... analysis on English compound nouns
and Vietnamese equivalence.
2.1 Notion of English compound nouns
2.2 Vietnamese compound nouns
2.3 English compound nouns versus Vietnamese compound nouns: ... on English compound nounsand Vietnamese
equivalence:
2.4.1 Equivalence cases in English compound nounsand
Vietnamese equivalence.
2.4.2 Non-equivalence cases in English compound nounsand ... similarity between Englishand Vietnamese compound nouns is that
according to meaning, the Englishand Vietnamese also have idiomatic and non-
idiomatic compound nouns. Because:
In the English idiomatic...
... Mordor, and
he leaves secretly to continue it alone.
continued
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Lesson
10
Review of
Verbs, Nouns,
and Pronouns
REVIEW OF VERBS, NOUNS, AND PRONOUNS 61
To ... Rembrandt and Picasso were ___________________.
L.V.
6. Iceland and Greenland are ___________________.
L.V.
In the exercise you have just done, you used six complements to complete six linking
verbs. ... ADJ.
MODIFIES
She
helpful
has been
children
restless
grew
74 PARTS OF SPEECH
REVIEW OF VERBS, NOUNS, AND PRONOUNS 63
When to add
S
:
A. To most nouns: book—books. (See Rule 1, page 28.)
A–X. Exceptions to A:
man—men...
... cruel and intended to upset
someone.
17. If you are in a difficult or unpleasant situation and you decide to
cut and run, you pretend that the situation is not so difficult or
unpleasant and continue ... ________, and smashed the car through the agency's window.
And that, your honour, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, is my story. I hope you will take into
account my feelings and emotions ... tell me that I work hard and get good results, then you tell everyone else
that I'm lazy and incompetent! (
dishonest about your feelings, thoughts and beliefs, and tending to tell
people...
... he distinguishes nouns from
adjectives andverbs in that only the latter are intrinsically relational [i.e. pred-
icative], whereas he distinguishes verbs from adjectives andnouns in that they
tend ... Adjectives and adverbs 230
4.6 Are adjectives universal? 238
5Lexicalcategoriesandthenatureofthegrammar264
5.1 What has a category? 265
5.2 Categories and the architecture of the grammar 275
5.3 ... theory. They claim that verbsand prepositions take complements,
and nounsand adjectives do not; this is like Jackendoff’s +/−obj feature. They
also claim that adjectives and prepositions form...
...
Husband and wife are not connected in origin. Husband is a Scandinavian word
(Anglo-Saxon hūsbonda from Icelandic hús-bóndi, probably meaning house
dweller); wife was used in Old and Middle English ... books
and articles:—
Meiklejohn's " ;English Language," Longmans' "School Grammar, " West's " ;English
Grammar, " Bain's "Higher English Grammar& quot; ... Grammar& quot; and "Composition Grammar, " Sweet's
"Primer of Spoken English& quot; and "New English Grammar, " etc., Hodgson's "Errors in
the Use of English, "...
... elements and structures, and
of ESL/EFL learner needs and difficulties.
The overall aim of Grammar for Teachers is to make grammar accessible and
comprehensible. The text assumes no prior knowledge and ... Group A consists of nouns; Group
B consists of prepositions; Group C of adjectives; and Group D of verbs.
Andrea DeCapua
Grammar for Teachers
A Guide to American English for Native
and Non-Native ... Traditional English grammar, based on Latin, adopted terminology
and classification systems that often do not reflect the actual grammar of English.
However, in order to discuss the different elements and...