Closely related to co-ordinate verbs and verb phrases is the construction of co-ordinate predicate. A co-ordinate predicate can be defined as a predicate which consists of two or more verbs or verb phrases connected by a co-ordinator. Each of them adds important information to the subject (Alsina, Bresnan, and Sells 25).
The verbs share the same subject (i.e. there is one subject only in a co-ordinate predicate). This co-ordinate predicate is the part of the sentence that tells two (at least) or more things about the subject by usually telling what the subject is doing, or what is happening to the subject but without repeating the subject (Alsina, Bresnan, and Sells 26), as in:
(131) Albert stole my wallet, maxed out my credit cards, and emptied my bank account.
(132) The telegram was late but contained exciting news.
(133) Jan jumped on her bike and rode around the block.
(134) Rangers explore and protect the forest.
Consequently, in a sentence such as Renata waxed her car, and she parked it in the garage, the two verbs waxed and parked are not compoun...
Principal Choplick proceeded to search the purse of T.L.O. and found cigarettes. His findings prompted a deeper search into T.L.O.’s purse in which he found cigarette rolling papers, marijuana, a pipe, empty plastic baggies, a large quantity of money, and a list of individuals that owed T.L.O. money.
Disillusioned with life, Jacques dreamed of starting over. He asked his parents to pay for him to purchase a boat and sail around the South Pacific. They refused. Jacques decided to rob Alexandre Silberstein, a currency exchanger with an office in the Rue Vivenne. He arranged for an appointment to exchange francs into gold bars. While the dealer’s son was downstairs getting the gold, Jacques put a revolver to Mr. Silberstein’s head and demanded money from the register. When he tried to reason with him, Jacques hit him twice with the revolver, stunning him. Jacques then grabbed 300,000 francs and ran, trying to melt in with the crowd.
Albert is an executive who has two children and a wife who has an affair with Mollie who
Sentences- sentences are set of words that combine a subject (which tells us what the sentence is about or the topic sentence) and a predicate (which tells us something about the subject) (Anonymous, What is a sentence?, 2014).
The circumstances in the book that lead Albert to assume he is being deceived are numerous. Returning one night to look for the rabbi, Albert asks a colleague of Rabbi Lifschitz's about the silver crowns and his colleague has no idea what Albert is talking about. This leads Albert to presume there is no silver crown. A few moments later Lifschitz arrives home wearing expensive new clothes. Upon seeing this Albert is infuriated and demands either the return of his money or the silver crown in his hands. Neither of which Lifschitz could produce. Albert then flies into an uncontrollable frenzy and curses his father, the curse that kills him.
When Federal agents raid the mobster’s mansion, Stanley escapes with the briefcase of the accounts. While fleeing he falls into the river and the briefcase lands next to a homeless man.
This chapter presents how languages create a system in which one entity or con-cept functions as a reference point or an anchor for another concept (Talmy, 2000).
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.
A predicate must also be present in a logic sentence, and it must be relative to the subject by means of the verb "to be." It is necessary for the subsistence of such a sentence because of the previous definition of the subject. The subject is the item about which something is said, and the predicate is the part of the statement that says something about the subject. In other words, nothing can be revealed about the subject in a logic sentence unless something is said about that subject. However, the predicate must be tied to the subject by the verb "to be", otherwise the result would be that the predicate would be making a statement about a subject that does not exist.
money. Later on he lies to his family saying that he spent his savings and
It’s a rainy morning. I prepare myself for what’s about to happen in the woods with my getaway vehicle driver. We finally make the drive towards the planned location. In the early hours of 4:48 a.m. I enter the 24-hour bank armed with a pistol hidden in my coat. I am wearing a wig, makeup, and prosthetics to hide my appearance. I approach the counter where a banker stands on the other side. I hand the banker a note to give me the money from the vault. They walk slowly over to the door in the back and I follow them. No one in the bank has noticed this. He opens the vault, but seems to have a change of heart as he gets into a struggle for my weapon. After some fighting, I get the gun aimed at him and fire from close range. I run in, take some of the money, and get out in the confusion. I hop in the getaway vehicle before any police arrive. We
Semantic connectives have long been a focus of research in cognitive and language development. Suchconnectives as so, because, and but encode causal and adversative relations among events and create textual cohesion (Halliday and Hasan, 1976). Recently, however, researchers have been examining other types of relations that need to be encoded in discourse. Deborah Schiffrin (1987), for example, has focused on 'discourse markers (DMs)', a broader category of connective or relational forms than semantic connectives. Discourse markers are "linguistic, paralinguistic, or nonverbal elements that signal relations between units of talk by virtue of their syntactic and semantic properties and by virtue of their sequential relations as initial or terminal brackets demarcating discourse units" (Schiffrin, 1987: 40). During everyday communication, speakers use discourse
Andy is reassigned to another job in prison to assist with an elderly inmate, Brooks Hatlen. When Andy had a chat with Brooks about how he was able to manage to work in a small library in prison by himself for 50 years. At that point, Andy thought it would be a great idea to ask the warden to expand the library. When he found out the warden wasn’t able to provide enough money for new books and to reconstruct the library, Andy took action and started to write letters daily to the state government for funds to help improve the decaying library. It took 6 months for Andy to receive a letter back from the state government, numerous amounts of used books and a $200 cheque to help build a new and improve library in prison. Andy had high hopes that he could perhaps change things around in prison by never giving up. If I was in a similar situation, I would also do my best achieving my goal no matter what circumstances I face. Andy used his ability to persuade the warden to expand the library leading him to reach his
While he was in the fit the money that the elder had, was stolen and
Co-hyponymy occurs when two or more lexical items used in a text as subordinate members of a superordinate class (Eggins, 2004). If class/sub-classes relation is between the general item and its specific items, co-hyponymy relation is between two or more specific items. To illustrate co-hyponymy, a simple example is taken from The Story of an Hour (Eggins, 2004).