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- Tue Oct 11, 2005 7:53 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: MA- should a good MA have no linguisitcs/lang analysis?
- Replies: 35
- Views: 11221
dullard by name...
Boy, this is fun! I've learned a great deal from following this thread. If I may, I'd like to ask a couple of questions: I've heard of pro-verbs (similar to pronouns but they represent verb phrases), could the to in Allen's example be such an animal? The examples I've seen all use to do , eg. I want...
- Sat Oct 01, 2005 5:07 am
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: The verb 'to be' auxiliary or copula?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4125
- Sat Oct 01, 2005 1:45 am
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: well
- Replies: 21
- Views: 5828
So what did the jury decide on the adjective/adverb thing? I'm not sure. But from another thread ( http://www.eslcafe.com/forums/teacher/viewtopic.php?t=3878 ) in this forum, I read: ...one criteria of whether the word is being used as verb or an adjective, can you put very or really infront of it,...
- Tue Sep 27, 2005 7:13 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: impacting??
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2045
People who try to fight against language change and involved in a painful and losing battle. <soapbox> You're right of course. However, in an era where English is poised to become the de facto universal second language, I feel the need to make some attempt to control the changes and to try to defin...
- Mon Sep 26, 2005 11:36 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: inversion w/i a clause
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2328
Then, why is it "United States history," not "the United States history?" My guess: the full name of the country is "the United Stated of America." So, "the United States History" is ambiguous, about which united states are we refering? Whereas "United States" is a common alias for "the United Stat...
- Mon Sep 26, 2005 5:33 am
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Help! I can't clearly explain this sentence...
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1789
Re: Help! I can't clearly explain this sentence...
I'll try! The number of people there who say they are overworked has risen from 28% in 2001 to 44% in 2004. The number of people (modifies "the number") [who are] there (modifies "the number of people") , [missing :)] <begin relative clause> who (relative pronoun, nominative case) say (present tense...
- Sun Sep 25, 2005 11:43 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: The verb 'to be' auxiliary or copula?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4125