Packet for the Grammar Proficiency Exam
... 5. No one on the highways (is, are) exempt from the traffic rules. 6. Several of the group (have, has) taken the trip before. 7. Anyone with glasses (need, needs) to wear them for the driving exam. 8. None of the car breakdowns (were, was) reported in the newspaper. 9. The shears (were, was) left ou ...
... 5. No one on the highways (is, are) exempt from the traffic rules. 6. Several of the group (have, has) taken the trip before. 7. Anyone with glasses (need, needs) to wear them for the driving exam. 8. None of the car breakdowns (were, was) reported in the newspaper. 9. The shears (were, was) left ou ...
Latin II topics review
... As the book will tell you, participles are verbal adjectives. That is, they are verbs that have been transformed into an adjective. They retain some of their verbal characteristics, as you saw with the P.P.P (having been...). Here, we deal with present participles in the active voice. There are no p ...
... As the book will tell you, participles are verbal adjectives. That is, they are verbs that have been transformed into an adjective. They retain some of their verbal characteristics, as you saw with the P.P.P (having been...). Here, we deal with present participles in the active voice. There are no p ...
Pie Corbett`s Talk for Writing teaching guide for progression in
... Simple Connectives: and or but so because so that then that while when where Also as openers: While… When… Where… -‘ly’ openers Fortunately,…Unfortunately, Sadly,… Simple sentences e.g. I went to the park. The castle is haunted. Embellished simple sentences ...
... Simple Connectives: and or but so because so that then that while when where Also as openers: While… When… Where… -‘ly’ openers Fortunately,…Unfortunately, Sadly,… Simple sentences e.g. I went to the park. The castle is haunted. Embellished simple sentences ...
3 Principles of English Phrase Structure
... The difference between the semantics of restrictive and non-restrictive relative clauses can be explained in terms of sets. Assume that there are four members of the board, {Ann, Beth, Cecily, Dot}. Assume further that Beth and Dot are also members of one of the board committees. (23) states that ou ...
... The difference between the semantics of restrictive and non-restrictive relative clauses can be explained in terms of sets. Assume that there are four members of the board, {Ann, Beth, Cecily, Dot}. Assume further that Beth and Dot are also members of one of the board committees. (23) states that ou ...
Identitate românească în context balcanic
... alive the Romance and Romanian awareness. This is obvious not only in the areas where they form a compact group (for instance, in Pind – Greece, especially in Metsovo, or in the area of Korce-Moscopole in Albania), but also in isolated places showing a great cultural tradition (for instance, Siracu ...
... alive the Romance and Romanian awareness. This is obvious not only in the areas where they form a compact group (for instance, in Pind – Greece, especially in Metsovo, or in the area of Korce-Moscopole in Albania), but also in isolated places showing a great cultural tradition (for instance, Siracu ...
1 - 7thGradeEnglishWolves
... two-year North American tour, the circus stopped at twelve cities. [23 Once the circus reached a new city, organizing everything under the tent took a week. [24 In addition, the manager found sleeping quarters for the forty-two members. [25] He also provided meals for them throughout their stay. [26 ...
... two-year North American tour, the circus stopped at twelve cities. [23 Once the circus reached a new city, organizing everything under the tent took a week. [24 In addition, the manager found sleeping quarters for the forty-two members. [25] He also provided meals for them throughout their stay. [26 ...
1 An Introduction to Word classes
... This approach has certain merits, since it allows us to determine word classes by replacing words in a sentence with words of "similar" meaning. For instance, in the sentence My son cooks dinner every Sunday, we can replace the verb cooks with other "action" words: ...
... This approach has certain merits, since it allows us to determine word classes by replacing words in a sentence with words of "similar" meaning. For instance, in the sentence My son cooks dinner every Sunday, we can replace the verb cooks with other "action" words: ...
Aspects of the syntax of psychological verbs in Spanish A lexical
... Despite the syntactic differences exemplified by these sentences, the three verbs seem to show up a thematic equivalence: in all three examples, there is an “experiencer” reacting emotionally to a “theme”. The theme is realized as the subject in (2) and in (3), and as the direct object in (1), whil ...
... Despite the syntactic differences exemplified by these sentences, the three verbs seem to show up a thematic equivalence: in all three examples, there is an “experiencer” reacting emotionally to a “theme”. The theme is realized as the subject in (2) and in (3), and as the direct object in (1), whil ...
Aspects of the syntax of psychological verbs in Spanish A lexical
... Despite the syntactic differences exemplified by these sentences, the three verbs seem to show up a thematic equivalence: in all three examples, there is an “experiencer” reacting emotionally to a “theme”. The theme is realized as the subject in (2) and in (3), and as the direct object in (1), whil ...
... Despite the syntactic differences exemplified by these sentences, the three verbs seem to show up a thematic equivalence: in all three examples, there is an “experiencer” reacting emotionally to a “theme”. The theme is realized as the subject in (2) and in (3), and as the direct object in (1), whil ...
9 ISSN 2053-6305(Print) ISSN 2053
... Kisa shows standard Bantu morphological patterns. Nouns in Bantu languages are divided into classes numbered from 1-24 (Guthrie, 1967; Katamba, 2006; Meeussen, 1967; Welmers, 1973). While there is justification for the 1-24 numbering in Proto-Bantu, changes have occurred in several of the Bantu lang ...
... Kisa shows standard Bantu morphological patterns. Nouns in Bantu languages are divided into classes numbered from 1-24 (Guthrie, 1967; Katamba, 2006; Meeussen, 1967; Welmers, 1973). While there is justification for the 1-24 numbering in Proto-Bantu, changes have occurred in several of the Bantu lang ...
here - UCLA Linguistics
... a sequence of sentences, and the study of discourse (which includes texts and dialogs) is certainly a very vital one. Unfortunately, even sentences are so complicated that it will take all our time to study them. The methods, however, shall be useful for discourse analysis as well. For a linguist, l ...
... a sequence of sentences, and the study of discourse (which includes texts and dialogs) is certainly a very vital one. Unfortunately, even sentences are so complicated that it will take all our time to study them. The methods, however, shall be useful for discourse analysis as well. For a linguist, l ...
PowerPoint
... The direction that syntactic theory has tended to progress over the years is that as we learn more about how sentences are structured, we begin to zoom in on the trees, to see finer structure. In a sense, the VP we had before was a good first approximation, but as we look more closely we see that ev ...
... The direction that syntactic theory has tended to progress over the years is that as we learn more about how sentences are structured, we begin to zoom in on the trees, to see finer structure. In a sense, the VP we had before was a good first approximation, but as we look more closely we see that ev ...
Two Colonial Grammars: Tradition and Innovation
... division of the sentence into eight parts: nouns, pronouns, verbs, nominalized forms, postpositions, adverbs, interjections and conjunctions. The survey furthermore shows that he considers nouns, pronouns, verbs and nominalized forms, viz. the declinable parts, to be the most significant parts of th ...
... division of the sentence into eight parts: nouns, pronouns, verbs, nominalized forms, postpositions, adverbs, interjections and conjunctions. The survey furthermore shows that he considers nouns, pronouns, verbs and nominalized forms, viz. the declinable parts, to be the most significant parts of th ...
electronic
... Mark all grammar errors on the essay and suggest ways to fix them. 7. Is the essay consistently written in PRESENT TENSE except where past tense is necessary because it refers to something in the author’s life, an event in history, or an event before the plot begins? Yes No ...
... Mark all grammar errors on the essay and suggest ways to fix them. 7. Is the essay consistently written in PRESENT TENSE except where past tense is necessary because it refers to something in the author’s life, an event in history, or an event before the plot begins? Yes No ...
adjective phrases
... modify a word in the sentence. When there is no word that the phrase or clause can sensibly modify, the modifier is said to dangle. • Carrying a heavy pile of books, her foot caught on the step. • How can you fix the above sentence? • Carrying a heavy pile of books, she caught her foot on the step. ...
... modify a word in the sentence. When there is no word that the phrase or clause can sensibly modify, the modifier is said to dangle. • Carrying a heavy pile of books, her foot caught on the step. • How can you fix the above sentence? • Carrying a heavy pile of books, she caught her foot on the step. ...
PPT
... • 1970s: Rationalist approach to AI systems in restricted domains (e.g. Winograd 1972, Woods 1977, Waltz 1978) • 1980s: hand-coded grammars and knowledge bases (e.g. Allen 1987) • Hand-coded systems need great deal of domainspecific/expert knowledge engineering • Systems brittle, unscaleable and inf ...
... • 1970s: Rationalist approach to AI systems in restricted domains (e.g. Winograd 1972, Woods 1977, Waltz 1978) • 1980s: hand-coded grammars and knowledge bases (e.g. Allen 1987) • Hand-coded systems need great deal of domainspecific/expert knowledge engineering • Systems brittle, unscaleable and inf ...
Chapter 5 Dictionaries
... English which have distinct translations into French. Where a particular meaning can be identified by reference to a subject field, this information is given (bracketed, in italics) — here computation and photography are identified as subject fields. If the context of use is other than these two fie ...
... English which have distinct translations into French. Where a particular meaning can be identified by reference to a subject field, this information is given (bracketed, in italics) — here computation and photography are identified as subject fields. If the context of use is other than these two fie ...
Dependent or Subordinate Clauses
... o Nonrestrictive Clause - "The building, which they built in San Francisco, sold for a lot of money." A nonrestrictive clause begins with a relative pronoun like which or who. It adds extra information about an already-specific noun; in this case, there's only one building to talk about, whereas the ...
... o Nonrestrictive Clause - "The building, which they built in San Francisco, sold for a lot of money." A nonrestrictive clause begins with a relative pronoun like which or who. It adds extra information about an already-specific noun; in this case, there's only one building to talk about, whereas the ...
C16-2050 - Association for Computational Linguistics
... scores were calculated: (1) if given token is present both in FrameBank annotation and extracted construction, it is considered true positive, disregarding its dependency label and FrameBank labeling; (2) if it is present in FrameBank annotation, but not in extracted construction, it is considered f ...
... scores were calculated: (1) if given token is present both in FrameBank annotation and extracted construction, it is considered true positive, disregarding its dependency label and FrameBank labeling; (2) if it is present in FrameBank annotation, but not in extracted construction, it is considered f ...
The number one thing people forget to do is that they have
... dozen musicals including "The Phantom of the Opera" and "Cats," has been diagnosed with prostate cancer. 1. The simple subject ...
... dozen musicals including "The Phantom of the Opera" and "Cats," has been diagnosed with prostate cancer. 1. The simple subject ...
Yaqui coordination - University of Arizona
... Summarizing this section, we observed that into ‘and’ occurs in first position under the following conditions: a) the grammatical subject is the same in both coordinated clauses, b) the subject of both coordinated sentences is a pronoun and there is correferentiality between them, c) there is not a ...
... Summarizing this section, we observed that into ‘and’ occurs in first position under the following conditions: a) the grammatical subject is the same in both coordinated clauses, b) the subject of both coordinated sentences is a pronoun and there is correferentiality between them, c) there is not a ...
Christiane Fellbaum, How and when to add a new concept and how
... Don’t worry too much about format of definitions Consider them primarily bags of words that supply context and support WSD Unlike in paper dictionaries, related words need not be part of the definition ...
... Don’t worry too much about format of definitions Consider them primarily bags of words that supply context and support WSD Unlike in paper dictionaries, related words need not be part of the definition ...
ppt
... (In fact, many adults don’t understand them either until they take a logic class.) A version of if-then statements tends to appear on IQ tests: If all As are Bs, and some Bs are Cs, then are all As Cs? ...
... (In fact, many adults don’t understand them either until they take a logic class.) A version of if-then statements tends to appear on IQ tests: If all As are Bs, and some Bs are Cs, then are all As Cs? ...
The Derivational Structure of Words
... 5. Productivity of derivational rules and derivational processes ● derivational rules and processes and the affixes they use fall into two categories with respect to their productivity productive patterns may be applied to form new lexical items as the need arises - the derivational prefix re- is ...
... 5. Productivity of derivational rules and derivational processes ● derivational rules and processes and the affixes they use fall into two categories with respect to their productivity productive patterns may be applied to form new lexical items as the need arises - the derivational prefix re- is ...
Gillian Ramchand
... The most important source that we identify is grounded, we argue, in extralinguistic cognition: A cognitive proclivity to perceive experience in terms of events, situations, and propositions (with analogous ontologies for other extended projections). Summary of Ramchand and Svenonius (2013): -First ...
... The most important source that we identify is grounded, we argue, in extralinguistic cognition: A cognitive proclivity to perceive experience in terms of events, situations, and propositions (with analogous ontologies for other extended projections). Summary of Ramchand and Svenonius (2013): -First ...