Unparallel Structure DEFINITION
... 1. Partridge uses repetition to emphasize his vivid memory, layering language, and increase the reader’s awareness about imagery. 2. Mary Pickford was America’s sweetheart in her early films and wore long blond curls and little girl dresses and a sweet, innocent smile, and she was thirty-five years ...
... 1. Partridge uses repetition to emphasize his vivid memory, layering language, and increase the reader’s awareness about imagery. 2. Mary Pickford was America’s sweetheart in her early films and wore long blond curls and little girl dresses and a sweet, innocent smile, and she was thirty-five years ...
Sentence Patterns
... EX: The Nittony Lions football team –talented, experienced, and well-coached—will challenge for a national title. An emergency room doctor, looking very sorrowful, approached the waiting family members. 29. Open with an introductory series of appositives, with a dash and a summarizing subject: A hig ...
... EX: The Nittony Lions football team –talented, experienced, and well-coached—will challenge for a national title. An emergency room doctor, looking very sorrowful, approached the waiting family members. 29. Open with an introductory series of appositives, with a dash and a summarizing subject: A hig ...
Parts of a Sentence
... What is the complete subject? A mathematician of ancient Greece What is the complete predicate? ...
... What is the complete subject? A mathematician of ancient Greece What is the complete predicate? ...
Importance of English Proficiency
... Punctuation Variation of sentences: expansion, transformation, reduction, sentence combining, inversion, and ellipsis ...
... Punctuation Variation of sentences: expansion, transformation, reduction, sentence combining, inversion, and ellipsis ...
Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar
... girls’, boys’) and in words with irregular plurals (e.g. children’s). ...
... girls’, boys’) and in words with irregular plurals (e.g. children’s). ...
3 Principles of English Phrase Structure
... Consider the following NP, which contains both an attributive AP and a relative clause, (17) inside information which may be of importance to the transaction In (17), the head noun information does not have a complement, which would increase complexity. Add to this the fact that modifiers may also b ...
... Consider the following NP, which contains both an attributive AP and a relative clause, (17) inside information which may be of importance to the transaction In (17), the head noun information does not have a complement, which would increase complexity. Add to this the fact that modifiers may also b ...
Pronoun Case
... Sometimes a pronoun is followed directly by a noun that identifies the pronoun. Such a noun is called an appositive. To help you choose which pronoun to use before an appositive, omit the appositive and try each form of the pronoun ...
... Sometimes a pronoun is followed directly by a noun that identifies the pronoun. Such a noun is called an appositive. To help you choose which pronoun to use before an appositive, omit the appositive and try each form of the pronoun ...
substitution
... = backward pointing; the use of a pro-form as a substitute for a previous linguistic unit when referring back to the thing, person, happening, etc., denoted by the latter - pronouns and other pro-forms are frequently used anaphorically to avoid repetition: Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard to ...
... = backward pointing; the use of a pro-form as a substitute for a previous linguistic unit when referring back to the thing, person, happening, etc., denoted by the latter - pronouns and other pro-forms are frequently used anaphorically to avoid repetition: Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard to ...
9. Use commas after "he said," etc. to set off direct quotations.
... 12. Don't use a comma to separate the subject from the verb. An eighteen-year old in California, is now considered an adult. (incorrect) The most important attribute of a ball player, is quick reflex actions. (incorrect) 13. Don't put a comma between the two verbs or verb phrases in a compound predi ...
... 12. Don't use a comma to separate the subject from the verb. An eighteen-year old in California, is now considered an adult. (incorrect) The most important attribute of a ball player, is quick reflex actions. (incorrect) 13. Don't put a comma between the two verbs or verb phrases in a compound predi ...
CHAPTER II CHARACTERISTICS OF SCIENTIFIC
... sentence patterns, types of sentences and clauses within the sentence in English for biological science, with the help of a corpus of 1659 words forming 19 paragraphs, ...
... sentence patterns, types of sentences and clauses within the sentence in English for biological science, with the help of a corpus of 1659 words forming 19 paragraphs, ...
Forms and Functions of the English Noun Phrase in
... prepositional phrases embedded in it, that is, The water-colour painting of a woman (PP) with a child (PP) was much like a copy of the Virgin (PP) and Child oil painting that hung in Papa’s bedroom... (pp 126). While the first aspect of the structure is the head-modifier: The water-colour painting o ...
... prepositional phrases embedded in it, that is, The water-colour painting of a woman (PP) with a child (PP) was much like a copy of the Virgin (PP) and Child oil painting that hung in Papa’s bedroom... (pp 126). While the first aspect of the structure is the head-modifier: The water-colour painting o ...
independent clause
... apartment window. In addition, I can see the Golden Gate Bridge under which many cargo ships pass each day. I also like San Francisco because I can find wonderful restaurants with food from just about every country; however, I don’t like the traffic in the city. ...
... apartment window. In addition, I can see the Golden Gate Bridge under which many cargo ships pass each day. I also like San Francisco because I can find wonderful restaurants with food from just about every country; however, I don’t like the traffic in the city. ...
Progression in the Teaching of Writing and Grammar Items in purple
... Compound sentences using connectives (coordinating conjunctions) and/or/ but/so e.g. The children played on the swings and slid down the slide. Spiders can be small or they can be large. Charlie hid but Sally found him. It was raining so they put on their coats. Complex sentences: Use of ‘who’ (rela ...
... Compound sentences using connectives (coordinating conjunctions) and/or/ but/so e.g. The children played on the swings and slid down the slide. Spiders can be small or they can be large. Charlie hid but Sally found him. It was raining so they put on their coats. Complex sentences: Use of ‘who’ (rela ...
ch 3 Phrases
... Her plan to subsidize child care won wide acceptance among urban politicians. [modifies plan, functions as an adjective] She wanted to raise taxes. [noun-object of the sentence] To watch Uncle Billy tell this story is an eye-opening experience. [noun-subject of the sentence] To know her is to love h ...
... Her plan to subsidize child care won wide acceptance among urban politicians. [modifies plan, functions as an adjective] She wanted to raise taxes. [noun-object of the sentence] To watch Uncle Billy tell this story is an eye-opening experience. [noun-subject of the sentence] To know her is to love h ...
Bellwork PowerPoint
... We will continue our reading of Alice in Wonderland. Again, underline all of the nouns in the sentences. There was nothing so VERY remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so VERY much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself, `Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!’ (when she thought it over a ...
... We will continue our reading of Alice in Wonderland. Again, underline all of the nouns in the sentences. There was nothing so VERY remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so VERY much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself, `Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!’ (when she thought it over a ...
Adverb Clauses
... • but the relative pronoun can be omitted • if the clause has another noun to serve as the subject •EX: The story [I am reading]is sad. ...
... • but the relative pronoun can be omitted • if the clause has another noun to serve as the subject •EX: The story [I am reading]is sad. ...
LA-3-Daily-Language-Practice
... 2. For example, the following sentence could work quite well to introduce a paragraph for “Orphan Boy”: Myths are old stories that contain supernatural elements that may be very hard to believe, but those details are used to explain how ...
... 2. For example, the following sentence could work quite well to introduce a paragraph for “Orphan Boy”: Myths are old stories that contain supernatural elements that may be very hard to believe, but those details are used to explain how ...
Direct Object Pronouns
... When you have both a direct object pronoun and an indirect object pronoun in the same sentence, the indirect object pronoun comes ...
... When you have both a direct object pronoun and an indirect object pronoun in the same sentence, the indirect object pronoun comes ...
Learning tough English words for GRE & CAT
... The cats’ toys were tattered after years of play. The Smiths’ two cats chased the Wilsons’ dog. Plural possessives can be challenging: The Williamses’s dogs chase cats. (Strunk &White style) The Williamses’ dogs chase cats. (AP Stylebook and MLA version) The first version of the last example looks o ...
... The cats’ toys were tattered after years of play. The Smiths’ two cats chased the Wilsons’ dog. Plural possessives can be challenging: The Williamses’s dogs chase cats. (Strunk &White style) The Williamses’ dogs chase cats. (AP Stylebook and MLA version) The first version of the last example looks o ...
Part-of-Speech Tagging with Hidden Markov Models
... Part-of-speech tagging is the process of labeling each word in a text with the appropriate part-of-speech. The input to a tagger is a string of words and the desired tagset. Part-of-speech information is very important for a number of tasks in natural language processing: Parsing is the task of dete ...
... Part-of-speech tagging is the process of labeling each word in a text with the appropriate part-of-speech. The input to a tagger is a string of words and the desired tagset. Part-of-speech information is very important for a number of tasks in natural language processing: Parsing is the task of dete ...
The Infinitive and the Infinitive Phrase
... 2. Find the verb 3. If the verb is an action verb (it can be done DO), ask “WHAT” after the verb. 4. If the infinitive phrase makes sense, you have a DO. The band and choir try (verb) to work together during the musical. (try what? To work together during the musical) ...
... 2. Find the verb 3. If the verb is an action verb (it can be done DO), ask “WHAT” after the verb. 4. If the infinitive phrase makes sense, you have a DO. The band and choir try (verb) to work together during the musical. (try what? To work together during the musical) ...
The Infinitive and the Infinitive Phrase
... 2. Find the verb 3. If the verb is an action verb (it can be done DO), ask “WHAT” after the verb. 4. If the infinitive phrase makes sense, you have a DO. The band and choir try (verb) to work together during the musical. (try what? To work together during the musical) ...
... 2. Find the verb 3. If the verb is an action verb (it can be done DO), ask “WHAT” after the verb. 4. If the infinitive phrase makes sense, you have a DO. The band and choir try (verb) to work together during the musical. (try what? To work together during the musical) ...
The Infinitive and the Infinitive Phrase
... 2. Find the verb 3. If the verb is an action verb (it can be done DO), ask “WHAT” after the verb. 4. If the infinitive phrase makes sense, you have a DO. The band and choir try (verb) to work together during the musical. (try what? To work together during the musical) ...
... 2. Find the verb 3. If the verb is an action verb (it can be done DO), ask “WHAT” after the verb. 4. If the infinitive phrase makes sense, you have a DO. The band and choir try (verb) to work together during the musical. (try what? To work together during the musical) ...