“The Claremont Hotel gym on 3rd street is reserved for NFL players playing in the Super Bowl.” When it comes to difficult and complex sentences similar to the preceding one, it is often difficult for me to distinguish whether a prepositional phrase is acting as an adverb or an adjective. In the introductory sentence, it is challenging for me to tell whether the prepositional phrase “in the Super Bowl” acts as an adverb of place for the verb “playing” or as an adjective for the noun phrase “NFL players”. Furthermore, complex sentences can make identify the function of the prepositional phrase even more challenging by adding multiple noun phrases and verb phrases in the subject and predicate of the sentence. In these situations, it is often difficult for me to distinguish whether the prepositional phrase functions as an adjective embedded in a matrix noun phrase or an adverb embedded in a verb phrase.
Another example that is difficult for me to understand is the function of a prepositional phrase directly following a noun phrase. “Marco Polo may not have reached China on his Asia trip.” In this sentence, “China” acts as the noun phrase direct object and “on his Asia trip” is the prepositional phrase directly following it. The prepositional phrase is acting as an adverb of place in this sentence, although I could easily confuse it for acting as an adjective describing a noun phrase head.
Prepositional phrase, functioning as adjectives and adverbs, are embedded in noun phrases and verb phrases. The key to distinguishing whether a prepositional phrase functions as an adjective or adverb is determining what type of phrase it is embedded in. Prepositional phrases function as adjectives are embedded in matrix noun phrases. ...
... middle of paper ...
... adverb of place.
Before summarizing everything that we have learned, we should take note that although “in the Super Bowl” is part of the noun phrase “NFL players playing in the Super Bowl”, it is not directly embedded in that noun phrase and therefore, cannot act as an adjective for the head of that noun phrase.
Constituency: Whether a noun phrase is directly embedded in a noun or verb phrase determines if it acts as an adjective or an adverb
Summarizing everything we have learned, prepositional phrases directly embedded in a noun phrase function as adjectives describe the noun phrase. These prepositional phrases acting as adjectives derive from relative clauses from which the subject relative pronoun and the verb “be” have been deleted. Prepositional phrases acting as adverbs are directly embedded in the verb phrase and reveals information about the sentence.
5. The use of short sentences in paragraph 7 creates an intense effect that are simple but strong enough to show Alexie’s determination.The consistent and straightforward arrangement of these short sentences can easily make the audiences feel Alexie’s efforts of studying hard as an intelligent Indian. Also, these short sentences created an confident and steadfast tone, emphasizing Alexie’s determination in reading and surviving.
In[a] the novel, Trouble, Henry respects Chay nearing the end of their adventure, because he learned about his tragic life in Cambodia. Henry had been an ordinary boy with the “Great Franklin Smith”, living his own ordinary life, until a tragic car accident ruins all of the Smiths plans for the future. Now Henry and Sanborn travel to Mt. Katahdin for Franklin, but Henry loathes Chay for killing Franklin. To avenge Franklin’s death, their epic adventure to Katahdin brings, troubles, hardships, origins, and anger between all members, making a unique journey for all.
Only when you correctly use these with correct punctuation, do they qualify for their specific group. The first sentence type is a simple sentence, this must contain a subject, a verb, and a complete thought; this makes it the same as an independent clause. Within a simple sentence, either you can have a compound subject or compound verb; more than two subjects and verbs, or you can have a verb phrase; the main verb plus a helping verb. The second sentence type is a compound sentence. A compound sentence has two or more Independent clauses. The three ways you have to separate these independent clauses are with: 1) A comma plus a coordinating conjunction – also known as FANBOYS. 2) One can add a semi-colon between the two independent clauses. 3) A semi-colon plus a conjunctive adverb plus a comma – the author refers to this as the one, two, three combo. The three rules when you use the semi-colon are to: 1) only use it to separate two or more independent clauses. 2) Those two independent clauses must have a clear and obvious relationship. 3) It is rarely used - ± 2-3 types per page. Also, note that when you make use of a conjunctive adverb, you must follow it with a comma. The third sentence type is a complex sentence, defined as one or more dependent clause(s) plus only one independent clause. The rule added to this is, that if the dependent clause are at the beginning of the sentence, then
June just yelled at the Glorious Elector of The Republic, to be a better politician. She brought up the topic of separating emotions of going into war, “You have to make decisions that break your heart, that hurt and deceive, that no one else will understand. It’s your duty”. That isn’t always the case, where you have to rise up the courage to tell someone in power, that they are doing their job wrong and even if they are living their life wrong. June Iparis explains how to use justification “When emotion fails, logic will save you.” (177)
Syntax is simply described by the arrangement of words; more complexly it is also made up of the Primary and Secondary structures of language. Primary Structures often consist of “an initial noun phrase, a verb phrase, and a final noun phrase”; while secondary structures consist of basically everything else in the sentence (all of the extra words used to make language more vivid and colorful). While looking at the second sentence of this passage Hawthorne writes, “It was carelessly, at first, like a man chiefly accustomed to look inward, and to whom external matters are of little value and import unless they bear relation to something within his mind.”
English 101 is one of the most common college courses in the world. When I enrolled in the class, I was bothered that I would have spend forty hours in a freshman writing class; along with at least another forty hours throughout the semester writing for the class. What surprised me, was that when I began writing my essays I was not annoyed or bothered; I actually enjoyed the assignments. Most importantly, throughout the course of the semester, I have become a better writer and have ultimately met the course goals of English 101.
The transitional phrases lead the reader into the next paragraph by maintaining their attention with concepts from the previous one.
From what I have discussed above, I assert that a phrase is not only composed by two subphrases sometimes. In addition, a group of subphrases form a higher hierarchical phrase should has the functional utilities. The functional utilities could be accorded with either the process of the development of the music, or echo of two portions. Last but not least, the composer through elaboration, rhythmic diminishing, and overlapping to form phrases to a higher hierarchical phrase.
... from its most humble beginnings to now being the most viewed game and valued form of entertainment, the NFL and the Super Bowl have become a staple and reliable boost for our economy. Everyone knows about football and it is on pace to become, if not already, the most influential and dependent resource ever.
Throughout this semester we have had to write many types of essays. Although this is a college English class there is still room for improvement. I made much improvement during the semester of the class. I was able to identify my weaknesses. I learned how to make improvements to the areas I was having problems in. Although each essay we did was different I was able to begin with one essay and throughout the semester turn it into two other essays. I was able to change my style of writing to fit the type of audience I was working with. I will continue to work on my writing and keep improving it.
Sentence level: the task at this level is limited to the sentences and their expressed opinions this level of analysis is very close to subjectivity classification and. specifically, this level determines whether each sentence expresses a positive, negative or neutral opinion.
In the fourth paragraph the use of additive conjunction appears through the use of “also” and “and”. In the fifth paragraph the additive conjunction is expressed by the use of “and” and the temporal conjunction is expressed by the use of “before”. The additive conjunction “and” is used in the sixth paragraph. In the seventh paragraph the use of causal conjunction involves the use of “by” and the additive conjunction involves the use of “and” and “also”. In the eighth paragraph the additive conjunction is expressed through the use of “and” and the causal conjunction is expressed through the use of “by”. In the ninth paragraph the adversative conjunction is expressed by using
An example of descriptive grammar can be explained using the following sentence. "We have unfinished business to take care of, He and I. Descriptivist 's will accept this form of the sentence, as well as the form "He and I have unfinished business to take care of" Prescriptive grammar is a set of rules for using language that are taught, or enforced, so that people will use the language in a particular way. Prescriptivists will often include schoolteachers, copyeditors, and others charged with correcting people 's use of the language. Prescriptivists start with the assumption that there is one "correct" way to use the language, and many incorrect ways. The "correct" version is actually the language 's prestige dialect, especially its written version--for example, Standard American English. To oversimplify a bit, the "prestige dialect" of a language is generally the one used by educated people in the big cities. There are different examples of the rules used by Prescriptivists. The most common rules used are to never use a double negative, never end a sentence in a preposition, and never split infinitives. While descriptive and prescriptive grammar may have their differences they share similarities in the fact that they influence how people use their choice of grammar as well as
The English language has two voices--the active and the passive. The active voice and the passive voice differ in that a passive verb phrase has an additional auxiliary BE followed by an EN participle. In a sense, the English passive is "inflexible" when compared to the passive formation of other languages. For example, some languages use word order, verb inflections, and impersonal constructions to form the passive voice. In their book, The Grammar Book: ESL/EFL Teacher's Course, Celce-Murcia and Larson-Freeman demonstrate how the Bantu passive voice differs from the English passive voice. "Kingarwanda, a Bantu language, can make even a locative phrase the subject of the passive as in On the bus was eaten a sandwich by John, which would not be acceptable in English" (221). Furthermore, topicalization is another "grammar issue" which differs from language to language. In the Kingarwanda sentence, On the bus was eaten a sandwich by John, the center of attention or the topic of the sentence is the phrase On the bus. Since languages have different rules which govern topicalization, several languages may not accept On the bus as the topic of a sentence. In the book, Clear and Coherent Prose, William Vande Kopple discusses topicalization in the English language. Kopple states that the English language uses topicalizers to "fulfill special functions in essays" (41). Several of these functions are: focusing the reader's attention on a specific part of a sentence, expressing given or "old" information at the beginning of a sentence, marking changes in topics, and lastly, setting contrasts between one topic and another (41).
Syntax is the study of how words are combined to create phrases and causes in the sentences of a specific language (Freeman and Freeman, 2014). Syntax helps us to make clear sentences that “sound right,” where words, phrases, and clauses each serve their function and are correctly ordered to form and communicate a complete sentence with meaning. The rules of syntax combine words into phrases and phrases into sentences. Not only does it focus on the correct word order for a language, but it also helps show the relationship between the meaning of a group of words. Without proper syntax, a sentence can be meaningless. It is key to understand that while every language does have certain syntax, the syntax does vary from language to language. It