enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Epistemic modality - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemic_modality

   modal verbs (e.g., English: may, might, must; German: sollen: Er soll ein guter Schachspieler sein "He is said to be a good chess player"), particular grammatical moods on verbs, the epistemic moods, or; a specific grammatical element, such as an affix (Tuyuca: -hīyi "reasonable to assume") or particle; or (b) non-grammatically (often ...

3. Subject–auxiliary inversion - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subject–auxiliary_inversion

   These are described in the article on the subject–verb inversion in English. Further, inversion was not limited to auxiliaries in older forms of English. Examples of non-auxiliary verbs being used in typical subject–auxiliary inversion patterns may be found in older texts or in English written in an archaic style:

4. English grammar - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_grammar

   The first published English grammar was a Pamphlet for Grammar of 1586, written by William Bullokar with the stated goal of demonstrating that English was just as rule-based as Latin. Bullokar's grammar was faithfully modeled on William Lily's Latin grammar, Rudimenta Grammatices (1534), used in English schools at that time, having been ...

5. The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cambridge_Grammar_of...

   Lori Morris particularly appreciated the first chapter ("Preliminaries"), the book's canonical–non-canonical distinction (for its help in structuring the content of the book), the treatment of number, its "excellent, accessible look at sentence structure, semantics, and pragmatics", and the treatment of information packaging.

6. Gapping - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gapping

   Canonical examples of gapping have a true "gap", which means the elided material appears medially in the non-initial conjuncts, with a remnant to its left and a remnant to its right. The elided material of gapping in all the examples below is indicated with subscripts and a smaller font:

7. Topicalization - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topicalization

   Tree a. shows the canonical word order again, and tree b. illustrates what is known as the movement or copying analysis. The topicalized expression is first generated in its canonical position but is then copied to the front of the sentence, the original then being deleted.