1 School of Foreign Studies, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China 2 Center for Language Cognition and Assessment, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China Distinct from nominal ...

The five patterns illustrated below provide the basis for all other sentence structures: that is, other kinds of sentences are transformations of these basic patterns. Though the above sentences are ...

WHAT IS COMPOUND PREDICATE – Below is a discussion of this topic in English as well as its examples to understand it fast. One of the best ways to learning English is to understand the topics in a ...

This study focuses to identify conjunct predicate (N+V) in Urdu language which is a type of complex predicate. In conjunct predicate, a noun is followed by a light verb and the resulting constituent ...

How well do you know your verbs? You may know verbs as the part of speech that describe an action, but linking verbs play a different role in a sentence. Like helping verbs, linking verbs are a type ...

Distinct from nominal metaphors, predicate metaphors entail metaphorical abstraction from concrete verbs, which generally involve more action and stronger motor simulation than nouns. It remains ...