enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Conjunction (grammar) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjunction_(grammar)

   In grammar, a conjunction (abbreviated CONJ or CNJ) is a part of speech that connects words, phrases, or clauses, which are called its conjuncts. That description is vague enough to overlap with those of other parts of speech because what constitutes a "conjunction" must be defined for each language. In English, a given word may have several ...

3. Sentence clause structure - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence_clause_structure

   A sentence consisting of at least one dependent clause and at least two independent clauses may be called a complex-compound sentence or compound-complex sentence. Sentence 1 is an example of a simple sentence. Sentence 2 is compound because "so" is considered a coordinating conjunction in English, and sentence 3 is complex. Sentence 4 is ...

4. Common English usage misconceptions - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_English_usage...

   Fowler's Modern English Usage says, "One of the most persistent myths about prepositions in English is that they properly belong before the word or words they govern and should not be placed at the end of a clause or sentence." [8] Preposition stranding was in use long before any English speakers considered it incorrect.

5. English subordinators - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_subordinators

   v. t. e. English subordinators (also known as subordinating conjunctions or complementizers) are words that mostly mark clauses as subordinate. The subordinators form a closed lexical category in English and include whether; and, in some of their uses, if, that, for, arguably to, and marginally how. Syntactically, they appear immediately before ...

6. Conjunctive grammar - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjunctive_grammar

   A conjunctive grammar is defined by the 4- tuple where. is called a nonterminal symbol or a variable. Each variable represents a different type of phrase or clause in the sentence. Variables are also sometimes called syntactic categories. Σ is a finite set of terminal s, disjoint from V, which make up the actual content of the sentence. The ...

7. Sentence (linguistics) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence_(linguistics)

   In linguistics and grammar, a sentence is a linguistic expression, such as the English example " The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." In traditional grammar, it is typically defined as a string of words that expresses a complete thought, or as a unit consisting of a subject and predicate. In non-functional linguistics it is typically ...

8. Coordination (linguistics) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordination_(linguistics)

   In linguistics, coordination is a complex syntactic structure that links together two or more elements; these elements are called conjuncts or conjoins. The presence of coordination is often signaled by the appearance of a coordinator (coordinating conjunction), e.g. and, or, but (in English). The totality of coordinator (s) and conjuncts ...

9. James while John had had had had had had had had had had had ...

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_while_John_had_had...

   The sentence can be given as a grammatical puzzle [7] [8] [9] or an item on a test, [1] [2] for which one must find the proper punctuation to give it meaning. Hans Reichenbach used a similar sentence ("John where Jack had...") in his 1947 book Elements of Symbolic Logic as an exercise for the reader, to illustrate the different levels of language, namely object language and metalanguage.