Creating a Dependency Syntactic Treebank: Towards Intuitive
... syntactic representation complies with the majority’s view which ensures maximizing the usability of the treebank. For this purpose we composed an e-query, in which we collected the answerers’ intuitive interpretations of the two structures. Recording the user groups’ intuitive solution complements, ...
... syntactic representation complies with the majority’s view which ensures maximizing the usability of the treebank. For this purpose we composed an e-query, in which we collected the answerers’ intuitive interpretations of the two structures. Recording the user groups’ intuitive solution complements, ...
RELC Journal
... Singapore There have been a substantial number of studies on the acquisition of interrogative structures by children learning English both as a first and a second language. The present paper is yet another study of the same nature except that here the study is made in the Singapore context where man ...
... Singapore There have been a substantial number of studies on the acquisition of interrogative structures by children learning English both as a first and a second language. The present paper is yet another study of the same nature except that here the study is made in the Singapore context where man ...
SCHOOL OF WISDOM Lesson : Adjective Clauses Here is a brief
... At a certain point in your writing in English, you should be able to identify every sentence you write as simple, compound, or complex. Two additional structures, adjective clauses and appositives, will give you a much greater sentence variety within which to accomplish your writing objectives. Thi ...
... At a certain point in your writing in English, you should be able to identify every sentence you write as simple, compound, or complex. Two additional structures, adjective clauses and appositives, will give you a much greater sentence variety within which to accomplish your writing objectives. Thi ...
Punctuation Patterns
... • To avoid confusion, use commas to separate items in a series, including a comma between the next-to-last and the last item in a series. • She is considering working in New York, Columbus, or Taos. If you omit the final comma, you may end up with a confusing sentence: • I would like to acknowledge ...
... • To avoid confusion, use commas to separate items in a series, including a comma between the next-to-last and the last item in a series. • She is considering working in New York, Columbus, or Taos. If you omit the final comma, you may end up with a confusing sentence: • I would like to acknowledge ...
VERB TENSES:
... These verbs are so called because they don’t have certain forms that the others verbs do. Besides, they are used to express specific modes. All the Defective or Modal verbs share these characteristics: They have just one form for all the grammatical persons. They are not used on their own, the ...
... These verbs are so called because they don’t have certain forms that the others verbs do. Besides, they are used to express specific modes. All the Defective or Modal verbs share these characteristics: They have just one form for all the grammatical persons. They are not used on their own, the ...
Reflexivization in Referent Grammar
... can be handled within the framework of Referent Grammar (RG), a functional generalized phrase stmcture grammar (Sigurd 1987). We will show that the existence of abstract objects called "referents" in the R G representations of noun phrases makes it easy to analyze and generate reflexive pronouns ade ...
... can be handled within the framework of Referent Grammar (RG), a functional generalized phrase stmcture grammar (Sigurd 1987). We will show that the existence of abstract objects called "referents" in the R G representations of noun phrases makes it easy to analyze and generate reflexive pronouns ade ...
Declarative Definition of Performance Grammar
... while the Direct Object takes M3 as its default in a slot, is appended to the output string. E.g., Kim landing site, it selects F1 if it is a Wh-phrase or is seen while the Reader scans the matrix topology carries focus, and M2 if it is a personal pronoun rather than during its traversal of the embe ...
... while the Direct Object takes M3 as its default in a slot, is appended to the output string. E.g., Kim landing site, it selects F1 if it is a Wh-phrase or is seen while the Reader scans the matrix topology carries focus, and M2 if it is a personal pronoun rather than during its traversal of the embe ...
C02-1034 - Association for Computational Linguistics
... for English, and S [TPL 〈F1t,M1t,M2t,M3t,M4t,M5t,M6t,E1t,E2t〉] for Dutch and German. Slot types are defined as attributes that take as value a non-branching list of lemmas or phrases (e.g. SUBJect-NP, CoMPlement-S or HeaD-v). They are initialized with the value empty list, denoted by "〈〉" (e.g., [F1 ...
... for English, and S [TPL 〈F1t,M1t,M2t,M3t,M4t,M5t,M6t,E1t,E2t〉] for Dutch and German. Slot types are defined as attributes that take as value a non-branching list of lemmas or phrases (e.g. SUBJect-NP, CoMPlement-S or HeaD-v). They are initialized with the value empty list, denoted by "〈〉" (e.g., [F1 ...
Most - Brookwood High School
... 0 a. Noun d. Adjective g. Conjunction 0 b. pronoun e. Verb h. Interjection 0 c. adverb f. Preposition 0 Remember that prepositions are short words that show relationships between two parts of a sentence: the object of the preposition and another noun in the sentence. The word preposition has the wor ...
... 0 a. Noun d. Adjective g. Conjunction 0 b. pronoun e. Verb h. Interjection 0 c. adverb f. Preposition 0 Remember that prepositions are short words that show relationships between two parts of a sentence: the object of the preposition and another noun in the sentence. The word preposition has the wor ...
The Indirect Object
... all the examples, the prepositions to and for never actually appear. They are implied. The following sentence does not have any indirect objects: My neighbor gave his key to me. You might think to yourself, “Me is the indirect object, because it answers the question, “To whom is the key given?” In f ...
... all the examples, the prepositions to and for never actually appear. They are implied. The following sentence does not have any indirect objects: My neighbor gave his key to me. You might think to yourself, “Me is the indirect object, because it answers the question, “To whom is the key given?” In f ...
Bellringer 1 - CCHSEnglish9
... Which of the following best completes the sentence? By the time I got back from my trip, I _____ 908 miles on my car. A. B. C. D. ...
... Which of the following best completes the sentence? By the time I got back from my trip, I _____ 908 miles on my car. A. B. C. D. ...
3.1 Verbs
... (The reader's mind has to back track.) Active voice: You revised to create this sentence. That bee could have stung me. (Who could the bee have stung? me) (The reader's mind moves forward.) MBGAO ...
... (The reader's mind has to back track.) Active voice: You revised to create this sentence. That bee could have stung me. (Who could the bee have stung? me) (The reader's mind moves forward.) MBGAO ...
Avoiding Run-On Sentences, Comma Splices, and Fragments
... Her expertise being in chemistry and biology. How to find an “-ing” fragment: If the only verb in the sentence ends in ‘–ing’ and does not have a helping verb, you have a fragment. While the word ‘being’ is a verb, in the above sentence, it is not properly formed. In the below sentence, notice that ...
... Her expertise being in chemistry and biology. How to find an “-ing” fragment: If the only verb in the sentence ends in ‘–ing’ and does not have a helping verb, you have a fragment. While the word ‘being’ is a verb, in the above sentence, it is not properly formed. In the below sentence, notice that ...
Doc
... Her expertise being in chemistry and biology. How to find an “-ing” fragment: If the only verb in the sentence ends in ‘–ing’ and does not have a helping verb, you have a fragment. While the word ‘being’ is a verb, in the above sentence, it is not properly formed. In the below sentence, notice that ...
... Her expertise being in chemistry and biology. How to find an “-ing” fragment: If the only verb in the sentence ends in ‘–ing’ and does not have a helping verb, you have a fragment. While the word ‘being’ is a verb, in the above sentence, it is not properly formed. In the below sentence, notice that ...
The Clause
... 1. My friend found the CD that my sister bought me for my birthday. Dep. Clause: that my sister bought me for my birthday ...
... 1. My friend found the CD that my sister bought me for my birthday. Dep. Clause: that my sister bought me for my birthday ...
A Grammar for Finnish Discourse Patterns
... categories and sentences from the words. Lexical heads specify information like part-of-speech and dependency relations, and also encode the basic semantic information of their phrasal projections. The representation of lexical items, like that of the projected phrases is a uniform feature structure ...
... categories and sentences from the words. Lexical heads specify information like part-of-speech and dependency relations, and also encode the basic semantic information of their phrasal projections. The representation of lexical items, like that of the projected phrases is a uniform feature structure ...
The Book of Grammar
... replacing) in number. →The teacher told the student that _______ had failed the test. • they or s/he? ...
... replacing) in number. →The teacher told the student that _______ had failed the test. • they or s/he? ...
Correct English in Thezoschooe
... Yes so m e g ram m ari ans call the noun under cons i d e rat ion the f a cti tiv e object ; so m e call i t th e s u p p l e m en t but whatever its na m e i t denotes or refers to the sam e person or th ing a s the object I see that you understand thi s p e r fe ctly Now t e ll m e what i s the d ...
... Yes so m e g ram m ari ans call the noun under cons i d e rat ion the f a cti tiv e object ; so m e call i t th e s u p p l e m en t but whatever its na m e i t denotes or refers to the sam e person or th ing a s the object I see that you understand thi s p e r fe ctly Now t e ll m e what i s the d ...
AvoidingRun OnsCommaSplicesFragmentsJuly08
... dependent clause ,S+V Notice the use of the comma after the dependent clause (because the dependent clause falls at the beginning of the sentence). I had to ride the bus while I was waiting for my car to be repaired. S+V dependent phrase *Note: When a dependent (subordinate) clause comes after the i ...
... dependent clause ,S+V Notice the use of the comma after the dependent clause (because the dependent clause falls at the beginning of the sentence). I had to ride the bus while I was waiting for my car to be repaired. S+V dependent phrase *Note: When a dependent (subordinate) clause comes after the i ...
Run-on Sentences, Comma Splices and Fragments
... dependent clause ,S+V Notice the use of the comma after the dependent clause (because the dependent clause falls at the beginning of the sentence). I had to ride the bus while I was waiting for my car to be repaired. S+V dependent phrase *Note: When a dependent (subordinate) clause comes after the i ...
... dependent clause ,S+V Notice the use of the comma after the dependent clause (because the dependent clause falls at the beginning of the sentence). I had to ride the bus while I was waiting for my car to be repaired. S+V dependent phrase *Note: When a dependent (subordinate) clause comes after the i ...
6 Denotation in Murriny Patha Morphosyntax
... referring to be an action that speakers undertake as part of making themselves understood. Although we can take it as given that Murriny Patha speakers refer to persons and things, we need to ask what sort of process referring actually is. How many ways of referring are there? What is it that speake ...
... referring to be an action that speakers undertake as part of making themselves understood. Although we can take it as given that Murriny Patha speakers refer to persons and things, we need to ask what sort of process referring actually is. How many ways of referring are there? What is it that speake ...
The Predicate Adjective Identifying Predicate Adjectives
... As with the predicate nominative, put the subject and verb together and ask yourself, “Subject Verb What?” Then check to see that the adjective refers back to, or helps further describe, the subject of the sentence. This adjective will be “alone,” so to speak. In other words, it won’t be preceding s ...
... As with the predicate nominative, put the subject and verb together and ask yourself, “Subject Verb What?” Then check to see that the adjective refers back to, or helps further describe, the subject of the sentence. This adjective will be “alone,” so to speak. In other words, it won’t be preceding s ...
The prefix tla
... Functional motivation and Diachrony often go in cycles: Functionally motivated changes are made. These changes are consolidated and become established habits of speech. These then form the background for new changes. ...
... Functional motivation and Diachrony often go in cycles: Functionally motivated changes are made. These changes are consolidated and become established habits of speech. These then form the background for new changes. ...
Words That Are True Linking Verbs
... Areing isn't something that cats can do. Are is connecting the subject, cats, to something said about them, that they enjoy sleeping on the furniture. After drinking the old milk, Bladimiro turned green. Turned connects the subject, Bladimiro, to something said about him, that he was needing Pepto ...
... Areing isn't something that cats can do. Are is connecting the subject, cats, to something said about them, that they enjoy sleeping on the furniture. After drinking the old milk, Bladimiro turned green. Turned connects the subject, Bladimiro, to something said about him, that he was needing Pepto ...