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English grammar drills part 4 pdf
... slowest X thest It can be used as a predicate adjective The term predicate adjective refers to adjectives that function as predicates of linking verbs (These terms are explained in detail in Chapter ... lane passed me However, as a true adjective, slow has three characteristics that the does not have: 18 Adjectives 19 It always immediately precedes the noun being modi ed We see in the preceding ... of predicate adjectives: The Tower of London is ancient The children are quiet Our dinner is ready The verb be is by far the most common linking verb The predicate adjective in linking verb sentences...
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English grammar drills part 9 pdf
... attached to the nouns that they modify Here are some examples with the noun being modi ed underlined and the adjective clause in italics: The book that I need is not in the library I answered all ... interviewed the parents whose children participated in the study We interviewed them Did you find a place where we can park overnight? Did you find it? We need to pick a time when we can all meet We need ... of the verb met—as in “We all met Ms Walker earlier.” The musicians, whom we selected from local schools, will play for us today Whom is the object of the verb selected—as in “We selected the...
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English grammar drills part 12 pdf
... they must refer back to some noun (or pronoun) mentioned earlier in the same sentence This previously mentioned noun is called the antecedent of the reflexive pronoun The word reflexive comes from ... these examples, the antecedent of the reflexive pronoun is the subject of the sentence While this is generally the case, the antecedent can also be the object of the preceding verb For example, look ... some dessert Here the antecedent of the reflexive pronoun himself is not the subject of the sentence, Mary, but the object, John If we tried to make the subject the antecedent, the result would be...
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English grammar drills part 14 pdf
... years Object of verb We need to get some more help They expected to be in Dallas by noon today The office tried to reach him by voice mail Predicate nominative (complement of a linking verb) The idea ... dictionary form of the verb For example: to be to go to have Gerunds and Infinitives 87 Infinitives can be used in many ways, but in this chapter we are only concerned with infinitives used as nouns An ... infinitives and infinitive phrases used as objects The infinitives are in italics, and the entire infinitive phrase is underlined We all need to sleep We all need to sleep for a few hours We want...
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English grammar drills part 22 pdf
... Not all verbs can be used in the present progressive (or any other progressive tense, for that matter) Of particular importance is a group of verbs called stative verbs We think of a verb as ... some verbs appear twice because they can be used with different meanings Exercise 9.6 Examine each verb in italics in the following sentences If the verb is not a stative verb, rewrite the verb ... we move in Progressive tenses The progressive tenses are all formed by the helping verb be in some form immediately followed by a verb in the present participle form The present progressive uses...
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English grammar drills part 33 pdf
... John smiled We cannot invert the verb smiled because it is neither an auxiliary verb nor a helping verb What we instead is insert the dummy auxiliary verb in front of the main verb smiled We will ... point, we have formed yes-no questions from statements that contained verbs that can be inverted: the nine modal auxiliary verbs, the two helping verbs (be and have) and the main verb be (ignoring ... auxiliary verb This dummy verb takes away the tense marker from the main verb (just like any modal auxiliary or helping verb) so that the main verb becomes an uninflected base form The dummy verb, ...
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English grammar drills part 36 pdf
... the process for forming negative statements Not is inserted immediately after modal auxiliary verbs, helping verbs, and be used as a main verb For example: Modals Helping Be Positive John can meet ... 13.13 Underline the verb and not If the verb and not have a contracted form, draw a line through the verb and not and write the contracted form above them If there is no contracted form, write OK ... sentence does not have a modal auxiliary, helping verb, or be used as a main verb, we must insert the dummy auxiliary verb immediately in front of the first verb By exactly the same process we saw with...
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English grammar drills part 41 pdf
... that you have underlined It The book you asked for finally came in 274 English Grammar Drills I asked the new worker you hired to come to my office The car that he wrecked is in the workshop Where ... polite She bought the store she had managed for such a long time The shoppers he interviewed all preferred the new product Bob wrecked the car he rented in Las Vegas The wren you heard singing ... students conducted the debate May asked James to solve the problem That computer seemed to fi x ! She didn’t want to let Ask 277 become depressed if you want to live like that 10 We sewed the quilt...
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The grammar of the english verb phrase part 1 pdf
... Topics in English Linguistics 60-1 Editors Bernd Kortmann Elizabeth Closs Traugott Mouton de Gruyter Berlin · New York The Grammar of the English Verb Phrase Volume 1: The Grammar of the English ... the English tense system : a comprehensive analysis / by Renaat Declerck in cooperation with Susan Reed and Bert Cappelle p cm − (The grammar of the English verb phrase ; v 1) (Topics in English ... Zech, Bremen Typesetting: META Systems GmbH, Wustermark Printed in Germany Acknowledgements Susan Reed and Bert Cappelle have offered me substantial assistance in writing this book I want to...
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The grammar of the english verb phrase part 5 pdf
... are called weak verbs or regular verbs play Ϫ played; love Ϫ loved; cry Ϫ cried; equip Ϫ equipped; picnic Ϫ picnicked However, there are quite a few verbs in English that are irregular verbs or ... spend Ϫ spent creep Ϫ crept, keep Ϫ kept, sweep Ϫ swept, weep Ϫ wept bleed Ϫ bled, breed Ϫ bred, feed Ϫ fed, speed Ϫ sped 23 24 Introduction blow Ϫ blew, grow Ϫ grew, know Ϫ knew, throw Ϫ threw ... the use of tenses is concerned, is treated as if it were the time of speech The four verb forms are now used like relative tenses III Meaning categories expressed by verb forms Because they express...
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The grammar of the english verb phrase part 12 pdf
... former as ‘L-bounded’ (i e linguistically represented as bounded) and to the latter as ‘W-bounded’ (i e pragmatically interpreted as bounded in the world that is being referred to) However, since ... adverbial has been added to a bounded clause with a telic VP, we can still render that bounded clause (including the adverbial) nonbounded by making the verb form progressive: 26 As pointed out in footnote ... can all be used to announce the same situation This means that the actualization of a situation is not inherently bounded or nonbounded; it is represented as bounded or nonbounded by a particular...
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The grammar of the english verb phrase part 17 pdf
... situation which is the outcome predictable from the present state Only the future situation Ϫ the one associated with the lexical verb Ϫ is actually referred to Such verb forms establish a future ... tense is supported by the fact that the two tenses behave differently with certain adverbs (In chapter it will be shown that certain adverbials referring to a time that is connected to the present ... adverbials referring to a bygone time that is dissociated from the present combine with the past tense but not with the present perfect.) 2.10.1 It is often claimed that a form like has arrived...
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The grammar of the english verb phrase part 25 pdf
... have been The predicated situation is the part of the full situation which is actually located in time by the tense used The predicated situation Ϫ the linguistically indicated situation Ϫ and ... one associated with the lexical verb Ϫ is actually referred to Such verb forms establish a future domain but are not future tense forms We call them futurish forms ‘Be going to ϩ verb is a future ... which is often inferred Ϫ may coincide with one another, or the predicated situation may be shorter than the full situation It is the time of the actualization of the predicated situation that we...
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