LESSON ONE What We Are Going to Talk About and How (pp. 3-15) https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt7zr93.5 The reader with little or no background in English grammar may ...

Expanded noun phrases add detail about a noun. This makes your writing more descriptive and specific. They often include a determiner, an adjective and a noun. the dark tunnel The determiner ‘the’ is ...

In the English as in most but not all languages (i.e. Chinese) number can be extracted from the noun leaving a lexical-propositional form of the noun. From book and books we get object predicate: 1.

Definiteness is an operator that referring to discourse and pragmatic situations. In a nutshell definiteness is a referent whose existence is commonly understood to both the speaker and the addressee.

This handout is available for download in DOCX format and PDF format. Nominalizations are nouns that are created from adjectives (words that describe nouns) or verbs (action words). For example, ...

NARRATOR: Looks like you've caught more than you expected there. FISHERMAN: Help! There's a beast. I'm trapped on the lake. My boat is stuck. NARRATOR: Nice use of your nouns there. Beast, lake and ...