The grammar of the english verb phrase part 110 doc
The grammar of the english verb phrase part 110 doc
... before-clause, the Anchor time is the initial or terminal point,
respectively, of the Adv-time indicated by the adverbial clause: the Anchor time
is the point referred to by the second occurrence of the ... more generally to the actualization of any of the four types of situ-
ation).
Adjectival clause: subclause forming part of a noun phrase and modifying...
The grammar of the english verb phrase part 2 doc
... verb forms 22
A. Tense 22
1.14 Introduction 22
1.15 The formation of the present tense 23
1.16 The formation of the past tense 23
1.17 The formation of the other tenses 24
1.18 The meanings of ... dealing
with the English verb phrase. (The definitions
of the terms and concepts used in the book are
brought together in an extensive glossary at the
end of...
The grammar of the english verb phrase part 3 docx
... speak of a
noun phrase (NP) (e. g.
all those beautiful houses built in the sixties). If the head is a verb, the phrase
is a verb phrase (VP). In the following sentence the VP is in italics and the
verb ... whether a clause refers to the performance of an action,
the happening of an event, the development of a process or the existence of a
state, we can...
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... consisting of the initial
letters of the terms negation, inversion, code and emphasis. The reference is to
the four cases in which the English VP requires an auxiliary. If there is no
auxiliary, the ... a verb form’. A
verb form consists either
of a verb (in the form of a participle or infinitive) plus one or more auxiliaries
(e. g. will see, would have seen) or...
The grammar of the english verb phrase part 8 doc
... (and to the clauses denoting
them), the literature also applies these labels to the verbs or verb phrases which
typically refer to a particular group of situations. We read of ‘punctual verbs’,
‘durative ... Using the term verb phrase (VP)
Strictly speaking, a verb phrase is a phrase (group of words) with a verb as
head. Thus, the clause John presumably left the...
The grammar of the english verb phrase part 11 doc
... according to the length
of the book or the size of the wall and is unspecified when the verb phrase
write a book or build a wall is used). The other kind of measuring VP consists
of verb phrases which ... characteristic of sen-
tences (since the nature of the subject does not play a part in making the
distinction)
20
but of verbs and verb phrases. In...
The grammar of the english verb phrase part 30 docx
... about other parts of the situa-
tion or about the situation as a whole. In technical terms, what is located in
the past is not the time of the full situation but the situation time (the time of
the ... to manage to reach the addressee so quickly.
In each of the clauses in the past tense, the speaker is concerned with one particular
situation forming part of...
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... connection with the
time of the full situation, the semantics of the present perfect is always The
situation time is located in the pre-present zone’, i. e. The pre-present zone
contains the situation ... interpretation. (The precondi-
tion for the continuative reading Ϫ that the situation be homogeneous, in
other words that the situation time can be a proper subpart...
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... Compare:
IV. More on the indefinite reading of the perfect 243
The following pair of examples also illustrates the rule that (on an indefinite
interpretation) the time of actualization of the situation ... of the recession.
244 5. The absolute use of the present perfect
Moreover, the present perfect can co-occur with the adverbials recently, lately,
just and...
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... reading. The
latter is the preferred interpretation if the sentence is used out of context.)
The Johnsons have lived in London for three years now. (The presence of now in
the adverbial means that the ... before, in the past,
etc., this distance is as short as is allowed by the semantics and pragmatics of
290 5. The absolute use of the present perfect
(a) On the...
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