|508.2 (Gerunds)‚ 509.1 (Infinitives)‚ and 509.2 (Participles) | | |Unit 3 Phrases and Clauses: participles‚ participial phrases‚ gerunds‚ infinitives‚ and verbals | | |University of Houston-Victoria Grammar Center http://www.uhv.edu/ac/grammar/main
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Example: Edgar Allen Poe wrote "The Raven" (;) Edgar Lee Masters wrote Spoon River Anthology. Subordinating Ideas Subordinating an idea‚ or show that one idea is related to but less important than another‚ by using an adverb clause or an adjective clause. -Subordinating ideas are dependent on other parts of the sentence. (By itself it is not clear) Example: The dog is a strange mammal (because) it has a peculiar relationship with people. Using Parallel Structure To create parallel
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[This Article appeared in the American Scientist (Nov-Dec 1990)‚ Volume 78‚ 550-558. Retyped and posted with permission.] The Science of Scientific Writing If the reader is to grasp what the writer means‚ the writer must understand what the reader needs George D. Gopen and Judith A. Swan* *George D. Gopen is associate professor of English and Director of Writing Programs at Duke University. He holds a Ph.D. in English from Harvard University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. Judith A. Swan
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Clause as Exchange A. The nature of dialogue The clause is also organized as an interactive event involving speaker‚ or writer‚ and audience. Let us use the term ‘speaker’ as a cover term for both speaker and writer. In the act of speaking‚ the speaker adopts for himself a particular speech role‚ and in so doing assigns to the listener a complementary role which he wishes him to adopt in his turn (see Halliday‚ 1984a;Martin‚ 1992: Chapter 2). For example‚ in asking a question‚ a speaker is taking
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communication begins with a well written sentence. Independent clause consists of a subject and a predicate verb that expresses a complete thought. A dependent clause is a subject a predicate verb that does not express a complete thought. A predicate verb is and action or state of being. You can only join an independent clause with either another independent clause‚ or a dependent clause. To join one independent clause with another independent clause you must use the semi-colon. 1) I/C ; I/C. 2)
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HOW LANGUAGE REPRESENTS THE WORLD IN BLITAR‚ EAST JAVA In the SFL account the ideational strand of meaning in fact involves two components: that of experiential meaning in the clause (Halliday and Matthiessen 2004) and that of the logical meaning between clauses in clause complexes. Experiential meaning is expressed through the system of Transitivity or process type‚ with the choice of process implicating associated participant roles and configurations. Blitar is a city in East Java‚ lies between
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Literary Terms (General) —AP I. Literary Types—names for the various types of literary expression: 1. Allegory: a tale in which characters‚ actions‚ or settings represent abstract ideas or moral qualities. Allegorical stories can also be viewed as extended or continued metaphors. 2. Allusion: a casual or brief reference to a person‚ place‚ event‚ or literary work that a writer expects the reader to recognize but doesn’t fully develop. The writer hopes to clarify or enhance the subject that
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Exemption Clause Each time a person travels on a bus‚ train or an airplane‚ buys a washing machine‚ computers‚ etc.‚ or deposits good in a railway locker or even going to a concert‚ he will receive a standard form contract. There are two kinds of standard form contracts which is business transactions and consumer transactions Business transaction is one that regulates dealings between people in business for example building contracts and etc. While consumer transaction is one which
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Fragment Sentences Complete sentence must meet three requirements‚ it has subject‚ the subject has a predictor and it is not subordinate clause. 1. A subject (the actor in the sentence) 2. A predicate (the verb or action)‚ and 3. Subordinates clause (it a group of words that can stand alone and make sense). Fragment sentences are those that do not meet the three requirements of complete sentence. It may have too many parts or some parts are missing or the parts don’t fit together. These fragments
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Institute of Foreign Languages GRAMMAR OF SPOKEN ENGLISH Term Paper By Maria Esko BBL-2 Supervisor: Ludmilla Podolski Tallinn 2012 Table of Contents Introduction 3 Common Features of Spoken English 4 Grammar Characteristics 7 Clause Combination 7 Position of items 8 Pausing‚ Repeating and Recasting 8 Organising the discourse 9 Ellipsis 9 Response Tokens 10 Vague Expressions 11 Headers and Tails 11 Conclusion 12 References 13 Introduction In the business
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