Run-on Sentences, Comma Splices and Fragments
... fragment. While the word ‘being’ is a verb, in the above sentence, it is not properly formed. In the below sentence, notice that the ‘-ing’ verb has a helping verb: I was walking down the street when it started raining. (This sentence is correct. ‘Was’ functions as the helping verb.) When added to 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 ‘-ing’ verb has a helping verb: I was walking down the street when it started raining. (This sentence is correct. ‘Was’ functions as the helping verb.) When added to a ...
AvoidingRun OnsCommaSplicesFragmentsJuly08
... fragment. While the word ‘being’ is a verb, in the above sentence, it is not properly formed. In the below sentence, notice that the ‘-ing’ verb has a helping verb: I was walking down the street when it started raining. (This sentence is correct. ‘Was’ functions as the helping verb.) When added to 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 ‘-ing’ verb has a helping verb: I was walking down the street when it started raining. (This sentence is correct. ‘Was’ functions as the helping verb.) When added to a ...
Unit 9 Phrases and Clauses - Accountax School of Business
... Theater, was written by a classmate of mine. which is being performed at Avo Theater— dependent clause introduced by the relative pronoun which. It modifies the noun play. Unit 9 © 2010 South-Western, Cengage Learning ...
... Theater, was written by a classmate of mine. which is being performed at Avo Theater— dependent clause introduced by the relative pronoun which. It modifies the noun play. Unit 9 © 2010 South-Western, Cengage Learning ...
Prepositional Phrase
... **Verbal: a word that is formed from a Verb, but is used as a N, Adj., or Adv.** ...
... **Verbal: a word that is formed from a Verb, but is used as a N, Adj., or Adv.** ...
Basic English Review 09
... Theater, was written by a classmate of mine. which is being performed at Avo Theater— dependent clause introduced by the relative pronoun which. It modifies the noun play. Unit 9 © 2010 South-Western, Cengage Learning ...
... Theater, was written by a classmate of mine. which is being performed at Avo Theater— dependent clause introduced by the relative pronoun which. It modifies the noun play. Unit 9 © 2010 South-Western, Cengage Learning ...
Grammar in the Vertical Alignment + Teaching Parallel Structure
... function Modify all or part of the sentence to which it is connected. contain a noun that is immediately followed by an adjective, often—but not always—a participle or participial phrase. location in a sentence The AbP is frequently found either at the beginning or at the end of a sentence. punctuat ...
... function Modify all or part of the sentence to which it is connected. contain a noun that is immediately followed by an adjective, often—but not always—a participle or participial phrase. location in a sentence The AbP is frequently found either at the beginning or at the end of a sentence. punctuat ...
A Study of the Verbs of Verb-copying Construction in Mandarin
... Under the theoretical framework of Minimalist Program by Chomsky (1995), linguistics is intended to be empirical with the aim of describing and formulating the theory of the nature of the language within a universalistic view. Following this line, the present study is designed to combine the theoret ...
... Under the theoretical framework of Minimalist Program by Chomsky (1995), linguistics is intended to be empirical with the aim of describing and formulating the theory of the nature of the language within a universalistic view. Following this line, the present study is designed to combine the theoret ...
Suspension Across Domains - Jonathan Bobaljik
... raising. QR in English poses an odd puzzle: it is possible from control and ECM infinitives, as well as subjunctive clauses, but not from finite clauses (at one end of this continuum), nor from raising constructions, which are often assumed to be the most transparent configurations. This is illustra ...
... raising. QR in English poses an odd puzzle: it is possible from control and ECM infinitives, as well as subjunctive clauses, but not from finite clauses (at one end of this continuum), nor from raising constructions, which are often assumed to be the most transparent configurations. This is illustra ...
Lists
... (nouns, verbs, articles, prepositions) • Grammar - the set of rules for building phrases in a sentence (noun phrase, verb phrase, prepositional phrase) ...
... (nouns, verbs, articles, prepositions) • Grammar - the set of rules for building phrases in a sentence (noun phrase, verb phrase, prepositional phrase) ...
Document
... I introduced nobody to anybody. *I introduced anybody to nobody. This tells us something about the relationship between the direct and to-object in the structure. (What?) ...
... I introduced nobody to anybody. *I introduced anybody to nobody. This tells us something about the relationship between the direct and to-object in the structure. (What?) ...
Clauses vs Phrases
... Object of Preposition: We quietly walked by the lion. Object of Verbal Phrase (a participle in this case): Watching the lion, we remained hidden. Appositive: The antelope's main predator, the lion, does not live in jungles. (an appositive is a word or phrase that restates the identity of a nearby no ...
... Object of Preposition: We quietly walked by the lion. Object of Verbal Phrase (a participle in this case): Watching the lion, we remained hidden. Appositive: The antelope's main predator, the lion, does not live in jungles. (an appositive is a word or phrase that restates the identity of a nearby no ...
Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar
... John washes the car. ⇒ The car is washed by John. • We could write rules to generate the second sentence directly. • Problem with such approach: no generalization ...
... John washes the car. ⇒ The car is washed by John. • We could write rules to generate the second sentence directly. • Problem with such approach: no generalization ...
Types of Subordinate Clauses DIRECTECTIONS: Read through this
... C. The students are studying because they have a test tomorrow. D. After they finished studying, Juan and Maria went to the movies. E. Juan and Maria went to the movies after they finished studying. When a complex sentence begins with a subordinator such as sentences A and D, a comma is required at ...
... C. The students are studying because they have a test tomorrow. D. After they finished studying, Juan and Maria went to the movies. E. Juan and Maria went to the movies after they finished studying. When a complex sentence begins with a subordinator such as sentences A and D, a comma is required at ...
Syntactic overview
... consideration, a sentence, but the whole cannot belong to either of these categories. We argue, therefore, that coordinative constructions need to be assigned to different categories than their coordinate parts. Thus we will say, for example, that Jill seems quite friendly is a clause, while [1iii] ...
... consideration, a sentence, but the whole cannot belong to either of these categories. We argue, therefore, that coordinative constructions need to be assigned to different categories than their coordinate parts. Thus we will say, for example, that Jill seems quite friendly is a clause, while [1iii] ...
Improving Verb Phrase Extraction from Historical Text by use of Verb
... rather high. The same argument holds for prepositional phrases containing the expected preposition to form a prepositional complement, and for prepositions or adverbials identical to a particle expected by the valency frame of the head verb. For direct and indirect objects on the other hand, even if ...
... rather high. The same argument holds for prepositional phrases containing the expected preposition to form a prepositional complement, and for prepositions or adverbials identical to a particle expected by the valency frame of the head verb. For direct and indirect objects on the other hand, even if ...
The Syntactic Cartography of the TP Layer in Minimalism
... This has led modern Arab linguists to assume that the unmarked word order in Standard Arabic is VSO and the alternative order SVO is derived via subject movement; hence verb movement in Standard Arabic is not optional since the verb has to move in both word orders (Fassi Fehri, 1993; Ouhalla, 1994; ...
... This has led modern Arab linguists to assume that the unmarked word order in Standard Arabic is VSO and the alternative order SVO is derived via subject movement; hence verb movement in Standard Arabic is not optional since the verb has to move in both word orders (Fassi Fehri, 1993; Ouhalla, 1994; ...
Syntax without functional categories
... categorisation. My first step, therefore, is to present these assumptions. The following principle amounts to little more than Occam's Razor, so it should be sufficiently bland to be acceptable regardless of theoretical inclinations. Principle 1 A word-class should be recognised only if it allows ge ...
... categorisation. My first step, therefore, is to present these assumptions. The following principle amounts to little more than Occam's Razor, so it should be sufficiently bland to be acceptable regardless of theoretical inclinations. Principle 1 A word-class should be recognised only if it allows ge ...
LOGIC, SYNTAX, AND GRAMMATICAL AGREEMENT* Geoffrey K
... simpler if it had only (5) to deal with, (6) falling under different principles applying to anaphoric items generally.) It would be straightforward to allow for (5c), as in Welsh and certain other languages, as well; GKPS specifically excludes preposition agreement by disallowing the cooccurrence of ...
... simpler if it had only (5) to deal with, (6) falling under different principles applying to anaphoric items generally.) It would be straightforward to allow for (5c), as in Welsh and certain other languages, as well; GKPS specifically excludes preposition agreement by disallowing the cooccurrence of ...
THE WRITE WAY TO TEACH GRAMMAR
... “It was a very still night, with a faint thunder haze dimming the stars, and once or twice as they walked, a flicker of summer lightning danced along the sky-line.” ...
... “It was a very still night, with a faint thunder haze dimming the stars, and once or twice as they walked, a flicker of summer lightning danced along the sky-line.” ...
The Encoding Grammar and Syntax
... virtue of some feature being present in the resultant one. As the result, syntactic analysis relies more strongly on theoretical constructs than any other kind of linguistic analysis, and the validity of these constructs is subject to methodological and theoretical debate. To give just two outstandi ...
... virtue of some feature being present in the resultant one. As the result, syntactic analysis relies more strongly on theoretical constructs than any other kind of linguistic analysis, and the validity of these constructs is subject to methodological and theoretical debate. To give just two outstandi ...
I. Read the following paragraphs. The topic sentence in each of the
... If writers wish to do so, they can remind their readers that they are giving examples by using signal words or phrases. Using one of these signals is like saying to the reader: " Pay attention: now I am giving you an example". Most writers do not use a signal every time they give an example. When ma ...
... If writers wish to do so, they can remind their readers that they are giving examples by using signal words or phrases. Using one of these signals is like saying to the reader: " Pay attention: now I am giving you an example". Most writers do not use a signal every time they give an example. When ma ...
Sentence Parsing
... Moreover, their grammars often allow a given string of words to be combined into several different syntactic configurations. (A wide-spread type of ‘syntactic ambiguities’ is called ‘attachment ambiguity’: the classic example is The man saw the woman with the binoculars, where the prepositional phra ...
... Moreover, their grammars often allow a given string of words to be combined into several different syntactic configurations. (A wide-spread type of ‘syntactic ambiguities’ is called ‘attachment ambiguity’: the classic example is The man saw the woman with the binoculars, where the prepositional phra ...
Translating sentence openers: An analysis of the potential risk of
... categorized accordingly. Both English and Swedish are generally classified as Subject Verb Object (SVO) languages, but in some circumstances VSO, known as ‘reversed word order’, is permitted or even necessary. Andersson suggests that by deviating from the standard word order part of the text is espe ...
... categorized accordingly. Both English and Swedish are generally classified as Subject Verb Object (SVO) languages, but in some circumstances VSO, known as ‘reversed word order’, is permitted or even necessary. Andersson suggests that by deviating from the standard word order part of the text is espe ...
Antisymmetry
In linguistics, antisymmetry is a theory of syntactic linearization presented in Richard Kayne's 1994 monograph The Antisymmetry of Syntax. The crux of this theory is that hierarchical structure in natural language maps universally onto a particular surface linearization, namely specifier-head-complement branching order. The theory derives a version of X-bar theory. Kayne hypothesizes that all phrases whose surface order is not specifier-head-complement have undergone movements that disrupt this underlying order. Subsequently, there have also been attempts at deriving specifier-complement-head as the basic word order.Antisymmetry as a principle of word order is reliant on assumptions that many theories of syntax dispute, e.g. constituency structure (as opposed to dependency structure), X-bar notions such as specifier and complement, and the existence of ordering altering mechanisms such as movement and/or copying.