The Teacher’s Grammar BookSecond Edition phần 3 ppsx

... confusing. Consider the following: 30 . Fred ate an apple. 31 . Fred ate. 32 . Macarena stopped the car. 33 . Macarena stopped. 34 . Fritz cooked the dinner. 72 CHAPTER 3 Nevertheless, it is important ... 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 Fr...

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... sentence 37 : 37 . I’m going to lie down for a nap. Part of the confusion seems to be related to the fact that lay is the past tense of lie, whereas laid is the past tense of lay. Then there is the ... speakers. These were instances in which the grammar drove the language to such an extent that the finished description did not reflect the way people used the language....

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... 238 influence of, 220, 2 23, 231 Sesame Street, 37 , 235 Shopen, 2 93 shrinking middle class, 231 , 232 signification, 2 83 simple adjective, 78 Singer, 33 6 slang, 32 5 Slobin, 237 , 238 Slobin & Welsh, ... 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...

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... troubling is that the argument for shifting to BEV as the dialect of instruction seems, inher - DIALECTS 241 8 Thernstrom and Thernstrom (20 03) argued that the primary source of these performancegaps ... beyond their initial time frame. For example, the word cool as a superlative dates back to the 1 930 s but nevertheless is used exten - sively in both the United States and Great...

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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 ... Consider the following sentences: 3. The house had a three-car garage. 4. The House approved the minimum-wage bill. 5. The Louvre and the National house many...

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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 ... 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 process of solving the crossword, w...

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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 ... Macarena hated the clothes which Fred arrived in. 70a. Macarena hated the clothes. Fred arrived in the clothes. 150 CHAPTER 4 5 Noam Chomsky and Grammar THE CHOMSKY REVOLUT...

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... comma before the conjunction joining the last item; PHRASE STRUCTURE GRAMMAR 1 13 ments: It places them in parentheses. With these factors in mind, we can adjust the earlier rules so that they describe ... 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 ten...

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... for the task ahead. In some instances, the content may not be current. In others, the course may fo - cus on what is called traditional grammar (the subject of chapter 3) rather than modern grammars, ... 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 gramma...

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... 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), who wrote The Education of the ... logic rather than faith, the label of “illogical” was damning—and still is. Grammar study, therefore, was believed to improve the quality of mind. THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMEN...

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