Rule 1. You may end a sentence with a preposition. Just do not use
... The prepositions of motion “to,” “toward,” “in,” and “into.” These four prepositions link the verbs of movement— “move,” “go,” “transfer,” “walk,” “run,” “swim,” “ride,” “drive,” “fly,” “travel,” and many more—to their object destination. All of these verbs, except “transfer,” can take both “to” an ...
... The prepositions of motion “to,” “toward,” “in,” and “into.” These four prepositions link the verbs of movement— “move,” “go,” “transfer,” “walk,” “run,” “swim,” “ride,” “drive,” “fly,” “travel,” and many more—to their object destination. All of these verbs, except “transfer,” can take both “to” an ...
Use of Verb Information in Syntactic Parsing
... about the kinds of phrases with which a particular verb can co-occur) could avoid making costly errors because a minimal attachment analysis of a direct object after a verb such as realize is almost certain to be incorrect.1 According to the Frazier and Rayner (1982) garden-path parsing model, subca ...
... about the kinds of phrases with which a particular verb can co-occur) could avoid making costly errors because a minimal attachment analysis of a direct object after a verb such as realize is almost certain to be incorrect.1 According to the Frazier and Rayner (1982) garden-path parsing model, subca ...
From Words to Works
... • audience: students must determine the purpose of the assignment, the intended audience, and the approach to be taken in order to match written piece with intended audience. The skills included in this scope and sequence involve knowledge in four stages. A student has achieved “mastery” only when ...
... • audience: students must determine the purpose of the assignment, the intended audience, and the approach to be taken in order to match written piece with intended audience. The skills included in this scope and sequence involve knowledge in four stages. A student has achieved “mastery” only when ...
On two hypotheses concerning psycholinguistics
... the successive acts of a performance model...—in fact, it would be quite absurd to do so. ... The grammatical rules that generate phonetic representations of signals with their semantic interpretations do not constitute a model for the production of sentences, although any such model must incorporat ...
... the successive acts of a performance model...—in fact, it would be quite absurd to do so. ... The grammatical rules that generate phonetic representations of signals with their semantic interpretations do not constitute a model for the production of sentences, although any such model must incorporat ...
From Words to Works
... general for young children but does not state a specific preference for cursive over manuscript. ...
... general for young children but does not state a specific preference for cursive over manuscript. ...
Frege - Princeton University
... but as such is not for the observer what it directly is for the person having the conception. But to pursue this would take us too far afield. We can now recognize three levels of difference between words, expressions, or whole sentences. The difference may concern at most the conceptions, or the se ...
... but as such is not for the observer what it directly is for the person having the conception. But to pursue this would take us too far afield. We can now recognize three levels of difference between words, expressions, or whole sentences. The difference may concern at most the conceptions, or the se ...
File - Mrs. Helenius English!!!!
... Identifying Subjects and Verbs / Verb Phrases in Simple Sentences DIRECTIONS: Underline and label the subjects and verbs / verb phrases in the following examples. Then, determine whether or not each word group is a sentence (S) or a fragment (F). Remember, an independent clause / sentence must conta ...
... Identifying Subjects and Verbs / Verb Phrases in Simple Sentences DIRECTIONS: Underline and label the subjects and verbs / verb phrases in the following examples. Then, determine whether or not each word group is a sentence (S) or a fragment (F). Remember, an independent clause / sentence must conta ...
Test 5 Writing MC Answers
... attributed to the technical work of talented film editors The error in this sentence occurs at (B), where there is nounnoun disagreement. The singular noun “director” does not agree with the earlier compound proper nouns, “Frank Capra and George Stevens.” There is no error at (A). The pronoun “Much” ...
... attributed to the technical work of talented film editors The error in this sentence occurs at (B), where there is nounnoun disagreement. The singular noun “director” does not agree with the earlier compound proper nouns, “Frank Capra and George Stevens.” There is no error at (A). The pronoun “Much” ...
LATIN WORD ORDER A Glimpse into the Vaults.
... 86. The order of words in a Latin sentence differs, in many important respects, from the English order. There are very few sentences in which the natural order of one language corresponds to that of the other. There is much greater freedom and variety in Latin, especially as regards substantives, ad ...
... 86. The order of words in a Latin sentence differs, in many important respects, from the English order. There are very few sentences in which the natural order of one language corresponds to that of the other. There is much greater freedom and variety in Latin, especially as regards substantives, ad ...
Commas
... When you think about it, writing is a way of thinking that requires us to organize and record our thoughts to share with readers. We break our ideas into digestible units that build to the more complex notion we aim to convey—for instance, a series of sentences work together to deliver a paragraph’s ...
... When you think about it, writing is a way of thinking that requires us to organize and record our thoughts to share with readers. We break our ideas into digestible units that build to the more complex notion we aim to convey—for instance, a series of sentences work together to deliver a paragraph’s ...
Practice sheets for the sentences in this booklet are available in a
... sentences correctly by writing practice sentences from grammar labels. Students then learn to improve their sentences by using synonyms, antonyms, or other word changes to improve different parts of the practice sentence. Writing improved sentences will help students to mentally make better word cho ...
... sentences correctly by writing practice sentences from grammar labels. Students then learn to improve their sentences by using synonyms, antonyms, or other word changes to improve different parts of the practice sentence. Writing improved sentences will help students to mentally make better word cho ...
Identifying Chinese Dependent Clauses in the Forms of Subjects
... In this subsection, I have identified a new pronominal form in Chinese, a cpro, which is composed of a pronoun and a nominal. As in English and other languages, such a pronominal form is not subject to either Principle C or Principle B. Moreover, the status of a cpro in Chinese is ambiguous, dependi ...
... In this subsection, I have identified a new pronominal form in Chinese, a cpro, which is composed of a pronoun and a nominal. As in English and other languages, such a pronominal form is not subject to either Principle C or Principle B. Moreover, the status of a cpro in Chinese is ambiguous, dependi ...
Lingua - ScienceDirect
... Crucially, Minimality is assumed to apply at all levels of representation. It thus governs both structure building and argument linking (i.e. the mapping of an argument’s form onto its corresponding meaning). It is also predicted to apply at further levels (e.g. with respect to the pragmatic integra ...
... Crucially, Minimality is assumed to apply at all levels of representation. It thus governs both structure building and argument linking (i.e. the mapping of an argument’s form onto its corresponding meaning). It is also predicted to apply at further levels (e.g. with respect to the pragmatic integra ...
The role of discourse context in the processing
... It has often been noted in the literature that scrambling is not random or arbitrary. Rather, scrambling appears to be driven by discourse-based factors, such as whether a certain entity has already been mentioned or whether an entity is in a set relation with something else in the discourse (e.g. B ...
... It has often been noted in the literature that scrambling is not random or arbitrary. Rather, scrambling appears to be driven by discourse-based factors, such as whether a certain entity has already been mentioned or whether an entity is in a set relation with something else in the discourse (e.g. B ...
Pronouns
... They’re installing our new e-mail software tomorrow. Do not use the contraction there’s (shortened form for there is or there has) in place of theirs, the possessive pronoun. There’s a way to cancel my print job as well as theirs through our network connection. Business English EnglishStructures; at ...
... They’re installing our new e-mail software tomorrow. Do not use the contraction there’s (shortened form for there is or there has) in place of theirs, the possessive pronoun. There’s a way to cancel my print job as well as theirs through our network connection. Business English EnglishStructures; at ...
"Gapping" in DP. - Northwestern University
... in (9c) and (10c), such wide scope negation/modal interpretations are not found, as these operators take scope within each conjunct. Finally, VG allows so-called cross-conjunct binding (Johnson 1996/2004, Kennedy 2001, Lin 2000): the subject in the antecedent constituent can bind (and thus c-command ...
... in (9c) and (10c), such wide scope negation/modal interpretations are not found, as these operators take scope within each conjunct. Finally, VG allows so-called cross-conjunct binding (Johnson 1996/2004, Kennedy 2001, Lin 2000): the subject in the antecedent constituent can bind (and thus c-command ...
specificational
... Nouns, according to standard views, are sortals and thus indefinite full noun phrases generally have sortal content. That proper names have sortal content is not an accepted view, in fact it seems to go against common direct reference theories of proper names. But the view has sometimes been held, n ...
... Nouns, according to standard views, are sortals and thus indefinite full noun phrases generally have sortal content. That proper names have sortal content is not an accepted view, in fact it seems to go against common direct reference theories of proper names. But the view has sometimes been held, n ...
Structural Parsing
... A natural language processing system always contains a parser, which is a device that has a natural language sentence as input string and that produces a representation of the sentence when it is acceptable. Parsing is the process of structuring a representation of a natural language sentence usuall ...
... A natural language processing system always contains a parser, which is a device that has a natural language sentence as input string and that produces a representation of the sentence when it is acceptable. Parsing is the process of structuring a representation of a natural language sentence usuall ...
A unified analysis of the English bare plural
... the bare plural (henceforth referred to as #NP) are merely facets of a syntactically and semantically unified phenomenon, and that in all cases the differing interpretations can be attributed in an entirely predictable manner to some aspect of the context in which that particular instance of e5NP oc ...
... the bare plural (henceforth referred to as #NP) are merely facets of a syntactically and semantically unified phenomenon, and that in all cases the differing interpretations can be attributed in an entirely predictable manner to some aspect of the context in which that particular instance of e5NP oc ...
Reflexivity and Intensification in Middle English
... As already noted, OE used the simple personal pronoun to express both conjoint and disjoint reference; a sentence like Judasi hinei,j aheng is therefore ambiguous between two interpretations: Judas might have hanged himself or somebody else9. Mitchell (1985: 187ff.) classifies OE SELF as ‘pronoun/ad ...
... As already noted, OE used the simple personal pronoun to express both conjoint and disjoint reference; a sentence like Judasi hinei,j aheng is therefore ambiguous between two interpretations: Judas might have hanged himself or somebody else9. Mitchell (1985: 187ff.) classifies OE SELF as ‘pronoun/ad ...
A unified analysis of the English bare plural
... the bare plural (henceforth referred to as #NP) are merely facets of a syntactically and semantically unified phenomenon, and that in all cases the differing interpretations can be attributed in an entirely predictable manner to some aspect of the context in which that particular instance of e5NP oc ...
... the bare plural (henceforth referred to as #NP) are merely facets of a syntactically and semantically unified phenomenon, and that in all cases the differing interpretations can be attributed in an entirely predictable manner to some aspect of the context in which that particular instance of e5NP oc ...
1 Title: ERRORS IN THE TRANSLATION OF TOPIC
... This paper is based on the claim that Rosen (1998) has proved in her PhD thesis, that topic-comment constructions and empty elements are basic constructions in the Vietnamese language. According to Rosen’s (1998) classification, there are five types of relations that may exist between a Noun Phrase ...
... This paper is based on the claim that Rosen (1998) has proved in her PhD thesis, that topic-comment constructions and empty elements are basic constructions in the Vietnamese language. According to Rosen’s (1998) classification, there are five types of relations that may exist between a Noun Phrase ...
MOVEMENT IN RESTRICTIVE RELATIVE CLAUSES by SUSAN K
... noun phrase with a restrictive relative is used to refer to one or more individuals from a domain understood in the discourse, then if X is a member of the domain and x has the property specified in the relative clause, then x must be one of the individuals referred to. A comparison of 3.^5) and 3.^ ...
... noun phrase with a restrictive relative is used to refer to one or more individuals from a domain understood in the discourse, then if X is a member of the domain and x has the property specified in the relative clause, then x must be one of the individuals referred to. A comparison of 3.^5) and 3.^ ...