English articles (Revisited)

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Asymmetric English Auctions Revisited

I introduce a property of player’s valuations that ensures the existence of an ex post e¢ cient equilibrium in asymmetric English auctions. The use of this property has the advantage of yielding an ex post e¢ cient equilibrium without assuming di¤erentiability of valuations or that signals are drawn from a density. These technical, non economic, assumptions have been ubiquitous in the study of ...

English Resultatives Revisited

This paper focusses on the English adjectival resultative construction, as exempliied in examples (1)-(4). (1) John hammered the metal at. (2) The river froze solid. (3) The dog barked itself hoarse. (4) The dog barked the neighbours awake. Result predication occurs with both transitive and intransitive verbs. In the transitive case, the result state is predicated of the object (1). For intrans...

Cross-Linguistic Transfer Revisited: The Case of English and Persian

The present study sought to investigate the evidence for cross-linguistic transfer in a partial English immersion and non-immersion educational setting. To this end, a total of 145 first, third and fifth graders in a partial English immersion program and 95 students from the same grade levels in a non-immersion program were chosen. Six different English and Persian tests were administered: the ...

How to improve writing English articles

Introduction: One of the sections that readily captures the attention of readers of scientific articles is the title, but unfortunately, some authors, although being competent in writing the main content of the article, and considering the matters related to the writing style, mostly lack the skill required to couch the title in an attractive way. Methods: In this article, using three decades ...