some confusing pairs of conjunctions

... the basic message of the sentence.) Goethe, who died in 1832, was a famous writer Our car, which is quite old, is still reliable I'd like you to meet our secretaries, some of whom are bilingual ... No preposition in 'Let's discuss it.' Prepositions after adjectives characteristic of independent of typical of We hope that the examples will help you find your way around in grammar books so ... relative clauses (They are essential to make the meaning of the sentence clear.) The woman who lives next door is very friendly I know a lot of people who live in Manchester The windows that were...

Ngày tải lên: 05/10/2012, 09:58

... type of tonic stress respectively on a piece of paper by using certain notations such as using capital letters For instance, ... notice of the punctuation marks for each sentence Second, they are asked to listen to it Third, they should be informed that this time they have to assign a tone type to each utterance on a piece of ... etc Summary In testing listening skills, written tests can introduce the testee to the context of the test material, and as such it triggers a better performance by the testee on the actual listening...

Ngày tải lên: 06/09/2013, 10:10

... based on Dialectal words the area Professional words of usage Slangs General words 2.2.4.1 Definition of Translation 2.2.4.2 Translation Methods Below are some of translation methods generalized ... semantic features of EDVs only in the Story of Ki u and their Data are analyzed on the basis of the knowledge of lexicology equivalents in the English translational versions by means of lexical and ... word-stock of the English language 2.2.1 Definition of Villains into three main layers: the literary layer, the neutral layer, and the 2.2.2 Theory of Expressions colloquial layer 2.2.2.1 Theory of Vietnamese...

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2013, 13:21

... features of Barack Obama’s speeches In addition, descriptive method is used to give a detailed description of some stylistic features of Obama’s speeches 3.2 DESCRIPTION OF SAMPLES All sources of data ... experience of how to write and understand a speech Therefore, my thesis “A Study of some linguistic features of Barack Obama’s English Speeches” is very important to be investigated 1.6 ORGANIZATION OF ... with regard to the function of metaphor in political discourse Darmon [1990] did a research into thematic and stylistic analysis of some inaugural addresses of presidents of the United States Browning,...

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2013, 13:21

... result of them was the growing of colloquialism in practice as well as in literature What is more, the appearing of a great deal of books of travel and traveling was one of the favorite topics of ... table of content Acknowledgement Part I: introduction I The rationale of choosing the thesis II The aims of the thesis III The objectives of the thesis IV The scope of the thesis V The methods of ... king of Brogdingnag, laughed at what he said about England: "of course I was angry He was talking about England- England the home of the Great, the Winner of Wars, the Jewel of Europe, Leader of...

Ngày tải lên: 14/12/2013, 00:41

... Phuong consider it as "the province of the closed class of modal verbs (must, can, will, may,etc) and treated as part of the grammar of English, but a large of number of "lexical" words (noun, adjectives, ... Table 2.7 The frequency of occurrences of cohesive devices in English Economics News 27 Table 2.8 The frequency of occurrence of epistemic modality seen from types of modal verbs ... discourse features of English Economics News by analyzing the frequency of occurences of grammatical cohesion as well as modality in those news Design of the Study The study will consist of three main...

Ngày tải lên: 18/12/2013, 10:08

... An analysis of the structure of English Sales Contracts Structure of the contract……………………………………………… 43 Cohesion…………………………………………………………… …… 43 2.1 The realization of the two aspect of coherence…………………… ... understanding of this issue - Most importantly, identifying some implications in the hope of helping learners of English to improve their competence to analyse a contract and make good contracts Scope of ... study Within the scope of this thesis, a full catalogue of discourse features of English is too great a subject to deal with Going deep into the analysis of the minor details of the matter seems...

Ngày tải lên: 20/12/2013, 18:26

... F S T representation of the parses of sentences from a range of corpora (ATIS, IBM-Manual and Alvey) The results of these experiments provide a measure of repetitiveness of patterns as described ... repeated any number of times, or possibly omitted altogether, to get parses of sentences that differ from the sentences of the training corpus only in the number of modifiers This type of generalization ... we present the "stapler" in some detail The results of some of the experiments based on our approach are presented in Section In Section we discuss the relevance of our approach to other lexicalized...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 22:20

... heat denaturation and aggregation of BLG upon heat treatment may hide putative sites of attack from the action of proteases, therefore leaving intact some regions of the protein that may be relevant ... aliquots of concentrated solutions of the appropriate proteolytic enzyme were added at °C to mL of BLG (2.5 mgÆmL)1 in 50 mM phosphate buffer, pH 6.8) to a final mass ratio enzyme/BLG of : 20 or of ... Proteolysis of heat-unfolded b-lactoglobulin (Eur J Biochem 269) 1365 Fig RP-HPLC analysis of the products obtained upon enzymatic digestion of BLG at 60 °C Proper volumes of concentrated solutions of...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 15:20

... important players in their field of activity: Unicer has the major share of the beer market in Portugal and ACPB is a very well known producer of wine with appellation of origin Vinho Verde BREWERY ... fermentation of fresh grapes, whether or not crushed, or of grape must Producing wine requires the implementation of a biotechnological sequence involving several unit operations Although some few ... cubic meter of produced wine (2004) Losses of water by evaporation were neglected Yeasts cannot be used in animal dietary because they have high contents of polyphenols and may contain some residues...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 05:20

... identified Lymnaea neurons This is of interest in light of the recent cloning of a set of nAChR subunits from this species and electrophysiological analysis of several of them expressed in Xenopus ... dash-dot line) and main isomer of [S12D]GI (4, dash line) in water Inset: CD spectra of two [S12D]GI isomers – the main (4, solid line) and minor (4a, dash line) ones minor isomers of both [S12D]GI and ... complexes with an a–c interface of the receptor because the structure of some fragments of the d subunit still remains unsolved and the reliability of the complexes of ligands bound to the a–d interface...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 13:20

... of VP Ellipsis Proceedings ESCOL 1991 Baltimore, MD Irene Heim The Semantics of Definite and Indefinite Noun Phrases Ph.D thesis, University of Massachusetts-Amherst 1981 Hans Kamp A Theory of ... separate VP's This presents a problem for most accounts of VP ellipsis, since there is no syntactic object consisting of the combination of two separate VP's If antecedents are stored in the discourse ... Bonnie Webber, p.c The meaning of the elided VP ("none do") is, I take it, "none move forwards or move back wards in time" So the antecedent must consists of a combination of properties associated...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 08:20

... definition of κ(q) The conclusion of Lemma is now apparent from (6.13) The proof of Lemma 10 The conclusion of part (i) of Lemma 10 is a special case of Theorem of Br¨ dern and Wooley [7] The proof of ... 2.1 of Wooley [24], where a proof is described in the special case l = that readily extends to the present situation As an alternative, we direct the reader to the method of proof of Lemma 5.1 of ... postpone the proof of these two lemmas to the end of this section, initiating at once the estimation of the contribution of the set E within the mean value on the left-hand side of (6.1) Suppose...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 20:21

... y extension s" of a In situation semantics the meanlng of a sentence is a relation between various types of situations, types of discourse situations on the one har~ and types of " s u b j e ... not go through any sort of flrst-order "logical form", but operates off of the syntactic rules of English The fragment incorporates both referential and attributive uses of descriptions I f(X) ... world semantics, the meaning of a word llke "talk' is a total function from the set I of ALL possible worlds to the set of ALL TOTAL f u n c t i o n s from the set A of ALL possible individuals...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 01:21

... give some idea of the degree of freedom The language in in TABLE I is the extreme case where the a's, b's,and c's can he any order, as long as the number of a's =the number of b's=the number of ... transformations essentially carry out the checking of the dependencies The PiG's and LFG's share this aspect 'of TG,i.e., tee.talon builds up a set of structures, some of w h i c h are filtered out by transfotn~atlons ... terminal string of some initial tree and wg,l ~ i ~ m, the terminal string of the [-th auxiliary tree, assuming t h e r e are m auxiliary trees Thus w is a linear combination of the length of the terminal...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 01:21

... intertwined by κ and ∂κ CORNUCOPIA OF ISOSPECTRAL PAIRS 351 By proving also the appropriate nonisometry theorems, these examples provide a wide range of isospectral pairs of metrics constructed on spheres ... the nonisometry This tensor field vanishes exactly at the X-vectors of the form (X (a) , 0) or (0, X (b) ), proving the nonisometry of the considered manifolds If ab = 0, the group of isometries ... spheres of the 2-point (a+b,0) homogeneous spaces SH3 have transitive groups of isometries whose unit component is isomorphic to Sp((a + b + 1))Sp(1) This is the third proof of the nonisometry...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 07:20

... The share of health PaCa Ly Taking the time derivative of the log of this ratio, we find that the rate of change in this share equals the rate of change of P L , which is the rate of population ... required, and often these reforms will involve some degree of privatization or move to a funded system of some sort In other countries, there are plans to introduce new public pension systems of one ... assets of the elderly which will later be returned to the adult children as bequests 14 SOME TOPICS OF DEBATE IN THE FIELD A LABOR INCOME, SAVINGS AND INVESTMENT Most analyses of the economics of...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 07:20

... Parliament The North-west of England data is used with kind permission of Prof C Dowrick, University of Liverpool Page of 11 (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of Life Outcomes ... Anxiety In support of the construct validity of the Chinese version there was a number of expected relationships with gender, age and dental attendance Although this set of results was somewhat gratifying ... examining the issues of experience of dental treatment and the development and maintenance of dental anxiety Conclusion Limitations of this study include a cautionary note on our adoption of directional...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... http://www.advancesindifferenceequations.com/content/2011/1/60 Page of 14 Figure The submatrix of the function HC(k, n, r) that covers one field of real degrees of freedom (k, n Î ℜ) The highlighted are the coordinates of six characteristic ... of the degree of freedom n0 ≈ 0,46163 for n Î N, for the degree of freedom k = and the common half-edge 2.8 The higher-order derivatives of the HC function on the k argument The derivatives of ... http://www.advancesindifferenceequations.com/content/2011/1/60 Page 13 of 14 Here, we include a degree of freedom as υ = n + k - Example 2.8 For the HC HC(k, n, r), some values of the derivative function of the argument n, are ch4(0,...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 21:20