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  Giant Papillary Conjunctivitis -- Recommendations and Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Conjunctivitis is an inflammation of the conjunctiva (the outermost layer of the eye and the inner surface of the eyelids), often due to infection.
Viral conjunctivitis is due to spread by aerosol or contact of a variety of contagious viruses, including many that cause the 'common cold', so that it is often associated with upper respiratory tract symptoms.
In linguistics, a conjunct is an adverbial that adds information to the sentence that not considered part of the propositional content (or at least not essential) but which connects the sentence with previous parts of the discourse.
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 Glossary of Grammatical Terms
a grammatical construction in which two typically adjacent nouns referring to the same person or thing stand in the same syntactical relation to the rest of a sentence.
grammatical mood of a verb that expresses the will to influence the behavior of another, expressive of a command, entreaty, or exhortation.
It is the grammatical center of a predicate.
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 Grammatical conjunction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In grammar, a conjunction is a part of speech that connects two words, phrases, or clauses together.
In general, a conjunction is an invariable grammatical particle, and it may or may not stand between the items it conjoins.
Subordinating conjunctions, also called subordinators, are conjunctions that introduce a dependent clause; English examples include after, although, if, unless, and because.
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 Supporting English Acquisition
Coordinating conjunctions are defined as conjunctions which show the relationship between two ideas, or clauses, of equal importance.
Subordinating conjunctions are defined as conjunctions which show the relationship of a less important idea to a more important idea.
A conjunctive adverb has a similar function to a conjunction in that it is also used to show the relationship between two clauses.
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 Grammatical Terms
There are 9 conjunctive accent marks you might see in the Masoretic text, the most important of which is the Munach.
A nounal used as the direct object of a transitive verb is said to be in the accusative case.
When a conjunctive Vav precedes a Bet, Lamed, or Pey, it is formed as a Shureq rather than a Vav with sheva.
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 English grammar lesson - Conjunctions
Conjunctions are used to join words or groups of words together.
Conjunctions do not normally cause serious errors, but writers are sometimes confused about when to place a comma before a conjunction.
The conjunction that joins the two halves of a compound sentence should be preceded by a comma.
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 Rules of Usage. Strunk, William, Jr. 1918. Elements of Style
If two or more clauses, grammatically complete and not joined by a conjunction, are to form a single compound sentence, the proper mark of punctuation is a semicolon.
If a conjunction is inserted, the proper mark is a comma (Rule 4).
Rules 3, 4, 5, and 6 cover the most important principles in the punctuation of ordinary sentences; they should be so thoroughly mastered that their application becomes second nature.
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Conjunction reduction, which was shown to gap only coreferent arguments with the same grammatical function, allows either object of a ditransitive predicate to gap a coreferent object of a monotransitive predicate with matching case, and vice versa.
The Grammatical Function Categories Following Alsina (1993b), I argued in chapter 4 that with the development of the level of argument structure in the LMT, the distinction made between OBJs and OBJªs could be made at the level of the argument structure given the feature specifications ÔrestrictedÕ and ÔobjectÕ on the arguments.
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G is thus a process leading from lexemes to grammatical formatives: «a sign is grammaticalized to the extent that it is devoid of concrete lexical meaning and takes part in obligatory grammatical rules», Lehmann 1982, vi.
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 Glossary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
demonstrative adjective a grammatical modifier of a noun that points to a particular person or thing in order to separate it from the persons or things of the same kind with which it is associated.
deponent a grammatical term (meaning displaced or laid aside) designating a middle or passive verb form of which it is thought the corresponding active forms have been laid aside during the course of the development of the language.
object as a grammatical term, the noun or noun equivalent toward which the action in a verb is directed; also the word that a preposition governs.
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 Untitled Glossary
A conjunction is a word that joins similar sentence elements (grammatical units) together.
Conjunctions fall into two main groups: coordinating and subordinating.
Subordinate conjunctions include words such as "because,"" if," and "since." Conjunctive adverbs (adverbial connectives) are often confused with subordinate conjunctions.
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 Grammatical Conjunction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
A conjunction is also used to start an adjectival phrase.
Subordinate conjunctions, also called subordinators, are conjunctions that join a dependent clause and an independent clause.
In English, a subordinate conjunction appears at the beginning of, and establishes the nature of, a subordinate clause.
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 A Homeschoolpedia: English Grammar -- Conjunctions
The first 2 stops are short self-contained lessons covering the 2 primary types of conjunctions; the coordinating conjunction and the subordinating conjunction.
Lesson 1 – The coordinating conjunction: a word that joins together two clauses that are both equally important.
In addition to coordinating and subordinating conjunctions, this lesson covers correlative conjunctions and conjunctive adverbs In addition to as noted in the introduction to this article.
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 Grammatical conjunction: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
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A conjunction is a part of speech that connects two words, phrases, or clauses together.
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 The Analysis of Conjunctions
Because a subordinate clause may not have a conjunction to label cs, our policy of tagging the conjunction of superordinate clauses ch insures that the relationship is specified wherever possible.
For example, result (regardless of which conjunction expresses it) is always ch; whether the relationship is means-result or reason-result, the result half of the relation is more prominent.
One of the subregularities of conjunctions is the rather large subset of them that may have, as an alternate analysis, the tag abr.
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 Grammar Handbook: Conjunctions
A coordinating conjunction connects words, phrases, and clauses that have equal or the same grammatical functions, The coordinating conjunctions include and, but, or, yet, nor, for, and so.
A correlative conjunction is a coordinating conjunction that works in pairs to connect elements in a sentence.
The subordinating conjunctions include after, in case, unless, although, in that, until, as, now that, when, as if, once, whenever, as though, since, where, because, so, whereas, before, so that, whether, even though, than, which, except that, that, while, however, though, who/whom, if.
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 Conjunction
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 Glossary of Grammar and Syntax
These conjunctions are called "subordinating conjunctions." If you're still not sure, try to make a sentence out of the clause with its subordinating conjunction.
Grammatically, the words cat's and song's are both in the possessive (aka genitive) case, but there's a different kind of relationship each has to the nouns they're going with.
They are usually introduced by a subordinating conjunction, and can't stand by themselves as a sentence if taken out.
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 Language in India
The grammatical concepts of co-ordination and subordination may be considered as part of juxtaposition of parts of sentences (internal relations as explained above).
Conjunction between sentences is an important step in bringing out the cohesion between sentences in a text.
Thus, while the importance of thinking processes (in conjunction with or without language) for the elucidation, creation and interpretation of sciences cannot be exaggerated, the importance of language, through which, and through which only, scientific ideas are expressed and understood, cannot be minimized.
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 Grammatical Building Blocks
conjunction joins words, phrases, or clauses, indicating the relation between the joined elements.
complement renames or describes the subject in conjunction with a linking verb.
phrase is a word group not including a subject and a verb but functioning as a grammatical unit.
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 CONJUNCTIONS
When a coordinating conjunction joins two words, phrases, or subordinate clauses, no comma should be placed before the conjunction.
A coordinating conjunction joining three or more words, phrases, or subordinate clauses creates a series and requires commas between the elements.
A subordinating conjunction may appear at a sentence beginning or between two clauses in a sentence.
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 Linguistics Courses
Introduction to Grammatical Theory (4) This course introduces basic syntactic phenomena and argumentation via the Government and Binding Theory of the 1980s.
Introduction to Grammatical Theory (4) A basic introduction to the theory of Cognitive Grammar, which claims that lexicon, morphology, and syntax form a continuum of symbolic structures.
Among the topics examined are semantic structure, grammatical classes, constructions, rules, clause structure, and reference-point phenomena.
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 Overcoming the Grammar Deficit: The Role of Information Technology in Teaching German Grammar to Undergraduates   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Abstract: A knowledge of grammatical rules and terminology is important for almost all foreign language learners, but especially for undergraduates, who are used to cognitive learning and who are aiming for a high level of accuracy in the language.
Practising grammatical structure in FL learning can be compared to drill and practice in other areas; for example, practising drawing in art school, practising scales and arpeggios in music, training specific elements in sport (e.g., athletics), practising individual steps in dancing, and so forth.
The concordancer is often used in conjunction with grammatical descriptions (in either electronic or book form), in order, for example, to explore areas in which grammars are vague or to check that the descriptions given in the grammars still hold for the most up-to-date usage.
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 Peter Kratzke, University of Colorado-Boulder (peter
Grammatical issues--and larger terms of rhetoric, for that matter--are usefully approached given what legal theorists call principles and rules.
From ESL to advanced writing courses, a time-honored game combining the first two principles--Socrates used it on Plato, for all I know--is for students to challenge each other to construct increasingly complex sentences built with specific grammatical elements, much as they would in playing a game of h-o-r-s-e in basketball.
Full awareness of sentence construction entails the principle of restriction (to what extent words, phrases, and clauses modify other elements).
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 conjunction - yourDictionary.com - American Heritage Dictionary
the conjunction of historical and economic forces that created a depression.
A compound proposition that has components joined by the word and or its symbol and is true only if both or all the components are true.
The relationship between the components of a conjunction.
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 Using Bible Software for New Testament Grammatical Analysis
Conjunctions and particles are particularly difficult words to classify.
Many grammatical constructions require that two or more words be in close proximity, though not necessarily side by side.
The grammatical tags were primarily selected by James L. Boyer, then Chairman of the Department of NT and Greek at Grace Theological Seminary.
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Unaccountably, composition handbooks in the chapter on comma splices rarely tell students that the colon is also a fix for some comma splices, and they fail in the chapter on the colon to cross reference the use of the colon between two main clauses to the chapter on comma splices.
In the following instances, the use of a semicolon before the conjunctive adverb would be incorrect, because the conjunctive adverb isn't being used between two clauses but rather as a connective that indicates a relationship with a whole preceding sentence.
When a conjunctive adverb is used in a clause following a preceding clause, its status of not really belonging in any one place in its own clause is shown by keeping it separate from the rest of its clause with one comma or two commas, depending on the exact position of the conjunctive adverb.
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 GLOSSARY OF GRAMMATICAL AND LINGUISTIC TERMS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
ABSOLUTE In English, a nominative absolute is a participial construction which, although explanatory in some way, has no grammatical relationship the to clause to which it is attached.
The term grammatical gender refers to inanimate objects that are assigned a gender other than neuter.
SUBORDINATING CONJUNCTION A conjunction used to join a clauses in such a way that the clause which follows it becomes dependent.
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 conjunction - OneLook Dictionary Search
noun: the grammatical relation between linguistic units (words or phrases or clauses) that are connected by a conjunction
Phrases that include conjunction: coordinating conjunction, superior conjunction, copulative conjunction, solar conjunction, alternative conjunction, more...
Words similar to conjunction: alignment, coincidence, concurrence, conjunctional, conjunctionally, conjunctive, connective, co-occurrence, junction, nor, unition, yet, more...
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