... PEG chapters 10-166 Auxiliary verbs 7 Auxiliaries conjugated with do/does/did 8 Auxiliary verbs 9 Auxiliary verbs 10 Additions to remarks, using auxiliary verbs11 Agreements and disagreements ... PRACTICAL ENGLISH GRAMMAR EXERCISES 1CONTENTS Articles PEG chapter I1 Articles: a/an 2 Articles: the 3 Articles: a/an, the 4 Articles and possessive adjectives 5 a/an and one Auxiliary verbs ... You do the exercises. 27 He had difficulty (in) getting a job.28 He dared to interrupt the president, did he? (Omit final did he?) Auxiliary verbs PEG 106-7 Put the following verbs into the...
... temporaladverbials 589Chapter 13. Adverbial when-clauses and the use of tenses 635Chapter 14. Adverbial before-clauses and after-clauses 685Glossary 759References 831Index 833 Topics in English ... the English tense system : a comprehensiveanalysis / by Renaat Declerck in cooperation with Susan Reedand Bert Cappelle.p. cm. − (The grammar of the Englishverb phrase ; v. 1)(Topics in English ... Elizabeth Traugott, Naoaki Wada,and Christopher Williams. The Grammar ofthe EnglishVerb PhraseVolume 1:The Grammar ofthe English Tense SystemA Comprehensive AnalysisbyRenaat Declerckin collaboration...
... calledweak verbs orregular verbs.play Ϫ played; love Ϫ loved; cry Ϫ cried; equip Ϫ equipped; picnic Ϫ picnickedHowever, there are quite a few verbs in English that are irregular verbs orstrong verbs. ... case the verb is a ‘copula’ or ‘linking verb (see immediately below).1.13.2 The term ‘transitive verb does not cover one-complement verbs likebe, seem, become, etc. which are linking verbs or ... perfecttenses.6. For some linguists, ‘strong verb and ‘irregular verb do not cover the same concept, nordo the terms ‘weak verb and ‘regular verb . For these linguists, past tense forms likeset,...
... duration adverbials1.46.1 A formal test to distinguish between bounded and nonbounded clausesis the addition of a particular type of duration adverbial. Anoninclusiveduration adverbial(answering ... speaking for hours. (nonbounded ϩ noninclusive duration adverbial)#John was speaking in an hour. (nonbounded ϩ inclusive duration adverbial) (Notethat in an hour should be read as measuring ... durationadverbial. If in an hour measures the temporal distance between a contextually giventime of reference and the beginning of John’s speaking, it is not an inclusive durationadverbial and...
... 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 themfuturish forms. ‘Be going to ϩ verb may be a futurish ... adverbs. (In chapter 6 itwill be shown that certain adverbials referring to a time that is connected to the presentcombine with the present perfect but not with the past tense, and that adverbials ... the following assumptions:(a) There does exist a future tense in English. This tense has future time refer-ence only.(b) English also has ‘futurish’ forms. These have dual time reference in...
... zero-point’).2.56 Types of temporal adverbials2.56.1 We have distinguished three types of adverbial that give temporal in-formation. Time-specifying adverbials (e. g. at six o’clock) temporally ... time-specifying adverbials locateorientation times (including situation times), pure duration adverbials measurethe length of the time of a full situation, and bifunctional adverbials simulta-neously ... associ-ated with the lexical verb Ϫ is actually referred to. Such verb forms establisha future domain but are not future tense forms. We call them futurish forms.‘Be going to ϩ verb is a future tense...
... given by a specific (definite or indefinite)time adverbial in the sentence itself (e. g. three days ago, a long time ago). Ifthere is no such adverbial, the necessary temporal information must ... to swim’, andthis may be the main point that the speaker wishes to communicate by usingthe adverbial.)(b) There may be other constituents in the clause that are pragmatically linkedwith a ... before the stock market crash. (The present perfect istotally ruled out by the presence of the adverbial referring to a definite past time.)In this context we may also refer to sentences like...
... alternative (nonfactual) world. Such a context is created by(amongst other things) ‘intensional verbs’ (‘verbs of propositional attitude’) like want,expect, believe, think, imagine, etc. Clauses ... sufficient on its own to discard any analysis denyingthe existence of a relative past tense in English. 8.24.3 All the examples given in 8.24.1, and in fact in all the other argumentsthat will ... data, which are naturally explained if one assumes the exis-tence of a relative past tense in English (and hence the existence of temporaldomains), cannot possibly be accounted for by an analysis...
... tense in English, an absoluteand a relative one, is supported by the fact that an absolute past tense formis compatible with an unanchored punctual time-specifying adverbial (i. e. anadverbial ... accounts for the obligatory use of thepast tense (rather than the conditional tense) in the adverbial time clause of asentence like the following:John decided that he would wait until his ... to the temporal ordering of the situation times from such sourcesas the presence of temporal adverbials, the order of appearance of the clauses,the linguistic and extralinguistic context, his...
... Non-Continuous Verb The table is heavy.ã She is weighing herself. Normal Verb She is determining her weight.Some Verbs Can Be Especially Confusing:to be:ã Joe is American. Non-Continuous Verb Joe ... Non-Continuous Verbs / Mixed VerbsIt is important to remember that Non-Continuous Verbs cannot be used in any continuous tenses. Also, certain non-continuous meanings for Mixed Verbs cannot be ... Non-Continuous Verbs / Mixed VerbsIt is important to remember that Non-Continuous Verbs cannot be used in any continuous tenses. Also, certain non-continuous meanings for Mixed Verbs cannot be...
... PEG chapters 10-166 Auxiliary verbs 7 Auxiliaries conjugated with do/does/did 8 Auxiliary verbs 9 Auxiliary verbs 10 Additions to remarks, using auxiliary verbs11 Agreements and disagreements ... PRACTICAL ENGLISH GRAMMAR EXERCISES 1CONTENTS Articles PEG chapter I1 Articles: a/an 2 Articles: the 3 Articles: a/an, the 4 Articles and possessive adjectives 5 a/an and one Auxiliary verbs ... You do the exercises. 27 He had difficulty (in) getting a job.28 He dared to interrupt the president, did he? (Omit final did he?) Auxiliary verbs PEG 106-7 Put the following verbs into the...
... I did everything I could.11. I must go now.12. Diamonds suit me.7 200 ENGLISH grammar exercises 1 2 Auxiliary verbs: short answers PEG 108Assume that questions are addressed to you and ... plays Italian music.5. drinks English beer.6. dances with a Greek girl.7. uses an English dictionary.8. has lunch in a Japanese restaurant.9. listens to the news in English. 10. writes in Spanish.11. ... the answer.)12. talks English. 13. corrects the Spanish essays.14. explains in English. 15. lectures in Spanish.16. broadcasts in Spanish.17. addresses students in English. 18. cooks a Spanish...