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    Noun Phrases Essay

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    Noun Phrases in English Truth be told, there are a large number of definitions about phrases. Broadly speaking, Burton-Roberts (1986) states that a group of words used as a component in the structure of sentences is called a phrase. According to George Yule (2006), a noun phrase is a phrase in which the main word is a noun functioning as a subject or an object. We can understand the definition of noun phrases more clearly with the following examples : E.g. The man upstair Five little ducks The

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    Štifnerová The purpose of this essay is firstly to show the word order of a noun phrase (NP) and how the head noun of the NP can be post- and pre-modified, and secondly to focus on meaning of some examples of English anaphors and the distinctions between them and their Czech translations. The first part is going to aim on the internal structure of NPs. Complex nominal phrase consists of the pre-modifying elements, the head noun and the post-modifying elements. The so-called pre-modifiers can be divided

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    Concrete Nouns

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    Concrete nouns can be physically touched and detailed. Concrete nouns can also have different meanings to anyone that reads them, looks at them, or touches them. A story is created by a series of concrete nouns coming together.  First, my favorite concreate noun is heart. Heart is my favorite because the heart feels love or feels broken. The heart is also what you would use for passion and most people would listen to their heart to decide whether their action or emotion is right or wrong.  Secondly

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    Noun Clauses

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    Noun Clauses A NOUN CLAUSE is a group of words with a subject and a verb WHO WHEN WHOM You can recognize a noun clause by one of the relative pronouns or adverbs that begin the clause A noun clause consists of three components:  A relative pronoun or adverb  A subject  A verb Noun clauses function like Uses of Noun Clauses  After some verbs and adjectives  To include a question in a statement (embedded questions)  To report what someone has said or asked Noun clauses

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    test Hypothesis 2 which was proposed for this study. Hypothesis 2 denotes that, in the learner’s corpus, as compared to the reference corpora, the production rate of the articles is lower in the NPs which have an adjective preceding a noun (Art + Adj + N) than noun phrases which have no preceding adjective (Art + N), The procedure of the analysis is to compare per million normalized frequency of the three types of the bigram syntactic sequences and the three types of the trigram syntactic sequences

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    of speech by and large discarded in favor of the term word clause or syntactic category. Part of speech is a term in Traditional Grammar for one of the Eight main categories into which words are classified according to their functions in sentences: Noun, Pronoun, Verb, Adverb, Adjective, Preposition , Conjunction , Interjection. Though some Traditional Grammar have treated Articles (the, a, an) as a distinct part of

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    1. Tenuous- very weak or slight Noun The already tenuous relationship was destroyed when she found out he was cheating on her. 2. Recurring- occur again, periodically, or repeatedly Verb Once break ended, Stan had a recurring memory of his time on the beach. 3. Interminably- incapable of being terminated; unending: Adjective It seemed like the rain was interminably falling during the hurricane. 4. Immutable- unchanging over time or unable to be changed. Adjective When I told the secretary

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    Vocabulary Bingo Strategy 1 Age group: ● k-2 Activity type :● Individuals ● 3-5 ● Pairs Strand: Listening Objective: Students will listen for a word then cover the correct picture when playing vocabulary bingo. Overview The vocabulary bingo strategy consist of bingo cards that has 25 squares with 24 vocabulary words and one free space. The teacher reads definition and students cover the word they believe matches the definition.

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    Verb and Gerund

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    describe all of them. The Gerund is the non-finite form of the verb which combines the properties of the verb with those of the noun. The gerund serves as the verbal name of a process, but its substantive quality is more strongly pronounced than that of the infinitive. Namely, as different from the infinitive, and similar to the noun, the gerund can be modified by a noun in the possessive case or its pronominal equivalents (expressing the subject of the verbal process), and it can be used with prepositions

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    Lesson Plans

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    Semi-Detailed Lesson Plan English-1 I- Objectives: At the end of 40 minutes 38 out of 42 First year students of section Sampaguita will be able to:                   a.) define the exact meaning of verb,                   b.) identify the verb with the help of cut out pictures, and                  c.) determine the kinds of verbs. II- Subject Matter:              Topic: Recognizing Verbs              Reference: Smart English Book              Author: Josefina G. San Miguel

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