This view began to change with the development of pragmatics, a branch of linguistics which studies the meaning of the sentences beyond its semantic meaning, having into account the intentions, context, and other relevant extralinguistic factors conditioning...
In English, only two numbers are distinguished, singular, which denotes one, and plural, which denotes more than one. The survivals of a dual number are few: twice, both...
Definition: Word that qualifies a noun, adds to its meaning but limits its application...
According to quirk, case is the “gramatical category that can express a number of different relationships between nominal elements”. In English there are two cases: a common case, and a genitive case...
In general, prepositional phrases of position accompany verbs of stative meaning, and prepositional phrases of destination accompany verbs of dynamic meaning...
First of all we have to make a distinction between auxiliary verbs (do, be, have) which are used to form the tenses of ordinary verbs, and modal auxiliary verbs, which are auxiliary verbs but also convey modal meaning (possibility, probability, future, condition, etc)...
According to Eckersley, the verb is "the part of the speech by which we are able to say what a person or animal or thing is, or does, or what is done to that person, animal, or thing"...
In the early stages of the language, the infinitive was a full inflected form. In Old English, it had the ending –an with one inflected form, the dative –enne, which under the influence of –an became –anne. This form was used after the preposition to,...
It is a semantic unit which differs from the sum of the meanings of its parts. If the meaning of a verb – preposition combination can be predicted on the basis of the individual parts (listen to, insist on), it is called a verb-preposition combination,...
According to Gardener, a sentence is a word or a set of words followed by a pause and revealling an intelligible purpose"...