When a sentence uses a transitive verb to describe an action, it’s necessary for the subject to take a direct object and to act on it: “The woman spurned her suitor last week.” “Her suitor found a ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The paper comprises an investigation of the order of the main sentence elements (subject, verb, and object) in Greek stichic verse, and ...

WE all know that when a sentence uses a transitive verb as the operative verb, it's absolutely necessary for the subject to take a direct object and to act on it: "The woman spurned her suitor last ...

An inversion means the change of word order in a sentence or a clause. The concept of subject-verb inversion is applied to sentences with main constituent order Subject-Verb-Object (SVO), meaning that ...

This paper attempts to extend from syntax (basic word order) to morphology (the distribution of pronouns and their exponents) one of the three functional principles that Tomlin (1986) invokes in order ...

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A recent headline from the Los Angeles Times, “Teens plotting attacks tend to tip their hand,” highlights a particularly difficult grammar problem. Do plural teens really share a singular hand? No.