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) ...
Correct and Complete Sentences
... Watch Out for a Common Trap! Just because you write a lot of words, you don’t necessarily have a complete sentence. Although I have tried many ways to get an “A”, such as paying off the professor and offering to carry her books to class each day and assuring her that I love my writing class more th ...
... Watch Out for a Common Trap! Just because you write a lot of words, you don’t necessarily have a complete sentence. Although I have tried many ways to get an “A”, such as paying off the professor and offering to carry her books to class each day and assuring her that I love my writing class more th ...
Chapter 6 PHRASES, CLAUSES, AND SENTENCES
... works for you. If you’re confronted with an advocate of the old rule, you’ll have no trouble finding support for your position from the best writers and usage experts. Subordinate clauses A subordinate clause has a subject and predicate but, unlike an independent clause, cannot stand by itself. It d ...
... works for you. If you’re confronted with an advocate of the old rule, you’ll have no trouble finding support for your position from the best writers and usage experts. Subordinate clauses A subordinate clause has a subject and predicate but, unlike an independent clause, cannot stand by itself. It d ...
Restrictive and Nonrestrictive Clauses -- Debate
... • Without the marked modifiers, the relative clauses would be much more restrictive: "a schedule that does not allow many deviations." • With the underlined modifiers, however, the nouns have been restricted and defined, and yet one cannot say the relative clauses after them are therefore nonrestri ...
... • Without the marked modifiers, the relative clauses would be much more restrictive: "a schedule that does not allow many deviations." • With the underlined modifiers, however, the nouns have been restricted and defined, and yet one cannot say the relative clauses after them are therefore nonrestri ...
Parallel Structure
... special attention when you are proofreading for parallelism. These correlative conjunctions require equal grammatical units after both parts of the conjunction. ...
... special attention when you are proofreading for parallelism. These correlative conjunctions require equal grammatical units after both parts of the conjunction. ...
Relative clauses SUBORDINATE CLAUSE
... - Such as (listing examples) as (in the function of) - Comparison and manner: As (+entire clause) like (+noun) - Wal-Mart is one of the largest employers in the US. In fact it’s the largest (A dire il vero) - Industry usually means productive sector. Plant, factory (are the words for the place wher ...
... - Such as (listing examples) as (in the function of) - Comparison and manner: As (+entire clause) like (+noun) - Wal-Mart is one of the largest employers in the US. In fact it’s the largest (A dire il vero) - Industry usually means productive sector. Plant, factory (are the words for the place wher ...
workbook for linguistics 200 introduction to english
... prejudices about language use. Among these was his prescriptive belief that the passive voice should be avoided as much as possible. Orwell, who was not the first person to complain about the passive, would probably claim, for instance, that a sentence like “The house was damaged by the storm” is in ...
... prejudices about language use. Among these was his prescriptive belief that the passive voice should be avoided as much as possible. Orwell, who was not the first person to complain about the passive, would probably claim, for instance, that a sentence like “The house was damaged by the storm” is in ...
Grammar on the Go!
... a few (is are) kind enough to spare us when winter holiday comes. Everyone in class (is are) happy when there isn’t any homework. Besides, I don’t think anyone (love loves) to stay home and do marking. ...
... a few (is are) kind enough to spare us when winter holiday comes. Everyone in class (is are) happy when there isn’t any homework. Besides, I don’t think anyone (love loves) to stay home and do marking. ...
doc format - Skyline College
... Revise the following sentences to replace the “to be” verb with an active verb. 1. I study nursing at University of San Francisco. 2. The psychology class interests me because it focuses on how war affects soldiers. Revise the following sentences to remove the “there + to be.” 3. Many Skyline Colleg ...
... Revise the following sentences to replace the “to be” verb with an active verb. 1. I study nursing at University of San Francisco. 2. The psychology class interests me because it focuses on how war affects soldiers. Revise the following sentences to remove the “there + to be.” 3. Many Skyline Colleg ...
pdf format - Skyline College
... Revise the following sentences to replace the “to be” verb with an active verb. 1. I study nursing at University of San Francisco. 2. The psychology class interests me because it focuses on how war affects soldiers. Revise the following sentences to remove the “there + to be.” 3. Many Skyline Colleg ...
... Revise the following sentences to replace the “to be” verb with an active verb. 1. I study nursing at University of San Francisco. 2. The psychology class interests me because it focuses on how war affects soldiers. Revise the following sentences to remove the “there + to be.” 3. Many Skyline Colleg ...
Grammatical terminology recommended by the LAGB for use in
... to identify others which may replace them. Verbs are not the only words to which adverbs may be added: They may also modify the meaning of other word classes, including: • adjectives (nearly impossible, extremely good; so ‘intensifiers’ are a type of adverb), • other adverbs (almost impossibly diffi ...
... to identify others which may replace them. Verbs are not the only words to which adverbs may be added: They may also modify the meaning of other word classes, including: • adjectives (nearly impossible, extremely good; so ‘intensifiers’ are a type of adverb), • other adverbs (almost impossibly diffi ...
Syntax
... But linguists require more objective ways of determining syntactic categories. There are two tests one can use: ...
... But linguists require more objective ways of determining syntactic categories. There are two tests one can use: ...
The Structure of a Sentence
... There are two special types of compound sentences which you might want to note. First, rather than joining two simple sentences together, a co-ordinating conjunction sometimes joins two complex sentences, or one simple sentence and one complex sentence. In this case, the sentence is called a compoun ...
... There are two special types of compound sentences which you might want to note. First, rather than joining two simple sentences together, a co-ordinating conjunction sometimes joins two complex sentences, or one simple sentence and one complex sentence. In this case, the sentence is called a compoun ...
Chapter 1: The basics Chapter 1.1 • Understand vocabulary
... No, because the connectives of time ‘For a start’ and ‘Then’ both refer back to a previous idea; ‘Finally’ is adding an additional point. ...
... No, because the connectives of time ‘For a start’ and ‘Then’ both refer back to a previous idea; ‘Finally’ is adding an additional point. ...
generate: a natural language sentence
... structure rules and transformation rules to form valid sentence strings. The dictionary consists of twenty verbs and twenty nouns. Both the nouns and the verb are semantically coded to assure that invalid strings such as The building smoked a cigar will never be produced. The voice you are hearing i ...
... structure rules and transformation rules to form valid sentence strings. The dictionary consists of twenty verbs and twenty nouns. Both the nouns and the verb are semantically coded to assure that invalid strings such as The building smoked a cigar will never be produced. The voice you are hearing i ...
1. High school produces few students truly prepared for the zombie
... (GER), or infinitive or infinitive phrases (INF). Phrases are labeled with parentheses; phrases within phrases are labeled with brackets. Then label each as a noun (N), adjective (ADJ), or adverb (ADV). You do not have to draw arrows. ...
... (GER), or infinitive or infinitive phrases (INF). Phrases are labeled with parentheses; phrases within phrases are labeled with brackets. Then label each as a noun (N), adjective (ADJ), or adverb (ADV). You do not have to draw arrows. ...
Commonly Confused Words
... Their is the third person plural pronoun. It indicates a possession or relationship. Ex. Their dog was in the backyard. They’re is the contraction of “they” and “are.” Ex. They’re going to the amusement park on Friday. There is used to refer to a specific location, position, or time. It may also be ...
... Their is the third person plural pronoun. It indicates a possession or relationship. Ex. Their dog was in the backyard. They’re is the contraction of “they” and “are.” Ex. They’re going to the amusement park on Friday. There is used to refer to a specific location, position, or time. It may also be ...
Basic Sentence Parts
... a) has a set of subject and predicate b) the subject can be a noun clause c) may have a simple subject but compound predicate d) the subject is also an object of the preposition e) is made up of one word. 2. One of these cannot be used as subject of the sentence. a) infinitive phrase b) prepositiona ...
... a) has a set of subject and predicate b) the subject can be a noun clause c) may have a simple subject but compound predicate d) the subject is also an object of the preposition e) is made up of one word. 2. One of these cannot be used as subject of the sentence. a) infinitive phrase b) prepositiona ...
WRITING The Basics - University of Bolton
... experiment was conducted’, as opposed to ‘I conducted an experiment’. Pronouns These are words that stand in place of nouns, to avoid repetition. So, in the last sentence, instead of saying ‘Pronouns are words ...’, the pronoun ‘these’ was used. There are different categories of pronouns, but common ...
... experiment was conducted’, as opposed to ‘I conducted an experiment’. Pronouns These are words that stand in place of nouns, to avoid repetition. So, in the last sentence, instead of saying ‘Pronouns are words ...’, the pronoun ‘these’ was used. There are different categories of pronouns, but common ...
Commonly Confused Words PDF
... Their is the third person plural pronoun. It indicates a possession or relationship. Ex. Their dog was in the backyard. They’re is the contraction of “they” and “are.” Ex. They’re going to the amusement park on Friday. There is used to refer to a specific location, position, or time. It may also be ...
... Their is the third person plural pronoun. It indicates a possession or relationship. Ex. Their dog was in the backyard. They’re is the contraction of “they” and “are.” Ex. They’re going to the amusement park on Friday. There is used to refer to a specific location, position, or time. It may also be ...
SimpleNLG-IT: adapting SimpleNLG to Italian
... usually precede the associated noun, while colour, geografic and relation adjectives behave as noun’s postmodifiers. See, e.g., la grande casa gialla (the big yellow house) where the adjective big is a qualitative adjective while yellow is a colour adjective. Moreover, when more than one adjective o ...
... usually precede the associated noun, while colour, geografic and relation adjectives behave as noun’s postmodifiers. See, e.g., la grande casa gialla (the big yellow house) where the adjective big is a qualitative adjective while yellow is a colour adjective. Moreover, when more than one adjective o ...
Pronouns - Alexis Kitchens
... Indefinite pronouns • An indefinite pronoun is a pronoun referring to an identifiable but not specified person or thing. An indefinite pronoun conveys the idea of all, any, none, or some. • The most common indefinite pronouns are "all," "another," "any," "anybody," "anyone," "anything," "each," "ev ...
... Indefinite pronouns • An indefinite pronoun is a pronoun referring to an identifiable but not specified person or thing. An indefinite pronoun conveys the idea of all, any, none, or some. • The most common indefinite pronouns are "all," "another," "any," "anybody," "anyone," "anything," "each," "ev ...
Micro-Skills - Tippie College of Business
... colloquial or regional dialect, as in “She’s going to up and rain on us by nightfall, I reckon.” In this case, “she” is used in place of the more conventional “it,” which takes the place of “the weather.” Here are some hints to help you navigate the perilous waters of pronoun agreements. 1. Know yo ...
... colloquial or regional dialect, as in “She’s going to up and rain on us by nightfall, I reckon.” In this case, “she” is used in place of the more conventional “it,” which takes the place of “the weather.” Here are some hints to help you navigate the perilous waters of pronoun agreements. 1. Know yo ...
LECTURE 4
... B. subject relative clause: She has never met the lecturer that is leading today's seminar. ...
... B. subject relative clause: She has never met the lecturer that is leading today's seminar. ...