Formula Definition Explanation Example S, conj S sentence comma
... In a series of three or more adjectives modifying a single noun, place a comma after each adjective except the last adjective. An appositive is a parenthetical expression placed between commas after a noun. It provides more information about that noun. *An appositive may be placed at the end of a se ...
... In a series of three or more adjectives modifying a single noun, place a comma after each adjective except the last adjective. An appositive is a parenthetical expression placed between commas after a noun. It provides more information about that noun. *An appositive may be placed at the end of a se ...
Tick the sentence that must end with a question mark. Tick one
... 27. Which sentence is written in the active voice? Tick one. The book was returned to the library yesterday. The assembly was held in the hall. The bad weather led to the cancellation. The floods were caused by the heavy rain. 28. Which sentence is punctuated correctly? Tick one. The wind was blowin ...
... 27. Which sentence is written in the active voice? Tick one. The book was returned to the library yesterday. The assembly was held in the hall. The bad weather led to the cancellation. The floods were caused by the heavy rain. 28. Which sentence is punctuated correctly? Tick one. The wind was blowin ...
Sentence Analysis from the Point of View of Traditional
... To return to both traditional and structural grammars, they would consider each sentence different from the other one, because they have different structures so each one has a different pattern in the case of structural grammar and each one has different grammatical units in the case of traditional ...
... To return to both traditional and structural grammars, they would consider each sentence different from the other one, because they have different structures so each one has a different pattern in the case of structural grammar and each one has different grammatical units in the case of traditional ...
Syntactic retrieval - Machine Translation Archive
... The scope of each pass and the order of the various passes thus together present the most significant design problem of the program. The linguistic considerations entering into this design problem stem from the differential relevance to the over-all structure of the sentence of the various orders of ...
... The scope of each pass and the order of the various passes thus together present the most significant design problem of the program. The linguistic considerations entering into this design problem stem from the differential relevance to the over-all structure of the sentence of the various orders of ...
Slide 1
... on the rug in front of the fireplace. Yes! It is still a simple sentence because it contains only one subject and one predicate. “On the rug in front of the fireplace” is a prepositional phrase that tells us where the cat slept. ...
... on the rug in front of the fireplace. Yes! It is still a simple sentence because it contains only one subject and one predicate. “On the rug in front of the fireplace” is a prepositional phrase that tells us where the cat slept. ...
Ask yourself these 5 questions…
... Single subject, single predicate (1) Compound subject, single predicate (2) Single subject, compound predicate (2) Compound subject, compound predicate (3) Complex sentence (2) ...
... Single subject, single predicate (1) Compound subject, single predicate (2) Single subject, compound predicate (2) Compound subject, compound predicate (3) Complex sentence (2) ...
Correcting Fragments 1) Attach the fragment to a nearby sentence. 2
... Oi Use a period between the two independent clauses or sentences' 4i Rewrite the sentence, perhaps by subordinating one of the clauses. Fix the comma splices and run-on sentences in the paragraph below. ...
... Oi Use a period between the two independent clauses or sentences' 4i Rewrite the sentence, perhaps by subordinating one of the clauses. Fix the comma splices and run-on sentences in the paragraph below. ...
Prominence and accentuation in French. A corpus
... syllable of a prosodic group (composed of a full word and its most-left adjacent clitics), and an optional secondary (or nonfinal) stress, which can be on any other syllable of that prosodic group. Classic features such as grammatical category, morpho-syntactic grouping and metrical constraints are ...
... syllable of a prosodic group (composed of a full word and its most-left adjacent clitics), and an optional secondary (or nonfinal) stress, which can be on any other syllable of that prosodic group. Classic features such as grammatical category, morpho-syntactic grouping and metrical constraints are ...
Simple and Complex Sentences
... •Lying exposed without its blanket of snow, the ice on the river melts quickly under the warm March sun. ...
... •Lying exposed without its blanket of snow, the ice on the river melts quickly under the warm March sun. ...
Five Parts of a Complete Sentence
... A sentence is incomplete if it does not contain a complete thought. "The car drove." is an example of an incomplete sentence because it does not contain a main idea. This example contains a subject - car, a predicate - drove, a capital letter, and terminal punctuation, but without the essential com ...
... A sentence is incomplete if it does not contain a complete thought. "The car drove." is an example of an incomplete sentence because it does not contain a main idea. This example contains a subject - car, a predicate - drove, a capital letter, and terminal punctuation, but without the essential com ...
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 ...
a proposal for lexical disambiguation
... other on substitutability (Charles and Miller, 1989; Miller and Charles, 1991), usually referred to (Jenkins, 1954) as the syntagmarie and paradigmatic views. The eo-eceurronce or syntagmafie approach holds the target word constant and compares the contexts in which it can appear; the substitutabili ...
... other on substitutability (Charles and Miller, 1989; Miller and Charles, 1991), usually referred to (Jenkins, 1954) as the syntagmarie and paradigmatic views. The eo-eceurronce or syntagmafie approach holds the target word constant and compares the contexts in which it can appear; the substitutabili ...
Sentences: Simple, Compound, and Complex
... played football" because, possibly, he didn't have anything else to do, for or because "Maria went shopping." How can the use of other conjunctions change the relationship between the two clauses? What implications would the use of "yet" or "but" have on the meaning of the sentence? ...
... played football" because, possibly, he didn't have anything else to do, for or because "Maria went shopping." How can the use of other conjunctions change the relationship between the two clauses? What implications would the use of "yet" or "but" have on the meaning of the sentence? ...
Improving your Sentence Structure
... Adverbial clauses function as adverbs in the sentence, modifying verbs, adjectives, or adverbs. They may tell how, why, when, where, etc. Conjunctions used include although, after, if, because, while, since, whether. Stan is happy because he got a high mark for his history exam. Although Bob is inte ...
... Adverbial clauses function as adverbs in the sentence, modifying verbs, adjectives, or adverbs. They may tell how, why, when, where, etc. Conjunctions used include although, after, if, because, while, since, whether. Stan is happy because he got a high mark for his history exam. Although Bob is inte ...
Proving Your Point: It`s Not Just What You Say. It`s
... larger point; that is, the clauses display inverted Q'lIalielism. Chiasmus was particularly popular in Latin literature, where it was used-to-articulates' b'iHah'qeQr:order'wlthifi A'te,*f¥TheGreek and Hebrew texts of the Bible also contain many long and complex chiasma. Today, chiasmus is applied f ...
... larger point; that is, the clauses display inverted Q'lIalielism. Chiasmus was particularly popular in Latin literature, where it was used-to-articulates' b'iHah'qeQr:order'wlthifi A'te,*f¥TheGreek and Hebrew texts of the Bible also contain many long and complex chiasma. Today, chiasmus is applied f ...
086: Sentence Clarity
... 2. a. To make a light cake, the eggs should be beaten separately. b. To make a light cake, you should beat the eggs separately. 3. a. Paddling furiously, we were able to reach land.. b. Paddling furiously, land was finally reached. 4. a. While attending the college concert, my stomach hurt. b. While ...
... 2. a. To make a light cake, the eggs should be beaten separately. b. To make a light cake, you should beat the eggs separately. 3. a. Paddling furiously, we were able to reach land.. b. Paddling furiously, land was finally reached. 4. a. While attending the college concert, my stomach hurt. b. While ...
Sentence Grammar 3: Common Errors
... They are unacceptable in writing, however. When you proofread, make sure that your sentences have all their necessary parts. If parts are missing, add them! The Run-On The run-on (or the run-on sentence or the fused sentence) is the opposite of a fragment. Where the fragment has too little informati ...
... They are unacceptable in writing, however. When you proofread, make sure that your sentences have all their necessary parts. If parts are missing, add them! The Run-On The run-on (or the run-on sentence or the fused sentence) is the opposite of a fragment. Where the fragment has too little informati ...
Grammar Emphasis
... demarcate sentences P2 Commas to separate items in a list P3 Apostrophes to mark where letters are missing in spelling P4 and to mark singular possession in nouns [for example, the girl’s name] ...
... demarcate sentences P2 Commas to separate items in a list P3 Apostrophes to mark where letters are missing in spelling P4 and to mark singular possession in nouns [for example, the girl’s name] ...
Syntactic categories and constituency
... • There are lots of other types of replacements we could imagine that won’t yield a good sentence, like swapping Beverly angrily with was inappropriate. • When two (groups of) words can alternate with each other, it suggests that they’re somehow the same sort of thing, that they belong to the same s ...
... • There are lots of other types of replacements we could imagine that won’t yield a good sentence, like swapping Beverly angrily with was inappropriate. • When two (groups of) words can alternate with each other, it suggests that they’re somehow the same sort of thing, that they belong to the same s ...
Adjectives and Adverbs. In Language 86
... together in a sentence, their relative order to one another is usually restricted. This can be captured in different ways: a syntax-based analysis will assume a comparatively rigid syntactic structure within the adjectival/adverbial parts of the sentence, whereas a semantics-based approach will atte ...
... together in a sentence, their relative order to one another is usually restricted. This can be captured in different ways: a syntax-based analysis will assume a comparatively rigid syntactic structure within the adjectival/adverbial parts of the sentence, whereas a semantics-based approach will atte ...
Grammar and Usage Review Sentence Fragments— In order to be
... Insert commas where necessary in the following sentences. 1. Tipping dangerously close to the water our sailboat became unstable until Paul shifted his weight and slacked off on the mainsail. 2. In the well-stocked gallery on our little boat I can prepare simple or elaborate meals while you sail. 3. ...
... Insert commas where necessary in the following sentences. 1. Tipping dangerously close to the water our sailboat became unstable until Paul shifted his weight and slacked off on the mainsail. 2. In the well-stocked gallery on our little boat I can prepare simple or elaborate meals while you sail. 3. ...
free modifier
... Appositives are very common type of free modifier, but because they have this fancy word, we think they are hard to figure out. They’re not hard! Appositives are nouns or noun phrases placed next to another word in the sentence to enhance it and give it more meaning. These examples will help you und ...
... Appositives are very common type of free modifier, but because they have this fancy word, we think they are hard to figure out. They’re not hard! Appositives are nouns or noun phrases placed next to another word in the sentence to enhance it and give it more meaning. These examples will help you und ...
Writing Correct Sentences
... is a fragment. If you read that last part first, you would realize it is incomplete. Also, note that the first word babysitting ends in –ing (a clue) 3. One more way to tell, if you are not sure, is to write the words I Believe That on a note card. Then read the note card in front of the questionab ...
... is a fragment. If you read that last part first, you would realize it is incomplete. Also, note that the first word babysitting ends in –ing (a clue) 3. One more way to tell, if you are not sure, is to write the words I Believe That on a note card. Then read the note card in front of the questionab ...
Three Models for the Description of Language
... However, neither this model nor any other finite-state model can generate every possible sentence in the English language. Unfortunately, the strings in English have interdependencies among words. For example, consider the sentences given in (3) where S1 and S2 are English strings. (3)(i) If S1, the ...
... However, neither this model nor any other finite-state model can generate every possible sentence in the English language. Unfortunately, the strings in English have interdependencies among words. For example, consider the sentences given in (3) where S1 and S2 are English strings. (3)(i) If S1, the ...
rhetorical grammar
... One special kind of verb is called a modal. Modals are different from helping verbs such as have, do, and be. Unlike those verbs, modals don’t have endings like regular verbs. We say, “The policeman has stopped the car,” but we don’t say, “The policeman cans stop the speeding car.” Modals are a spec ...
... One special kind of verb is called a modal. Modals are different from helping verbs such as have, do, and be. Unlike those verbs, modals don’t have endings like regular verbs. We say, “The policeman has stopped the car,” but we don’t say, “The policeman cans stop the speeding car.” Modals are a spec ...
Focus (linguistics)
Focus is a grammatical category that determines which part of the sentence contributes new, non-derivable, or contrastive information.Focus is related to information structure. Contrastive focus specifically refers to the coding of information that is contrary to the presuppositions of the interlocutor.Related terms include Comment and Rheme.