The Teacher’s Grammar BookSecond Edition phần 5 ppt

... sick friend in the morning. The verb visit is not tensed in this sentence; instead, the tense marker is attached to the modal. But although the modal is in the past tense, the action is to occur in the ... comma before the conjunction joining the last item; PHRASE STRUCTURE GRAMMAR 113 ments: It places them in parentheses. With these factors in mind, we can adjust the...

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... ascertaining whether a theory of universal grammar correctly describes the initial state of the language faculty—or even whether there is a language faculty as described in the MP. Moreover, the MP focuses ... transformation. (The crossword func - tions as the subject in the second sentence but as an object in the first.) In the first sentence, the focus is on the proce...

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... the expressions of the language. The theory of a particular language is its grammar. The theory of languages and the expressions they gener- ate is Universal Grammar (UG); UG is a theory of the ... relative pronoun, the results would be ungrammatical: 57 b. *Buggsy bought the house the house had belonged to Liberace. 58 b. *The boy played the blues the boy drove t...

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... English grammar than their teach - ers, but they nevertheless speak and write English quite poorly, on the whole. Their learned—rather than acquired—knowledge of English grammar does not help them ... structure at all. Are they really part of grammar? Deciding the content of grammar instruc - tion is not a simple matter, and the new teacher’s task is further complicated by the...

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... English 2 45 Chicano English Grammar 246 Chicano English in the Classroom 248 Spanglish 250 Code Switching 250 References 254 Index 2 65 CONTENTS vii The Teacher’s Grammar Book Second Edition For ... that their texts became the basis for grammar study throughout the Middle Ages. One of the foremost teachers during the Roman period was Quintilian (circa 35 95 AD),...

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... 10 the Church, 7 the five offices, 4 the French Revolution, 13 the reason is because and grammaticality, 139 the Renaissance, 10 Thernstrom & Thernstrom, 241 the writer as artist, 29 theory ... repeated as a noun at the end of the sentence, as in: • He hit the ball, Fred. • She gave me a ride, my mother. Spanish also uses the double negative, which is reflected in the...

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... expressions they know. Then have them re - cord additional examples of slang outside of class, preferably off campus, perhaps at a mall. Allow them to discuss their observations and compare them to the ... nonstandard English was the norm and the Standard English of the schools the exception. Having established their careers and no longer fac - ing the compulsion to be insiders, t...

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... illustrations: 1. The book was on the table. 2. The book was under the table. two structures coexist in the network owing to the fact that they both appear in speech. Whether a person uses one or the other ... three-car garage. 4. The House approved the minimum-wage bill. 5. The Louvre and the National house many of the world’s great treasures. The meaning of the...

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... indi- vidual words/phrases: 57 . Fritz and Macarena joined the party. 58 . Buggsy drove to the casino and bet $100 on the upcoming race. In sentence 57 , the conjunction joins the two nouns, Fritz and ... good: 50 . ?I did good on the test. 51 . ?You played good. Standard usage is quite clear on this point—well is strongly preferred in these instances, as in sentences 50 a a...

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... that the two men washed their own faces, only that they washed someone other than themselves. To indicate the first meaning, the pronoun their must be plural to include Fritz and Fred, and the noun ... because they apply the knowledge directly to the problem, they retain it longer. In this respect, the approach is similar to what we see in sports and other hands-on tasks. The...

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