The Use of Passive Voice in the Constitution of the United States
... Some examples where a bare passive does have an overt subject: All things considered, we’re lucky not to have been sued for a lot more. (short) My house wrecked by a tornado is something I don’t ever want to see. (long) Because the verb is in the past participle form, such clauses are always nonfini ...
... Some examples where a bare passive does have an overt subject: All things considered, we’re lucky not to have been sued for a lot more. (short) My house wrecked by a tornado is something I don’t ever want to see. (long) Because the verb is in the past participle form, such clauses are always nonfini ...
Boom and Whoosh: Verbs of Explosion as a
... Table 3: Alternations of Cooking-Verbs (Levin, 1993).....................................................17 Table 4: Alternations of Entity-specific Change-of-State Verbs (Levin, 1993).................18 Table 5: Alternations of Calibratable Change-of-State Verbs (Levin, 1993).....................19 ...
... Table 3: Alternations of Cooking-Verbs (Levin, 1993).....................................................17 Table 4: Alternations of Entity-specific Change-of-State Verbs (Levin, 1993).................18 Table 5: Alternations of Calibratable Change-of-State Verbs (Levin, 1993).....................19 ...
Appendir A
... after graduating you can go to college join the military or get a job Tuesday: identify sentence parts: subject, verb (transitive or intransitive), direct object, indirect object, predicate nominative, predicate adjective, appositive or appositive phrase, prepositional phrase (adjective or adverb), ...
... after graduating you can go to college join the military or get a job Tuesday: identify sentence parts: subject, verb (transitive or intransitive), direct object, indirect object, predicate nominative, predicate adjective, appositive or appositive phrase, prepositional phrase (adjective or adverb), ...
Unit 3 - Adverbial Clauses
... 1. Because this “to me” can be put earlier in the sentence (“To me, little bird, ....”) some people will see it as an adverb to “have been.” Alternatively, however, some people may see it as functioning as an adjective to “friend.” 2. The direct object of “helped” would be an infinitive. In context, ...
... 1. Because this “to me” can be put earlier in the sentence (“To me, little bird, ....”) some people will see it as an adverb to “have been.” Alternatively, however, some people may see it as functioning as an adjective to “friend.” 2. The direct object of “helped” would be an infinitive. In context, ...
Homework
... • Preposition quiz; went over character analysis assignment; worktime (choice of 5-6) or character analysis. • Homework: ASP Chpts. 5-6 Due Tomorrow; character analysis due ...
... • Preposition quiz; went over character analysis assignment; worktime (choice of 5-6) or character analysis. • Homework: ASP Chpts. 5-6 Due Tomorrow; character analysis due ...
Modal Auxiliary Verbs - KSU Faculty Member websites
... used by different linguists to mean different things. Although the distinction between "root" and "epistemic" modals was adopted in transformational treatments, there are frequent references to modals as means of expressing the speaker's state of knowledge or belief or opinion about something. Can , ...
... used by different linguists to mean different things. Although the distinction between "root" and "epistemic" modals was adopted in transformational treatments, there are frequent references to modals as means of expressing the speaker's state of knowledge or belief or opinion about something. Can , ...
Orf, Amy - Ohio State University Knowledge Bank
... analytic verbal construction, consisting of one of a 1,.1umber of verbs of state or motion in periphrasis with the gerund, a verbal derivative with the suffix -ndo. 1 In addition, scholars generally agree that the progressive construction conveys aspectual meaning, normally that of developing, lasti ...
... analytic verbal construction, consisting of one of a 1,.1umber of verbs of state or motion in periphrasis with the gerund, a verbal derivative with the suffix -ndo. 1 In addition, scholars generally agree that the progressive construction conveys aspectual meaning, normally that of developing, lasti ...
ROA 1229 - Rutgers Optimality Archive
... correspondence (Benua 2000) as a factor governing misapplication of palatalisation throughout a verb’s inflectional paradigm. The effect of output-to-output correspondence, essentially, will give rise to systematic patterns of paradigm correspondence that correlate with whether velar segments in the ...
... correspondence (Benua 2000) as a factor governing misapplication of palatalisation throughout a verb’s inflectional paradigm. The effect of output-to-output correspondence, essentially, will give rise to systematic patterns of paradigm correspondence that correlate with whether velar segments in the ...
The German language - Кафедра іноземних мов
... pronounce them, and how they are used in sentences. Be sure to "learn"—commit to memory - all of the vocabulary words in each lesson as they are presented. Early lessons have simple sentences because it is assumed that the student's vocabulary is limited. But throughout the text, more complex discou ...
... pronounce them, and how they are used in sentences. Be sure to "learn"—commit to memory - all of the vocabulary words in each lesson as they are presented. Early lessons have simple sentences because it is assumed that the student's vocabulary is limited. But throughout the text, more complex discou ...
Mood, voice and auxiliaries C1
... The future........................................................................................................................................................ 5 'Will' - 'To be going to' ............................................................................................................. ...
... The future........................................................................................................................................................ 5 'Will' - 'To be going to' ............................................................................................................. ...
CHAPTER FIVE
... shall, should, can, could, may, might, must, and ought to and the latter includes had better, have (got) to, be able to, used to, and would rather. In this study, only pure modal verbs are analyzed because the meaning of semi-modal verbs is easier than that of pure modal verbs. As for the meanings ...
... shall, should, can, could, may, might, must, and ought to and the latter includes had better, have (got) to, be able to, used to, and would rather. In this study, only pure modal verbs are analyzed because the meaning of semi-modal verbs is easier than that of pure modal verbs. As for the meanings ...
A semantic analysis of the verbal prefix o(b)- in Croatian
... for some meanings of o(b)-verbs. We first look at the semantic profile of the prefix o(b)-in verbs expressing spatial motion, and then at the profile of verbs with a less obvious spatial profile, or abstract or metaphorical meanings: significantly, in most cases, the same verbs have a concrete and a ...
... for some meanings of o(b)-verbs. We first look at the semantic profile of the prefix o(b)-in verbs expressing spatial motion, and then at the profile of verbs with a less obvious spatial profile, or abstract or metaphorical meanings: significantly, in most cases, the same verbs have a concrete and a ...
The Gerund and the to-Infinitive as Subject
... frame of the infinitival clause is unrealized with respect to the tense of the matrix in which it appears,” so that in (9) below, “Jenny has not yet bought the wine at the point at which she remembers to do so,” and in (10), “Jim does not succeed in locking the door when he tries to do so”: (9) Jenn ...
... frame of the infinitival clause is unrealized with respect to the tense of the matrix in which it appears,” so that in (9) below, “Jenny has not yet bought the wine at the point at which she remembers to do so,” and in (10), “Jim does not succeed in locking the door when he tries to do so”: (9) Jenn ...
The Syntax of Valuation in Auxiliary–participle
... with infinitives; ii) ParPars are only possible when there is an appropriate licensing head—an overt or covert AUX (as German will show not necessarily another PART); iii) the parasitic morphology is semantically vacuous; ParPars are not interpreted as a perfectives, but rather the meaning is identi ...
... with infinitives; ii) ParPars are only possible when there is an appropriate licensing head—an overt or covert AUX (as German will show not necessarily another PART); iii) the parasitic morphology is semantically vacuous; ParPars are not interpreted as a perfectives, but rather the meaning is identi ...
functional interpretations
... entity which is the implicit RO of the prepositional relation expressed by the particle. For instance, in the VP put a record on, the implicit RO of on must be the type of object on which the record can fulfill its function and on which records are canonically found, namely a record player. Likewise ...
... entity which is the implicit RO of the prepositional relation expressed by the particle. For instance, in the VP put a record on, the implicit RO of on must be the type of object on which the record can fulfill its function and on which records are canonically found, namely a record player. Likewise ...
2002 - Henk van Riemsdijk
... Abstract. It is a well-known fact that most of the Germanic languages can use modal verbs with non-verbal complements. In the present paper I will focus on modals with directional PPs such as the German Ich muss nach hause (I must home). There are two ways to analyze
such constructions. Either ...
... Abstract. It is a well-known fact that most of the Germanic languages can use modal verbs with non-verbal complements. In the present paper I will focus on modals with directional PPs such as the German Ich muss nach hause (I must
Aspect Marking and Modality in Child Vietnamese
... 2. ADULT VIETNAMESE Vietnamese is an SVO and isolating language, thus has no inflectional morphology. Verbs are not inflected, i.e. they never have a stem change, but there are various markers (separate morphemes) that accompany the verb to express Tense and Aspect. There are two types of expression ...
... 2. ADULT VIETNAMESE Vietnamese is an SVO and isolating language, thus has no inflectional morphology. Verbs are not inflected, i.e. they never have a stem change, but there are various markers (separate morphemes) that accompany the verb to express Tense and Aspect. There are two types of expression ...
I find the book worth reading.
... The combination of the verbs shall and will with the infinitive have of late become subject of renewed discussion. The controversial point about them is wether these combinations really constitute, together with the forms of the past and present, the categorical expression of verbal tense, are jus m ...
... The combination of the verbs shall and will with the infinitive have of late become subject of renewed discussion. The controversial point about them is wether these combinations really constitute, together with the forms of the past and present, the categorical expression of verbal tense, are jus m ...
The use of gaan+ infinitive in narratives of older bilingual children of
... has taken place. It is remarkable that in this use the bilingual children differ from adult speakers of Dutch in that they apply object incorporation more consistently and adapt the morphological form of the object to it more frequently. Hence, the constructions in (10b), and (11a,b) are acceptable ...
... has taken place. It is remarkable that in this use the bilingual children differ from adult speakers of Dutch in that they apply object incorporation more consistently and adapt the morphological form of the object to it more frequently. Hence, the constructions in (10b), and (11a,b) are acceptable ...
Formal Commands - Villanova University
... Buy the candy. (familiar) Informal, or familiar, speech is used among friends, coworkers, ...
... Buy the candy. (familiar) Informal, or familiar, speech is used among friends, coworkers, ...
Prose Passages for Level 2
... 3. “Them” is the indirect object of the infinitive “to help.” The infinitive phrase functions as a delayed subject -- “To help them was the Lord’s will.” 4. “Were” is in the subjunctive mood. As a matter of usage and style, some people would argue that in formal writing “him” should be “he.” 5. The ...
... 3. “Them” is the indirect object of the infinitive “to help.” The infinitive phrase functions as a delayed subject -- “To help them was the Lord’s will.” 4. “Were” is in the subjunctive mood. As a matter of usage and style, some people would argue that in formal writing “him” should be “he.” 5. The ...
Investigating the abstractness of children`s early knowledge of
... development of constructions around verbs at the earliest stages of syntactic development. The recent Tomasello–Fisher debate concerns two main questions : (1) how lexically specific is children’s early grammatical knowledge and (2) at what point do children possess abstract syntactic categories. Acc ...
... development of constructions around verbs at the earliest stages of syntactic development. The recent Tomasello–Fisher debate concerns two main questions : (1) how lexically specific is children’s early grammatical knowledge and (2) at what point do children possess abstract syntactic categories. Acc ...
0525 GERMAN (FOREIGN LANGUAGE) MARK SCHEME for the May/June 2015 series
... = 3 marks (3 verbs). (vi) Only reward each piece of information once, e.g. ‘mein Haus ist super’ cannot score both as description and reason for liking (‘mein Haus ist super’ and ‘mein Garten ist super’ can both be rewarded). (vii) Do not penalise factual errors. [Total marks for Communication: 10] ...
... = 3 marks (3 verbs). (vi) Only reward each piece of information once, e.g. ‘mein Haus ist super’ cannot score both as description and reason for liking (‘mein Haus ist super’ and ‘mein Garten ist super’ can both be rewarded). (vii) Do not penalise factual errors. [Total marks for Communication: 10] ...