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- 1Types of subordinate classes
- 2Noun Clause subtypes
- 3sentence vs. clause
- 4ing-clause vs. to-infinitiveing: enjoy, dislike, avoid, admit, practice, ..
to-infinitive: afford, attempt, decide, hope, manage, want, .. - 5little/no meaning differencebegin, start, love, prefer, ..
- 6meaning difference:forget, remember, stop, regret, go on,..
Sensory Perceptory verbs: see, watch, hear - 7There is always a noun phrase within a prepositional phrase. yes or no?no
In spite of
Instead of
Any more
On account of
To the fact that
Because of - 8Present Participle vs. GerundPresent Participle: (like an adjectives): in text eg. talking and hitchhiking (24a)
Gerund: ing form used as nouns (24b) - 9Preposition of particle? She looked up the references. She looked up the stairs. He ran up a bill. He ran up the hill.She looked up the references. → particle
She looked up the stairs. → prep.
He ran up a bill. → particle
He ran up the hill. → prep.
particle usually gets the main stress! - 10effects of the progressiveExtra emphasis on duration/limited duration e.g. I have been speaking to Al. o Notion of incompletion + continuation in the future e.g. She’s been working... o Repetition/iteration e.g. Who’s been eating my sandwich?
- 11Tense:a grammatical expression of time; realised by verb inflection
2 Tenses in English: Present, PAst - 12Time:a semantic category
- 13it-cleft vs. it-extrapositionit-extraposition test: putting clause at beginning, if works: it-extraposition; if not it-cleft
- 14semantic rolesagent, beneficiary/recipient, patient
- 15auxiliariesprimary aux; core modals, semi-modals/semi-auxilaries (need, dare)
- 16Which of the following can typically be expressed via modality? Hedging - yes or no?yes
- 17Indirect Object shift also calledDative Movement
- 18Use/Effects of Passive: academic writing and newspaper articles 3-emphasis on the patient affected by the action
-focus on the product/result, not the producer/doer
-switch from personal to impersonal style (more formal and detached) - 19modality
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- Grammar in Use Flashcards on General, created by Lisza Neumeier on 27/01/2017.
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