morphological categories and their realization. Syntax‚ on the other hand‚ deals with the way words are combined. It is concerned with the external functions of words and their relationship to other words within the linearly ordered units – word-groups‚ sentences and texts. Syntax studies the way in which the units and their meanings are combined. It also deals with peculiarities of syntactic units‚ their behavior in different contexts. Syntactic units may be analyzed from different points of view‚ and
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CHAPTER ONE 1. What is modality? Modality is concerned with expressing opinions and attitudes. Modality in general is defined similarly in many reference books. For example Quirk‚ Greenbaum‚ Leech and Svartvik (1985) claim‚ that “at its most general‚ modality may be defined as the manner in which the meaning of a clause is qualified so as to reflect the speaker’s judgment of the likelihood of the proposition it expresses being true” (p. 219). However‚ the authors deal with the term
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Probability Paper David E. Nelson QNT/561 February 14‚ 2013 Professor Minh Bui Probability Paper My friends suggested that we take a hiking trip through South America this year. The reason for such a trip was to celebrate 16 years of close friendship. The four of us had known each other since we were in middle school and have since become inseparable. Even though we all lead very different lives and have even started our own families‚ we always manage to find time to spend with each other
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will report that he or she does not have it with probability 0.9. Only 1% of the population has the disease in question. If a person is chosen at random from the population and the diagnostic test indicates that she has the disease‚ what is the conditional probability that she does‚ in fact‚ have the disease? [15 points] Define these events: D: person has the disease H: test says person has the disease P ( H D ) 0.9; P ( H D ) 0.9; P ( D ) 0.01; P ( D ) 0.99 Using Bayes’ Theorem‚ P( D H )
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1. The subject of theoretical grammar and its difference from practical grammar. The following course of theoretical grammar serves to describe the grammatical structure of the English language as a system where all parts are interconnected. The difference between theoretical and practical grammar lies in the fact that practical grammar prescribes certain rules of usage and teaches to speak (or write) correctly whereas theoretical grammar presents facts of language‚ while analyzing them‚ and gives
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32188 3. Analyse the advantages and disadvantages of conditional fee arrangements for legal aid. A conditional fee arrangement is basically a form of risk sharing whereby if the lawyer loses the case‚ the client does not have to pay. However‚ if the case is won‚ the lawyer can be recompensed through a success fee‚ which is worked out as a percentage of his cost. In the US‚ many cases have been funded this way but in English legal system conditional fee arrangement had been banned until the enactment
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Probability Introduction The probability of a specified event is the chance or likelihood that it will occur. There are several ways of viewing probability. One would be experimental in nature‚ where we repeatedly conduct an experiment. Suppose we flipped a coin over and over and over again and it came up heads about half of the time; we would expect that in the future whenever we flipped the coin it would turn up heads about half of the time. When a weather reporter says “there is a 10% chance
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Trimming Sentences Parallelism Comparison Problems Pronoun-Antecedent Disagreement Pronoun Case Dangling and Misplaced Participles Other Misplaced Modifiers Tricky Tenses Idiom Errors Diction Errors Other Modifier Problems Irregular Verbs The Subjunctive Mood Coordinating Ideas 511 512 McGRAW-HILL’S SAT Lesson 1: Subject-Verb Disagreement Finding Verbs The verb is the most important part of a sentence‚ but verbs aren’t always easy to spot. Consider the word swim in the sentences The ducks
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Total points are 30. Points are included with each problem. Included with each section or problem are reference examples and end of section exercises that can be used as a guide. Be sure to show your work so that partial credit may be awarded. To receive full credit‚ work must be shown if applicable. Section 3.1: Basic Concepts of Probability and Counting 1. Lock combinations are made using 3 digits followed by 2 letters. How many different lock combinations can be made if repetition of
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IAN ROBERTS & ANNA ROUSSOU (University of Stuttgart and University of Wales‚ Bangor) THE EXTENDED PROJECTION PRINCIPLE AS A CONDITION ON THE TENSE-DEPENDENCY*(* Earlier versions of this paper were presented at the LAGB Autumn Meeting in Cardiff (September 1996)‚ the Bangor Research Seminar (October 1996‚ February 1998)‚ the University of Stuttgart (October 1996)‚ the Workshop on Subjects‚ Expletives‚ and the EPP in Tromsø (June 1997)‚ and at the Research Seminar at the University of Geneva (November
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