Writing technical prose
... The most important information first The step-by-step explanation of everything readers need to know to understand or to act (order can be chronological, spatial, or logical, i.e., simplest point first) A thematic arrangement using bullet points to emphasize main ideas or points ...
... The most important information first The step-by-step explanation of everything readers need to know to understand or to act (order can be chronological, spatial, or logical, i.e., simplest point first) A thematic arrangement using bullet points to emphasize main ideas or points ...
Year 6 Grammar - The Godolphin Junior Academy
... Year 6 grammar coverage Spelling Antonyms Synonyms Informal and formal language Conjunctions Relative pronouns Possessive pronouns Hyphens for compound nouns Collective nouns Modal verbs Abstract nouns Imperative verbs It must be noted that these spelling are in addition to the spellings advised by ...
... Year 6 grammar coverage Spelling Antonyms Synonyms Informal and formal language Conjunctions Relative pronouns Possessive pronouns Hyphens for compound nouns Collective nouns Modal verbs Abstract nouns Imperative verbs It must be noted that these spelling are in addition to the spellings advised by ...
Lecture 06
... Sentences have a hierarchical design of phrases. The existence of phrases as constituents can be independently verified with the help of special tests. Phrases and sentences have internal structure, with a head, a complement, and a specifier. ...
... Sentences have a hierarchical design of phrases. The existence of phrases as constituents can be independently verified with the help of special tests. Phrases and sentences have internal structure, with a head, a complement, and a specifier. ...
UNIVERSIDAD TECNOLÓGICA DE PEREIRA FACULTAD DE
... This course is part of the set of English courses contained in the Language Component of the B.A. in English Language Teaching program. It is intended for the students of the program who are supposed to have a solid foundation in the fundamentals of the English grammar component included in the prev ...
... This course is part of the set of English courses contained in the Language Component of the B.A. in English Language Teaching program. It is intended for the students of the program who are supposed to have a solid foundation in the fundamentals of the English grammar component included in the prev ...
What do you think about learning English?
... True or False: “If I use correct grammar/word choice, accent/pronunciation is not that important.” True or False: “As far as pronunciation goes, sounds like “th” are much more important than the rhythms and tones of language. True or False: “The best way to improve my English is to listen and repeat ...
... True or False: “If I use correct grammar/word choice, accent/pronunciation is not that important.” True or False: “As far as pronunciation goes, sounds like “th” are much more important than the rhythms and tones of language. True or False: “The best way to improve my English is to listen and repeat ...
1 - Haiku
... 16. Object or complement before the subject and verb: His kind of sarcasm I do not like. 17. Parallel constructions with either/or, neither/nor, not only/ but also, if not/at least, the more/the more, the former/the latter: Each man lives not only his personal life but also the life of his era. 18. ...
... 16. Object or complement before the subject and verb: His kind of sarcasm I do not like. 17. Parallel constructions with either/or, neither/nor, not only/ but also, if not/at least, the more/the more, the former/the latter: Each man lives not only his personal life but also the life of his era. 18. ...
Introduction to the special section on linguistically apt statistical methods Editorial
... argued that linguistics and statistics were not fundamentally at odds, even though the recent well-known statistical techniques for part-of-speech disambiguation (Church, 1988; DeRose, 1988) had, like their predecessors in speech recognition, flouted Chomsky’s (1957) warnings that Markov or n-gram m ...
... argued that linguistics and statistics were not fundamentally at odds, even though the recent well-known statistical techniques for part-of-speech disambiguation (Church, 1988; DeRose, 1988) had, like their predecessors in speech recognition, flouted Chomsky’s (1957) warnings that Markov or n-gram m ...
Module for Week # 3
... Was this exercise a little harder to do? Capitalization and punctuation are called mechanics. That is, they help us understand what we are reading. The capital letter shows where a new idea begins. The end punctuation shows where that idea ends. In addition, subjects and verbs are basic parts of any ...
... Was this exercise a little harder to do? Capitalization and punctuation are called mechanics. That is, they help us understand what we are reading. The capital letter shows where a new idea begins. The end punctuation shows where that idea ends. In addition, subjects and verbs are basic parts of any ...
Lecture 3. Phrases
... Phrases are at a higher level of grammatical structure than individual words (although a phrase may consist of a single word!). o Phrases function as clause elements or parts of clause elements. ...
... Phrases are at a higher level of grammatical structure than individual words (although a phrase may consist of a single word!). o Phrases function as clause elements or parts of clause elements. ...
DESCRIPTIVE LINGUISTICS vs. PRESCRIPTIVE LINGUISTICS
... The principal design of a Grammar of any Language is to teach us to express ourselves with propriety in that Language, and to be able to judge of every phrase and form of construction, whether it be right or not. Robert Lowth, A Short Introduction to English Grammar, 1762 ...
... The principal design of a Grammar of any Language is to teach us to express ourselves with propriety in that Language, and to be able to judge of every phrase and form of construction, whether it be right or not. Robert Lowth, A Short Introduction to English Grammar, 1762 ...
Punctuation? Grammar Rules??
... • 2. We will go on a trip to Spain. • 3. Dogs are my favorite animal to play with. • What’s the difference? ...
... • 2. We will go on a trip to Spain. • 3. Dogs are my favorite animal to play with. • What’s the difference? ...
Parallel Structure
... • Parallel structure means two or more items in a sentence have the same grammatical form because they have the same function. Parallel structure creates balance and makes our ideas clearer. It’s also called parallelism. It’s a practice we use not only in writing, but also in speaking. ...
... • Parallel structure means two or more items in a sentence have the same grammatical form because they have the same function. Parallel structure creates balance and makes our ideas clearer. It’s also called parallelism. It’s a practice we use not only in writing, but also in speaking. ...
Prescriptivism and Descriptivism
... people had to learn. • Latin’s supremacy was being challenged by English… • So the educated classes decided to incorporate the rules of Latin into “educated” English grammar. ...
... people had to learn. • Latin’s supremacy was being challenged by English… • So the educated classes decided to incorporate the rules of Latin into “educated” English grammar. ...
(PS) rules - kuas.edu.tw
... • what is taught in school • whether it is meaningful • whether you have heard the sentences before. ...
... • what is taught in school • whether it is meaningful • whether you have heard the sentences before. ...
One Word order ? : conceptual syntagmatics, linguistic imperialism
... extension. Chomsky (1965) in his Aspects of the Theory of Syntax states, “The existence of deep-seated formal universals…implies that all languages are cut to the same pattern” (p.30). Those “deep-seated formal universals,” inevitably SVO, become the deep structure of any sentence, in—conceivably—an ...
... extension. Chomsky (1965) in his Aspects of the Theory of Syntax states, “The existence of deep-seated formal universals…implies that all languages are cut to the same pattern” (p.30). Those “deep-seated formal universals,” inevitably SVO, become the deep structure of any sentence, in—conceivably—an ...
Year 6 VGP Appendix - Parklands Primary School, Leeds
... presentation of information in a sentence (e.g. I broke the window in the greenhouse versus The window in the greenhouse was broken) Expanded noun phrases to convey complicated information concisely (e.g. the boy that jumped over them fence is over there, or the fact that it was raining meant the en ...
... presentation of information in a sentence (e.g. I broke the window in the greenhouse versus The window in the greenhouse was broken) Expanded noun phrases to convey complicated information concisely (e.g. the boy that jumped over them fence is over there, or the fact that it was raining meant the en ...
working backwards from modern language to proto
... e.g. Box 4 of Jackendoff (1999) for others). Language would be perfectly functional, if less rich and nuanced, without these discretionary movements. Thus, Flexible is also a candidate for being a late evolutionary addition to human grammar. A Hierarchical language must be Structured, but need not b ...
... e.g. Box 4 of Jackendoff (1999) for others). Language would be perfectly functional, if less rich and nuanced, without these discretionary movements. Thus, Flexible is also a candidate for being a late evolutionary addition to human grammar. A Hierarchical language must be Structured, but need not b ...
Pinker_ch7
... the mental “click” that signals that we have just heard a complete grammatical sentence.” ...
... the mental “click” that signals that we have just heard a complete grammatical sentence.” ...
Syntax
... of a preposition followed by a noun phrase,” we can imagine an extremely large number of English phrases that could be produced using this rule. In fact, the potential number is unlimited. This reflects another goal of syntactic analysis, which is to have a small and finite (i.e. limited) set of rul ...
... of a preposition followed by a noun phrase,” we can imagine an extremely large number of English phrases that could be produced using this rule. In fact, the potential number is unlimited. This reflects another goal of syntactic analysis, which is to have a small and finite (i.e. limited) set of rul ...
The Boundaries of Iconicity in English Phrasal Verbs
... the meaning of a complex verb just knowing the meaning of the verb. From this point of view we can apply the term of ‘fuzzy concept’ to this special category of English verbs. Moreover, its members can also be graded, from verbs with prepositions, look at, verbs with adverbs or prepositions, whose m ...
... the meaning of a complex verb just knowing the meaning of the verb. From this point of view we can apply the term of ‘fuzzy concept’ to this special category of English verbs. Moreover, its members can also be graded, from verbs with prepositions, look at, verbs with adverbs or prepositions, whose m ...
Declarative sentence
... Balanced/Parallel • 2 or more words or constructions must be in the same grammatical form (i.e., verbs, infinitives, participles, phrases, etc.) ...
... Balanced/Parallel • 2 or more words or constructions must be in the same grammatical form (i.e., verbs, infinitives, participles, phrases, etc.) ...
Review of "Comparative Syntax of Balkan Languages"
... postulated) and from there it attracts the thematic role of the verb in the embedded clause. The lower clause is a reduced clause, which lacks a subject position. In control structures, this results in the matrix NP carrying two thematic roles: one from the matrix verb and one from the lower clause. ...
... postulated) and from there it attracts the thematic role of the verb in the embedded clause. The lower clause is a reduced clause, which lacks a subject position. In control structures, this results in the matrix NP carrying two thematic roles: one from the matrix verb and one from the lower clause. ...