Choices: Examining the Parts of a Sentence
... 1. Until recently, tourists could reach the tiny island only by boat. 2. The island of Bequia remains relatively untouched by the trappings of modern life. 3. A need for economic growth has led to the construction of an airport. 4. Some islanders are worried about the loss of the old way of life. 5. ...
... 1. Until recently, tourists could reach the tiny island only by boat. 2. The island of Bequia remains relatively untouched by the trappings of modern life. 3. A need for economic growth has led to the construction of an airport. 4. Some islanders are worried about the loss of the old way of life. 5. ...
chapters 4 and 5
... Typically, subjects start off a sentence, as in (1) and (2), but there are a number of constructions where they don’t. For instance, in (3), the Adverb Phrase fortunately for us precedes the subject; in questions such as (4), the auxiliary verb does; and in (5), the sentence is a complex one and the ...
... Typically, subjects start off a sentence, as in (1) and (2), but there are a number of constructions where they don’t. For instance, in (3), the Adverb Phrase fortunately for us precedes the subject; in questions such as (4), the auxiliary verb does; and in (5), the sentence is a complex one and the ...
Welcome to Summer School
... from the normal or usual syntactical structure. Absolute comes from the Latin for loosened from or separated. We sometimes think of absolute as meaning total, (Absolute power) but really unrestricted might be closer. ...
... from the normal or usual syntactical structure. Absolute comes from the Latin for loosened from or separated. We sometimes think of absolute as meaning total, (Absolute power) but really unrestricted might be closer. ...
Producing Biographical Summaries: Combining
... These descriptions are the relatively large set of sentences which have a person name as a (deep) subject. We filter them based on whether their main verb is strongly associated with either of the head nouns of the appositive descriptions found for that person name (Filter 4). The intuition here is ...
... These descriptions are the relatively large set of sentences which have a person name as a (deep) subject. We filter them based on whether their main verb is strongly associated with either of the head nouns of the appositive descriptions found for that person name (Filter 4). The intuition here is ...
Fulltext
... reduced clause which does not have the same subject as the main clause does. Hale (2005: 1) mentions that the dangling modifier is "a word or phrase that modifies a clause in an ambiguous manner, because it can be applied to either the subject or the object of the clause." Zwicky (2005: 2) describes ...
... reduced clause which does not have the same subject as the main clause does. Hale (2005: 1) mentions that the dangling modifier is "a word or phrase that modifies a clause in an ambiguous manner, because it can be applied to either the subject or the object of the clause." Zwicky (2005: 2) describes ...
limba engleză contemporană. sintaxa propoziţiei
... The phenomenon of embedding accounts for the indefinite extensibility of certain units of grammar. The noun phrase and the prepositional phrase may be immediate constituents of a clause, as in: E.g. Some students will be working late in their rooms. Both units can consist of more than one word a ...
... The phenomenon of embedding accounts for the indefinite extensibility of certain units of grammar. The noun phrase and the prepositional phrase may be immediate constituents of a clause, as in: E.g. Some students will be working late in their rooms. Both units can consist of more than one word a ...
Subject and Predicate
... 3. Ways of expressing the predicate are varied and their structure will better be considered under the heading of types of predicate. It is sometimes claimed that the predicate agrees in number with the subject: when the subject is in the singular, the predicate is bound to be in the singular, and v ...
... 3. Ways of expressing the predicate are varied and their structure will better be considered under the heading of types of predicate. It is sometimes claimed that the predicate agrees in number with the subject: when the subject is in the singular, the predicate is bound to be in the singular, and v ...
Punctuation - Ashland Theological Seminary
... Conjunctions: A conjunction joins words, phrases, or clauses, and they indicate the relation between the elements joined. ...
... Conjunctions: A conjunction joins words, phrases, or clauses, and they indicate the relation between the elements joined. ...
doc format - Skyline College
... First person point of view allows writers to write about themselves when including specific personal examples (“The author’s criticisms are accurate which I know from having also served in the army as a young woman”). In some projects, first person point of view can be used to show how a writer’s ...
... First person point of view allows writers to write about themselves when including specific personal examples (“The author’s criticisms are accurate which I know from having also served in the army as a young woman”). In some projects, first person point of view can be used to show how a writer’s ...
pdf format - Skyline College
... First person point of view allows writers to write about themselves when including specific personal examples (“The author’s criticisms are accurate which I know from having also served in the army as a young woman”). In some projects, first person point of view can be used to show how a writer’s ...
... First person point of view allows writers to write about themselves when including specific personal examples (“The author’s criticisms are accurate which I know from having also served in the army as a young woman”). In some projects, first person point of view can be used to show how a writer’s ...
Sentence Diagraming G L
... A simple subject may have more than one word. For example, it may be a compound noun, such as White House, or a person’s full name, such as President William Henry Harrison. A simple predicate, or verb, may also have more than one word. A main verb with its helping, or auxiliary, verbs is called a v ...
... A simple subject may have more than one word. For example, it may be a compound noun, such as White House, or a person’s full name, such as President William Henry Harrison. A simple predicate, or verb, may also have more than one word. A main verb with its helping, or auxiliary, verbs is called a v ...
subject - HCC Learning Web
... • Adjective clauses can modify indefinite pronouns like someone or everybody. • When modifying an indefinite pronoun, the object pronoun (who/m, that, which) in the adj. clause is usually omitted. • There is someone (that) I want you to meet. • Everything (that) he said was pure nonsense. • Anybody ...
... • Adjective clauses can modify indefinite pronouns like someone or everybody. • When modifying an indefinite pronoun, the object pronoun (who/m, that, which) in the adj. clause is usually omitted. • There is someone (that) I want you to meet. • Everything (that) he said was pure nonsense. • Anybody ...
The development of relative clauses in spontaneous child speech*
... functions to establish a referent in focus position making it available for the predication expressed in the relative clause. The whole sentence expresses thus a single proposition and can be paraphrased by a single clause (cf. Lambrecht 1988: 326): (26) Here's a tiger that's gonna scare him. (Nina ...
... functions to establish a referent in focus position making it available for the predication expressed in the relative clause. The whole sentence expresses thus a single proposition and can be paraphrased by a single clause (cf. Lambrecht 1988: 326): (26) Here's a tiger that's gonna scare him. (Nina ...
Restructuring Involving Purpose/ Gerundive Clause in Japanese*
... One might argue that the gerundive form tabe-te is specified as [-Tense] and therefore it is not compatible with any expression that denotes time; thus, kinoo in (23a) is forced to modify the matrix verb, which is specified as [+Tense]. But this argument is untenable from the viewpoint of Universal ...
... One might argue that the gerundive form tabe-te is specified as [-Tense] and therefore it is not compatible with any expression that denotes time; thus, kinoo in (23a) is forced to modify the matrix verb, which is specified as [+Tense]. But this argument is untenable from the viewpoint of Universal ...
Draft Parallel Structures
... passionately. [Here two adverbs are joined by the correlative conjunctions not only…but also.] Not Parallel: The new president of the student council spoke not only eloquently but also with passion. [The single adverb eloquently is not a grammatical structure parallel with the prepositional phrase w ...
... passionately. [Here two adverbs are joined by the correlative conjunctions not only…but also.] Not Parallel: The new president of the student council spoke not only eloquently but also with passion. [The single adverb eloquently is not a grammatical structure parallel with the prepositional phrase w ...
Subordinate clauses, switch-reference, and tail-head
... What is interesting in Cavineña is the fact that very frequently, sentence-initial adverbial (or adverbially-used relative) clauses of the types mentioned above provide the exact replica of the predicate, sometimes even accompanied by its arguments (and/or some other material), a phenomenon that wou ...
... What is interesting in Cavineña is the fact that very frequently, sentence-initial adverbial (or adverbially-used relative) clauses of the types mentioned above provide the exact replica of the predicate, sometimes even accompanied by its arguments (and/or some other material), a phenomenon that wou ...
Phrases - Maria English Society
... (a) means any noun or pronoun can be qualified by such a kind of phrase. This kind of phrase (preposition + noun) is an adjective phrase, because it qualifies a noun. If not, it won’t be called adjective phrase, and is called Adverb Phrase. (we’ll study it later.) Here is an other example for (b): T ...
... (a) means any noun or pronoun can be qualified by such a kind of phrase. This kind of phrase (preposition + noun) is an adjective phrase, because it qualifies a noun. If not, it won’t be called adjective phrase, and is called Adverb Phrase. (we’ll study it later.) Here is an other example for (b): T ...
MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCE OF UKRAINE
... Pronominal questions Pronominal questions open with an interrogative pronoun or a pronominal adverb, the function of which is to get more detailed and exact information about some event or phenomenon known to the speaker and listener. The interrogative pronouns and adverbs which function as question ...
... Pronominal questions Pronominal questions open with an interrogative pronoun or a pronominal adverb, the function of which is to get more detailed and exact information about some event or phenomenon known to the speaker and listener. The interrogative pronouns and adverbs which function as question ...
reference cohesion within the complex sentence
... The observation above may be true with regard to a language like English which has few inflections. However, in agglutinating languages like Kiswahili, morphosyntactic relationships are such that cohesion within a sentence is of paramount importance, as will be seen in the examples below. Morphologi ...
... The observation above may be true with regard to a language like English which has few inflections. However, in agglutinating languages like Kiswahili, morphosyntactic relationships are such that cohesion within a sentence is of paramount importance, as will be seen in the examples below. Morphologi ...
The problem of Parts of the sentence
... things or a certain situation, e. g.: (a) They say. (b) You never can tell, (c) One cannot be too careful, (d) It is rather cold, (e) It was easy to do so. Languages differ in the forms which they have adopted to express this meaning. In English indefinite subjects have always their formal expressio ...
... things or a certain situation, e. g.: (a) They say. (b) You never can tell, (c) One cannot be too careful, (d) It is rather cold, (e) It was easy to do so. Languages differ in the forms which they have adopted to express this meaning. In English indefinite subjects have always their formal expressio ...
The Grammar of Karipúna Creole
... The Karipuna Indians of Brazil, who number 400-600, now live in the northern part of the territory of Amapá, near the border with French Guiana. They inhabit three main villages and some smaller clusters of houses along the Curipi river. The oldest of these villages, Espírito Santo, has been the cen ...
... The Karipuna Indians of Brazil, who number 400-600, now live in the northern part of the territory of Amapá, near the border with French Guiana. They inhabit three main villages and some smaller clusters of houses along the Curipi river. The oldest of these villages, Espírito Santo, has been the cen ...
7. syntactic functions of adverbial clauses
... Although he had just joined, he was treated exactly like all the others. No goals were scored, though it was an exciting game. Except for whereas, these subordinators may introduce -ing, -ed, and verbless clauses, eg: Though well over eighty, she can walk faster than I can. Concessive clauses indica ...
... Although he had just joined, he was treated exactly like all the others. No goals were scored, though it was an exciting game. Except for whereas, these subordinators may introduce -ing, -ed, and verbless clauses, eg: Though well over eighty, she can walk faster than I can. Concessive clauses indica ...
infinitive as a predicate noun
... There are ways to check if an infinitive is functioning as an adverb: • Often, if you insert the words “in order” in front of an adverb infinitive, the sentence will still make sense. • Another way to check if the infinitive is an adverb is to take the infinitive out of the sentence. If the sentence ...
... There are ways to check if an infinitive is functioning as an adverb: • Often, if you insert the words “in order” in front of an adverb infinitive, the sentence will still make sense. • Another way to check if the infinitive is an adverb is to take the infinitive out of the sentence. If the sentence ...
1. I know an old lady who swallowed a fly
... -the sentence is not a particularly useful unit to focus on. -Spoken English can make sense without “grammatical” sentence structures -much language cannot be classified in terms of sentence types (fancy that!). Leech proposes instead that CLAUSES and PHRASES are more worthy of analysis ...
... -the sentence is not a particularly useful unit to focus on. -Spoken English can make sense without “grammatical” sentence structures -much language cannot be classified in terms of sentence types (fancy that!). Leech proposes instead that CLAUSES and PHRASES are more worthy of analysis ...
A step-by-step introduction to the Government and Binding theory of
... Proper names and pronouns are shown as NPs since in English they do not have specifiers or complements. In general, a triangle under a phrasal node means that further structure is not shown because it is irrelevant to the point being made. ...
... Proper names and pronouns are shown as NPs since in English they do not have specifiers or complements. In general, a triangle under a phrasal node means that further structure is not shown because it is irrelevant to the point being made. ...