The Supporting English Acquisition web site consists of modules that address a variety of problematic English structures and processes. Most of these modules consist of the following components: ...
In English, our sentences usually operate using a similar pattern: subject, verb, then object. The nice part about this type of structure is that it lets your reader easily know who is doing the ...
An "infinitive" in English is a verb preceded by the word to, as in to study. Many English verbs can be followed by a grammatical structure that contains an infinitive and is known as an "infinitive ...
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This abridged version of Radford's Minimalist Syntax: Exploring the Structure of English offers a concise, accessible introduction to current syntactic theory, drawing on the key concepts of Chomsky's ...
This book is an introduction to the history and structure of the English lexicon using linguistic concepts. Or, it is an introduction to linguistics through the medium of the English lexicon. Or, it ...
Narrative structure in fiction refers to how a story is ordered and shaped. Cliff-hangers, plot twists, dramatic beginnings, endings which explain absolutely everything, stories that start (or end ...