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Chapter 2 "Writing Basics: What Makes a Good Sentence?"
... Imagine you are reading a book for school. You need to find important details that you can use for an assignment. However, when you begin to read, you notice that the book has very little punctuation. Sentences fail to form complete paragraphs and instead form one block of text without clear organiz ...
... Imagine you are reading a book for school. You need to find important details that you can use for an assignment. However, when you begin to read, you notice that the book has very little punctuation. Sentences fail to form complete paragraphs and instead form one block of text without clear organiz ...
湖南省第一师范学院外语系备课用纸
... teacher, etc, are duel in nature. They can either be male or female. When used in the singular for generic reference, these nouns are generally referred to as he, a kind of practice that is opposed by feminists. If we do not want to do so, we can use plural forms instead or avoid using any pronoun o ...
... teacher, etc, are duel in nature. They can either be male or female. When used in the singular for generic reference, these nouns are generally referred to as he, a kind of practice that is opposed by feminists. If we do not want to do so, we can use plural forms instead or avoid using any pronoun o ...
Pronouns
... preposition. Give the book to me. The teacher gave her a reprimand. I will tell you a story. Susan read it to them. ...
... preposition. Give the book to me. The teacher gave her a reprimand. I will tell you a story. Susan read it to them. ...
The Semantics of Progressive Aspect: A Thorough Study
... aspect respectively. Depending on their aspects, they would have different interpretations. The first sentence refers to Hasan’s regular practice such as he reads a newspaper almost every day. But the second one refers to his activity of reading a newspaper on a particular occasion or during a parti ...
... aspect respectively. Depending on their aspects, they would have different interpretations. The first sentence refers to Hasan’s regular practice such as he reads a newspaper almost every day. But the second one refers to his activity of reading a newspaper on a particular occasion or during a parti ...
IOSR Journal Of Humanities And Social Science (IOSR-JHSS)
... to subcategorize into various sub-groups, depending on whether they require a complement, and if they do, what type of complement they require. He argues that the subcategorization properties of verbs can be formally represented in terms of frames which are called subcategorization frames, for examp ...
... to subcategorize into various sub-groups, depending on whether they require a complement, and if they do, what type of complement they require. He argues that the subcategorization properties of verbs can be formally represented in terms of frames which are called subcategorization frames, for examp ...
In this paper we investigate the possibility to insert an additional
... (Rizzi 1997:115), hence finite forms have to be situated in a position lower than the FocP and cannot move to a specifier position (i.e. Spec of FocP). Focalised elements are in the Spec of FocP. This position is banned for the verb. The second guiding idea is that there are topics higher than TopP ...
... (Rizzi 1997:115), hence finite forms have to be situated in a position lower than the FocP and cannot move to a specifier position (i.e. Spec of FocP). Focalised elements are in the Spec of FocP. This position is banned for the verb. The second guiding idea is that there are topics higher than TopP ...
Relative clausesRules File
... The second piece played by the orchestra was very well received. These are also examples of reduced subject relative clauses, but this time the word immediately following the noun which is being described is not an -ing type finite verb but a past participle; these are in bold. The difference here i ...
... The second piece played by the orchestra was very well received. These are also examples of reduced subject relative clauses, but this time the word immediately following the noun which is being described is not an -ing type finite verb but a past participle; these are in bold. The difference here i ...
This chapter accounts an overview of Manipuri clause and it
... frequency of Thoibi’s coming. Without this adverb the sentence simply expresses that Thoibi comes. So, as a continuing event a question like, how often Thoibi comes, may be put. As a modifier of the verb likidre ‘expired’ in 19(b), the adverb phrase hukib chid ‘last year’ is employed and thi ...
... frequency of Thoibi’s coming. Without this adverb the sentence simply expresses that Thoibi comes. So, as a continuing event a question like, how often Thoibi comes, may be put. As a modifier of the verb likidre ‘expired’ in 19(b), the adverb phrase hukib chid ‘last year’ is employed and thi ...
Temporal Properties of Persian and English
... projected by the aspectual projection of measurer where accusative case is also checked, atelic events are projected by the aspectual projection of originator, where an agent interpretation is determined, and non-dynamic situations are projected by neither the aspectual project tion of measurer nor ...
... projected by the aspectual projection of measurer where accusative case is also checked, atelic events are projected by the aspectual projection of originator, where an agent interpretation is determined, and non-dynamic situations are projected by neither the aspectual project tion of measurer nor ...
Verbs in spoken sentence processing Goede, Dieuwke de
... it. For example, The man reads the book in the morning is less complex than It is the book that the man reads in the morning. The latter sentence is more complex from a linguistic point of view, because the Object (the book) has been topicalized or ‘moved’. An important characteristic of movement is ...
... it. For example, The man reads the book in the morning is less complex than It is the book that the man reads in the morning. The latter sentence is more complex from a linguistic point of view, because the Object (the book) has been topicalized or ‘moved’. An important characteristic of movement is ...
Dutch and German verb clusters in Performance
... (lemma) in the Mental Lexicon has associated with it a lexical frame encoding its information concerning word class (part of speech), subcategorization features, and morphological diacritics (person, gender, case, etc.). Lexical frames are retrieved from the Lexicon by a lexicalizer in response to a ...
... (lemma) in the Mental Lexicon has associated with it a lexical frame encoding its information concerning word class (part of speech), subcategorization features, and morphological diacritics (person, gender, case, etc.). Lexical frames are retrieved from the Lexicon by a lexicalizer in response to a ...
Essay resources - Peirce College
... e. The concluding paragraph is the last paragraph in the essay. The first sentence in this paragraph consists of a restatement of the thesis statement. The next few sentences provide a summary of your points. The final sentence is the Wrap-up or Clincher: a call to action or further thought. 3. The ...
... e. The concluding paragraph is the last paragraph in the essay. The first sentence in this paragraph consists of a restatement of the thesis statement. The next few sentences provide a summary of your points. The final sentence is the Wrap-up or Clincher: a call to action or further thought. 3. The ...
contents - Ziyonet.uz
... differing from each other in some respect. Take, for example, the following two sentences: (1) But why did you leave England? (GALSWORTHY) and (2) There are to-day more people writing extremely well, in all departments o f life, than ever before; what we have to do is to sharpen our judgement and pi ...
... differing from each other in some respect. Take, for example, the following two sentences: (1) But why did you leave England? (GALSWORTHY) and (2) There are to-day more people writing extremely well, in all departments o f life, than ever before; what we have to do is to sharpen our judgement and pi ...
Complements of verbs of utterance and thought in Brazilian
... syntactic role of a ‘say’ sentence is with the ‘say’ verb and its complement taken together to form a single complex verb which can be used to characterize someone as well as to report an event.” As a final observation, she points out that “the syntax of ‘say’ verbs is unique” in the sense that they ...
... syntactic role of a ‘say’ sentence is with the ‘say’ verb and its complement taken together to form a single complex verb which can be used to characterize someone as well as to report an event.” As a final observation, she points out that “the syntax of ‘say’ verbs is unique” in the sense that they ...
What Is a Clause?
... 3. Bring your backpack when you come to school today. 4. When my grandmother was young, she listened to Frank Sinatra records. 5. Unless I am wrong, peaches were first grown in China. 6. Linda will lend Wei the book when she has finished it. 7. The announcer whose voice is so pleasant has switched t ...
... 3. Bring your backpack when you come to school today. 4. When my grandmother was young, she listened to Frank Sinatra records. 5. Unless I am wrong, peaches were first grown in China. 6. Linda will lend Wei the book when she has finished it. 7. The announcer whose voice is so pleasant has switched t ...
Manhattan Elite Prep GMAT Verbal Sentence Correction Guide
... Agreement is based on formal grammar, and plurals do not depend on meaning but on the grammatical relationships between words. Two single subjects joined by and take a plural verb, but an addition in parentheses, such as as well as, not to mention, takes a singular verb. Signals • Collective nouns s ...
... Agreement is based on formal grammar, and plurals do not depend on meaning but on the grammatical relationships between words. Two single subjects joined by and take a plural verb, but an addition in parentheses, such as as well as, not to mention, takes a singular verb. Signals • Collective nouns s ...
Chinese Main Verb Identification
... Huang 1987; Fan 1995; Liu et al. 2002]. Since the definition of the main verb is related to different verb-predicate sentence patterns, linguists usually describe the different kinds of main verbs in the context of verb-predicate sentence patterns. [Liu et al. 2002] divided verb-predicate sentences ...
... Huang 1987; Fan 1995; Liu et al. 2002]. Since the definition of the main verb is related to different verb-predicate sentence patterns, linguists usually describe the different kinds of main verbs in the context of verb-predicate sentence patterns. [Liu et al. 2002] divided verb-predicate sentences ...
Inalienable Possession and Locative Aspect
... 2. In Gueron (1983, 1986); I proposed that IP is based on anaphoric binding. 2~1 On the basis of (12), I hypothesized that the definite article may have the statUs of a pronoun in French: (12) Pronouns are made up of-features for number, gender and person
A French child could easily identify the ...
... 2. In Gueron (1983, 1986); I proposed that IP is based on anaphoric binding. 2~1 On the basis of (12), I hypothesized that the definite article may have the statUs of a pronoun in French: (12) Pronouns are made up of
Clausal Subordination and the Structure of the Verbal Phrase
... indirect object is thus not (necessarily) in the SpecVP position; and even if at some point it does end up there, the occupant of SpecVP will be a predicate (a null-headed PP containing the Goal; [14], not an argument. So the indirect object is perfectly welcome to be non-presuppositional. On the li ...
... indirect object is thus not (necessarily) in the SpecVP position; and even if at some point it does end up there, the occupant of SpecVP will be a predicate (a null-headed PP containing the Goal; [14], not an argument. So the indirect object is perfectly welcome to be non-presuppositional. On the li ...
Chapter 9
... last section, this one takes up the topic of basic Ik clauses: unmarked main clauses, subordinate clauses, and various types of marked main clauses. Other specific topics covered in later sections of this chapter include questions, reported speech, comparative constructions, and negation. Ik exhibit ...
... last section, this one takes up the topic of basic Ik clauses: unmarked main clauses, subordinate clauses, and various types of marked main clauses. Other specific topics covered in later sections of this chapter include questions, reported speech, comparative constructions, and negation. Ik exhibit ...
Analysis and Synthesis of the Semantic Functions of Reduplication
... Next, I deal with data indicating similarity. In (8) above, reduplication produces a new meaning that is similar to the root word’s original meaning. The meaning of hati-hati may arise from the meaning of hati extended by a metaphor. The corpus data used for this study did not contain any other prop ...
... Next, I deal with data indicating similarity. In (8) above, reduplication produces a new meaning that is similar to the root word’s original meaning. The meaning of hati-hati may arise from the meaning of hati extended by a metaphor. The corpus data used for this study did not contain any other prop ...
The Complex Sentence
... a. It was late autumn; yet the days were very warm b. He was early and he went to his office. (clauses cannot be transposed to the beginning, e.g. *And he went to his office he was early.) c. The boy is very clever; however he is lazy. The boy is very clever; he is, however, lazy. The boy is clever; ...
... a. It was late autumn; yet the days were very warm b. He was early and he went to his office. (clauses cannot be transposed to the beginning, e.g. *And he went to his office he was early.) c. The boy is very clever; however he is lazy. The boy is very clever; he is, however, lazy. The boy is clever; ...
Le: from pronoun to intensifier*
... development, it is even more difficult to assign it to a fixed position on the derivational-inflectional continuum. On the one hand, there are often lexical restrictions on derivational processes, even productive ones. This would argue in favor of placing intensifier le closer to derivation. On the ...
... development, it is even more difficult to assign it to a fixed position on the derivational-inflectional continuum. On the one hand, there are often lexical restrictions on derivational processes, even productive ones. This would argue in favor of placing intensifier le closer to derivation. On the ...
The Essential Handbook For Business Writing
... “I have made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter.” Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) “At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.” Elizabeth Barrett Browning “Don't use words too big ...
... “I have made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter.” Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) “At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.” Elizabeth Barrett Browning “Don't use words too big ...
Effects of indefinite pronouns and traces on verb stress
... open. I will not seek a choice between the two accounts, and will conclude by addressing the relation of the two accounts in Section 4. 1. Stress patterns with indefinite and definite pronouns 1.1. Indirect object + direct object + verb The perspective discussed here is that the syntax plays a role ...
... open. I will not seek a choice between the two accounts, and will conclude by addressing the relation of the two accounts in Section 4. 1. Stress patterns with indefinite and definite pronouns 1.1. Indirect object + direct object + verb The perspective discussed here is that the syntax plays a role ...