Grammatical errors can make or break a sentence, especially in the English language, and getting them right is as basic as it gets Considering the requests made by some readers, a grammar point will ...

Methods & Procedures The participants were ten people with aphasia and ten non-brain-damaged controls. The stimuli were syntactically simple transitive and intransitive sentences that contained ...

At the heart of language are verbs: the action words that make sentences come alive. Even if you haven’t heard of the phrase “transitive verb,” you’ve seen it in action before. It’s one of the most ...

Discipline of Linguistics, University of New England, Armidale, NSW, Australia To investigate the role of verbs in sentence production, the experiment reported here employed a simple sentence ...

Studies of sentence comprehension in non-disordered populations have convincingly demonstrated that probabilistic cues influence on-line syntactic processing. One well-studied cue is verb argument ...

WHEN we were children and just beginning to learn English grammar, many of us were taken aback by the strange failure of some verbs to work in certain sentence constructions. For instance, perhaps ...

Transitivity is an important grammatical issue and has been a hot topic in linguistic theories. It has been studied from different approaches. This paper aims to describe the main features and ...

Using the self-paced reading, this paper investigated the role of verbs or constructions when Chinese EFL (English as a Foreign Language) learners try to understand an English sentence. Previous ...