Linguistics
Using Pronouns as Direct ObjectsTraditional grammars describe nouns as words that name people, places, things, and ideas. Pronouns are a subcategory of nouns that take...
June 17, 2013- Using Pronouns as Subject Complements
Traditional grammars define nouns as naming people, places, things, and ideas. Noun phrases consist of a noun including a pronoun and...
June 16, 2013 - Using Pronouns as Subjects
The traditional definition of the noun is a word that names a person, place, thing, or idea. A noun phrase is...
June 15, 2013 - The Imperative Mood of English Verbs
The imperative mood is one of three grammatical moods in the English language. As a grammatical mood, the imperative expresses modality,...
June 14, 2013 - The Object Complement in English Grammar
Object complements are defined as words, phrases, and clauses that directly follow and describe or complete the direct object. Object complements...
June 13, 2013 - English Irregular Verbs: Simple Past and Past Participles
Irregular English verbs are verbs whose conjugations differ from the conjugation patterns of regular verbs. Many common English verbs are irregular...
June 12, 2013 - Grammatical Functions of English Noun Clauses
A noun clause is a dependent clause that consists of a subordinating conjunction followed by a clause and that performs a...
June 11, 2013 - Grammatical Forms of English Noun Clauses
Similar to the noun and noun phrase in grammatical function, a noun clause is a dependent or subordinate clause that consists...
June 10, 2013 - Using Pronouns as Noun Phrase Heads
Nouns are traditionally defined as words that name people, places, things, and ideas. A pronoun is a word that takes the...
June 9, 2013 - The Present Perfect-Progressive of English Verbs
All conjugated verbs in the English language express grammatical tense, grammatical aspect, grammatical voice, and grammatical mood. Tense is defined as...
June 7, 2013 - The Past Progressive of English Verbs
English verbs that are conjugated express a combination of grammatical tense, grammatical aspect, grammatical voice, and grammatical mood. Tense is the...
June 6, 2013 - The Present Progressive of English Verbs
Conjugated verbs express a combination of grammatical tense, grammatical aspect, grammatical voice, and grammatical mood in English. Verb tense is defined...
June 5, 2013 - The Past Perfect of English Verbs
Conjugated verbs in English express a combination of grammatical tense, grammatical aspect, grammatical voice, and grammatical mood. Tense is defined as...
June 4, 2013 - A Comparative Grammatical Description of Modern English Phrasal Verbs and Old English Verb-Particle Constructions
Verb-particle constructions are a characteristic feature of the highly periphrastic Modern English verb system (Fischer et al. 2000:180). Modern verb-particle constructions,...
June 3, 2013 - English Phrasal Verbs
Phrasal verbs are a common verb form in the English language. Also called verb-particle constructions, the simplest definition of phrasal verbs...
June 2, 2013
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