It's been a while to not posting on my blog. In this time, I am going to write about the determiner of "another, other, and others". I got these questions few months ago yet I didn't have time to post to. Okay, let us talk "another". This determiner is usually used with singular noun. It has two meanings, first is "something else (not specific), different from this". Let see the example below:
Example: One person's secret is another person's secret.
The second meaning is "one more, extra or additional".
Example: I want another hat.
Please give me another job.
As I stated above that "another" can be used only with singular noun. Meanwhile, "other" has also meaning of "different". It is used with plural noun.
Example: There are other people standing over there.
The rule of "other" is used when you only have two choices and you need to say "not this, but that".
Example: "The fruit store is placed on the other side of this street". (Means that the store is not at this street but at that street)
If you still get confused, try analyze these examples of "another" and "other".
There are a lot of books on the table. I don't like this book, give me another one.
There are only two books on the table. I don't like this book, give me the other one.
Another and other can be used to replace adjectives, but others only replace plural nouns. Look at these examples below:
Example: There are some students speaking English. others are speaking Bahasa.
There are five hats in my bag. Two are here. Where are the others?
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Senin, 19 Maret 2012
The Definition of Word, Phrase, Clause and Sentence
These definitions are taken from Routledge Dictionary of Language and Linguistics by Hadumod Bussman.
Word: Term used intuitively in everyday language for a basic element of language; numerous linguistic attempts at defining the concept are not uniform and remain controversial.
Phrase: (1) term for word groups without a finite verb that belong together syntactically. In contrast, the term 'Clause' denotes a syntactic construction with finite verb; thus clause stands hierarchically between phrase and sentence. (2) in phrase structure grammar, the term 'phrase' stands for a set of syntactic elements which form a constituent (=relatively independent group of words. The most important phrases are noun phrases (consisting of nominal expressions with corresponding attributive modifiers: Philip, good old Philip, he, Philip, who is a dreamer), verb phrases (dreams, sees the fire, thinks that he's right), prepositional phrases (on the table)among others. (also adjective phrase, determiner phrase)
Clause: Neutral term for both dependent (subordinate clause) and independent (clauses main clause)
Sentence : Unit of speech constructed according to language-dependent rules, which is relatively complete and and independent in respect to content, grammatical structure, and intonation. Sentence can be divided into simple, compound, and complex sentence: simple sentences may contain only one finite verb plus obligatory and optional; compound sentences at least two finite verb, with clauses being joined through coordination; complex sentences contain at least two finite verbs, with all additional (dependent) clauses being joined to the main (independent) clause via subordination.
The next question is what is the difference between a clause and a sentence? According to me, a clause is group that contains words and has at least verb and predicate. The clause can be sentence. However, a sentence is the largest structure formation that contains a main verb, subject, predicate, intonation, and it's built by clause. So there will probably be some finite verbs that joined in one sentence. Example: I like you but I hate you. We would say that the sentence contains two clauses rather two sentences.
Word: Term used intuitively in everyday language for a basic element of language; numerous linguistic attempts at defining the concept are not uniform and remain controversial.
Phrase: (1) term for word groups without a finite verb that belong together syntactically. In contrast, the term 'Clause' denotes a syntactic construction with finite verb; thus clause stands hierarchically between phrase and sentence. (2) in phrase structure grammar, the term 'phrase' stands for a set of syntactic elements which form a constituent (=relatively independent group of words. The most important phrases are noun phrases (consisting of nominal expressions with corresponding attributive modifiers: Philip, good old Philip, he, Philip, who is a dreamer), verb phrases (dreams, sees the fire, thinks that he's right), prepositional phrases (on the table)among others. (also adjective phrase, determiner phrase)
Clause: Neutral term for both dependent (subordinate clause) and independent (clauses main clause)
Sentence : Unit of speech constructed according to language-dependent rules, which is relatively complete and and independent in respect to content, grammatical structure, and intonation. Sentence can be divided into simple, compound, and complex sentence: simple sentences may contain only one finite verb plus obligatory and optional; compound sentences at least two finite verb, with clauses being joined through coordination; complex sentences contain at least two finite verbs, with all additional (dependent) clauses being joined to the main (independent) clause via subordination.
The next question is what is the difference between a clause and a sentence? According to me, a clause is group that contains words and has at least verb and predicate. The clause can be sentence. However, a sentence is the largest structure formation that contains a main verb, subject, predicate, intonation, and it's built by clause. So there will probably be some finite verbs that joined in one sentence. Example: I like you but I hate you. We would say that the sentence contains two clauses rather two sentences.
Minggu, 22 Januari 2012
MrDowoPortal.Com Is Officially Published
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