Intransitive Verbs Verbs can be tricky things‚ and the difference between transitive and intransitive verbs often confounds even the best grammar students and writers. An intransitive verb is simple defined as a verb that does not take a direct object. There’s no word in the sentence that tells who or what received the action. While there may be a word or phrase following an intransitive verb‚ such words and phrases typically answer the question “how”. Most intransitive verbs are complete without
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COMUNICATION SEMINAR WORK: PHRASAL VERBS STUDENT: ALEKSANDER RADINOVIĆ Index number: OPK09/12 Instructor: mr.sc Kristina Varcaković PRIJEDOR‚ 2013 Contents 1.Introduction: 3 2.Structuring and Presentation of Contents: 4 2.1 Origin of Phrasal verbs: 4 2.2 A diagnostic: 5 2.3 Catenae: 6 2.4 Shifting: 7 2.5 Examples: 8 2.6 Phrasal nouns: 10 3. Conclusion: 11 4.Bibliography: 12 1.Introduction: The term phrasal verb is commonly applied to two or three distinct
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04 IBERICA 19.qxp 22/3/10 17:21 Página 77 A contrastive analysis of the use of modal verbs in the expression of epistemic stance in Business Management research articles in English and Spanish1 Ignacio Vázquez Orta Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain) ivazquez@unizar.es Abstract In the present paper an intercultural quantitative and qualitative analysis of the use of modal verbs as epistemic stance markers in SERAC (Spanish-English Research Article Corpus)‚ a corpus of research
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MOSX/AMOS MORPHOSYNTAX Name: Eliška Židová CREDIT ESSAY (2): Categories and Verbs 1. CATEGORIES In every language‚ words can be divided into several groups with its own labels. These labels are generally called parts of speech or word categories. Words in each category share a number of properties according to various criteria. These criteria include semantic (or notional)‚ morphological‚ syntactic and phonetic ones. Providing relevant examples demonstrating similarities or
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SUBJECT – VERB AGREEMENT LONG QUIZ Name:_____________________________ Section:____________________ Score:_________ DIRECTIONS: Read each sentences. Circle the correct verb so that subject agrees with it. Some of the items provide clues‚ use them to guide you in answering. 1: The rhythm of the pounding waves (is‚ are) calming. (Clue: Make the subject and verb agree when words intervene between them.) 2: All of the dogs in the neighbourhood (was‚ were)barking. (Clue: Make the subject
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RULE A phrasal verb has a meaning which is different from the original verb. That’s what makes them fun‚ but confusing. You may need to try to guess the meaning from the context‚ or‚ failing that‚ look it up in a dictionary. There are four types of Phrasal verbs. One of them Verb + adverb + object (separable) a) I put up the picture on the wall. (literal) b) I put up enough wood on the fire‚ so it went out. (metaphorical) The object (noun or person) can come between the verb and the adverb
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REGULAR / IRREGULAR VERBS The English language uses both regular and irregular verbs. When forming the past tense or the present/past perfect tense of these verbs‚ we use different methods. To form the past tense of a regular verb ending with a vowel (a‚ e‚ i‚ o‚ u)‚ add a d to the word. To form the present/past perfect tense‚ add a d plus a helping verb (have‚ had‚ or has). For example‚ the verb share ends with the vowel e. share = present tense shared (share + d) = past tense had shared
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main types of modality: Potential Necessity Likelihood Possibility (be possible) Probability (be probable) Certainty (be certain) Requirement Permission (be allowed to) Advisability (be to your advantage to) Obligation (be obliged to) Volition Ability (be able to) Inclination (be willing to) Promise/Intention (be going to) 1 1. Modality 1.1 Modality: excercise 4. Clause combining 2 Practice • Say whether the modal verbs used in
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Phrasal Verbs The following text contains twenty phrasal verbs. As you read the document‚ find the verbs and use the context to guess their meaning. Loïc Le Bihan opened his eyes and tried to figure out why it was daylight. His house robot‚ Jeeves‚ sensed that his master was now awake and informed him in his deep‚ reassuring voice that it was 9.30 a.m. on Friday 12th January 2057 and that the temperature in Brest was 17°‚ which was well below the average temperature for this time of year
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Chapter 2 THE SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS OF DETRANSITIVE VERBS THE PREPOSITIONAL DATIVE CONSTRUCTION AND THE DOUBLE OBJECT CONSTRUCTION 0.1. Introduction The de-transitive verbs we are concerned with in this chapter are verbs of the type give‚ send‚ promise‚ bring‚ etc.‚ which take two internal objects realized either as a DP ^ PP sequence or as a DP ^ DP sequence: (1) a. Sue gave a book to Bill b. Sue gave Bill a book The construction illustrated in (1a) is called the to-dative construction
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