And, but are some of the common conjunctions that fall into this category. Correlative conjunctions are used to connect contrasting ideas or even ideas that weigh equally.
Subordinate conjunctions are used to connect subordinate clauses. Here conjunction such as because, as, unless, until can be used. Prepositions: A preposition refers to a word that is used with a noun or pronoun to show place, position, time or method.
Conjunctions: A conjunction refers to a word that creates a connection between words, clauses or phrases. Prepositions: The main function is to highlight the place, position, time or method of two nouns. Prepositions: Some examples are about, above, around, at, against, among, along, below, behind, before, beside, beneath by, being, between, during, down, except, from, for inside, into , in, near, off, of, on, to, towards, under, upon, until, with.
Prepositions: Prepositions can be categorized as prepositions of place, agent, position, time, direction, or method. Conjunctions: Conjunctions can be categorized as Coordinate conjunctions, Correlative conjunctions, and subordinate conjunctions.
Coming from Engineering cum Human Resource Development background, has over 10 years experience in content developmet and management. Your email address will not be published. The reasoning is as follows - If a sentence is of the form X [preposition1] Z [a form of be] [adjective] than [determiner] [preposition2] Y. The two prepositions must be the same for consistency.
It should make a proper sentence when you write X [preposition2] Y [a form of be] [adjective]. While I understand where you're heading with 1. Observe: The houses over the clouds are more beautiful than those under the clouds. The sandwich behind you is bigger than that inside me. And the capitals of Europe are more interesting to visit than that of, say, Saudi Arabia.
I guess I will have to retract on that one. Cerberus then this too will contradict rule 2. All the other places are more beautiful than that one there.
The correct answer depends on what you are trying to say. Preposition choice depends on lots of things. Pronouns must agree with their subject. Parallelism is sometimes good, sometimes not.
Some sentences are grammatical but unidiomatic. There are no rules for generating English sentences that a computer can use reliably, otherwise spammers would be using them to fill your inbox with plausible junk text. Show 7 more comments. The houses in the cities are more beautiful than that of the villages.
Here you are using World knowledge i. I think a more general rule should avoid using 'common sense knowledge'; otherwise if someone wants to write a computer program for it, it will be difficult. As Cerberus points out, that's highly unlikely though. Anyway, you need world knowledge to understand words. Language wasn't invented for computers to understand. It was invented for humans to discuss the world.
That'd be sad. For our purposes, we will choose the count noun trees and the non-count noun dancing :. In formal academic writing, it is usually better to use many and much rather than phrases such as a lot of, lots of and plenty of. There is an important difference between "a little" and "little" used with non-count words and between "a few" and "few" used with count words.
If I say that Tashonda has a little experience in management that means that although Tashonda is no great expert she does have some experience and that experience might well be enough for our purposes.
If I say that Tashonda has little experience in management that means that she doesn't have enough experience. If I say that Charlie owns few books on Latin American literature, that means he doesn't have enough for our purposes and we'd better go to the library.
Unless it is combined with of , the quantifier "much" is reserved for questions and negative statements:. Note that the quantifier "most of the" must include the definite article the when it modifies a specific noun, whether it's a count or a non-count noun: "most of the instructors at this college have a doctorate"; "most of the water has evaporated.
HarperCollins: New York. Examples our own. An indefinite article is sometimes used in conjunction with the quantifier many , thus joining a plural quantifier with a singular noun which then takes a singular verb :. This construction lends itself to a somewhat literary effect some would say a stuffy or archaic effect and is best used sparingly, if at all. The predeterminers occur prior to other determiners as you would probably guess from their name.
The multipliers precede plural count and mass nouns and occur with singular count nouns denoting number or amount:. In fractional expressions , we have a similar construction, but here it can be replaced with "of" construction. The intensifiers occur in this construction primarily in casual speech and writing and are more common in British English than they are in American English. The intensifier "what" is often found in stylistic fragments: "We visited my brother in his dorm room.
What a mess! Half, both, and all can occur with singular and plural count nouns ; half and all can occur with mass nouns. There are also "of constructions" with these words "all [of] the grain," "half [of] his salary" ; the "of construction" is required with personal pronouns "both of them," "all of it". The following chart from Quirk and Greenbaum nicely describes the uses of these three predeterminers:. The is called the definite article because it usually precedes a specific or previously mentioned noun ; a and an are called indefinite articles because they are used to refer to something in a less specific manner an unspecified count noun.
These words are also listed among the noun markers or determiners because they are almost invariably followed by a noun or something else acting as a noun. Even after you learn all the principles behind the use of these articles, you will find an abundance of situations where choosing the correct article or choosing whether to use one or not will prove chancy. Icy highways are dangerous. The icy highways are dangerous. And both are correct. The is used with specific nouns.
The is required when the noun it refers to represents something that is one of a kind:. The is required when the noun it refers to represents something in the abstract:.
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