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Is "because" always a subordinating conjunction introducing a subordinate clause?
My grammar book says that a word like "because" is a subordinating conjunction, meaning that it is a word that can introduce a dependent clause. I know that a dependent clause contains its ...
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Peculiarities of English as spoken/written by Norwegians [closed]
I'm writing a fiction book. Some of its characters are Norwegians who exchange emails in English. I'd like to lightly stylise their texts.
What mistakes / peculiarities / word choice / sentence ...
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Subordination. Chinese vs English
Linguists claim that subordination is universal across the world languages.
Subordination in English looks can be understood by looking into these examples:
I know a person who has a dog
I know a ...
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Is either of these meanings of the word "sentence" more conventional?
The Wikipedia article on Generative Grammar states:
Generative grammar is a linguistic theory that regards grammar as a
system of rules that generates exactly those combinations of words
that ...
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Incomplete sentences
I am looking for studies which looks at understanding and preference of incomplete sentences.
For example, is there a higher workload for (in)complete sentences or even though the sentence might be ...
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Said tags in Sentence detection
I am trying to apply NLP to fiction but I don't know how split dialog into sentences. Specifically how to split said tags.
ex.
"Awake? How long have been asleep?" asked teenagers at the same time.
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Relation of Persian "Ke" and English "That" [closed]
First I should say I am not a linguist, but try to understand it to help my English.
In my native language, Persian, we do much use "Ke" (که) which almost corresponds to "which, who, that" in ...
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Is there a term for this use of an indirect object?
I have noticed that some Americans from the mid-South will use indirect objects in their speech where standard English would use a prepositional phrase. Is there a name for this phenomenon? Is it ...
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What metrics can be used to rate the complexity of an english sentence?
I want to rate a sentence by its complexity in the sense of:
Rating of 1: A very simple sentence which is just S+V+O, example: "I eat bananas."
Rating of 10: An uterly complex sentence with lots of ...
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determine if noun is person or person's name
How can I determine if a noun is the name of a person based on other words in the sentence?
For example, I was able to determine that a noun is a place by it following ' to ' or ' from '.
Are there ...
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How to analyze this sentence in a tree diagram?
I tried to draw a tree diagram of this sentence
In 1816 they were purchased by the British government and from then on displayed in the British Museum.
but it leads nowhere. I think I'm fine ...
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