the adjective diligent is a modifier of the head noun workers. Modifier is a general term for optional elements in a phrase that add descriptive information about the head word.

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A proper noun is a type of noun that refers to a specific person, place, or thing (Evelyn, Cairo, Saturday, etc.) Common nouns refer to classes of things (cat, trash, stone, etc.) rather than particular ones. All nouns that are not proper are common.

) My wife fed the dog Tuesday morning.

The NP that receives the direct object is called the indirect object

(8a) Lewis remained an obstinate man

Samantha was expecting a phone call.

The predicate is realized by a verb phrase, and in the most common case, the subject is realized by a noun phrase.

(2) Russia’s proposal at the conference

. For example, if you can identify the subject of a sentence, you have analyzed the sentence and identified the role of one important item in it.

Syntax concerns the way that words are arranged into larger units.

Determiners are words that appear before nouns and specify ideas such as definiteness, quantity.

adverb was a catch-all category for everything that was difficult to analyze

It is true that “parts of speech” is misleading if we take the expression literally, as components of language. Clearly, there are many more parts to language than word categories. On the other hand, “part of speech”, as a term of art, differs little in its basic meaning from category.

The first sentence can be completed with words like bicycle, shoes, worries, ability, home, etc.

What allows us to say that shove in sentence (1) functions as a noun, but shoved in sentence (2) functions as a verb? The meaning of both sentences, after all, is essentially the same. And how do we account for verbs like hear or undergo?

While strict prescriptivism has its advantages, it can be overwhelming to those who want to write freely without confinement to rules. Also, it can limit the artistic expression one may possess.

“On one hand, grammar rules are necessary for greater understanding and more effective communication.”

Derivational affixes are affixes that when added to a word create a new word with a new meaning. They’re called derivational precisely because a new word is derived when they’re added to the original word, and many times these newly created words belong to a new grammatical category.

This allows the child to understand that words begin with basic sound units such as /b/, /a/, /t/ in the word ‘bat’ are a part of a more complex, larger sound “chunks” or syllables (K12 Reader, 2019).

By the age of five, without developmental restrictions, a child would have learned how to speak a language. 

Minimal pairs are useful for linguists because they provide comprehension into how sounds and meanings coexist in language.

Furthermore, it can even analyze the distinction between distinctive accents

Phonetics involves the study of the way sound is produced by certain parts of the body. 

All humans have a different way of pronouncing words that produce various sounds.

Certain social circles expect you to follow the rules for table etiquette, and may exclude you if you violate them. Likewise, if you break prescriptive rules of language use, you will still be understood, but some may put you down as uneducated.

they typically want someone to tell them how to speak, in other words to prescribe a particular set of rules to follow, and expect a teacher or book to set forth those rules.

Can you ever remember a time when you were without language? Identity and language twine about each other so tightly that they are impossible to separate. Children of immigrant families, for example, often associate the language of their home with warmth and strong personal connections, with the deepest, private sense of who they are, in contrast to the formal public language of school and the outside world.

they typically want someone to tell them how to speak, in other words to prescribe a particular set of rules to follow, and expect a teacher or book to set forth those rules.

Grammar books like those you probably used in high school would dismiss this sentence as ungrammatical, telling you that ain’t is not a word, that me mustn’t be used in the subject of a sentence, and that you can’t use two negatives together.

Children can learn any language they are exposed to.

They would use generic annotations like awk or choppy, which indicated the teacher’s disapproval without providing any precise indication of why the writer’s wording was problematic.

I also devote some attention to considering how these grammatical topics appear on standardized tests such as the SAT and the ACT.

The only thing that distinguishes this case from the others is the lack of a determinative.

Alison’s divorce,

If we apply the same tests to the singular form, this diligent worker, the results are be the same: this diligent worker is a phrase, and diligent worker is not.

the head is states.

If you’re in that group, try expanding the frame sentence a bit to give yourself more context. For example, add (“in the courtyard”).

The first NP, teenagers is not receiving idiots.

(19) My wife fed the dog Tuesday morning.

?A raise was given the teachers by the school board.

Adjuncts can be added to any of the subtypes of verbs and don’t serve to distinguish one subtype from another.

(4) Bob kicked John.

Linguists favor a different method for representing structure, known as a “tree diagram.”

(22a) Samantha was expecting a phone call.(22b) Was Samantha expecting a phone call?

It is known as a subordinate clause.

Apart from simply being a convenient way to name phrases, the relationship between the head word and the phrase type captures a significant fact of syntax: the category of the head word plays an important role in determining where in the sentence the phrase can go, as well as a variety of grammatical rules such as agreement

a thorough understanding of syntax also gives you a way to take control of your own writing. When you understand how sentences are put together, you will be able to analyze your own writing and understand the structures that you have been using intuitively

Language serves as a symbol of group identity. With the words we use and the way we pronounce them, we send signals to others—conscious and unconscious—about where we come from and how we see ourselves

Children can learn any language they are exposed to. Take a moment to consider how remarkable that ability is. If you put any infant born without developmental disabilities in any culture, that child will learn the language—or languages—he or she hears spoken.

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