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Discourse Markers

Sunday, May 20, 2012 0:43

Discourse markers are expressions that are used to show how discourse is constructed. They can show the connection between what a speaker is saying and what has already been said or what is going to be said; they can help...

Lexical/Grammatical Collocations: Patterns and Examples

Monday, November 14, 2011 22:18

  Benson, Benson, and Ilson (1986) categorized English collocations into two classes: lexical collocations and grammatical collocations (with 7 and 8 types respectively); lexical collocations are made up only of verbs, adjectives, nouns and adverbs in different possible combinations while grammatical...

Cambridge – Michael McCarty – English Collocations In Use.pdf

Sunday, June 12, 2011 2:58

Download Free Collocations in Use — PDF version CLICK HERE Link One CLICK HERE Link Two...

Collocations with “heavy” by R.E.Jones

Sunday, January 2, 2011 13:53

Some collocations with heavy CERTAIN TYPES OF WEATHER You can talk about: a heavy snowfall / heavy snow a heavy frost heavy rain a heavy storm heavy (storm) clouds (But probably not, for example, a heavy typhoon or a heavy...

Adjectives

Wednesday, September 22, 2010 9:54

In grammar, an adjective is a word whose main syntactic role is to modify a noun or pronoun, giving more information about the noun or pronoun's definition. Some examples can be seen in the box to the right. Collectively, adjectives...

Articles, Determiners and Quantifiers

Sunday, August 8, 2010 23:07

Articles, determiners, and quantifiers are those little words that precede and modify nouns: (the teacher, a college, a bit of honey, an apple) Sometimes these words will tell the reader or listener whether we're referring to a specific or general thing (the...

Do-Did-Done (Irregular Verbs Made Easy)

Tuesday, July 27, 2010 22:51

DO – DID – DONE — This is not an ordinary table in alphabetical order; here, as far as the sounds and patterns of verb sets are concerned, the three forms of irregular verbs are systematically sorted/presented; thus, they have...