ELang
Terms
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- Operators
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The verb used to construct negative or interrogative clauses.
Ex: I WILL not allow you to gothere.
IS she walking?
(dummy do) - Coordination
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Two clauses are connected, with each having equal status
"it's modern but it's clean"
Occur most often in conversation. - Subordination
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One clause is embedded as part of another clause
"although it's modern, it's clean" - Ellipsis
- Simplificiation "It's clean although modern"
- Dependent Clauses
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Normal part of another clause (the main clause)
"I hate to see that. We have 30 men working. - Independent Clauses
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Can stand on their own without being subordinate to another clause.
"She has a day off school." - Object
- occurs after the main verb
- Subject
- occurs before the main verb
- Relative Clause
- Refers to preceding noun
- Complement Clause
- Doesn't refer to preceding noun
- Subject Raising
- Subject of dependent clause becomes subject of main clause.
- Object Raising
- Object of dependent clause becomes subject of main clause
- Extrapositioning
- Subject of main clause moves to the end of the sentence
- Not negation
- conversation
- Contractions
- conversation
- Noun modifiers
- academic
- No-negation
- academic
- Interrogatives
- conversation
- imperative clauses
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no subject
Conversation - Premodifiers
- Academic
- No modifier
- Conversation
- Postmodifier
- Academic
- Both Pre- and Post-
- Academic
- Prepositional phrases as postmodifiers
- Academics
- Relativizers
- Academic
- That-clause types
- Conversation
- Subject Predicative TO clauses
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the problem IS
the function IS