ENG 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: French Revolution, Adverb, Preposition And Postposition

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 1120
• Professor: Cory Sampson

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Preposiion: shows relaive posiion or semanic relaionship of a noun to another place. The subject of a sentence is always a noun: the dog barked . The simple subject is the one word that does the acion in the sentence: twelve angry, poorly dressed men with bad haircuts burst into the room. The complete subject includes adjacent phrases that describe the simple subject: the twelve, angry, poorly-dressed men with bad haircuts, burst into the room . When you conjugate a verb, its number must agree with the simple subject even if there are other nouns closer to the verb! Example: the cats in my brother"s apartment building are really loud. The simple subject, cats is plural; therefore, we conjugate the verb to be with the form are , not is . Narrator: the voice of the story, doesn"t have to be an individual person.