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Books on: sentence structure

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Sentence Structure

Book by Nigel Fabb; Routledge, 1994

Subjects:

English Language--Sentences

Collections: Entire Library

A problem-solving approach to language which can be used as an introduction to English grammar or a theory of syntax. Over eighty practical exercises are included.In Sentence Structure, Nigel Fabb outlines the main aspects of English sentence structure.Sentence Structure:* Is based on a ...
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A problem-solving approach to language which can be used as an introduction to English grammar or a theory of syntax. Over eighty practical exercises are included.In Sentence Structure, Nigel Fabb outlines the main aspects of English sentence structure.Sentence Structure:* Is based on a problem-solving approach to language* Can be used as an introduction to English grammarand/or to the theory of syntax* Teaches a simple method for confident and accuratesentence analysis* Contains over 80 practical exercises* Includes sample sentences from four Asian and Africanlanguages to provide a basis for comparativelinguistics
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Measure and Music: Enjambement and Sentence Structure in the Iliad

Book by Carolyn Higbie; Oxford University, 1990

Subjects:

Enjambement, Epic Poetry, Greek--History And Criticism, Greek Language--Metrics And Rhythmics, Greek Language--Syntax, Homer--Iliad, Homer--Versification

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

This book is the first line-by-line analysis of enjambement and verse-internal breaks throughout the entire Iliad. Addressing larger, stylistic questions concerning genre, effect, and the manipulation and enjambing of formulae, Higbie examines a wide range of literary structures, including speeches ...
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This book is the first line-by-line analysis of enjambement and verse-internal breaks throughout the entire Iliad. Addressing larger, stylistic questions concerning genre, effect, and the manipulation and enjambing of formulae, Higbie examines a wide range of literary structures, including speeches, similes, battle scenes, and catalogues. A fundamental and thorough examination of enjambement in Homeric verse, this work will become a standard reference for scholars and students of Homer.
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A Course in Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar

Book by Paul Bennett; UCL Press, 1995

Subjects:

Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar

Collections: Entire Library

...PS -phrase structure PSP -past...relative S -sentence Sinf...significant syntactic structures are assigned to each sentence, only one of which...assigning slightly more structure to sentences than was done in...
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The Idea of Social Structure: Papers in Honor of Robert K. Merton

Book by Lewis A. Coser; Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975

Subjects:

Merton, Robert King--1910-, Social Structure, Sociology

Collections: Entire Library

...course on social structure; the other on the...notes, yet his sentences built into paragraphs...likelihood of a prison sentence, nor can he take...pattern of socially structured flows of reward...an interesting sentence: "Following the...Theory and Social Structure made its appearance...
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Charisma, History, and Social Structure

Book by Ronald M. Glassman, William H. Swatos Jr.; Greenwood Press, 1986

Subjects:

Leadership, Social Structure

Collections: Entire Library

CHARISMA, HISTORY, AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE Recent Titles in Contributions in Sociology...Marti Jr. Systems of Discourse: Structures and Semiotics in the Social Sciences...Orrin Klapp CHARISMA, HISTORY, AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE Edited by Ronald M. Glassman...

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Journal Articles on: sentence structure

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SENTENCE AND TEXT COMPREHENSION: Roles of Linguistic Structure

Journal article by Charles Jr. Clifton, Susan A. Duffy; Annual Review of Psychology, 2001

Subjects:

Anaphora (Linguistics)--Research, Discourse analysis--Research, Parsing--Research, Psycholinguistics--Research

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...is related to its role in sentence structure (subject, object of verb, etc...principles governing possible sentence structures and encoding much of the detailed information about sentence structure with individual lexical items...
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Narrative Structure and Discourse Constellations: An Analysis of Clause Function in Biblical Hebrew Prose

Journal article by Alan S. Kaye; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 124, 2004

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Narrative Structure and Discourse Constellations: An Analysis of Clause Function in Biblical Hebrew Prose (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...approach. Chapter 1, "The Structure of Biblical Narrative and...syntactic concerns, viz., the sentence. As Heller asserts in support...pragmatic concerns of discourse structure" (Longacre, xiii). Hellers...Abingdon, 1970), and The Sentence in Biblical Hebrew (The Hague...
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Developing Reading and Listening Comprehension Tests Based on the Sentence Verification Technique (SVT)

Journal article by James M. Royer; Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, Vol. 45, 2001

Subjects:

Literacy--Study and teaching, Reading comprehension--Testing, Reading--Study and teaching

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...A distractor is a sentence that has a syntactic structure that is similar to...A distractor is a sentence that has a syntactic structure that is similar to...general syntactic structure as sentences in the original passage...
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Sentencing Under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines: Effects of Defendant Characteristics, Guilty Pleas, and Departures on Sentence Outcomes for Drug Offenses, 1991-1992

Journal article by Celesta A. Albonetti; Law & Society Review, Vol. 31, 1997

Subjects:

Sociological Jurisprudence

Collections: Entire Library

...and departures on sentence severity. Her analysis...offense-related variables, as structured by the guidelines...its influence on sentence outcomes. Control...circumvented by the very structure of the federal sentencing...According to the structure of the guidelines...that determines sentence outcomes. Table...
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Sentence by Sentence Self-Monitoring: Students Engage in Independent Work with Sentence Units, Requesting Assistance When Necessary and Receiving Feedback from the Teacher

Journal article by Edwin G. Buettner; The Reading Teacher, Vol. 56, 2002

Subjects:

Language and languages--Evaluation, Learning--Evaluation, Reading--Study and teaching

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...about the upcoming sentence: (b) developing story grammars or structured overviews; (c...text with their sentences highlighted. This kind of structure, coupled with a...reading the same sentence. Such structure optimizes engagement...

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Magazine Articles on: sentence structure

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Neat Structure, Grand Notions

Magazine article by Christina Schwarz; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 293, May 2004

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, FAITH FOX (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Entire Library

Neat Structure, Grand Notions. by Christina...infant Faith Fox, orphaned from the first sentence. As in most comedies, life is dark here...portrait with a taste for satisfyingly neat structure and grand notions of hope for humanity...
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Design Problem: Does the Internal Physiology of Animals Imply a Harmony of Structure and Function?

Magazine article by Mary Beth Saffo; American Scholar, Vol. 76, Spring 2007

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, The Tinkerer's Accomplice How Design Emerges from Life Itself (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Entire Library

...implications of animal-built structures, while The Tinkerers Accomplice...score with his very first sentence: "This book is about why organisms...designed." The first half of the sentence implies an emphasis on the...harmonious integration of structure and function." As Turner notes...
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Art Is Dead-Long Live Art: Within a Structure That Continues to Challenge the Conception of Built Form, Two Concurrent Exhibitions at the Centre Pompidou Challenge Our Perception of Art

Magazine article by Rob Gregory; The Architectural Review, Vol. 215, June 2004

Subjects:

Architects--Appreciation, Architects--Works, Miro, Joan--Appreciation, Miro, Joan--Works, Paris, France, Penone, Giuseppe--Appreciation, Penone, Giuseppe--Works, Special events

Collections: Entire Library

Art Is Dead-Long Live Art: Within a Structure That Continues to Challenge the Conception of Built Form...fine examples on display), and instead of serving a death sentence, Miro gave paint a new lease of life. Of particular interest...
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An "Imagination of Order": The Suspicion of Structure in Anthropology and Poetry

Magazine article by Kent Maynard; The Antioch Review, Vol. 60, Spring 2002

Subjects:

Anthropological research--Analysis, Authorship--Methods, Ethnology--Authorship, Poetry--Authorship, Poets--Authorship

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...determine! the place you end." To this last sentence let me say, "Absolutely," but it does...deny the presence of social or cultural structures; instead, they mistrust them as ideological...surprisingly, terms like "pattern" or "structure" have given way to disjunctive nouns...
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Remembering Santayana

Magazine article by Wilfred M. Mcclay; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 25, Summer 2001

Subjects:

Philosophers--Biography, Philosophy--Social aspects, Santayana, George--Biography, Social structure--Analysis

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...death. His reputation, such as it now is, rests upon a single sentence, a portentous and wise-sounding (though often misquoted or...to the editor, and bully pulpits of every sort. But the bare sentence does not do Santayana justice. Those who use it rarely know...

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Newspaper Articles on: sentence structure

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SPL2 Deal Is a Death Sentence - Donald

Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), October 20, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...green light yesterday - and was immediately branded a death sentence for some Scottish clubs. The countrys top-flight outfits gave...to satisfy the needs of the SPL to find a more sustainable structure to their 12-club top division which doesnt result in sporting...
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Pride before the Fall; as Conrad Black Faces a Possible Lengthy Prison Sentence, His Former City Editor at the Daily Telegraph Traces the Roots of His Downfall

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), November 18, 2005

Subjects:

Black, Conrad, Hollinger International Inc., Newspaper publishing

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...as the papers new City Editor, was the complexity of his sentence construction in conversation. If he had wanted to interfere...Black was the majority shareholder. The net effect of this structure was that Black had control of the empire while actually owning...
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Sixty-Year Sentence Looms in Elgin Man's Drug-Selling Case

Newspaper article by Charles Keeshan, Adam Kovac; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), February 5, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Sixty-Year Sentence Looms in Elgin Mans Drug-Selling Case. by Charles Keeshan...years. Bailey is a nationally recognized expert on the function and structure of black English and its effect on the learning of black children...
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Death Crash Boy Racer Gets Sentence Cut; 'Any Mum Would Wish That He'd Died Instead

Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), August 2, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...immeasurable. But the judge said he was bound to reduce the original sentence by 15% because the Criminal Justice Act 2003, which came into force in April, altered the structure of custodial terms. Boyd was liable to be recalled to custody and...
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Media Types: Testing at Seven? SATS the Way I like It

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), October 4, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...dancer, I know for a fact that I can write the legs off most of you at the end of the day - and pride myself on my sentence structure and avoiding cliches like the plague. SATS for seven-year-old children. Teachers are opposed to them - bet you...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: sentence structure

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Balzac, Jean Louis Guez De

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...other writings were a great influence in reforming French prose. Their style was marked by their orderly, Latinate sentence structure. ____________________ The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Copyright 2007, Columbia University Press. Licensed...
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Pronoun

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...their ), and reflexive (e.g., myself, herself ). The case of the pronoun depends upon its function in the sentence structure. ____________________ The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Copyright 2007, Columbia University Press. Licensed...
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Weinreich, Uriel

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...with the distinction as well as the relation between the syntactic (involving word order and sentence structure) and the semantic (what words and sentences mean) analysis of language. Much of his semantic theory was influenced by Noam Chomsky...
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Grammar

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...description of the structure of a language...into phrases and sentences, called syntax...environment in a sentence. One method of...classification is based on structure; languages are...a hierarchical structure; thus the sentence "My sister Mary...
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Linguistics

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...underlying phrase-structure of a sentence, and a series of...upon the phrase-structure to form more complex sentences. The end result...identical to an actual sentence of a language. All...have the same deep structure, but they differ...

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