As a teacher, identifying parts of speech can seem like a daunting task. Yet, teaching or reviewing the concept of linking verbs, predicate adjectives, and predicate nouns is important in order to ...
1 School of Foreign Studies, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China 2 Center for Language Cognition and Assessment, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China Distinct from nominal ...
How well do you know your verbs? You may know verbs as the part of speech that describe an action, but linking verbs play a different role in a sentence. Like helping verbs, linking verbs are a type ...
Let's not forget the power of the complete sentence and the humble predicate verb — the "motor" of a good sentence An analysis out of Washington suggests that some top military brass have had it with ...
ABSTRACT: The construction “N1 you V guo N2” pervasively visible in China has demonstrated its typical cog-pragmatic features. It is pointed out that “you” and “guo” in this construction are the ...
1 Ewha Womans University, Republic of Korea 2 Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, College of Public Health, Temple University, United States Introduction. Many studies have focused on ...
Grammatical errors and poor sentence structure can tear your writing apart. You’ll only need a subject and predicate to form a complete sentence but adding other parts to your sentence can give it ...
Distinct from nominal metaphors, predicate metaphors entail metaphorical abstraction from concrete verbs, which generally involve more action and stronger motor simulation than nouns. It remains ...
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