As a teacher, identifying parts of speech can seem like a daunting task. Yet, teaching or reviewing the concept of linking verbs, predicate adjectives, and predicate nouns is important in order to ...

1 School of Foreign Studies, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China 2 Center for Language Cognition and Assessment, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China Distinct from nominal ...

How well do you know your verbs? You may know verbs as the part of speech that describe an action, but linking verbs play a different role in a sentence. Like helping verbs, linking verbs are a type ...

This paper develops the proposal that the so-called aspect marker verb-le is not the head of some higher functional projection, like IP or AspP, but that, on the contrary, it is deeply embedded in the ...

If anyone has ever scolded you for responding "I'm good" to "how are you?" — they're wrong. The myth — that you should really say "I'm well" — relies on the idea that modifying a verb requires an ...

A literacy lesson plan from a group partly funded by the Government of Canada uses a partisan example to teach people how to conjugate the verb "to vote." The lesson plan, written by Saskatchewan ...

Is Sports Writing Really About Technical Writing? John Louie Ramos Jun 4, 2018 Subject, transitive verb, direct object, dangling modifiers, fragment, clause, complete thought, narrative exposition, ...

In English grammar, clauses and phrases play crucial roles in sentence structure and meaning. Here, we'll explore the differences between noun clauses and noun phrases, as well as adjective clauses ...

Recall that arguments are not ordered in proposition structure. Lexical insertion does not assign the order and the exact position of an argument. Syntax established the word order of complement to ...