As an English teacher, it can be challenging to help students identify the simple subject or predicate of a sentence. However, it is essential that students grasp these concepts as they are ...

Discipline of Linguistics, University of New England, Armidale, NSW, Australia To investigate the role of verbs in sentence production, the experiment reported here employed a simple sentence ...

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 ...

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 ...