Writing Matters
... • audience: students must determine the purpose of the assignment, the intended audience, and the approach to be taken in order to match written piece with intended audience. The skills included in this scope and sequence involve knowledge in four stages. A student has achieved “mastery” only when ...
... • audience: students must determine the purpose of the assignment, the intended audience, and the approach to be taken in order to match written piece with intended audience. The skills included in this scope and sequence involve knowledge in four stages. A student has achieved “mastery” only when ...
Rule 1. You may end a sentence with a preposition. Just do not use
... The prepositions of motion “to,” “toward,” “in,” and “into.” These four prepositions link the verbs of movement— “move,” “go,” “transfer,” “walk,” “run,” “swim,” “ride,” “drive,” “fly,” “travel,” and many more—to their object destination. All of these verbs, except “transfer,” can take both “to” an ...
... The prepositions of motion “to,” “toward,” “in,” and “into.” These four prepositions link the verbs of movement— “move,” “go,” “transfer,” “walk,” “run,” “swim,” “ride,” “drive,” “fly,” “travel,” and many more—to their object destination. All of these verbs, except “transfer,” can take both “to” an ...
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... sentence is odd if there is an overt pronoun rather than an empty object. While this point deserves further investigation, the explanation may be independent of the issue of parasitic gaps. The overt pronoun yah ‘3sg this’ and woo ‘3sg that’ have some semantic content in addition to being pronouns, ...
... sentence is odd if there is an overt pronoun rather than an empty object. While this point deserves further investigation, the explanation may be independent of the issue of parasitic gaps. The overt pronoun yah ‘3sg this’ and woo ‘3sg that’ have some semantic content in addition to being pronouns, ...
A-Z of Correct English
... Once, in an evening class, one of my adult students said, ‘If there’s a right way to spell a word, I want to know it.’ On another occasion, at the end of a punctuation session on possessive apostrophes, a college student said rather angrily, ‘Why wasn’t I told this years ago?’ This book has been wri ...
... Once, in an evening class, one of my adult students said, ‘If there’s a right way to spell a word, I want to know it.’ On another occasion, at the end of a punctuation session on possessive apostrophes, a college student said rather angrily, ‘Why wasn’t I told this years ago?’ This book has been wri ...
THE SUBSYSTEMS OF LEXICAL ASPECTS
... proposes that verbal systems have developmental stages, the total system of stages being cded the chronogenesis, that is the development of the time image. We have proposed the existence of pre-chronogenetic levels, which concern the development of the event image of the iexeme, which in Guillaumian ...
... proposes that verbal systems have developmental stages, the total system of stages being cded the chronogenesis, that is the development of the time image. We have proposed the existence of pre-chronogenetic levels, which concern the development of the event image of the iexeme, which in Guillaumian ...
Paraphrasing Using Given and New Information in a Question
... (CO-OP) is presented. A major point made is the role of given and new information in formulating a paraphrase that differs in a meaningful way from the user's question. A description is also given of the transformational grammar used by the paraphraser to generate questions. ...
... (CO-OP) is presented. A major point made is the role of given and new information in formulating a paraphrase that differs in a meaningful way from the user's question. A description is also given of the transformational grammar used by the paraphraser to generate questions. ...
1 What is Paradigm Function Morphology?
... components, and many of whose properties can be motivated and investigated independently of other grammatical components. At the foundation of this architecture are the concepts of ‘lexeme’, ‘paradigm’, and ‘realization’. A lexeme is a meaningful lexical unit belonging to a syntactic category which ...
... components, and many of whose properties can be motivated and investigated independently of other grammatical components. At the foundation of this architecture are the concepts of ‘lexeme’, ‘paradigm’, and ‘realization’. A lexeme is a meaningful lexical unit belonging to a syntactic category which ...
Kanza Reader
... sounding English constructions, the absence of expected information, or the presence of unexpected information. All were intentional on the part of Rev. Dorsey. Using the Supplemental Audio CD This audio CD is intended to improve your ability to understand spoken Kanza with or without the aid of wr ...
... sounding English constructions, the absence of expected information, or the presence of unexpected information. All were intentional on the part of Rev. Dorsey. Using the Supplemental Audio CD This audio CD is intended to improve your ability to understand spoken Kanza with or without the aid of wr ...
How to use this book
... We visit our grandparents on ALTERNATE Saturdays. (= every other Saturday) I ALTERNATE between hope and despair. (= have each mood in turn) An ALTERNATIVE plan would be to go by boat. (= another possibility) The ALTERNATIVES are simple: work or go hungry. (= two choices) Strictly speaking, the choic ...
... We visit our grandparents on ALTERNATE Saturdays. (= every other Saturday) I ALTERNATE between hope and despair. (= have each mood in turn) An ALTERNATIVE plan would be to go by boat. (= another possibility) The ALTERNATIVES are simple: work or go hungry. (= two choices) Strictly speaking, the choic ...
Madares Al Ghad
... Objective 2.2: Demonstrative adjectives (this/that/these/those) Demonstrative adjectives indicate which one of something you are talking about. In English, there are different forms of the demonstrative adjective according to the number of items and where they are located. singular plural closer thi ...
... Objective 2.2: Demonstrative adjectives (this/that/these/those) Demonstrative adjectives indicate which one of something you are talking about. In English, there are different forms of the demonstrative adjective according to the number of items and where they are located. singular plural closer thi ...
The syntactic analysis of the Dutch absentive
... ‘Jan is off eating a sandwich.’ The agentivity restriction is also clear from the fact illustrated by example (8a) that unaccusative verbs do not seem to be possible.5 This also accounts for De Groot’s observation (for which he provides a semantic account) that examples like (7a) become infelici ...
... ‘Jan is off eating a sandwich.’ The agentivity restriction is also clear from the fact illustrated by example (8a) that unaccusative verbs do not seem to be possible.5 This also accounts for De Groot’s observation (for which he provides a semantic account) that examples like (7a) become infelici ...
теоретической - List English
... In accordance with its etymology, syntax is by some grammarians regarded entirely from this latter point of view, so that it is by them identified with the analysis of sentences, the meaning of grammatical forms being included under accidence. Thus the peculiar meaning of the plural inflection in su ...
... In accordance with its etymology, syntax is by some grammarians regarded entirely from this latter point of view, so that it is by them identified with the analysis of sentences, the meaning of grammatical forms being included under accidence. Thus the peculiar meaning of the plural inflection in su ...
Practice - Macmillan/McGraw-Hill
... • A complex sentence contains an independent clause which can stand alone, and one or more dependent clauses which cannot stand alone. Before reading the reviews, Anna had never heard of those groups. A. Join the following clauses to make either a compound sentence or a complex sentence. Add a conju ...
... • A complex sentence contains an independent clause which can stand alone, and one or more dependent clauses which cannot stand alone. Before reading the reviews, Anna had never heard of those groups. A. Join the following clauses to make either a compound sentence or a complex sentence. Add a conju ...
Reflexivity and Intensification in Middle English
... weak (indefinite) when the NP is introduced by a definite article or demonstrative and strong (definite) if not. Unlike adjectives, SELF cannot be compared, and it „can be used both dependently and independently“ (103), that is either with a noun or instead of a noun; SELF alone in nominative case o ...
... weak (indefinite) when the NP is introduced by a definite article or demonstrative and strong (definite) if not. Unlike adjectives, SELF cannot be compared, and it „can be used both dependently and independently“ (103), that is either with a noun or instead of a noun; SELF alone in nominative case o ...
gerund clauses - E
... productive mass noun forming affix, seen in the “ object”or “ material”senses of words like clothing, fencing, writings. It is difficult, if not impossible, to isolate a common meaning for all the types of -ing isolated above. Several attempts have, however, been made to give a unitary description ...
... productive mass noun forming affix, seen in the “ object”or “ material”senses of words like clothing, fencing, writings. It is difficult, if not impossible, to isolate a common meaning for all the types of -ing isolated above. Several attempts have, however, been made to give a unitary description ...
Basic Croatian (ver 0.24) - ALVSMITH
... Have you noted that some words look somewhat similar (sin "son", and tri "three")? You can read something about reasons for such similarities here. Now, if we take a closer look, we see that kuća "house" (we don't worry about pronunciation for now) has a different form when it's in the sentence wher ...
... Have you noted that some words look somewhat similar (sin "son", and tri "three")? You can read something about reasons for such similarities here. Now, if we take a closer look, we see that kuća "house" (we don't worry about pronunciation for now) has a different form when it's in the sentence wher ...
Complex Feature Values
... which we will call a head-complement phrase, must be specified as [COMPS h i], because that mother must satisfy the description on the left-hand side of the rule.4 In short, the COMPS list of a lexical entry specifies a word’s co-occurrence requirements; and the COMPS list of a phrasal node is empty ...
... which we will call a head-complement phrase, must be specified as [COMPS h i], because that mother must satisfy the description on the left-hand side of the rule.4 In short, the COMPS list of a lexical entry specifies a word’s co-occurrence requirements; and the COMPS list of a phrasal node is empty ...
Practice - TeacherLINK
... • A complex sentence contains an independent clause which can stand alone, and one or more dependent clauses which cannot stand alone. Before reading the reviews, Anna had never heard of those groups. A. Join the following clauses to make either a compound sentence or a complex sentence. Add a conju ...
... • A complex sentence contains an independent clause which can stand alone, and one or more dependent clauses which cannot stand alone. Before reading the reviews, Anna had never heard of those groups. A. Join the following clauses to make either a compound sentence or a complex sentence. Add a conju ...
Chapter 1 - Honda Car
... is a nice boy and he is a member of the college cricket team but he is not regular in his studies.” Pronouns are divided into many different kinds. The most important, however, are these: Personal Pronouns, Possessive Pronoun, Relative Pronouns, Interrogative Pronouns, Distributive Pronouns. Persona ...
... is a nice boy and he is a member of the college cricket team but he is not regular in his studies.” Pronouns are divided into many different kinds. The most important, however, are these: Personal Pronouns, Possessive Pronoun, Relative Pronouns, Interrogative Pronouns, Distributive Pronouns. Persona ...
Morpho-syntactic resources for the organization of same
... more similar to Hebrew in its self-repair patterns, despite the lack of genetic relationship between them. Our findings lend support to the claim that it is typological features, rather than, for example, genetic closeness, which produce patterns of self-repair. In this paper we will focus on same-t ...
... more similar to Hebrew in its self-repair patterns, despite the lack of genetic relationship between them. Our findings lend support to the claim that it is typological features, rather than, for example, genetic closeness, which produce patterns of self-repair. In this paper we will focus on same-t ...
ANTHEM by Ayn Rand – Grammar and Style
... Tomorrow, in the full light of day, we shall take our box, and leave our tunnel open, and walk through the streets to the Home of the Scholars. ...
... Tomorrow, in the full light of day, we shall take our box, and leave our tunnel open, and walk through the streets to the Home of the Scholars. ...
The Reduced Relative Clause: A Misnomer?
... relatives was challenged and Hudson described a way in which reduced relatives behaved differently to their „unreduced‟ equivalents. I shall now discuss these issues, and with ideas from studies on the calculation of tense in syntax propose that there is a more satisfactory alternative. ...
... relatives was challenged and Hudson described a way in which reduced relatives behaved differently to their „unreduced‟ equivalents. I shall now discuss these issues, and with ideas from studies on the calculation of tense in syntax propose that there is a more satisfactory alternative. ...
The Syntax of Temporal Interpretation in Embedded Clauses
... subjunctive in (2a), (2b) and (2c) is expected since the tenses in the main clause are present, future and present perfect respectively, and this is what the concordantia temporum predicts. What is striking is that in all the other examples, the embedded verb is also in the present subjunctive. The ...
... subjunctive in (2a), (2b) and (2c) is expected since the tenses in the main clause are present, future and present perfect respectively, and this is what the concordantia temporum predicts. What is striking is that in all the other examples, the embedded verb is also in the present subjunctive. The ...