Another exercise is to ask children to try to find sentences containing particular conjunctions in their reading book. They may then be asked to write out each sentence, highlighting the two clauses and the conjunction. They could then be asked whether they think each one is co-ordinating or ...
c. As an interrogative expletive (sometimes with eh) usually at the end of a sentence, esp. in recent trivial or affected colloq. use.1785F. Burney Diary 19 Dec., He [sc. George III] said, ‘What? what?’—meaning, what say you?.. ‘it is not possible. Do you think it is?—...
Yes.It is a case in point to illustrate non-arbitrariness about word order.When the two parts interchange,the focus and the meaning of the sentence is forced to change,because clauses occurring in linear sequence without time indicators will be taken as matching the actual sequence of happening...
而A的到来就像初春的开谢花,落英缤纷,却唯见涟漪,不闻波声。 记得有一次周末很晚从LX家出来,A发来短信问我所在,我回说让她猜,她说,是在LX家吧?我奇道你如何猜到?她这样回答: Your life is organized like an orbit. I know. 了解了这点,就知道为何四年于相隔千里的我们,似乎只是弹指一挥间而已。 我其...
2 (of gifts, behaviour, etc) generous (指礼物、 行为等)慷慨的, 大方的: a handsome present 出手大方的礼物 . 3 considerable 可观的: a handsome profit, price, fortune, etc 相当大的利润、 相当高的价格、 相当 好的运气 . 4 (idm 习语 ) ,handsome `is as ,handsome `does (saying 谚) a ...
2 (of gifts, behaviour, etc) generous (指礼物、 行为等)慷慨的, 大方的: a handsome present 出手大方的礼物 . 3 considerable 可观的: a handsome profit, price, fortune, etc 相当大的利润、 相当高的价格、 相当 好的运气 . 4 (idm 习语 ) ,handsome `is as ,handsome `does (saying 谚) a ...
A main clause is a sentence that makes sense on its own. A subordinate (supporting) clause relies on another part of the sentence to make sense. If there is more than one clause in a sentence, they might be joined together by a coordinatingconjunction(but, however) or by a semi-colon....
but the wry reference to Margaret Atwood's own experience when she became, as she said at the time, *'a Thin;. '* is unmistakable. OnLv loan Foster is established in the present., and in Italy. tlashbacks take us through the story of her Itfe. (The flashback technique is handled...
This is acompound sentence: it is made up of two main clauses: 'I like bananas' and 'I like grapes'. The two main clauses are joined by theconnective'and'. Sometimes a sentence is made up of two clauses: a main clause and asubordinate (or dependent) clause, which relies on the ...