30 Minutes to Review
... Change these statements into questions. Explain the time difference. a) He cleaned the house when I got home. b) He had cleaned the house when I got home. a) She learned English when she came to Canada. b) She had learned English when she came to Canada. 6. Make questions about these conditional sen ...
... Change these statements into questions. Explain the time difference. a) He cleaned the house when I got home. b) He had cleaned the house when I got home. a) She learned English when she came to Canada. b) She had learned English when she came to Canada. 6. Make questions about these conditional sen ...
The Absence of the Adjective Category in Korean
... prototypical adjectives cannot modify nouns unless they occur inside RCs. The arguments presented thus far strongly suggest that KAs are not adjectives. What category do they belong to then? Given that they denote states and inflect for tense/aspect, I argue that they are most likely to be stative v ...
... prototypical adjectives cannot modify nouns unless they occur inside RCs. The arguments presented thus far strongly suggest that KAs are not adjectives. What category do they belong to then? Given that they denote states and inflect for tense/aspect, I argue that they are most likely to be stative v ...
al-Farabi Kazakh National University
... English is a Germanic language which belongs to the IndoEuropean languages. The Germanic languages in the modern world are as follows: English, German, Netherlandish (known also as Dutch and Flemish), Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Frisian, Faroese, Afrikaans (in the South African Republic) ...
... English is a Germanic language which belongs to the IndoEuropean languages. The Germanic languages in the modern world are as follows: English, German, Netherlandish (known also as Dutch and Flemish), Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Frisian, Faroese, Afrikaans (in the South African Republic) ...
A brief grammar of Euskara - University of the Basque Country
... About glosses. If you are a really methodical reader, of the kind that actually reads the glosses of the examples, you will notice that the same word may appear glossed in different ways in various parts of the grammar. The reason is that glosses have been kept to the simplest, in order to make the ...
... About glosses. If you are a really methodical reader, of the kind that actually reads the glosses of the examples, you will notice that the same word may appear glossed in different ways in various parts of the grammar. The reason is that glosses have been kept to the simplest, in order to make the ...
Reteach Workbook
... • A declarative sentence tells something. It ends with a period. (.) Some towns have a fireworks show. • An interrogative sentence asks a question. It ends with a question mark. (?) Have you ever seen fireworks? • An imperative sentence tells or asks someone to do something. It ends with a period. ( ...
... • A declarative sentence tells something. It ends with a period. (.) Some towns have a fireworks show. • An interrogative sentence asks a question. It ends with a question mark. (?) Have you ever seen fireworks? • An imperative sentence tells or asks someone to do something. It ends with a period. ( ...
Prose Passages for Level 2
... tree. The green leaf floated away down the stream, and the butterfly with it, for he was fastened to the leaf and could not get loose from it. Oh, dear! how terrified poor little Thumbelina was when the cockchafer flew off with her to the tree! But she was especially distressed on the beautiful whit ...
... tree. The green leaf floated away down the stream, and the butterfly with it, for he was fastened to the leaf and could not get loose from it. Oh, dear! how terrified poor little Thumbelina was when the cockchafer flew off with her to the tree! But she was especially distressed on the beautiful whit ...
File
... • I bought his car at an auction. • That is their only choice because he has them over a barrel. In the second sentence, their is used to stand in for the people who have the choice. Them again refers to those same people, and him refers to whoever is giving them the choice. Previous Slide Next Slid ...
... • I bought his car at an auction. • That is their only choice because he has them over a barrel. In the second sentence, their is used to stand in for the people who have the choice. Them again refers to those same people, and him refers to whoever is giving them the choice. Previous Slide Next Slid ...
Computers, Thought, and Life
... Try to work out how the Script that you see within the Editor is determining Elizabeth’s conversational behaviour – if any of it seems puzzling, refer to the help section ‘Illustrative Script and Conversation’. Try playing around with the Script (like you did already with the ‘Welcome’ message), ...
... Try to work out how the Script that you see within the Editor is determining Elizabeth’s conversational behaviour – if any of it seems puzzling, refer to the help section ‘Illustrative Script and Conversation’. Try playing around with the Script (like you did already with the ‘Welcome’ message), ...
The Noun and Verb Phrase in Chrambo (Bambalang)
... This is probably the case in other nouns where the prefix mí- is followed by a homorganic nasal, such as míŋgú ‘dog’, míŋgúò ‘chicken’ and míŋkunyà ‘pig’. In the case of míŋkunyà and a few other animals, the mí prefix is optional. Watters (2003) states that in Eastern Grassfields languages there are ...
... This is probably the case in other nouns where the prefix mí- is followed by a homorganic nasal, such as míŋgú ‘dog’, míŋgúò ‘chicken’ and míŋkunyà ‘pig’. In the case of míŋkunyà and a few other animals, the mí prefix is optional. Watters (2003) states that in Eastern Grassfields languages there are ...
Кузнецова Н. Б. Английский язык практическая грамматика
... 12. My pyjamas … not on my bed. Where … they? 13. Mumps … a childhood disease. 14. My luggage … in the car already. 15. Your hair … very long again. 16. Tom’s gloves … made of soft leather. 17. The class … all working on a project together. 18. Athletics … my favourite sport. 19. My shoes … too smal ...
... 12. My pyjamas … not on my bed. Where … they? 13. Mumps … a childhood disease. 14. My luggage … in the car already. 15. Your hair … very long again. 16. Tom’s gloves … made of soft leather. 17. The class … all working on a project together. 18. Athletics … my favourite sport. 19. My shoes … too smal ...
The morphology and syntax of Scottish English
... Sornicola, Zemskaja and others in Miller and Weinert [1998].) The structures and properties are found in all non-standard varieties of English, but also in spontaneous spoken Standard English (and other languages) and must be included in a compendium of structures used by speakers of Broad Scots. Pr ...
... Sornicola, Zemskaja and others in Miller and Weinert [1998].) The structures and properties are found in all non-standard varieties of English, but also in spontaneous spoken Standard English (and other languages) and must be included in a compendium of structures used by speakers of Broad Scots. Pr ...
Here - Confident Grammar
... Possessive nouns end in s and indicate ownership or relationship (students’, woman’s). Knowing when to use ‘s or s’ tricks many people. Using the incorrect apostrophe looks amateur and damages credibility. The good news is that once you know the rules it’s easy to avoid the error. You simply start b ...
... Possessive nouns end in s and indicate ownership or relationship (students’, woman’s). Knowing when to use ‘s or s’ tricks many people. Using the incorrect apostrophe looks amateur and damages credibility. The good news is that once you know the rules it’s easy to avoid the error. You simply start b ...
Chapter 12
... between words and phrases. For example the verb want can be followed by an infinitive, as in I want to fly to Detroit, or a noun phrase, as in I want a flight to Detroit. But the verb find cannot be followed by an infinitive (*I found to fly to Dallas). These are called facts about the subcategoriza ...
... between words and phrases. For example the verb want can be followed by an infinitive, as in I want to fly to Detroit, or a noun phrase, as in I want a flight to Detroit. But the verb find cannot be followed by an infinitive (*I found to fly to Dallas). These are called facts about the subcategoriza ...
A constructional approach to English verbal gerunds
... combines a head with a genitive NP specifier. Since the subject and specifier are identified with each other, no verbal gerund will be able to combine with both a subject and a specifier. Genitive subject VGerPs will inherit all the constraints that apply to possessive constructions in general, for ...
... combines a head with a genitive NP specifier. Since the subject and specifier are identified with each other, no verbal gerund will be able to combine with both a subject and a specifier. Genitive subject VGerPs will inherit all the constraints that apply to possessive constructions in general, for ...
Discontinuous phrases in dependency grammar
... into two parts. For example, the link between raining and it is just the same as in It rained, and illustrates the fact that the lexeme RAIN requires its subject to be IT; but the phrase consisting of the verb and its subject is split by the 'main verb', keeps. Discontinuous phrases are a challenge ...
... into two parts. For example, the link between raining and it is just the same as in It rained, and illustrates the fact that the lexeme RAIN requires its subject to be IT; but the phrase consisting of the verb and its subject is split by the 'main verb', keeps. Discontinuous phrases are a challenge ...
Ideas for Teaching Grammar and Mechanics
... Sometimes a group of linking verbs will be separated or divided by a word that is not a linking verb (ex. She has not been very friendly lately.). After students complete a short worksheet dealing with this, give each student a section of the newspaper and have them identify five more sentences that ...
... Sometimes a group of linking verbs will be separated or divided by a word that is not a linking verb (ex. She has not been very friendly lately.). After students complete a short worksheet dealing with this, give each student a section of the newspaper and have them identify five more sentences that ...
Reflexives and Reciprocals in Copala Trique
... In the above examples it can be seen that the Trique nouns gwaa4 'John' and sa3na1 'woman', and the pronouns Viuh''first-person-singular' and zo?2 'second-person-singular', are identical in form whether they function as possessive determiners or as heads. The words that mean 'machete' and 'thread', ...
... In the above examples it can be seen that the Trique nouns gwaa4 'John' and sa3na1 'woman', and the pronouns Viuh''first-person-singular' and zo?2 'second-person-singular', are identical in form whether they function as possessive determiners or as heads. The words that mean 'machete' and 'thread', ...
ENGLISH GRAMMAR
... The classes of nouns mentioned earlier will concord with the verb according to their given form, be it singular or plural. But there are other classes of nouns for which concord is determined either by the nature of the noun or by the meaning intended when the noun is used. These are: The Invariable ...
... The classes of nouns mentioned earlier will concord with the verb according to their given form, be it singular or plural. But there are other classes of nouns for which concord is determined either by the nature of the noun or by the meaning intended when the noun is used. These are: The Invariable ...
Sentence Diagraming
... Compound Subjects and Predicates IV Complete Subject and Complete Predicate The complete subject of a sentence consists of the simple subject and all the words that modify it. The complete predicate consists of the simple predicate, or verb, and all the words that modify it or complete its meaning. ...
... Compound Subjects and Predicates IV Complete Subject and Complete Predicate The complete subject of a sentence consists of the simple subject and all the words that modify it. The complete predicate consists of the simple predicate, or verb, and all the words that modify it or complete its meaning. ...
Front Matter - Assets - Cambridge
... A tense used to refer to completed actions in the future, e.g. E. I will have done it by next week, D. ik zal het gedaan hebben. A tense used usually to refer to future time, e.g. E. I will do it soon, D. ik zal het doen, or to express an assumption, e.g. E. he will be th ...
... A tense used to refer to completed actions in the future, e.g. E. I will have done it by next week, D. ik zal het gedaan hebben. A tense used usually to refer to future time, e.g. E. I will do it soon, D. ik zal het doen, or to express an assumption, e.g. E. he will be th ...
focus 11 position of adverbs
... The dress is quite cheap (fairly cheap) to relate to adjectives; they may strengthen or weaken the adjective. Perhaps somebody lives here to relate to whole sentences There are several different types of adverbs. We classify them according to their meaning. Here are some examples: 1. Manner: quietly ...
... The dress is quite cheap (fairly cheap) to relate to adjectives; they may strengthen or weaken the adjective. Perhaps somebody lives here to relate to whole sentences There are several different types of adverbs. We classify them according to their meaning. Here are some examples: 1. Manner: quietly ...
focus 11 position of adverbs
... The dress is quite cheap (fairly cheap) to relate to adjectives; they may strengthen or weaken the adjective. Perhaps somebody lives here to relate to whole sentences There are several different types of adverbs. We classify them according to their meaning. Here are some examples: 1. Manner: quietly ...
... The dress is quite cheap (fairly cheap) to relate to adjectives; they may strengthen or weaken the adjective. Perhaps somebody lives here to relate to whole sentences There are several different types of adverbs. We classify them according to their meaning. Here are some examples: 1. Manner: quietly ...
1. Academic writing style There`s no great mystique about an
... courses it is OK to make your writing fairly personal and subjective; on others it is not permissable. It depends aswell on the type of writing you are doing. Traditionally, academic writing was impersonal: you would not be able to use words like I, my etc. There has, however, been a shift in this a ...
... courses it is OK to make your writing fairly personal and subjective; on others it is not permissable. It depends aswell on the type of writing you are doing. Traditionally, academic writing was impersonal: you would not be able to use words like I, my etc. There has, however, been a shift in this a ...
the Writing Manual to improve your papers
... There are also other strategies you can use for fixing run-on sentences that are less obvious but can make the sentences flow better. It is important to know every way to fix a run-on sentence so that the fixes can be varied and not make the sentences seem repetitive. ...
... There are also other strategies you can use for fixing run-on sentences that are less obvious but can make the sentences flow better. It is important to know every way to fix a run-on sentence so that the fixes can be varied and not make the sentences seem repetitive. ...
this PDF file - Minda Masagi Journals
... in the Novel of New Moon by Stephenie Meyer: The Syntactic and Semantic Analysis ABSTRACT: Languages use visual symbols to represent the sounds of the spoken languages, but they still require syntactic rules that govern the production of meaning from sequences of words. While, a phrasal verb is a co ...
... in the Novel of New Moon by Stephenie Meyer: The Syntactic and Semantic Analysis ABSTRACT: Languages use visual symbols to represent the sounds of the spoken languages, but they still require syntactic rules that govern the production of meaning from sequences of words. While, a phrasal verb is a co ...