1. Introduction
In this assignment I attempt to demonstrate what a verb phrase is. I highlight various types of verb. I also clarify definitions of auxiliary, or helping verbs and the six main categories of English verbs: transitive, intransitive, ditransitive, intensive, complex-transitive, and prepositional respectively. Some of them work as helper in the sentences and they called auxiliary verbs. However, auxiliary verbs divide into modal verbs which are can, may, will, shall, must and so on. The second type is non-modal which are be, have and do. They refer to tense, mood and aspect. They known as helping verbs and they come before the main verb in the verb phrase.
2. The verb phrase:
Every sentence in English must have at least one verb – in other words, the predicate, or verb, in a sentence can consist of one word or a group of words. We call the words that accompany the main, or lexical, verb auxiliary, or helping, verbs. A verb phrase may be simple and consist of just a lexical verb, or complex and consist of one or more auxiliaries plus one main verb. That is to say, if a verb consists of only one word, it is automatically the main verb. But sometimes the main verb has helping verbs that go along with it. Together with the main verb, they make up the complete verb phrase. For example:
1- The baby walks. (1 main verb)
2- Khalid is good at Geography. (1 main verb)
3- Hamed has won. (1 helping verb + 1 main verb)
4- Hamed should have won. (2 helping verbs + 1 main verb)
5- Hamed could have been winning. (3 helping verbs + 1 main verb)
A verb phrase will NEVER have more than 6 elements, as in:
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...sitional Vgp is called A PREPOSITIONAL OBJECT (abbreviated to pO in diagrams). Take glance as an example:
21- The children glanced at the picture.
4. Conclusion
In this paper I have elucidated some useful information about the verb phrase. For example, definitions of auxiliary, or helping, verbs, the verb phrase and the six main categories of English verbs, namely monotransitive, intransitive, ditransitive, intensive, complex-transitive, and prepositional. In my opinion. the most two similar types are the Ditransitive and the Complex- transitive, duo to both require 2 objects to be completed. I recommend to do the replacement way by replacing the 2 objects, and see the meaning if is it correct or not? If it is. So immediately the verb is Ditransitive, but if we found difficulty to understand the message behind the sentence so it is then complex- transitive.
First, a brief background in the three dimensions of language discussed throughout this paper. The functional, semantic, or thematic dimensions of language as previously mentioned are often used in parallel with each other. Due, to this fact it is important to be able to identify them as they take place and differentiate between these dimensions i...
Another example is, “For thousands more years the mighty ships tore across the empty wastes of space and finally dived screaming on to the first planet they came across—which happened to be the Earth—where due to a terrible miscalculation of scale the entire battle fleet was accidentally swallowed by a small dog”. The beginning built up our anticipation and created suspense with strong verb choices like mighty, tore, empty, dived, and
According to the book, the diagram is an operation and route sheet that specifies operations and process routing for a particular part. It conveys such information as the type of equipment, tooling and operations required to complete the particular part.
From what I have discussed above, I assert that a phrase is not only composed by two subphrases sometimes. In addition, a group of subphrases form a higher hierarchical phrase should has the functional utilities. The functional utilities could be accorded with either the process of the development of the music, or echo of two portions. Last but not least, the composer through elaboration, rhythmic diminishing, and overlapping to form phrases to a higher hierarchical phrase.
Analogical change can also occur on the morphological markers of a word, such as verb agreements. This change can be observed between the Old English and Modern English conjugation of the verb to sing and impacts the complexity of the paradigm, making the Modern English form recognisably more uniform.
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Standard English uses a conjugated verb called a copula (to be, to have) in a number of different sentences. In AAVE this verb is often not included. Here are some examples:
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The English language has two voices--the active and the passive. The active voice and the passive voice differ in that a passive verb phrase has an additional auxiliary BE followed by an EN participle. In a sense, the English passive is "inflexible" when compared to the passive formation of other languages. For example, some languages use word order, verb inflections, and impersonal constructions to form the passive voice. In their book, The Grammar Book: ESL/EFL Teacher's Course, Celce-Murcia and Larson-Freeman demonstrate how the Bantu passive voice differs from the English passive voice. "Kingarwanda, a Bantu language, can make even a locative phrase the subject of the passive as in On the bus was eaten a sandwich by John, which would not be acceptable in English" (221). Furthermore, topicalization is another "grammar issue" which differs from language to language. In the Kingarwanda sentence, On the bus was eaten a sandwich by John, the center of attention or the topic of the sentence is the phrase On the bus. Since languages have different rules which govern topicalization, several languages may not accept On the bus as the topic of a sentence. In the book, Clear and Coherent Prose, William Vande Kopple discusses topicalization in the English language. Kopple states that the English language uses topicalizers to "fulfill special functions in essays" (41). Several of these functions are: focusing the reader's attention on a specific part of a sentence, expressing given or "old" information at the beginning of a sentence, marking changes in topics, and lastly, setting contrasts between one topic and another (41).
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Syntax is the study of how words are combined to create phrases and causes in the sentences of a specific language (Freeman and Freeman, 2014). Syntax helps us to make clear sentences that “sound right,” where words, phrases, and clauses each serve their function and are correctly ordered to form and communicate a complete sentence with meaning. The rules of syntax combine words into phrases and phrases into sentences. Not only does it focus on the correct word order for a language, but it also helps show the relationship between the meaning of a group of words. Without proper syntax, a sentence can be meaningless. It is key to understand that while every language does have certain syntax, the syntax does vary from language to language. It
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Next to last type are incorporating verb idioms. The author claims that the first component is an adjective or a noun in other surroundings and a slavish re-encoding of them disclose an interrelated configuration that is either
What this paper will do is to find effective methods that can help students comprehend Type 2 conditional sentence better. Firstly, there will be a critique of Miss Wong’s teaching approach, and then you will see a detailed design of a grammar activity. Following it, a discussion and its theoretical rationale will be presented. Finally, a summary about the effective ways will be made.