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Adjectives in English grammar | Position in a sentence
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Adjectives in English grammar Adjectives in English grammar

In this lesson, you will learn about how to use adjectives in English grammar.
The tutorial starts with a definition and then It gives you the rules for the form for describing singular and plural nouns.
The position in a sentence is very important. It explains the attributive position and then the predicative or predicate position after a link verb. For this position, it is acting as a subject complement...
 
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Tags: position, grammar, English, sentence, predicative, Adjectives
Comparative Studies in Germanic Syntax - From Afrikaans to Zurich German
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Comparative Studies in Germanic Syntax - From Afrikaans to Zurich GermanComparative Studies in Germanic Syntax - From Afrikaans to Zurich German

This selection of papers presented at the 20th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop brings together contributions that address issues in syntactic predication and studies in the nominal system, as well as papers on data from the history of English and German. Showing a strong comparative commitment, the contributions include studies on previously neglected data on case and predicative structures in Icelandic and other Germanic languages, on the (non-)syntactic distinction of predicative vs. argument NP/DPs...
 
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Tags: Germanic, German, syntactic, contributions, predicative, Comparative, Syntax
Predicative Possession
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Predicative Possession
This is the first comprehensive treatment of the strategies employed in the world's languages to express predicative possession, as in nullthe boy has a batnull. It presents the results of the author's fifteen-year research project on the subject. Predicative possession is the source of many grammaticalization paths - as in the English perfect tense formed from to have - and its typology is an important key to understanding the structural variety of the world's languages and how they change.
 
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Tags: Predicative, possession, languages, worlds, source