WebThe subject in a simple English sentence such as John runs, John is a teacher, or John drives a car, is the person or thing about whom the statement is made, in this case John.Traditionally the subject is the word or phrase which controls the verb in the clause, that is to say with which the verb agrees (John is but John and Mary are).If there is no …

WebThe first systematic grammar of Sanskrit, originated in Iron Age India, with Yaska (6th century BC), Pāṇini (6th–5th century BC) and his commentators Pingala (c. 200 BC), Katyayana, and Patanjali (2nd century BC). Tolkāppiyam, the earliest Tamil grammar, is mostly dated to before the 5th century AD. The Babylonians also made some early …

WebLatin word order tends to be subject–object–verb; however, other word orders are common.Different word orders are used to express different shades of emphasis. (See Latin word order.). An adjective can come either before or after a noun, e.g. vir bonus or bonus vir "a good man", although some kinds of adjectives, such as adjectives of nationality (vir …

WebHere, you is the object of the make verb phrase, the head of the main clause.But it's also the predicand of the subordinate think clause, which has no subject.: 329–335 Semantic predication. The term predicate is also used to refer to properties and to words or phrases which denote them. This usage of the term comes from the concept of a predicate in logic.

WebA referendum (PL: referendums or referenda) is a direct vote by the electorate on a proposal, law, or political issue. This is in contrast to an issue being voted on by a representative.This may result in the adoption of a new policy or specific law, or the referendum may be only advisory.In some countries, it is synonymous with or commonly …

WebCatalan grammar, the morphology and syntax of the Catalan language, is similar to the grammar of most other Romance languages.Catalan is a relatively synthetic, fusional language.Features include: Use of definite and indefinite articles.; Nouns, adjectives, pronouns and articles are inflected for gender (masculine and feminine) and number …

WebSubject–auxiliary inversion (SAI; also called subject–operator inversion) is a frequently occurring type of inversion in English, whereby a finite auxiliary verb – taken here to include finite forms of the copula be – appears to "invert" (change places) with the subject. The word order is therefore Aux-S (auxiliary–subject), which is the opposite of the canonical …

WebVenetian or Venetan (łéngua vèneta [ˈ(l)eŋɡwa ˈvɛneta] or vèneto) is a Romance language spoken natively in the northeast of Italy, mostly in the Veneto region, where most of the five million inhabitants can understand it. It is sometimes spoken and often well understood outside Veneto: in Trentino, Friuli, the Julian March, Istria, and some towns of Slovenia …

WebComparison is a feature in the morphology or syntax of some languages whereby adjectives and adverbs are inflected to indicate the relative degree of the property they define exhibited by the word or phrase they modify or describe. In languages that have it, the comparative construction expresses quality, quantity, or degree relative to some other comparator(s).

WebIn grammar, a subject complement or predicative of the subject is a predicative expression that follows a linking verb and that complements the subject of the sentence by either (1) renaming it or (2) describing it. It completes the meaning of the subject. In the former case, a renaming noun phrase such as a noun or pronoun is called a predicative …

WebIn formal language theory, a context-free grammar (CFG) is a formal grammar whose production rules are of the form with a single nonterminal symbol, and a string of terminals and/or nonterminals (can be empty). A formal grammar is "context-free" if its production rules can be applied regardless of the context of a nonterminal. No matter which symbols …

WebSubject–verb inversion in English is a type of inversion marked by a predicate verb that precedes a corresponding subject, e.g., ... The first two trees illustrate the analysis in an unorthodox phrase structure grammar that rejects the presence of the finite VP constituent, and the second two trees illustrate the analysis in a dependency ...

WebPredicative, subject and object complements. In many non-theoretical grammars, the terms subject complement and object complement are employed to denote the predicative expressions (such as predicative adjectives and nominals) that serve to assign a property to a subject or an object:. Ryan is upset.. – Predicative adjective as subject complement

WebIn linguistics, grammatical number is a grammatical category of nouns, pronouns, adjectives and verb agreement that expresses count distinctions (such as "one", "two" or "three or more"). English and other languages present number categories of singular or plural, both of which are cited by using the hash sign (#) or by the numero signs "No." …