... using a short question.
`He's not in Japan now.' - `Oh, isn't he?'
`He gets free meals.' - `Does he?'
Note that questions like these are not always asked to get...
... happiness joy pride relief respect
activities:aid help sleep travel work
abstract ideas:beauty death freedom fun life luck
The donkey needed food and water.
Soon, they lost patience and sent me to ... greeted with shouts of joy.
All prices include travel to and from London.
We talked for hours about freedom.
See Unit 13 for information on count nouns.
2 Uncount nouns have only one form. They ... fashions are the same all over the world.
The initial stage of learning English is the same for many students.
You can use some adverbs in front of `the same as' or `the same'.
almostjustmuchroughly
exactlymore...
... joy pride relief respect
activities:aid help sleep travel work
abstract ideas:beauty death freedom fun life luck
The donkey needed food and water.
Soon, they lost patience and sent ... with shouts of joy.
All prices include travel to and from London.
We talked for hours about freedom.
See Unit 13 for information on count nouns.
2 Uncount nouns have only one form....
... fashions are the same all over the world.
The initial stage of learning English is the same for many students.
You can use some adverbs in front of `the same as' or `the same'.
almostjustmuchroughly...
... matter
caredreamhearspeakthink
complainexplainknowtalkwrite
We will always care about freedom.
Tonight I'm going to talk about engines.
* `at' indicates direction
For ... ways, but need an adverbial when they are used without an object.
cleanhandlepolishstain
freezemarksellwash
He sells books.
This book is selling well.
She had handled a machine...
... except in the imperative.
Don't be stupid!
Do be a good boy and sit still.
5 Some grammars include modals among the auxiliary verbs. When there is a modal in the verb group, it is...
... something was possible in the past, but is not possible now.
Everyone used to be able to have free eye tests.
You used to be able to buy cigarettes in packs of five.
7 Note that you also ... that
they were not allowed to do it.
We could go to any part of the island we wanted.
Both students and staff could use the swimming pool.
We couldn't go into the library after 5 pm. ... something. You use `cannot' or `can't' to say that they are
not allowed to do it.
Students can take a year away from university.
Children cannot bathe except in the presence of...
... of `as' for emphasis.
It swims on the sea floor just as its ancestors did.
I like the freedom to plan my day exactly as I want.
Everything was going precisely as she had planned.
...
... participle of a verb.
These nouns are called different things in different grammars: gerunds, verbal
nouns, or -ing forms. In this grammar they are referred to as -ing nouns.
It is sometimes difficult ... Researchers
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main verb any verb that is not an auxiliary verb. Also called lexical verb.
mass noun (in this grammar) a noun that is usually an uncountable noun, but that
can be used as a countable noun when...
...
she did it at last, and managed to swallow a morsel of the
lehand bit.
*****
‘Come, my head’s free at last!’ said Alice in a tone of de-
light, which changed into alarm in another moment, when ... dreadfully savage!’ exclaimed Alice.
A’ A W
I was thinking I should be free of them at last, they must
needs come wriggling down from the sky! Ugh, Serpent!’
‘But I’m...
...
3. PROCESS GRAMMAR
The Process Grammar is an extension of the Augmented
Context -Free Grammar such as APSG, oriented to bottom-
up parsing. Some relevant features make a Process
Grammar quite ... approach to bottom-up parsing that extends
Augmented Context -Free Grammar to a Process Grammar
is formally presented. A Process Grammar (PG) defines a
set of rules suited for bottom-up parsing ... sentence and the
grammar structure. A slrong improvement in the parsing
process is determined by how the rules of a Process
Grammar are organized. Take, for instance, a grammar
where the...