With a name like “James,” there’s some disagreement about how to form the possessive. Most style guides recommend following the standard rule for singular nouns and adding an apostrophe and an “s”:James’s. Others argue that the possessive should be formed differently depending on whether...
used to say in an angry manner that although you are not happy about something that someone has said, you are not going to argue Oh OK, then. Have it your own way. have a way of doing somethingused to say that something often happens in a particular manner, especially when it is ...
As an example, I once had a client ask for a “homepage made of buttons, not just text.” He had no idea that, to a web designer, a button is the way a user submits a form online. To my client, the word button meant he could change the content over time as his business chang...
But you could argue that the term Parka is so synonymous with a very specific type of jacket that it should be classed as proper. This is definitely one for the grammar experts to slog out between themselves!Getting PossessivePossessive nouns are usually followed by another naming word, ...
You can add a prefix (前缀) to a word (usually a noun, a verb or an adj- tive) to form a new word. e.g. the father and son were black, dressed in clothes that were just about as in- expensive as you can buy. (in-expensive) I did, and just as I was about to reboar...
One of the interesting phenomena observed in contemporary English is the appearance of the noun forms of modal verbs. Examples include should, shoulds, oughts, and ought to's, which resemble must. Adopting a quantitative perspective based on contemporary English corpora, I argue that not all ...
I argue that the positioning of nominal modifiers with respect to the head of simple nouns cannot be adequately handled by an N-raising derivation. This is so because nouns fail to move as heads in the grammars of Hebrew and Arabic. The only heads that seem to be able to move are those...
计算机在我们的日常生活中得到广泛的应用,所以有人认为计算机迟早将取代人类.Computersaresowidelyusedinourdailylifethatsomepeopleclaim/arguethattheywillreplace/taketheplaceof/substituteforhumanbeingssoonerorlater.Computershavefoundsowidetheirapplicationinourdailylifethatitisgenerallybelievedthattheywillsubstituteforhuman...
When used as subjects in full clauses, which verb form do these NPs take – singular or plural verb? Am I right in thinking one could argue for either verb form here, depending on whether one sees years or history/liters or milk/grams or apple pie as the head of the NP? That is,...
A growing number of people feelthat animals should not be exploited by peopleandthat they should have the same rights as humans, while others arguethat humans must employ animals to satisfy their various needs, including uses for food and research. ...