writing style guide - University of Hull
... of’, ‘to thwart by acting in advance of’, ‘to forestall’. Try to avoid using it as a sloppy synonym for ‘expect’. apostrophe As is well known, the apostrophe is never used to form the plural of a word. While it is helpful in ‘dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s’, moreover, it is unnecessary in such ...
... of’, ‘to thwart by acting in advance of’, ‘to forestall’. Try to avoid using it as a sloppy synonym for ‘expect’. apostrophe As is well known, the apostrophe is never used to form the plural of a word. While it is helpful in ‘dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s’, moreover, it is unnecessary in such ...
The Alignment of the PLATO Learning Curricula to TABE 9 10
... “Missing activities” means there is courseware that you still need or has been developed recently to support this newer version of TABE 9 10. If this is the case, you should contact your local PLATO Account Manager or Curriculum Consultant for updated courseware. Once this necessary courseware is in ...
... “Missing activities” means there is courseware that you still need or has been developed recently to support this newer version of TABE 9 10. If this is the case, you should contact your local PLATO Account Manager or Curriculum Consultant for updated courseware. Once this necessary courseware is in ...
Use of Verb Information in Syntactic Parsing
... parsing model, subcategorization information is not initially used by the parser. In other theories, however, verb information is fundamental to the parser's operation. For example, Ford, Bresnan, and Kaplan's (1982) parsing model is based on the assumption that alternative syntactic structures are ...
... parsing model, subcategorization information is not initially used by the parser. In other theories, however, verb information is fundamental to the parser's operation. For example, Ford, Bresnan, and Kaplan's (1982) parsing model is based on the assumption that alternative syntactic structures are ...
teaching technical english writing
... to him. Post-graduate students at CENIDET have forty hours of English classes per school term. In other words, decisions about course priorities should be partly based on an assesment of the circumstances under which teacher intervention in the learning process is essential, where it is useful and w ...
... to him. Post-graduate students at CENIDET have forty hours of English classes per school term. In other words, decisions about course priorities should be partly based on an assesment of the circumstances under which teacher intervention in the learning process is essential, where it is useful and w ...
The Semantics of Progressive Aspect: A Thorough Study
... markers of aspect do not appear to constitute a coherent system. (p. 1) ...
... markers of aspect do not appear to constitute a coherent system. (p. 1) ...
Style Guide - School of Communication and Arts
... Many journalists who studied under school curriculums that paid little or no heed to grammar will benefit from an understanding of the basic building blocks of our language. While it is true that knowledge of grammar does not make a good writer, good writing depends on good grammar. WORD CLASSES Rec ...
... Many journalists who studied under school curriculums that paid little or no heed to grammar will benefit from an understanding of the basic building blocks of our language. While it is true that knowledge of grammar does not make a good writer, good writing depends on good grammar. WORD CLASSES Rec ...
event orientated adnominals and compositionality
... (i.e. does not correspond to any syntactic position), but unlike verbal events, it is not referential (witness (18b)). The challenge for such an approach would be to show that it is motivated by anything beyond the need to block derivations as in (18b). At present we are unaware of such motivation. ...
... (i.e. does not correspond to any syntactic position), but unlike verbal events, it is not referential (witness (18b)). The challenge for such an approach would be to show that it is motivated by anything beyond the need to block derivations as in (18b). At present we are unaware of such motivation. ...
Limitations on metonymic uses of –ion nominalizations
... 7. Metaphorical extensions of -ion action nominalizations to emotions Verbs of emotion differ from this transitive prototype in the fact that the event is not initiated by a volitionally acting Agent, and there is no Patient which undergoes a perceptible change in the course of the energy transfer w ...
... 7. Metaphorical extensions of -ion action nominalizations to emotions Verbs of emotion differ from this transitive prototype in the fact that the event is not initiated by a volitionally acting Agent, and there is no Patient which undergoes a perceptible change in the course of the energy transfer w ...
The Case for Case - UC Berkeley Linguistics
... interpretations to the verb–object relation in these two sentences has no connection, we might feel, with a correct description of the specifically syntactical skills of a speaker of English. The distinction does have syntactic relevance, however. The effectum object, for example, does not permit in ...
... interpretations to the verb–object relation in these two sentences has no connection, we might feel, with a correct description of the specifically syntactical skills of a speaker of English. The distinction does have syntactic relevance, however. The effectum object, for example, does not permit in ...
commas - Bucks County Community College
... Shuba loves cooking, playing piano, and working in the garden. Note: The above sentences are also good examples of parallel phrasing. When you write a list or series, all the items should be in the same form. For example, the first sentence lists nouns, the second lists verbs in the present tense, a ...
... Shuba loves cooking, playing piano, and working in the garden. Note: The above sentences are also good examples of parallel phrasing. When you write a list or series, all the items should be in the same form. For example, the first sentence lists nouns, the second lists verbs in the present tense, a ...
On D-pronouns and the Movement of Topic Features
... pronoun (as is evident in the case in the (b) example). This means th at a movement analysis for the dislocated element itself is out of the question. We arrived at the same conclusion on the basis of the facts concerning selection criteria. Coindexation between the left-dislocated element and the t ...
... pronoun (as is evident in the case in the (b) example). This means th at a movement analysis for the dislocated element itself is out of the question. We arrived at the same conclusion on the basis of the facts concerning selection criteria. Coindexation between the left-dislocated element and the t ...
Chapter 2
... 2Radford (1997) assumes that words carry three sets of grammatical features: head-features (which describe their intrinsic grammatical properties), complement-features (which describe the kind of complements that they take) and specifier-features (which describe the kind of specifier/subject they ca ...
... 2Radford (1997) assumes that words carry three sets of grammatical features: head-features (which describe their intrinsic grammatical properties), complement-features (which describe the kind of complements that they take) and specifier-features (which describe the kind of specifier/subject they ca ...
Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 47, 2
... forming ethnic adjectives in English, possibly through the competition from the Romance IAN which served the same purpose”. This suggestion seems quite convincing. However, Dalton-Puffer does not consider the suffix -ian separately and does not provide any statistics for it either. In my search in t ...
... forming ethnic adjectives in English, possibly through the competition from the Romance IAN which served the same purpose”. This suggestion seems quite convincing. However, Dalton-Puffer does not consider the suffix -ian separately and does not provide any statistics for it either. In my search in t ...
Practice sheets, for the sentences in this booklet, are available in a
... speech by reciting definitions in jingle form. These rhythmic definitions are chanted or sung by the class to help them initially remember the role of each part of speech. Question and Answer Flow In the Question and Answer Flow, an oral series of questions and answers determines the role each word ...
... speech by reciting definitions in jingle form. These rhythmic definitions are chanted or sung by the class to help them initially remember the role of each part of speech. Question and Answer Flow In the Question and Answer Flow, an oral series of questions and answers determines the role each word ...
Word meaning, sentence meaning, and syntactic
... meaning is “added” in order to achieve well-formedness in conceptual structure and/or to “satisfy the pragmatics of the discourse or extralinguistic context” (1999: 49). For example, the “iteration” feature is added to a sentence like I blinked for two minutes because a single blink cannot plausibly ...
... meaning is “added” in order to achieve well-formedness in conceptual structure and/or to “satisfy the pragmatics of the discourse or extralinguistic context” (1999: 49). For example, the “iteration” feature is added to a sentence like I blinked for two minutes because a single blink cannot plausibly ...
+++Notes on Editing:2009
... worse, make changes that don't make the copy better or worse, or make no changes at all. The goal should be to maintain the quality that is in the writing and to fix only what needs to be fixed. Good editors make copy better, and they make changes with that in mind. Editing involves the repetitious ...
... worse, make changes that don't make the copy better or worse, or make no changes at all. The goal should be to maintain the quality that is in the writing and to fix only what needs to be fixed. Good editors make copy better, and they make changes with that in mind. Editing involves the repetitious ...
DeQue: A Lexicon of Complex Prepositions and Conjunctions
... However, accidental co-occurrence, like in example 2, creates ambiguities that are hard to solve at tokenisation time, specially given the simplicity of most automatic tokenisation approaches in French. A simplistic approach such as treating all occurrences of bien que as a single word with spaces i ...
... However, accidental co-occurrence, like in example 2, creates ambiguities that are hard to solve at tokenisation time, specially given the simplicity of most automatic tokenisation approaches in French. A simplistic approach such as treating all occurrences of bien que as a single word with spaces i ...
Chapter 8 The verb complex
... Numerous modal, aspectual and tense marking forms may precede a predication's verbal head. Two, the abilitative boka and the desiderative manahagi, function both as main verbs, and as pre-head adverbials. Others are phonologically independent, but occur only as modifiers, while still others combine ...
... Numerous modal, aspectual and tense marking forms may precede a predication's verbal head. Two, the abilitative boka and the desiderative manahagi, function both as main verbs, and as pre-head adverbials. Others are phonologically independent, but occur only as modifiers, while still others combine ...
Parent Help Booklet - Shurley Instructional Materials
... speech by reciting definitions in jingle form. These rhythmic definitions are chanted or sung by the class to help them initially remember the role of each part of speech. Question and Answer Flow In the Question and Answer Flow, an oral series of questions and answers determines the role each word ...
... speech by reciting definitions in jingle form. These rhythmic definitions are chanted or sung by the class to help them initially remember the role of each part of speech. Question and Answer Flow In the Question and Answer Flow, an oral series of questions and answers determines the role each word ...
Practice sheets for the sentences in this booklet are available in a
... Sentence Building (Level 1 teaches five of the eight parts of speech: noun, verb, adverb, adjective, and preposition.) The Shurley Method uses grammar to teach students the structure and design of the English language. Grammar is taught in a simple, systematic way that provides students with a writi ...
... Sentence Building (Level 1 teaches five of the eight parts of speech: noun, verb, adverb, adjective, and preposition.) The Shurley Method uses grammar to teach students the structure and design of the English language. Grammar is taught in a simple, systematic way that provides students with a writi ...
Practice Semester Exam English II
... 71. Identify the definition of the term premise. a. a presupposition from which a conclusion is drawn b. arriving at inferences derived from the examination of general principles c. the act of or process of arriving at a conclusion from facts or a premise d. arriving at a particular conclusion from ...
... 71. Identify the definition of the term premise. a. a presupposition from which a conclusion is drawn b. arriving at inferences derived from the examination of general principles c. the act of or process of arriving at a conclusion from facts or a premise d. arriving at a particular conclusion from ...
Paradigmatic uniformity and markedness
... for regular weak verbs is applied to new items. Rückumlaut weak verbs too have been transferred to the regular weak class. In Northern Middle English (Krygier 1997: 245-253), for example, duell “dwell”, quell “kill”, quak “quake”, and wach “watch” show only regular weak preterites duelled, queld, qu ...
... for regular weak verbs is applied to new items. Rückumlaut weak verbs too have been transferred to the regular weak class. In Northern Middle English (Krygier 1997: 245-253), for example, duell “dwell”, quell “kill”, quak “quake”, and wach “watch” show only regular weak preterites duelled, queld, qu ...
Some Observations on English Deverbal and Gerundial Nouns
... Despite the fact that the same nominal/adverbial dichotomy can be observed in the case of the infinitive (2a, b), no special typological distinction, apart from sub-specifying the infinitival clause w.r.t. its syntactic role (i.e., the adverbial or the nominal infinitival clause), has been drawn in ...
... Despite the fact that the same nominal/adverbial dichotomy can be observed in the case of the infinitive (2a, b), no special typological distinction, apart from sub-specifying the infinitival clause w.r.t. its syntactic role (i.e., the adverbial or the nominal infinitival clause), has been drawn in ...
From Words to Works
... Writing coherent paragraphs and essays involves engaging in a number of activities simultaneously: • motor component: whether students print, write in cursive, or type an assignment, part of the brain is engaged in this process. • spelling: even if students are not penalized for spelling, they mus ...
... Writing coherent paragraphs and essays involves engaging in a number of activities simultaneously: • motor component: whether students print, write in cursive, or type an assignment, part of the brain is engaged in this process. • spelling: even if students are not penalized for spelling, they mus ...
Towards a structural typology of verb classes
... intransitive verbs have one, transitive verbs have two, and ditransitive verbs have three nominal arguments. (Verbs with zero valency are extremely rare – one possible semantic class of this kind are weather verbs, such as Latin pluit ‘it rains’, however, note that English uses here an expletive pro ...
... intransitive verbs have one, transitive verbs have two, and ditransitive verbs have three nominal arguments. (Verbs with zero valency are extremely rare – one possible semantic class of this kind are weather verbs, such as Latin pluit ‘it rains’, however, note that English uses here an expletive pro ...