Infinitive Phrase
... When infinitive phrases have an “actor,” they may be roughly characterized as the “subject” of the action or state expressed in the infinitive. Perhaps the denomination “pseudo-subject” is preferable. It is somewhat misleading to use the word “subject” since an infinitive phrase is not a full clause ...
... When infinitive phrases have an “actor,” they may be roughly characterized as the “subject” of the action or state expressed in the infinitive. Perhaps the denomination “pseudo-subject” is preferable. It is somewhat misleading to use the word “subject” since an infinitive phrase is not a full clause ...
big grammar test
... A. change dogs to dog's B. change dogs to dogs' C. change noses to noses' D. change noses to nose's 75. What does the word them mean in the sentence below? Angela and Nikki asked Daniel to play a video game with them. A. Nikki and Daniel B. Angela and Daniel C. Angela and Nikki D. Daniel, Nikki, and ...
... A. change dogs to dog's B. change dogs to dogs' C. change noses to noses' D. change noses to nose's 75. What does the word them mean in the sentence below? Angela and Nikki asked Daniel to play a video game with them. A. Nikki and Daniel B. Angela and Daniel C. Angela and Nikki D. Daniel, Nikki, and ...
3. @ The Clause
... complement of for is the clause. Consider the different functions between Prepositional and Complementizer for below noting that one nice way to tell the distinction is by invoking a movement operation (see movement in §4 below) by forming a wh-question among the two lexical items. The Prep(ositiona ...
... complement of for is the clause. Consider the different functions between Prepositional and Complementizer for below noting that one nice way to tell the distinction is by invoking a movement operation (see movement in §4 below) by forming a wh-question among the two lexical items. The Prep(ositiona ...
Adverbs
... Types of Adverbs • Another type of adverb are adverbs of place. • Adverbs of place tell “where?” an action occurred. Example: Did you put your book there on the table? Where did you put your book? There. That means that there is an adverb. “On the table” is a prepositional phrase. It is not an adve ...
... Types of Adverbs • Another type of adverb are adverbs of place. • Adverbs of place tell “where?” an action occurred. Example: Did you put your book there on the table? Where did you put your book? There. That means that there is an adverb. “On the table” is a prepositional phrase. It is not an adve ...
Topic 7
... specifies the used of the nesting semantically). Let's assume that we will nest 'Mary kissed John' inside 'John kissed Mary' to specify a cause-and-effect relation between the two actions. We can do this by putting 'because' at the front of 'Mary kissed John'. Because English is not keen on repeatin ...
... specifies the used of the nesting semantically). Let's assume that we will nest 'Mary kissed John' inside 'John kissed Mary' to specify a cause-and-effect relation between the two actions. We can do this by putting 'because' at the front of 'Mary kissed John'. Because English is not keen on repeatin ...
The Cambridge Learner Corpus - Error Coding and Analysis
... The Cambridge Learner Corpus is a 16 million-word corpus of Learner English collected by Cambridge University Press in collaboration with the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate (now Cambridge ESOL). It comprises English examination scripts, transcribed retaining all errors, written ...
... The Cambridge Learner Corpus is a 16 million-word corpus of Learner English collected by Cambridge University Press in collaboration with the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate (now Cambridge ESOL). It comprises English examination scripts, transcribed retaining all errors, written ...
Weighing semantic distinctions
... focal ones in Christian Lehmann’s work in the previous sections. They are organized according to the two fundamental viewpoints of language description, the onomasiological and the semasiological perspective. Onomasiological contributions start from the function(s) of an utterance and look at their ...
... focal ones in Christian Lehmann’s work in the previous sections. They are organized according to the two fundamental viewpoints of language description, the onomasiological and the semasiological perspective. Onomasiological contributions start from the function(s) of an utterance and look at their ...
Part Two: Sentence Structure
... An independent clause, "She is older than her brother" (which could be its own sentence), can be turned into a dependent or subordinate clause when the same group of words begins with a dependent word (or a subordinating conjunction in this case): "Because she is older than her brother, she tells hi ...
... An independent clause, "She is older than her brother" (which could be its own sentence), can be turned into a dependent or subordinate clause when the same group of words begins with a dependent word (or a subordinating conjunction in this case): "Because she is older than her brother, she tells hi ...
Adversative conjunction choice in Russian ( no, da, odnako
... one. Kruchinina (1988) identified da with the denial of expectation adversative (Lakoff, 1971): by “VPX da VPY,” the speaker is taken to say “given X you might expect that not Y, nonetheless Y.” Finally, Serebrjanaja (1976) and Sannikov (1989:178) identified da with the preventive adversative, where ...
... one. Kruchinina (1988) identified da with the denial of expectation adversative (Lakoff, 1971): by “VPX da VPY,” the speaker is taken to say “given X you might expect that not Y, nonetheless Y.” Finally, Serebrjanaja (1976) and Sannikov (1989:178) identified da with the preventive adversative, where ...
The English relative clause - Machine Translation Archive
... might also generate such sentences as: They called the girl up. He calls the girl up. etc. ...
... might also generate such sentences as: They called the girl up. He calls the girl up. etc. ...
Chapter 7: Subordinate Clauses
... is used in passive VPs, as well as in perfect VPs); this label is less misleading since -en/ed participle clauses are always passive in sense, while -ing participles can be active or passive. 22. The contestant knowing the most answers will win the game.. 23. The victim splattered with blood stood h ...
... is used in passive VPs, as well as in perfect VPs); this label is less misleading since -en/ed participle clauses are always passive in sense, while -ing participles can be active or passive. 22. The contestant knowing the most answers will win the game.. 23. The victim splattered with blood stood h ...
Attributive clauses in Modern English
... kind may be taken as specimens of subordination weakened and a subordinate clause passing on to something like a co-ordinate position in the sentence. We shall see other varieties of this development in our next chapter. The question about the place of an attributive clause deserves a few remarks. M ...
... kind may be taken as specimens of subordination weakened and a subordinate clause passing on to something like a co-ordinate position in the sentence. We shall see other varieties of this development in our next chapter. The question about the place of an attributive clause deserves a few remarks. M ...
Chapter 2: Linguistic Background
... At first glance the most basic unit of linguistic structure appears to be the word. The word, though, is far from the fundamental element of study in linguistics; it is already the result of a complex set of more primitive parts. The study of morphology concerns the construction of words from more b ...
... At first glance the most basic unit of linguistic structure appears to be the word. The word, though, is far from the fundamental element of study in linguistics; it is already the result of a complex set of more primitive parts. The study of morphology concerns the construction of words from more b ...
chapters 4 and 5
... As mentioned in the special topic to chapter 2, many speakers overreact or panic when they produce an adjective right next to a verb, as in (27). The combination is correct, however, since the adjective modifies a noun (functioning as subject). It need not be changed to an adverb and in many cases i ...
... As mentioned in the special topic to chapter 2, many speakers overreact or panic when they produce an adjective right next to a verb, as in (27). The combination is correct, however, since the adjective modifies a noun (functioning as subject). It need not be changed to an adverb and in many cases i ...
Thongsley_overview_english
... and superlative adjectives, conditionals, imperative, superlative adjectives, conditionals, imperative, bullet subordinate/relative clause. points, subordinate/relative clause. Vocabulary building towards structure/poetic form (2 weeks) – could be split into two separate week blocks, completed in ei ...
... and superlative adjectives, conditionals, imperative, superlative adjectives, conditionals, imperative, bullet subordinate/relative clause. points, subordinate/relative clause. Vocabulary building towards structure/poetic form (2 weeks) – could be split into two separate week blocks, completed in ei ...
writer`s guide for engineers
... Readers expect that any new information will be presented within the context of something which is familiar to them. Familiar information consists of 2 types of information. The first is something that has already been mentioned fairly recently in the text above (even if not in the same words!). The ...
... Readers expect that any new information will be presented within the context of something which is familiar to them. Familiar information consists of 2 types of information. The first is something that has already been mentioned fairly recently in the text above (even if not in the same words!). The ...
Commas
... and ran out the door. 2. The nurse checked the patient’s pulse took his temperature and gave him a glass of water. 3. For lunch we had milk tuna sandwiches and pears. 4. Cora Jack and Tomás all entered the contest. 5. Marcus plays golf and football and volleyball. 6. The U.S. Marine Corps is prepare ...
... and ran out the door. 2. The nurse checked the patient’s pulse took his temperature and gave him a glass of water. 3. For lunch we had milk tuna sandwiches and pears. 4. Cora Jack and Tomás all entered the contest. 5. Marcus plays golf and football and volleyball. 6. The U.S. Marine Corps is prepare ...
Mediating Ideas in an Agent-based Team for Business Process Reengineering: Toward a Linguistic Ontology
... For the automation of this metodology, a virtual team of software agents is intended, where the agents work either on behalf of the users (BPR personal assistants and the mediator agent) or of other software agents (ontology agent) (see Fig. 1). At present, results with respect to the application of ...
... For the automation of this metodology, a virtual team of software agents is intended, where the agents work either on behalf of the users (BPR personal assistants and the mediator agent) or of other software agents (ontology agent) (see Fig. 1). At present, results with respect to the application of ...
The Cartography of Spatial Adpositional Phrases - Lear
... ‘exocentric’ structures, in the sense that a node dominating two nodes does not inherit from either of the two. For instance, in (4) the sentence node S, dominating NP and VP, is not projected from either phrase. Furthermore, in (3) the Determiner or [Spec, NP] not only is exocentric, but also domin ...
... ‘exocentric’ structures, in the sense that a node dominating two nodes does not inherit from either of the two. For instance, in (4) the sentence node S, dominating NP and VP, is not projected from either phrase. Furthermore, in (3) the Determiner or [Spec, NP] not only is exocentric, but also domin ...
A Linguistic Analysis of Daniel 8:11, 12
... The decision of whether s√aœbaœ} (host) is subject of vs. 12a or belongs to vs. 11c is far more difficult. After laying out the arguments, it seems advisable to draw only a tentative conclusion. Syntactic Place and Grammatical Form of s√aœbaœ}. First, it is necessary to examine whether the syntactic ...
... The decision of whether s√aœbaœ} (host) is subject of vs. 12a or belongs to vs. 11c is far more difficult. After laying out the arguments, it seems advisable to draw only a tentative conclusion. Syntactic Place and Grammatical Form of s√aœbaœ}. First, it is necessary to examine whether the syntactic ...
A Linguistic Analysis of Daniel 8:11, 12
... The decision of whether s√aœbaœ} (host) is subject of vs. 12a or belongs to vs. 11c is far more difficult. After laying out the arguments, it seems advisable to draw only a tentative conclusion. Syntactic Place and Grammatical Form of s√aœbaœ}. First, it is necessary to examine whether the syntactic ...
... The decision of whether s√aœbaœ} (host) is subject of vs. 12a or belongs to vs. 11c is far more difficult. After laying out the arguments, it seems advisable to draw only a tentative conclusion. Syntactic Place and Grammatical Form of s√aœbaœ}. First, it is necessary to examine whether the syntactic ...
Fulltext: english,
... (19) can also mean ’The ice breaker broke the iceberg’ because both nouns can be either the nominative or the accusative case. In (20) both mjesec and oblak are either nominative or accusative, but the only plausible semantic and pragmatic interpretation is the one given in the translation of (20). ...
... (19) can also mean ’The ice breaker broke the iceberg’ because both nouns can be either the nominative or the accusative case. In (20) both mjesec and oblak are either nominative or accusative, but the only plausible semantic and pragmatic interpretation is the one given in the translation of (20). ...
Grammar for reading and writing
... English grammar, like any other, is rule driven, but, as native speakers, we may struggle to describe what those rules are. Helping our pupils describe, in appropriate metalanguage, what writers are doing and how they do it will support them in developing both as critical readers and creative writer ...
... English grammar, like any other, is rule driven, but, as native speakers, we may struggle to describe what those rules are. Helping our pupils describe, in appropriate metalanguage, what writers are doing and how they do it will support them in developing both as critical readers and creative writer ...
Ovid, Metamorphoses 8
... singular qualifying ambāge. Initially students may assume it qualifies lūmina because of word order. By now, however, they should be growing used to Ovid's tendency to split nouns and adjectives. Metre does not solve the ambiguity, but careful reading aloud by the teacher, stressing the final long ā ...
... singular qualifying ambāge. Initially students may assume it qualifies lūmina because of word order. By now, however, they should be growing used to Ovid's tendency to split nouns and adjectives. Metre does not solve the ambiguity, but careful reading aloud by the teacher, stressing the final long ā ...
2014. The Use of Adverb in Article
... (2012, p.12) says that there are eight kinds of part of speech in English namely noun, pronoun, adjective, adverb, verb, conjunction, interjection, and preposition. Noun is a name of person, thing, idea and so on. Noun has functions as a subject, object, and other. For example, song, Angie, table, b ...
... (2012, p.12) says that there are eight kinds of part of speech in English namely noun, pronoun, adjective, adverb, verb, conjunction, interjection, and preposition. Noun is a name of person, thing, idea and so on. Noun has functions as a subject, object, and other. For example, song, Angie, table, b ...