The last, and simplest, form of movement is called fronting. In general, adjuncts in the VP can be fronted, or moved to the beginning of the sentence before the subject.
I am so happy that I chose this class because there was so much, I did not know about the English language.
the relative subordinate clause can be introduced by a special kind of subordinator called a relative pronoun (which we should remember is not labeled as a pronoun in our system, but rather as a subordinator) (i.e., who, whom, which, that, where, when). Relative pronouns, lik
I love that there are many examples to follow.
Like prepositional phrases, adjective phrases generally occur as modifiers to noun phrases, but in contrast to prepositional phrases, which follow the head noun they modify, adjective phrases precede the head noun.
I did not know what modifiers was mean but now I know.
Like other major word classes, prepositions are the heads of their own phrases. Prepositions are typically followed by a complement. Most of the time, the object of the preposition is a noun phrase. In other words, the abstract phrase structure generally looks like this:
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In some situations, a proper noun can be converted to a common noun and can be plural or take a determiner:
Now I know that the noun can be converted to common noun.
I went to Netherlands. (2) *I only had time to visit a Netherland.
Wow, now I can identify the noun, verb and the other tense.
Some verb are distinguished by what doesn’t appear after them. These verbs are not followed by either a noun phrase or adjective phrase:
Another interesting statement I would not have use a sentence this way.
As the examples above show, eat can be followed by a noun phrase or by nothing at all.
Interesting to me. I get confused with what is noun and the verbs at time even thro I learn it in school.
The most important constituents we’ll be working with are phrases, clauses, and sentences.
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No book can give a complete account of something as flexible and multifaceted as a human language.
Is this statement true, and why?
The constituent that we will see most is the phrase. A phrase consists of a single main word, called the head of the phrase, and other words that modify or give grammatical information about the head.
Why do the word or Language have so many different parts?
A constituent is any word or group of words that functions together as an entity.
Wow I am learning about words that i should have learn in high school. What is Constituent??
or example, suppose you have plans to go to a party tomorrow, and a friend asks you to see a movie with her. Which response would be normal to decline that invitation
Reading this sentence, i will be most likely to keep my plan for the party because that was my first plan.
n terms of the semantics, there are various shades of meaning conveyed by the different modal verbs
Did not know nothing about this modal verb. Alot to learn.
One teacher, two teachers One house, two houses One car, two cars
I like the break down in the noun and the different ways we can use it.
Contemporary linguistics describes some word categories differently from traditional grammar books, and introduces several new distinctions.
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There are about 200 phonemes across all known languages; however, there are about forty-four in the English language and the forty-four phonemes are represented by the twenty-six letters of the alphabet (individually and in combination
Wow I did not know that there were so many Phonemes across the English languages.
A syllable consists of an initial sound or onset and followed by another sound called a rhyme
I thought syllable is when you broke the words into two or more words.
Linguistics is the study of the basic nature and structure of human language. It tries to explain the fundamentals of how language works
I am so happy I am in this class because now I am understanding the different stages of verb, I always mix up my very. What is an easy way to understand it?
This work began because I could not find a textbook that fit my needs for a particular course—a common problem for many instructors
I can understand Karly Hagen is saying, because many books are written century ago and we are dealing with a new generation we have to move with the times.