The Elements of English GrammarUniversity Press, 1898 - 304 pages |
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... predicate nominative or predicate adjective in the following phrases. Write PN for predicate nominative or PA for predicate adjective on the line. Choose four of the phrases to write in sentences on a separate paper. 1. tastes good is ...
... predicate nominative or predicate adjective in the following phrases. Write PN for predicate nominative or PA for predicate adjective on the line. Choose four of the phrases to write in sentences on a separate paper. 1. tastes good is ...
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... predicates . A close examination of the structural and semantic properties of the Urdu permissive and Aspectual complex predicates indicates that the definition of a complex predicate in ( 1 ) accurately characterizes the common ...
... predicates . A close examination of the structural and semantic properties of the Urdu permissive and Aspectual complex predicates indicates that the definition of a complex predicate in ( 1 ) accurately characterizes the common ...
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... predicate , it may be an enlargement of the simple predicate . Thus , in the sen- tence , " Ice melts , " melts is the predicate ; in " Ice melts rapidly in the sun , " melts is the simple predicate , the adverb rapidly and the ...
... predicate , it may be an enlargement of the simple predicate . Thus , in the sen- tence , " Ice melts , " melts is the predicate ; in " Ice melts rapidly in the sun , " melts is the simple predicate , the adverb rapidly and the ...
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... predicate in the way summarized in (24). (24) Syntactic distribution of the three defining properties of a predicate Defining property Syntactic correlate a. argument-taking ability (θ) theta-role feature θ on each ν b. temporality (τ) ...
... predicate in the way summarized in (24). (24) Syntactic distribution of the three defining properties of a predicate Defining property Syntactic correlate a. argument-taking ability (θ) theta-role feature θ on each ν b. temporality (τ) ...
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... predicate to change . Thus , we conclude that a changed state ( itself the result of a change of state ) preserves the ILP / SLP status of the origi- nal predicate . Therefore , the predicative final NP in examples like ( 83 ) are ILPs ...
... predicate to change . Thus , we conclude that a changed state ( itself the result of a change of state ) preserves the ILP / SLP status of the origi- nal predicate . Therefore , the predicative final NP in examples like ( 83 ) are ILPs ...
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