Complete the sentences using the words listed in the box below‚ then click the "Check" button to check your answers. Don’t forget to capitalize when necessary. Some gaps may have more than one correct answer. can could have to must might should ------------------------------------------------- Top of Form 1. Ted’s flight from Amsterdam took more than 11 hours. He be exhausted after such a long flight. He prefer to stay in tonight and get some rest. 2. If you want to get
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Topic: Name: Date: Chapter One: Parts of Class: Period: speech‚ Adjectives and Verbs The adjective A word used to modify a noun or pronoun; to “modify” means to describe a word or make its meaning more definite • What kind? “gray skies” • Which one? “those girls;” “either way” • How many? “fewer hours” Demonstrative • This‚ that‚ these‚ and those can be adjectives used both as adjectives and as pronouns • When they modify nouns or pronouns‚ they are called “demonstrative adjectives‚” but when they
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happened in this grammar structure is an intransitive verb as there is no action attached to the verb. This is the present perfect tense it is used to describe actions or events that are complete‚ but have a connection with the present. (Swan‚ M. 2004:438). Concept questions (CQs): Are the events finished? Yes. Is there an action attached to the verb? No Is the day in the past? No. Form. Auxiliary verb + past participle of intransitive verb has happened Has
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English Irregular Verbs with Phonetic Transcription beat | /bi:t/ | beat | /bi:t/ | beaten | /’bi:tn/ | become | /bɪ ’kʌm/ | became | /bɪ ’keɪm/ | become | /bɪ ’kʌm/ | begin | /bɪ ’gɪn/ | began | /bɪ ’gæn/ | begun | /bɪ ’gʌn/ | bend | /bend/ | bent | /bent/ | bent | /bent/ | bind | /baɪnd/ | bound | /baʊnd/ | bound | /baʊnd/ | bite | /baɪt/ | bit | /bɪt/ | bitten | /’bɪtn/ | bleed | /bli:d/ | bled | /bled/ | bled | /bled/ | blow | /blou/ | blew | /blu:/ | blown | /bloun/ | break
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5. 6. 7. 8. LEXICAL CATEGORIES Noun Verb Adjective Adverb Pronoun Preposition Determiner Conjunction 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. PHRASAL CATEGORIES Noun Phrase (a small bird) Verb Phrase (could have been hit) Adjective Phrase (very small) Adverb Phrase (extremely violently) Prepositional Phrase (on the windscreen) Clause= NP + VP Open vs. Closed word classes 1. 2. 3. 4. 1. 2. 3. 4. Open word classes: new items may be added / lexical meanings Noun Verb Adjective Adverb Closed word classes:
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predicate must always include a verb. Subject (italic) + Predicate (plain text) The boss of the successful new computer company left the elegantly furnished conference room. Here are some basic patterns of sentences‚ with different types of predicates . Subject (italic) + Verb (plain text) The most basic pattern for a sentence in English is a simple subject + verb Babies cry. Even when additional elements appear in this type of sentence‚ the subject and verb maintain their key positions.
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assignment‚ please arrange to hand it in ahead of time. PART I (8 points): Identify the syntactic category of each of the underlined words in the following sentences. For nouns‚ indicate whether they are count or mass; for verbs‚ indicate whether they are intransitive‚ transitive‚ or ditransitive. Your answers should be based on how the words are used in the sentences‚ not on other ways in which the same words might be used in different contexts. The first one has been done for you as an example.
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A corpus-based study of ‘talk’ and ‘speak’ Wang Bingran Student ID: 11820787d Introduction This study compared ‘talk’ and ‘speak’ in terms of their senses‚ grammatical patterns and collocations. The comparison is based on data drawn from the British National Sampler Corpus (the BNC Sampler Corpus).The vast majority of the examples in this essay were selected from the BNC Sampler Spoken Corpus‚ one example was drawn from the BNC Sampler Written Corpus.
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least one verb. Sentence is now lately called clause. Futhermore‚ a clause that consits of one verb is called simple clause and a clause that consits of more than one verb is called complex clause. To complete the meaning of a sentence‚ the elements object (consists of noun or noun pharase)‚ complement‚ and adjunct (place) should be added because some verbs needs complementations to make the clause makes sense. However‚ there are some verbs that do not need complementations since the verbs are intransitive
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illness." ● "Effect" is also a verb meaning to bring something about. E.g.‚ "I have decided to effect a change in the scope of this article." 2.AFFECT ● The verb "affect" means to change something in some way. E.g.‚ "His steady gaze affected my ability to breathe." ● The noun "affect" is used fairly rarely. It refers to a display of an inner state of mind. E.g.‚ "Her affect is subdued this evening." "Anxious" and "Eager" 1.ANXIOUS ○ When followed by a gerund (the "–ing" verb form)‚ anxiousness refers
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