n. in criminal law, the imposition of the penalty for each of several crimes, one after the other, as compared to "concurrent sentences" (at the same time). Example: Carl Convict has been found guilty of manslaughter, assault with a deadly weapon, and armed robbery, for which the maximum...
"Elizabeth, I have a class of fifth graders who just can't get enough of sentence diagramming! Thanks for the resource." - Jennifer, 5th Grade Teacher I've been working through the diagramming lessons with my son for some time. Wedo a page or two each morning at breakfast before he ...
On the other hand, my girl here still lives with her parents. They pay for her food, housing and other things parents pay for an 8 year old. She is dependent and she CANNOT stand alone, she needs an “independent clause,” just a like dependent clause. Another term for this could be...
Despite recent research on the building blocks of language processing, the nature of the units involved in the production of written texts remains elusive: intonation units, which are evidenced by empirical results across a growing body of work, are not suitable for writing, where the sentence rem...