A Gerund will follow a preposition: e.g. Thank you for helping me. The negation NOT is always placed in front of the gerund or the infinitive. e.g. I enjoy not having to do study tod ...
parts of speech
... Clause – group of words with subject & verb Independent Clause – can stand alone as a sentence Dependent/Subordinate Clause – can’t stand alone subordinating conjunctions- after, although, as, as if, as long as, as soon as, because, before, even though, if, in order that, once, since, so that, than, ...
... Clause – group of words with subject & verb Independent Clause – can stand alone as a sentence Dependent/Subordinate Clause – can’t stand alone subordinating conjunctions- after, although, as, as if, as long as, as soon as, because, before, even though, if, in order that, once, since, so that, than, ...
Pronoun Case PowerPoint
... 3. Oscar wrote Sadie a letter. 4. Brenda made herself a sandwich. 5. Julian told us a funny story. ...
... 3. Oscar wrote Sadie a letter. 4. Brenda made herself a sandwich. 5. Julian told us a funny story. ...
WORD ORDER AND CONSTITUENT STRUCTURE IN
... present. If it is a third person, the pronoun can be optionally omitted. Therefore, a zero subject marking in a transitive clause is interpreted as a third person singular subject. In the case of example (3b) above, if the pronoun õt ‘I’ were not present, the clause would have an interpretation with ...
... present. If it is a third person, the pronoun can be optionally omitted. Therefore, a zero subject marking in a transitive clause is interpreted as a third person singular subject. In the case of example (3b) above, if the pronoun õt ‘I’ were not present, the clause would have an interpretation with ...
Name
... PRONOUN: A word that replaces a noun or pronoun. ANTECEDENT: The word that a pronoun refers to is called its antecedent. SUBJECT PRONOUNS – identifies whom or what a sentence is about. It is the “actor” or subject of the sentence. Remember subject pronouns are used after linking verbs if they are pr ...
... PRONOUN: A word that replaces a noun or pronoun. ANTECEDENT: The word that a pronoun refers to is called its antecedent. SUBJECT PRONOUNS – identifies whom or what a sentence is about. It is the “actor” or subject of the sentence. Remember subject pronouns are used after linking verbs if they are pr ...
Finite and non-finite verbs
... 1. The subject of the verb “emphasis” is “the author”: as the subject is singular, the verb must also be singular and must take the present tense, i.e. “emphasises”. Note, too that the conjunction “and” joins together two predicates: “criticises” and “emphasises”. Each verb must be the same part of ...
... 1. The subject of the verb “emphasis” is “the author”: as the subject is singular, the verb must also be singular and must take the present tense, i.e. “emphasises”. Note, too that the conjunction “and” joins together two predicates: “criticises” and “emphasises”. Each verb must be the same part of ...
ObjectsPronouns
... • Definition: a noun or pronoun that receives the action of a verb or shows the result of the action • Answers the questions – "What?" or "Whom?" after an action verb. ...
... • Definition: a noun or pronoun that receives the action of a verb or shows the result of the action • Answers the questions – "What?" or "Whom?" after an action verb. ...
pronoun handout with notes
... Those CRAZY Pronouns! Avoiding Common Usage Errors As juniors, I think it’s safe to assume you all know what a pronoun is. However, there are many rules for using pronouns of which students are unaware. You may be using them incorrectly and not even know it. In order to help you identify problems wi ...
... Those CRAZY Pronouns! Avoiding Common Usage Errors As juniors, I think it’s safe to assume you all know what a pronoun is. However, there are many rules for using pronouns of which students are unaware. You may be using them incorrectly and not even know it. In order to help you identify problems wi ...
A Stochastic Parts Program and Noun Phrase Parser for
... disambiguate. Introductory texts are full of ambiguous sentences such as • Time flies like an arrow. • Flying planes can be dangerous. where no amount of syntactic parsing will help. These examples are generally taken to indicate that the parser must allow for multiple possibilities and that grammar ...
... disambiguate. Introductory texts are full of ambiguous sentences such as • Time flies like an arrow. • Flying planes can be dangerous. where no amount of syntactic parsing will help. These examples are generally taken to indicate that the parser must allow for multiple possibilities and that grammar ...
Grading Symbols - Lewis-Palmer School District
... 46. Comma splice. Do not separate complete sentences with a comma. 47. Place a noun after the word, “this,” when it appears at the beginning of the sentence. This is a difficult subject should read This subject is quite difficult. 48. Use the possessive form of a noun or pronoun before a gerund. I d ...
... 46. Comma splice. Do not separate complete sentences with a comma. 47. Place a noun after the word, “this,” when it appears at the beginning of the sentence. This is a difficult subject should read This subject is quite difficult. 48. Use the possessive form of a noun or pronoun before a gerund. I d ...
Grammar Notes - Mrs. Freeman
... • Personal pronouns that show ownership or relationships are in the possessive case. • Possessive pronouns can be used in two ways. • 1. A possessive pronoun can be used in place of a noun. The pronoun can function as a subject or an object. • Examples: • Where are the earplugs? • Let me borrow your ...
... • Personal pronouns that show ownership or relationships are in the possessive case. • Possessive pronouns can be used in two ways. • 1. A possessive pronoun can be used in place of a noun. The pronoun can function as a subject or an object. • Examples: • Where are the earplugs? • Let me borrow your ...
past participles - Lexington One Literacy
... smartboard no more than 10 sentences-including both simple past tense and past participles- from a fairy tale or one of the mentioned mentor texts. Underline past tense in one color, past participle in another ; or simply write them in different colors (rest of text black). Explain that this story i ...
... smartboard no more than 10 sentences-including both simple past tense and past participles- from a fairy tale or one of the mentioned mentor texts. Underline past tense in one color, past participle in another ; or simply write them in different colors (rest of text black). Explain that this story i ...
The Gerund
... a preposition. • DO NOT CONFUSE THE GERUND WITH THE PRESENT PARTICIPLE!!! • Present participles are used as an adjective, or it may be part of a verb phrase. • As an adjective: The clanking bell ticked me off! • As part of a verb phrase: We have been trying, but understanding gerunds is a difficult ...
... a preposition. • DO NOT CONFUSE THE GERUND WITH THE PRESENT PARTICIPLE!!! • Present participles are used as an adjective, or it may be part of a verb phrase. • As an adjective: The clanking bell ticked me off! • As part of a verb phrase: We have been trying, but understanding gerunds is a difficult ...
Editing Review - Deer Park ISD
... Although introductory participles (verbs acting as adjectives) should be set off with commas, when a verb acts as a noun (a gerund) noun, it should not be set off by commas. Taking a short cut is faster than not taking a short cut but slower than not going at all. Loosing themselves in conversation ...
... Although introductory participles (verbs acting as adjectives) should be set off with commas, when a verb acts as a noun (a gerund) noun, it should not be set off by commas. Taking a short cut is faster than not taking a short cut but slower than not going at all. Loosing themselves in conversation ...
4. Compound Verb
... determiners. Baker (1996) calls it defective because the determiners cannot govern the nouns and so the latter have to adjoin to the verb to get case. Similarly, in Hindi some nouns only appear in the N+V collocations. II. As noted by Mithun (1984) and others, incorporated inanimates tend to be more ...
... determiners. Baker (1996) calls it defective because the determiners cannot govern the nouns and so the latter have to adjoin to the verb to get case. Similarly, in Hindi some nouns only appear in the N+V collocations. II. As noted by Mithun (1984) and others, incorporated inanimates tend to be more ...
Towards the Automatic Mining of Similes in Literary Texts
... - the ground expresses common conceptions about the vehicle, for example, ‘calm’ and ‘lake’; - the vehicle is part of an extended noun phrase in a comparison of equality; - the vehicle and the tenor are nouns belonging either to distinct semantic categories or to different subcategories of a broad s ...
... - the ground expresses common conceptions about the vehicle, for example, ‘calm’ and ‘lake’; - the vehicle is part of an extended noun phrase in a comparison of equality; - the vehicle and the tenor are nouns belonging either to distinct semantic categories or to different subcategories of a broad s ...
Chapter 4
... an important person on a movie set. a. direct object b. indirect object c. predicate noun d. predicate adjective ...
... an important person on a movie set. a. direct object b. indirect object c. predicate noun d. predicate adjective ...
EXERCISE ANSWER KEY - CHAPTER 3 6 CHAPTER 3
... Exercise 3.3 Yester# day# the# bak# er# ’s# old# est# daughter# ran# a# way# with# the# bank# er# ’s# young# est# son. ...
... Exercise 3.3 Yester# day# the# bak# er# ’s# old# est# daughter# ran# a# way# with# the# bank# er# ’s# young# est# son. ...
Word-class-changing Derivations in Rawang
... The other syllable that forms part of the noun that is cognate with the verb sometimes is identifiable. For example, in naqd\ö ‘trousers’ in (5b), the first syllable is ‘black’, in waqh|am ‘fence’ in (5e), the first syllable is ‘bamboo’. But notice in the examples given, that the verb in each case i ...
... The other syllable that forms part of the noun that is cognate with the verb sometimes is identifiable. For example, in naqd\ö ‘trousers’ in (5b), the first syllable is ‘black’, in waqh|am ‘fence’ in (5e), the first syllable is ‘bamboo’. But notice in the examples given, that the verb in each case i ...
2.working_on_Basic_English_Sentence_Structures
... For determining the subject of a sentence, you need to first identify the verb and then ask a question by placing "who?" or "what?" before it -- the answer is the subject. The spectators littered the theatre floor with torn wrappings and spilled popcorn. The verb in the above sentence is "littered." ...
... For determining the subject of a sentence, you need to first identify the verb and then ask a question by placing "who?" or "what?" before it -- the answer is the subject. The spectators littered the theatre floor with torn wrappings and spilled popcorn. The verb in the above sentence is "littered." ...
