The Grammar of English Grammars

... to impose conscious rules of language usage on the unanalyzed language they already spoke proficiently To so, they were often told to change the way they spoke, and they were told that to avoid ... including the judgmental “good grammar ; we call them standard written English. ) In contrast to prescriptive grammar is the form of language analysis known as descriptive grammar;...

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... dummy subject it to the front of the sentence and then placing the subject clause at the end of the compound subordinate sentence form the physical shape of a word itself the phonemes and morphemes ... service Did the principal make Bart stay after school again? I dared them to jump off the top of the Sears Tower The judged considered the witness to be lying We...

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... subject; the dummy subject then appears at the beginning of the sentence, separated from the rest of the sentence Extrapositional means that the it is extra (beyond) the position (part of the sentence) ... that the Edgar of the main clause is the selfsame Edgar as the Edgar of the subordinate clause, so we speak of the two Edgars as being equivalent Per...

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... among them the weather, the temperature, the climate, and the environment Thus it is not too much of a stretch of the imagination to substitute one of these “weather” coreferentials—in this case the ... [the man] says he’s beyond the law The second of these is a relative clause The bracket-marked gap that appears at the beginning of the second clause is home t...

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... Relative Clauses 159 noun the man Just as the man is the subject of the man sings Wagner, so is the man the subject of the man is their friend So the main clause’s the man and the relative clause’s ... is the largest city in the world I work hardest of all Tubby is the smartest kid in the whole third grade Professor Fidgit owns the most books on Ancient A...

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... me the new bike of the boy Pete stepped on the tail of the cat ( The Tail of the Cat” sounds like the name of a quaint bar or restaurant.) The favorite food of the cop is donuts The budget of the ... in the subway The ghost frightened the witch but saved the princess from the dragon The gentry and the nobility looked down on the serfs and, from...

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... superficially resemble each other: [54 ] [55 ] The woman they called on was their teacher The woman they called up was their teacher Sentences (54 ) and (55 ) involve the phenomenon known as gapping, ... telephone’: a They called on their teacher *They called their teacher on b They called up their teacher They called their teacher up a They called on him *They called him on b *They cal...

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... verb There is yet another way that English can emphasize the action of the verb: by avoiding a contraction and then peak stressing one of the two noncontracted elements the verb form itself or the ... whose/why/how) as well as to the nonreferential there (see chapter 7), especially in colloquial speech Here are some examples: [42 ] [43 ] [44 ] [45 ] [46 ] [47 ] [48 ] [49 ] Wh...

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... progressive The three words are these: a conjugated form of the nonmodal auxiliary have been (the past participle of BE) the present participle of the particular LV Here are some examples of these ... sleep 44 weep 30 slide 45 welcome 31 spring 46 win 32 steal 47 wring 33 strike 48 write B Tell whether each of the following forms is base, past, past participle, or two...

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... take the /z/ off, the word you get makes sense (It is the plural form of the singular noun payday.)” 10 11 12 13 001-030.Teschner.01.indd 27 14 4 /2/ 07 6:05:38 PM 28 Chapter 15 23 16 24 17 25 18 26 ... 19 27 20 28 21 29 22 30 /d/—Another Highly Productive English Morpheme The /d/ morpheme represents a total of four very significant and frequently used functions,...

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... ISBN -13 : 978 -1- 589 01- 166-3 (pbk : alk paper) ISBN -10 : 1- 589 01- 166-X (pbk : alk paper) English language Grammar I Evans, Eston Earl, 19 40– II Title PE 111 2.T48 2007 425–dc22 20060 311 86 This book ... n , D C 4/2/07 6:02: 31 PM As of January 1, 2007, 13 -digit ISBN numbers have replaced the 10 -digit system 13 -digit Paperback: 978 -1- 589 01- 166-3 10 -digit Paperb...

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... Tense English language − Grammar I Reed, Susan, 19 59− II Cappelle, Bert, 19 75− III Title PE13 01. D36 2006 42 51. 62−dc22 2006020424 ISBN -13 : 978-3 -11 - 018 589-8 ISBN -10 : 3 -11 - 018 589-X ISSN 14 34-3452 ... Topics in English Linguistics 60 -1 Editors Bernd Kortmann Elizabeth Closs Traugott Mouton de Gruyter Berlin · New York The Grammar of the English Verb Phr...

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