Introduction to English Sentence Structure This outstanding resource for students offers a step-by-step‚ practical introduction to English syntax and syntactic principles‚ as developed by Chomsky over the past 15 years. Assuming little or no prior background in syntax‚ Andrew Radford outlines the core concepts and how they can be used to describe various aspects of English sentence structure. This is an abridged version of Radford’s major new textbook Analysing English Sentences (also published by Cambridge
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Question 1 Megahertz Technology Solutions‚ Inc.‚ recently suffered a discrimination lawsuit. Advice to improve its workforce diversity is likely to include understanding the value of differences‚ providing diversity training for employees‚ building on similarities‚ and Answer Correct Answer: making fewer assumptions. Amelia has made a conscious effort to become an active listener. Therefore‚ she shuts down her computer‚ turns off her cell phone‚ and asks her assistant to hold all incoming
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(slow) Tomorrow we meet at eight. (fast) Simple extended sentence 1. The subject group and the predicate group consisting of more than one word form separate syntagms (extended subject group). e.g. John’s sister \entered the room. BUT John’s sister entered. Note: One-word subject can form a separate syntagm if it is emphasized. e.g. Mary is John’s sister. 2. Homogeneous predicates or other members of the sentence. e.g. John came \but he didn’t stay long. The teacher spoke of
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Technique Lesson: Sentence Variety Hacker 117 - 119 When a rough draft is filled with too many same-sounding sentences‚ try to inject some variety – as long as you can do so without sacrificing clarity or ease of reading. Grammar checkers are of little help with sentence variety. It takes a human ear to know when and why sentence variety is needed. 1. Use a variety of sentence structures: • A writer should not rely too heavily on simple sentences and compound sentences‚ for the effect
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Coordination in the Compound Sentence • Coordination puts equal value or significance on two or more parts of a sentence • Coordination can be used to join sentences‚ phrases words and even independent clauses. • When coordination is used to combine two sentences it creates a compound sentence. • Coordination conjunctions -And‚ but‚ or nor‚ for‚ so‚ yet • Correlative conjunctions -Not only‚ but also‚ either or‚ just as….so also • A semicolon can also be used to connect the sentences. • A semi colon
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video called Kanzi and Novel Sentences it is clear that Kanzi does understand what is being asked of him. He is able to follow commands that are said by his trainer‚ which demonstrates an ability to comprehend language as seen within the video. The reasoning why this video can be used as evidence that Kanzi does comprehend language is the fact the trainer is saying new or novel sentences. Meaning that Kanzi has never heard these words put together in those sentences. Kanzi is able to take the action
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Soldier Sentenced to death for Fort Hood shooting A military jury sentenced Maj. Nidal Hasan to death for a 2009 shooting in Fort Hood‚ Texas. A death sentence for an army personal hardly ever happens. Maj. Nidal Hasan walked into a medical building where army soldiers were getting medical check-ups and shouted ‘Allahu akbar’ which means in Arabic for “God is great!.” He then opened fire with a laser-sighted handgun. He killed thirteen army men and women that day and injured over 30. When police
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The Rotter Incomplete Sentences Black (RISB) is a projective method of studying personality in a semi-structured scoring technique (Rotter‚ Lah‚ & Rafferty‚ n.d.). The RISB was originally used as means of screening large groups of soldiers to evaluate adjustment and fitness to return to duty and to obtain specific information for evaluation and treatment‚ however now it is primarily used to help guide initial clinical interviews (Corsini‚ 2010). The RISB is primarily used for individuals at the college
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Sentence Variety Activity Name__________________________________ Instructions: Seeing as how our recent grammar practice has included sentences that are well beyond the complexity of simple sentences‚ let’s practice creating writing that has sentence variety instead of repetitive‚ predictable simple sentences. Take the following simple sentences (all focused around the wonderful world of Biology that you love so much) and combine them with subordinating conjunctions‚ relative pronouns (AWHITEBUS
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students but also of teachers and townspeople. INTERJECTIONS • An interjection expresses emotion. • An interjection has NO GRAMMATICAL RELATION to the rest of the sentence. • An interjection is generally set off from the rest of the sentence by an exclamation point or by a comma or commas. • Exclamation points indicate strong emotion. • Commas indicate mild emotion. • Interjections are common in casual conversation. In writing
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