By Nouns, Word order

No - this site is specifically about marking written work. An 'F' paper is a fail. if you google 'faulty diction' you'll come across lots of sites concerned with proof reading, exam and essay marking etc. This is a teacher's correction code for students re: marking...

Hello Mr P I think the linguistic term for that is rather "topicalization". topicalization An interchange of position of adjacent objects in a sequence, especially a change in normal word order, such as the placement of a verb before its subject, as in "Never have I experienced such...

The sentence "We saw the man on the hill with a telescope" can be analyzed in the following way. The standard simple sentce structure -> Subject + verb + object + complement + Adverbial Qualification ( reference wren & martiin ) Here, the man becomes Object. The advective phrase is always...

Dear MrP, But isn't grammar that which we extract from all the contexts in which something is used? No, grammar is a set of rules which generate all possible utterances of the language and none of the illegal ones. In my opinion that is, I'm a generativist. I will even go further to...

korin said: >Over approximately 1500 years, the mammoth set of inflections of the Old English has virtually been discarded leaving only 's' (plural nouns, 3rd person singular verbs, and saxon genitive) in modern English. English has become a rather analytic lg, where most of the syntactic...

>I do not claim that the plural ending 's' will definitely disappear. However, looking at the direction the English language is heading, the disappearance would come as no surprise. >Over approximately 1500 years, the mammoth set of inflections of the Old English has virtually been discarded...

I do not claim that the plural ending 's' will definitely disappear. However, looking at the direction the English language is heading, the disappearance would come as no surprise. Over approximately 1500 years, the mammoth set of inflections of the Old English has virtually been discarded...

In addition to the fabulous information given so far, please note, every word in a sentence has a form (what it looks like) and a function (what it does). Let's look at "up", its form and function in this sentence: 1. We called him up. Given the word order, we know right away that "up" is not...

My guesses: (1) 'Queen' is the fifth noun, acting as an adjective; 'guests' is subject of the dependent clause. (2) Subject preceding verb is normal word order in an affirmative statement. (3) 'Answers' is the head-- it is modified by the other words. (4) In ( a ) 'book' is the direct...

Right, English used to ditinguish between subjects and objects by using a suffix such as Latin did, but gave up this tradition to follow an analytical structure (often: preposition + noun, noun here in a widened sense) that also required a fixed word order.