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Honelako gehiago

Espectro y Frecuencias

by Roberto Torres

Organigrama arbol

by Geilis Mojica

EXCHANGE STUDENT

by Alex Escriche Garcia de Eulate

Was-Were

by JUAN ESTEBAN MANCIPE MARTINEZ

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it clefs

WH-cleft constructionscan beof the form: WH-word ? is/was/ will be

have similardistinguishing traits to theones listed earlier forpseudo-clefts: a clause with an unspecifiedargument

Focal stress

Functions as semantic or pragmatic signalling work

Is syntactically-located intonational prominence

The music of speaking alanguage. Content words arethe words in a sentencewhich are stressed. Thesewords carry new information

Pasivess

Grammarians call theunmarked transitivetype of clause active,when contrasting themwith passive clauses.

Definiteness

is noun phrases is a significant aspect of the grammar of English and will be used as a starting point here.

Indefinite

Indefinite pronouns

Somenthing, someone, somebody, anything, anyone, anybody.

Determiners

a, an, some, another, several, most, no, enough, any.

Definite

Personal pronouns

The, this, that, these, those, its, their, her, his, your my, our

Proper names

Selene