... knowledge in a good piece of writing There is an element of truth inthe fact that grammar rules help to generate sentences However, if the writer has no real understanding of the lexis of the English ... leaving no scope for misunderstanding or interpretation of any type This makes an enormous demand on the writer indeed So in his treatment of the subject assigned, the writer has to draw on the ... an essay, a term paper, etc Next comes the skill of much importance here, the skill of paragraphing After a brainstorming session inthe planning stage, the writer may have hit on many ideas and...
... timings in real time, if the timing of the output in logical time of these two are the same, FORMULA can minimize the difference inthe output timing of these two events in real time when these ... In discrete-event simulation, only the points in time at which the state of thesystem changes are represented In other words thesystem is modelled as a series of events, that is, instants in ... to the external hardware, since these output events are buffered within thesystem and sent out together when real time catches up with the time stamp Instead, even when the events from the input...
... increase the information load of the nominal group by nominalizing the dynamic process and putting several epithets before the head of the nominal group, and thus succeeds in condensing the information ... to the experiential meaning, the logical metaphor to the textual meaning and the interpersonal metaphor to the interpersonal meaning 4.1 Congruent realization of meaning An investigation into the ... ideational meaning but the textual meaning An investigation into the role of metaphor in description of emotion in poetic discourse 13 There is the third kind of meaning called interpersonal meaning which...
... can use the things in part A Use the phrases inthe box and your own ideas Check email listen to music Find definitions make calculations Find directions make phone calls record appointments ... have any of the products? Is there anything you don’t like about them? Activity Pair work Can you identify these things? Match the names with the pictures Then discuss the questions below a Chopstick ... Think about the products in part B Discuss these questions What new features the products have nowadays? Are the latest products all improvements over the older versions? Do you have any of the...
... All the information for the operational plan can be extracted from the original planning process This is mostly true for the other plans as well The real task becomes putting the information into ... to tasks These tasks are the operational end of the “what” you have to do, the end of the action chain They are at the opposite end of the goal Be careful in defining tasks because they can overwhelm ... This means they are doing more than just building houses Both executives are involved and have a genuine interest in how their company fits into the social fabric of the community They spend...
... customer-intimate organization would respond to certain business situations My intent was to tailor specific training language and training situations to bring the strategic plan and the training into ... checking on the faucet installation is what creates the long-term relationships between the business and the customer Customerintimate organizations are clever They know their market is the high-income ... within the organization came the chant to become more customer-intimate Naturally, the consultants picked up the rhythm and carried it right into the strategic planning meeting My team joined the...
... For instance, the fact that the two tokens of subordinating conjunction dass ‘that’ in Fig carry the same tag, is interpreted by ELLEIPO as indicating lexical identity In combination with other ... elliptical output strings shown in (10c) In (11), Gapping combines with BCR inthe subordinate clauses The fact that here, in contrast with (10), the subordinate clauses not start their own superclauses, ... subset of the terminal leaves of the input tree has been marked for elision Inthe examples below, this is indicated by subscript marks E.g., the subscript “g” attached to esst ‘eat’ in (9b) indicates...
... The trades they make are apparently “their” plays They often have their own spin on traditional setups You can see other traders asking them what they and how they it They often share their “secrets” ... In my opinion, most of the disagreement surrounding intuition’s role in trading arises from misunderstanding Many think of intuition as of some kind of sudden revelation about the future They expect ... Trading System or by applying your own spin on something that already exists What we describe is ours We have taught many traders this system They use our system either in its pure form or in their...
... express The original meaning of a form in a language is normally called “denotation” With respect to words (lexical terms), the primary (original) meaning is the meaning that we can find in a dictionary ... Table Horse Boy The semantic roles are properties that the noun phrases have according to their meaning inside the sentence The semantic roles are: Agent Theme Semantic roles Instrument Experiencer ... Experiencer Location Source Goal The boy kicked a ball In that sentence, the person who executes the action is called AGENT The agent in that sentence is the boy The THEME is the object or person that...
... peaks inthe seventeenth and eighteenth centuries but decreases again inthe nineteenth century, as Levin (2001: 36) reports Inthe twentieth century, AmE is clearly ahead of BrE inthe increasing ... on the individual within the group (plural) than on the collectivity of the group (singular) Due to the overall low frequency of collective nouns inthe sample, instances of verbal and pronominal ... the table below The difference inthe number of compound verbs listed inthe two dictionaries for AmE on the one hand and for BrE on the other is striking The COD and COLLINS contain roughly between...
... using an increased number of the intensifiers investigated inthe present study There are still other strategies the American system might use for coding different degrees, e.g instead of saying ... been consistent: in both cases, BrE seems to have taken the lead inthe establishment of the incoming variants Intriguingly, this results in BrE being less regular than AmE inthe case of lit/lighted, ... factors constraining the choice between the synthetic and analytic comparative forms lend themselves to a joint explanation in terms of processing efficiency inthe spirit of Hawkins (1994, 2003)...
... containing finite clauses.17 In BrE, all kinds of NPs involving finite complements represent a 17 The category of NPs involving finite clauses comprises eight cases in which the NP either contains ... analysis thus distinguishes between coordinated NPs as in (21), NPs involving PPs as in (22), NPs containing non-finite clauses as in (23) and NPs involving finite clauses as in (24) If more than ... notwithstanding and inthe main represents BrE The black columns illustrate the ratios of postpositional notwithstanding; the missing segments of the columns, adding up to 100 per cent, again represent the...
... 1960–93) There are no instances of non-finite complements following this collocation inthe EEPF corpus and only eleven examples inthe ECF corpus, all of them involving infinitives (with /in) -ing ... fought (against) the occupying troops in 1808 (7) They battled (against) the fire for two days (8) They protested (against) the invasion of Harikutu (9) She appealed (against) the decision Other verbs ... set out in (7a–d) (7) a b c d They got themselves into (great) trouble They got themselves in (great) trouble They got into (great) trouble They got in (great) trouble From the stylistic point of...
... However, the second infinitive is then in danger of becoming detached from the coordinated structure and of losing its infinitival character; rather than being an infinitive whose finite auxiliary ... not involving the verb stand obviously helps to delay the decline of gerundial complements (cf Table 11.3, lines 2a/b) These findings are in accordance with the informal character of the -ing ... use these soaps, but today they are frequently met with in AmE and beginning to appear in BrE Not surprisingly, the recent restructuring of the verb system has attracted the attention of linguists...
... contrasts inthe use of the subjunctive have been pinpointed in corpora reaching back to the nineteenth century To date, only the striking comeback of the subjunctive in mandative clauses has been inves¨ ... itself in twentieth-century AmE In BrE, the rise of the subjunctive is only in its infancy inthe late twentieth century This begs the question of what caused the surprising innovation, keeping in ... to modals in mandative clauses The literature on the subjunctive in English yields insights into a number of further factors impinging on the choice of the subjunctive and the competing verbal...
... inferred meanings in specific contexts (see section 5) On the one hand, adverbs of certainty can develop the meaning of uncertainty (a modal meaning) by inferencing since the hearer reads the speaker’s ... seen inthe migration to the US and the provenance of the immigrants As people speaking different dialects come together we can expect the linguistic input to be an influence resulting in a divergent ... extended meanings strengthening or weakening the force of the assertion There has been a great deal of discussion about the conversational heuristics, such as the Gricean maxims resulting in inferred...
... comparatives inthe remaining cases The driving forces behind the intercalation of for may be the horror aequi effect triggered by the comparative sequence as well as the need for an upbeat introducing the ... the infinitives in AmE are split, but only 10 per cent of the infinitives in BrE A similar situation obtains for other short adverbs that may intervene between to and the infinitive (cf Mittins, ... evolving into a complex interrogative in AmE (see the remark in Tottie 2002a: 164) Being an independent clause in its origin, it congealed into an interrogative introducing direct questions The...