The uses of or
... -A singular noncount N head may be premodified by phrases, coordinated by and, and a plural V is used: American and Dutch beer are both lighter than British beer. When the same phrases are postmodified, a singular V is required: Beer from America and Holland is lighter than… -In coordinative apposit ...
... -A singular noncount N head may be premodified by phrases, coordinated by and, and a plural V is used: American and Dutch beer are both lighter than British beer. When the same phrases are postmodified, a singular V is required: Beer from America and Holland is lighter than… -In coordinative apposit ...
5 Think of other possible collocations with the words in
... 5. Which nouns have an irregular plural? woman, man, goose, mouse, tooth, child, louse 11 Choose the correct verb form. 1. The news about his death was/were on television. 2. Cattle has /have been sold for good prices this year. 3. There is /are some refreshments in the other room. 4. The team is/a ...
... 5. Which nouns have an irregular plural? woman, man, goose, mouse, tooth, child, louse 11 Choose the correct verb form. 1. The news about his death was/were on television. 2. Cattle has /have been sold for good prices this year. 3. There is /are some refreshments in the other room. 4. The team is/a ...
English Writing Handbook - Christ the Redeemer Catholic Schools
... Kathleen glares at the accompanist, with equal parts fury and disbelief. And the accompanist looks back — calm, level gaze. Insolent, more like it, how dare she? Handsome features cut like sculpture into her face, so at odds with the puffed sleeves and schoolgirl braids. Kathleen looks away dismissi ...
... Kathleen glares at the accompanist, with equal parts fury and disbelief. And the accompanist looks back — calm, level gaze. Insolent, more like it, how dare she? Handsome features cut like sculpture into her face, so at odds with the puffed sleeves and schoolgirl braids. Kathleen looks away dismissi ...
2016 Editorial Style Guide
... Oxford and Huntington courts. Always use figures for an address number: 1 Terry St. or 9 Morningside Circle. Capitalize, and spell out building when it is part of a proper name, but not when it stands alone or is used collectively: the State Tower Building, the Empire State and Chrysler buildings. S ...
... Oxford and Huntington courts. Always use figures for an address number: 1 Terry St. or 9 Morningside Circle. Capitalize, and spell out building when it is part of a proper name, but not when it stands alone or is used collectively: the State Tower Building, the Empire State and Chrysler buildings. S ...
van Gelderen 2009
... in main clauses, most visible perhaps in interrogatives. Markers for main clause yes ⁄ no questions such as whether in earlier English develop from pronouns as well as from verbs. Embedded clause arguments and relative clauses also reanalyse2 pronouns as complementisers. Adverbial clause complementi ...
... in main clauses, most visible perhaps in interrogatives. Markers for main clause yes ⁄ no questions such as whether in earlier English develop from pronouns as well as from verbs. Embedded clause arguments and relative clauses also reanalyse2 pronouns as complementisers. Adverbial clause complementi ...
Chapter 6 Sentence Structure and Punctuation The ACT English test
... A “restrictive” clause or phrase is essential to the meaning of a sentence, and it should not be separated from the rest of the sentence by commas. People who snore are advised to sleep on their sides. “Who snore” is essential to the meaning of this sentence. The sentence is not saying that all peop ...
... A “restrictive” clause or phrase is essential to the meaning of a sentence, and it should not be separated from the rest of the sentence by commas. People who snore are advised to sleep on their sides. “Who snore” is essential to the meaning of this sentence. The sentence is not saying that all peop ...
Here - Ohlone - University of California, Santa Cruz
... What we have instead of (a) is the order of (b), in which the subject pronoun is enclitic on the finite verb. There is a third important property of Pronoun Postposing that we want to highlight. In Irish and in other languages, displacements to the left or right are often linked with discourse ...
... What we have instead of (a) is the order of (b), in which the subject pronoun is enclitic on the finite verb. There is a third important property of Pronoun Postposing that we want to highlight. In Irish and in other languages, displacements to the left or right are often linked with discourse ...
Conceptual plural information is used to guide early
... These studies are important because they show that language users are sensitive to the distinction between a distributed and an assemblage representation of plural noun phrases. However, there is a third way in which plural nouns can be conceptually represented, namely as a Complex Reference Object ...
... These studies are important because they show that language users are sensitive to the distinction between a distributed and an assemblage representation of plural noun phrases. However, there is a third way in which plural nouns can be conceptually represented, namely as a Complex Reference Object ...
pages 213–231 - Stanford University
... may be subject to further affixation (such that the non-stem parts of the two copies differ in form). We will adopt an approach here which copies on the basis of finegrained semantic similarity, rather than surface phonological form, using Minimal Recursion Semantics (MRS). To begin, the semantics o ...
... may be subject to further affixation (such that the non-stem parts of the two copies differ in form). We will adopt an approach here which copies on the basis of finegrained semantic similarity, rather than surface phonological form, using Minimal Recursion Semantics (MRS). To begin, the semantics o ...
Sub-English 2 nd Paper
... * Participle-Whenever a word acts as a verb and adjective that is called Participle. Likewise ,I have seen a written document.Here the word ‘written’ is a participle and It has been acting as a preposition sitting before a noun .So, It is a participle preposition. ...
... * Participle-Whenever a word acts as a verb and adjective that is called Participle. Likewise ,I have seen a written document.Here the word ‘written’ is a participle and It has been acting as a preposition sitting before a noun .So, It is a participle preposition. ...
(Warm Up Grammar 12 (1))
... The Daily Warm-Ups series is a wonderful way to turn extra classroom minutes into valuable learning time. The 180 quick activities—one for each day of the school year—practice language arts skills. These daily activities may be used at the very beginning of class to get students into learning mode, ...
... The Daily Warm-Ups series is a wonderful way to turn extra classroom minutes into valuable learning time. The 180 quick activities—one for each day of the school year—practice language arts skills. These daily activities may be used at the very beginning of class to get students into learning mode, ...
Syntax I
... stress: I will talk to [the Jápanese now] and [the French later]. Further, similarly puzzling data can be obtained from movement. Consider the topicalization of infinitives in German/Dutch, e.g., “walk has he not” A verb that has two internal arguments can be topicalized either together with the fir ...
... stress: I will talk to [the Jápanese now] and [the French later]. Further, similarly puzzling data can be obtained from movement. Consider the topicalization of infinitives in German/Dutch, e.g., “walk has he not” A verb that has two internal arguments can be topicalized either together with the fir ...
281 A FUNCTIONAL AND FORMAL COMPARISON ON ADJECTIVE
... changing the meaning of the sentence. In other words, “the omission of the adjective clause robs the sentence of a most essential fact. (Allen, 1995)”. However, when the subordinator which introduces the restrictive relative clause acts as object in the dependent clause, it can be omitted, creating ...
... changing the meaning of the sentence. In other words, “the omission of the adjective clause robs the sentence of a most essential fact. (Allen, 1995)”. However, when the subordinator which introduces the restrictive relative clause acts as object in the dependent clause, it can be omitted, creating ...
A grammar of the Somali language with examples in prose
... been possible to correct and add to our knowledge, hitherto incomplete, ...
... been possible to correct and add to our knowledge, hitherto incomplete, ...
commas - Bucks County Community College
... 1. As soon as I save enough money I intend to buy a car. 2. New Jersey which borders Pennsylvania on the east is famous for swamps and tomatoes. 3. It was only eleven o‟clock and the temperature had already reached ninety degrees. 4. “Drop the gun” the police shouted “and put your hands in the air!” ...
... 1. As soon as I save enough money I intend to buy a car. 2. New Jersey which borders Pennsylvania on the east is famous for swamps and tomatoes. 3. It was only eleven o‟clock and the temperature had already reached ninety degrees. 4. “Drop the gun” the police shouted “and put your hands in the air!” ...
GR#5 - Verbals - Gerunds
... GERUND PHRASE = A GERUND THAT IS ACCOMPANIED BY MODIFIERS AND/OR AN OBJECT The complete gerund phrase may be thought of as taking the place of a noun. ...
... GERUND PHRASE = A GERUND THAT IS ACCOMPANIED BY MODIFIERS AND/OR AN OBJECT The complete gerund phrase may be thought of as taking the place of a noun. ...
Manual for Morphological Annotation
... should neither be zero nor start with zero. The used numbers need not form a continuous sequence. Sometimes a particular number is repeatedly used for a special kind of word (e.g. the lemmas numbered ”-99” are almost invariantly authors’ signatures and their Category/Style part is ” :B ;S”). Convent ...
... should neither be zero nor start with zero. The used numbers need not form a continuous sequence. Sometimes a particular number is repeatedly used for a special kind of word (e.g. the lemmas numbered ”-99” are almost invariantly authors’ signatures and their Category/Style part is ” :B ;S”). Convent ...
X-BAR MOTIVATED
... arguments. These requirements are both syntactic and semantic. In John ate disgusting store-bought cookies and John felt deep-rooted emotional pain, both ate and felt have NP subjects and objects. The verbs have c-selected to NPs. But John is an agent of eating and an experiencer of feeling pain. Li ...
... arguments. These requirements are both syntactic and semantic. In John ate disgusting store-bought cookies and John felt deep-rooted emotional pain, both ate and felt have NP subjects and objects. The verbs have c-selected to NPs. But John is an agent of eating and an experiencer of feeling pain. Li ...
Portuguese Syntax
... Form and function Different grammatical approaches describe sentences in different ways, focussing on different aspects of syntactic form and function. Morphologically, form is the way in which words are composed and inflected the basic unit being a morpheme - while morphological function deals with ...
... Form and function Different grammatical approaches describe sentences in different ways, focussing on different aspects of syntactic form and function. Morphologically, form is the way in which words are composed and inflected the basic unit being a morpheme - while morphological function deals with ...
Portuguese Syntax
... Form and function Different grammatical approaches describe sentences in different ways, focussing on different aspects of syntactic form and function. Morphologically, form is the way in which words are composed and inflected the basic unit being a morpheme - while morphological function deals with ...
... Form and function Different grammatical approaches describe sentences in different ways, focussing on different aspects of syntactic form and function. Morphologically, form is the way in which words are composed and inflected the basic unit being a morpheme - while morphological function deals with ...
Writing Skills: Section 5
... Choice (D) results in a sentence fragment. There is no subject or main verb to carry out the action of the sentence, only the dependent clause “Although William Christopher „W.C.‟ Handy was a successful cornet player and a band leader.” Choice (E) results in a sentence fragment. There is no subject ...
... Choice (D) results in a sentence fragment. There is no subject or main verb to carry out the action of the sentence, only the dependent clause “Although William Christopher „W.C.‟ Handy was a successful cornet player and a band leader.” Choice (E) results in a sentence fragment. There is no subject ...
portuguese syntax
... Form and function Different grammatical approaches describe sentences in different ways, focussing on different aspects of syntactic form and function. Morphologically, form is the way in which words are composed and inflected the basic unit being a morpheme - while morphological function deals with ...
... Form and function Different grammatical approaches describe sentences in different ways, focussing on different aspects of syntactic form and function. Morphologically, form is the way in which words are composed and inflected the basic unit being a morpheme - while morphological function deals with ...
ENGLISH GRAMMAR AND COMPOSITION FOR CLASS SIX
... Page-6 Lesson 3 : (Compound Nouns or Groups Nouns) Two or more nouns function as a single unit: This is a bookcase. Football is a popular game. There is a high school in our village. Pine trees are beautiful. His mother-in-law is an elderly lady. His father-in-law is dead. Here is a list of common c ...
... Page-6 Lesson 3 : (Compound Nouns or Groups Nouns) Two or more nouns function as a single unit: This is a bookcase. Football is a popular game. There is a high school in our village. Pine trees are beautiful. His mother-in-law is an elderly lady. His father-in-law is dead. Here is a list of common c ...
