Dependent clause

Misplaced and dangling modifiers can be a horror. Do you know what’s a modifier? It’s a word, a phrase or a clause that provides a description in a sentence. It can be an adjective, an adverb, an absolute phrase, an infinitive phrase, a participle phrase, and a prepositional phrase. You know what’s more? Without these modifiers, your sentences will be boring…

(EPP) is a principle common to all languages which states that a sentence must always have a subject. According to the EPP and as explained by Carnie (2013), all clauses must have subjects (i.e. the specifier of TP must be filled by a DP or CP) and lexical information must be expressed at all levels. In the UG view,…

relationships but also reduces the effectiveness of the parties that are lied to (Dauten, 1964). Considering a business can only be as effective as the employees that run the daily operations; they must be as capable as possible. Therefore, a key clause in any communication contract must revolve around…

hv=t&hl=t&csi=237924&secondRedirectIndicator=true. Summary: This article is written by Jessica Silver-Greenberg and Robert Gebeloff, who are both reporters for The New York Times. It is argued that credit card contracts that include arbitration clauses prevent customers from joining together in class-action lawsuits, disabling them from challenging the company’s practices. Because many Wall Street corporations in effect have banned class-action lawsuits, with the aid of Alan S. Kaplinsky, many…

Color is Just Skin Deep: Behn, Prejudice, and Contradicting Views of Monarchy Aphra Behn’s royalist sympathies are historically known, so it is to no surprise that the royal titular protagonist of her work, Oroonoko, is a tragic figure meant to evoke sympathy. However, a contradiction seems to emerge with the portrayal of Oroonoko’s grandfather and the current reigning monarch. Oroonoko is, as expected, portrayed in a manner that invokes pity for his plight, but his grandfather is cast as an…

After reading Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson, one may ask, how does this book fit into a course addressing genus, genius, and gender? For one, this course focuses on the female geniuses of literature and how they fall into the genus, which is driven by the male gender. In this respect, the narrator in Housekeeping is a young girl, Ruth, who happens to be the genius in this story. She tells us, in quite detail, the story of how her family came to reside in the town of Fingerbone, and the…

The commerce clause, Article 1 Section 8, of the Constitution gives Congress the power to regulate commerce among the states. One would say that because of the fact that these laws are intrastate then commerce may not regulate; but that idea is struck down by the modern approach of the commerce clause. The modern approach to the commerce clause is commerce power that allows Congress to regulate and protect the channels of interstate…

This matter involves a class action lawsuit filed against Evanston Northwestern Healthcare Corporation. The lawsuit, which was originally filed in 2007, is brought as a class action on behalf of all persons and entities that paid for inpatient and hospital-based outpatient healthcare services from Evanston Northwestern Healthcare Corporation at Highland Park Hospital, Glenbrook Hospital and Evanston Hospital. (Evanston Northwestern Healthcare Corporation changed its name to NorthShore…

Wolff wrote this scene not as a specific event, but as a scene that would occur every time he, Dwight, his mother and Pearl went to shooting competitions in other towns. His mother would do quite well, and Dwight would lose, blaming his losses on uncontrollable factors like the gun he was using. He felt intimidated by Toby’s mother and pulled into a tavern parking lot and went inside to drink, Toby’s mother followed later, and Toby and Pearl were left in the car. This isolation left Pearl and…

clinic performing late-term abortions which violate the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban (PBABA), pro-choice advocacy organizations (PCAO) are challenging the legality of the ban based on their view that Congress is exceeding its authority under the Commerce Clause. The PBABA itself states “Any physician who, in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce, knowingly performs a partial-birth abortion and thereby kills a human fetus shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 2 years, or…