Cataphoric Reference: A cataphoric reference unit refers to another unit that is introduced later on in the text/speech. To understand the unit refered to by a cataphoric reference you would need to look ahead in the text/speech. Anaphoric Reference: An anaphoric reference unit, on the other hand, refers to another unit that was introduced earlier on in the text/speech. To understand the unit...
There are three main types of sentences: Simple sentences Conjoined sentences (also known as compound sentences) Complex sentences SIMPLE SENTENCES Simple sentences contain only one idea E.g. Zubair fell. Simple sentences comprise only one idea, clause and verb group. We say verb group (instead of verb) because a verb group itself can consist of one word (fell, assembled, cooked, won) or more...
The infinitive with ‘to‘ is used to talk about people’s purposes, the reasons why they do things. Sara is going to the shop to buy a new CD. (= because she wants to buy a new CD) I’m going to Africa to have a vacation. (= because I want to have a vacation) DO NOT USE “for” before the infinitive of purpose! Sara is going to the shop for to buy a new CD. *...
Not all languages have inflectional morphology. Some languages have little or no morphology. Still other languages have relatively complex words with distinct parts, each representing a morpheme. Traditionally these 3 types of languages have been identified as : Inflectional Isolating Agglutinating Inflectional Morphology In such languages: each word tends to be a single isolated morpheme lack...