Found inside – Page 155GENERATING SENTENCES There are only about a dozen basic patterns in English sentences , but from these few patterns ... In this section we will briefly examine the processes by which our minds can generate endless numbers of sentences that ... of English structure pretty well dictated the remaining course of the sentence , though there could be some variations . ... 2 We will not consider request sentences , which have no subject , or questions , or various kinds of utterances that ... Found inside – Page 188We show the examples of a few disagreements (Sentence#1 to Sentence#5 in Table 9) ... Request, Bug Report or Praise) in Shah's annotation, some examples are ... Found inside – Page 102For example, let's say that Carol wanted to make a request to her spouse to wash the dishes in the sink. The most direct possible sentence is the command ... Found inside – Page 133... other person can more rapidly select an alternate person or method of attaining the request ; and ( 4 ) can turn your second sentence toward solving the potential problems you could have created by saying " no . " Examples of sentences that ... Found insideCommas could be used in place of the colons, and although not quite so ... The following are examples of the requests that are sent out every day: “Will you ... The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation is filled with easy-to-understand rules,real-world examples, dozens of reproducible exercises, and pre- and post-tests. Found inside – Page 373 Here are some words you could use to describe books . ... Underline which of the two sentences you would use in a letter of request to someone ... Found inside – Page 46Some, any: Some is used normally in affirmative sentences to express quantity or degree. Any is used in negative or ... (Request) Did you buy some clothes? Found inside – Page 291Connectors tO This process, called coordination, is used more frequently than any other Join Sentences pattern. ... Study the following examples to learn how the combinations work. Sentences: Michael ... (BUT) Combined: Luis received a scholarship to nursing school j but Anna's request was denied. Sentences: We did ... Found inside – Page 252One valid sentence beginning was , for example , Please machine give , to which she could add M & M , water , milk , piece of banana , piece of apple , etc . ... Lana ' s naming of materials is no longer restricted to responding to a request ... Found insideRequest sentences provide some excellent examples of formal variation with ... we find that requests could take any form, as in the following examples: ... Found inside – Page 98Look at the following examples: Assertive Interrogative 1. ... Verb + Obj. (command sentence) Request-word + verb + Obj. (request sentence) Or Could + you + ... Found inside – Page 321In (7.64) above, the command/request extends to the medial clause, whereas in (14) it ... in the sense that they could stand alone as individual sentences. Found inside – Page 14For example, request-questions with modals such as Kannst du uns besuchen? ... So, by way of example, the following sentence containing the ... Found inside – Page 49One of his well known examples is the request form : could you pass the salt ? Variations on this form are can you pass the salt ?, canl could you reach the ... Found inside – Page 65Tell Ss that they are going to practice making requests. 9 Ask S5 to give examples of ways of making requests, such as: Would you mind ? Could you please ? Found inside – Page 76A request is a sentence that asks someone to do something. It ends with a period or question mark. Example: Please shut the door. Answers may vary but could ... Found inside – Page 198Request sentences provide some excellent examples of formal variation with ... we find that requests could take any form, as in the following examples: ... Found inside – Page 223more polite phrases for example 'could' or 'would' but I found that in the ... this role play (Examples 14 and 15) suggests that his perceptions of request ... Found inside – Page 118Once users had learned a particular semantic structure, they could request paraphrases of the original sentence. The system would generate alternative ... Found insideTo the first sentence Natalia could hardly respond by saying, ... Similarly, example 4 could not count as a real request unless Natalia has the right to ... Found inside – Page 80may be used if the target is simply for the client to produce verbal requests. “Which one do you want?” could attempt to elicit sentences with adjectives. Found inside – Page 31(Examples from the Perspectives: messages 1, 4) Note: That is optional. Indirect requests can also use would. 2. Imperatives Can/Could you tell/ask + (Jeff) ... Found inside – Page 116A useful means of recording examples , summaries must be written entirely in your own words , usually in abbreviated form . When taking ... phrases , or short sentences . Do not use any of ... L . L . Bean , for example , could request a list of all consumers who possess a bank card with $ 5 , 000 or more of available credit . Found inside – Page 107Sam, could you read paragraph four? NOTE: In request, 'could' is more polite than 'can'. The examples given above are important. Example 2 is an expression ... Found inside – Page 163Type 4 – Please + True Imperative Such imperatives are very common in English and serve to express a request . ... English sentences beginning with “ Will you ... ” , “ Could you ... ” have been classified as Type 7 a . Examples : Pójdziesz stąd ... Found inside – Page 166Typical examples of constructions are idioms whose meaning cannot be ... (request) Provided this line of argumentation is correct, we could assume the ... Found inside – Page 556In this example, you're making a polite request for what you could do while in Vienna; ... This sentence contains two subjunctives, wollte and hätte. Found inside – Page 267More specifically, one might grant the sentence itself a meaning, namely, a request for permission to do an action, and interpret the speaker's action as a ... Found inside – Page 26These are best suited to issuing commands and requests: fac, facias, and faciamus are all examples of (one-word) imperative sentences. Found inside – Page 41Asin Unit 9 above . Flash cards . Sentence slips . Sentence slips . Flash cards . As in Unit 12 above . 13 . Reporting (. 10 . ... use of will and can and also the degree of politeness implied in the use of would and could as markers of request . ... The use of : will , can , would , could , Examples : Will you pass the paper , please ? Found inside – Page 35Say words and phrases from the box (or other similar words and phrases), and ask learners to make requests, e.g. Teacher: concerts Learner: Could you tell ... Found inside – Page 391Giving useful feedback to students, for example, might require pointing out ... Depending on the context, the sentence (14c) could be an indirect request or ... Found inside – Page 48Yes No Answers : Request a Tina needs a ride to the airport at 6 a.m. on Saturday ... own sentences , using other patterns ( can you , could you , would you ) ... Found inside – Page 304To see how this might work , we must first recognize that not all may I sentences have the force of requests . ... necessarily performing any action ( for example , verbs like have , get , hold , hear , see , and feel , as well as passive verb phrases ... Found inside – Page 39Example Scope Request Non-reprise 11.7% What did you say? Complete Repeat clarifications Reprise sentences 6.7 % Do you have a red building on your left? Found inside – Page 71Request sentences provide some excellent examples of formal variation with ... we find that requests could take any form, as in the following examples: ... Found inside – Page 341First, imperative sentences make a command or request. ... be followed directly by the infintive requests etc, are reported by 'not + infinitive' (example 4 ... Found inside – Page 38Here are some words you could use to describe books . ... Underline which of the two sentences you would use in a letter of request to someone you do not ... Found inside – Page 214A given sentence may be used at different times in different illocutionary acts . The above example ( 16 ) was spoken with the illocutionary force of a request for the listener to eat some cake , but the sentence could also be spoken as a ... Found inside – Page 62Depending on the time available and the level of the class , you could ask ... by asking one or two people to read their request sentences to the class . Found inside – Page 112That sentence example 2 could have an illocutionary force or doing function of an assertion rather than that of an order is ... the structure of sentence example 5 could be that of a request , not of a question , given a request illocutionary force or ... Designed to help advance students master spoken and written English as it is actually used, this groundbreaking new dictionary provides in-depth and up-to-date coverage of basic English vocabulary, grammar, and usage. Found inside – Page 101Thus , the non - compulsion command illocutionary intent expressible with sentence ( 10 ) below for example could equally well be expressed with sentence ( 12 ) , which is the only type of request sentence recognised by Derr ( 1987 ) in his ... Found inside – Page 112For example, consider the ELI parser [Riesbeck and Schank, 1976]. Parsing knowledge in ELI ... A request could be in one of two states: active or inactive. Found inside – Page 5Examples The teacher asked the student why he did not do well in class test. ... or expresses a request or command is called imperative sentence. Found inside – Page 18PLANES can handle ellipsis, as illustrated in the preceding example. ... away all such portions of requests as “Can I get. . . ,” “Could I get... ,” “Can I ... Found inside – Page 96There ' s another Cahuilla ending , - pu ' , which can be used to give a polite command or request : ' ehichipu ' . Please go . ... Pu ' can be used to mean ' could ' or ' might ' ( to express uncertainty , in other words ) in many other types of sentences too . ... Here are some examples : Wiwi ' chi pe ' yawichipu ' u hema ? Could ... 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