English Philology Department Gender in the English language: a diachronic perspective 8.030502 – the English Language and Literature Course Paper CONTENTS INTRODUCTION………………………………………………………3-5 CHAPTER I. THEORETICAL BASIS FOR THE STUDY OF THE CATEGORY OF GENDER IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE 1.1. The study of Gender in Modern Linguistics……………………….6-8 1.2. Contradictory Views on Gender in Modern English………………8-10 1.3. The Category of Gender in Germanic
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Bernoulli and Poisson distributions are discrete probability distributions in which the values that might be observed are restricted to being within a pre-defined list of possible values. This list has either a finite number of members‚ or at most is countable. * Binomial distribution In many cases‚ it is appropriate to summarize a group of independent observations by the number of observations in the group that represent one of two outcomes. For example‚ the proportion of individuals in a random
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problems‚ that Egypt is facing these days is unemployment. If its scarce resources are not being fully utilized‚ this means that production is low and therefore the supply of goods and services is little. If there is little production‚ then there are a countable number of people who are going to be working‚ i.e. employed. There are very limited job opportunities these days‚ and this is simply a result of inefficient production; this gets us back to the PPF and the allocation of resources. Logically‚ if scarce
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direct object you must have three things: • • • An action verb The direct object must be a NOUN. You can answer the question‚ “what?” or “whom?”* Be sure to ask the correct question. Otherwise‚ you might find the subject. The correct question will follow this form: subject + verb+ WHAT? subject + verb+ WHOM? Check out the example below. action verb Those countries export coffee. noun Ask: Those countries export WHAT? Those countries export WHOM? Answer: Those countries export
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Language Reviewer Nouns * Person‚ animal‚ place‚ thing‚ event‚ idea * Kinds * Proper nouns (e.g. Ms. Bumanglag‚ Miriam College Grade School) * Specific * Always capitalized * Common nouns (e.g. teacher‚ school) * General * Not capitalized; except if it’s the start of the sentence * Abstract nouns (e.g. love‚ freedom) * Cannot be experienced through the five senses (sight‚ hearing‚ smell‚ touch or taste) * Can be felt * Concrete nouns (e.g. chair‚ table)
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results in same class word as of the word stem while in derivational morphology‚ it results in a different class word other than that of the word stem. Examples of inflectional morphemes are गाड़ी(Noun) becomes गाड़ियॉँ(Noun) on adding ियॉ as suffix whereas in derivational morphemes कठोर(Adj) becomes कठोरता(Noun) on adding ता as suffix. The objective of our work is to develop a tool which works on morphemes and generate a good morphological analyzer for inflectional morphemes only. In this paper we discuss
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categories include noun and verb‚ among others. There are open word classes‚ which constantly acquire new members‚ and closed word classes‚ which acquire new members infrequently if at all. 8 Parts of Speech 1. Noun 2. Pronoun 3. Adjective 4. Verb 5. Adverb 6. Preposition 7. Conjuction 8. Interjection Noun -A noun is a word that names a person‚ place‚ or thing. ex. Person- astronaut Place- store thing-dog -A singular noun is a noun that means
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between the head word and its modifier(s) and the group of words under discussion consists of the phrase and clause of noun called nominal group. Since the position of modification after the head is often misunderstood as complementation‚ the discussion focuses more on the post-modification in the nominal groups in order to resolve the ambiguity. Based on the discussion‚ the head noun can be post-modified by the relative clause‚ the prepositional phrases‚ the adjectival phrases‚ the adverbial phrases
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sound like verbs‚ but they’re not verbs — they’re nouns! SpSpecificallyecifically‚ gerunds are action-oriented verbs that function as nouns. This always has the same function as a noun (although it looks like a verb)‚ so it can be used: As the subject of the sentence: Eating people is wrong. After prepositions: Can you sneeze without opening your mouth? She is good at painting After certain verbs‚ e.g. like‚ hate‚ admit‚ imagine In compound nouns‚ e.g. a driving lesson‚ a swimming pool‚ bird-watching
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Write about a strange or funny experience that you have undergone or that one of your friends or relatives has undergone in the past. Verbs are defined as words that with nouns make a statement‚ a command or a request‚ or ask a question about someone or something. I/ MOOD OF VERBS: Verbs are divided into three moods: A/ the indicative mood that indicates facts and realities ➢ John is
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