A Student's Introduction to English Grammar

Exercises Classify the following according to clause type, and say what kind of speech act they would most likely be used to pe ...

'-SUbordination and content clauses I Subordinate clauses 174 2 Clause type in content clauses 175 3 Declarative content clauses ...

§3.1 The subordinator that^175 The relative clause underlined in [i] has as its subject a relative pronoun who with the precedin ...

10 Subordination and content clauses That is inadmissible in a clause that is complement to a preposition like befo re in [ii]. ...

§4 Interrogative content clauses 177 mandatives includes a component of meaning comparable to that expressed by the modal auxili ...

178 Chapter 10 Subordination and content clauses [8] I know where he is. 11 I told her what it was. "I know the answer to the qu ...

§4.4 Interrogatives as adjunct 179 The range of functions is almost like that illustrated for declaratives in [5]. One dif­ fere ...

180 Chapter 10 Subordination and content clauses Variants of the exhaustive conditional construction There are two variants of t ...

Exclamatives vs open interrogatives Exercises 181 In main clauses, exclamatives may be distinguished from open interrogatives so ...

182 Chapter 10 Subordination and content clauses i amazing vi important ii belief vii know iii decision viii question [noun] iv ...

Eelative clauses I Relative clauses as modifiers of nouns 183 2 Integrated vs supplementary relatives 187 3 Relative words in in ...

184 Chapter 11 Relative clauses For the relative clause in [Ii] we thus have "R were absent from the meeting". R has members as ...

§ 1 Relative clauses as modifiers of nouns^185 Here the NP more time has been added as a direct object (and an appropriate one: ...

186 Chapter 11 Relative clauses [7] a. a key [which he says shefoundJ ii a. some boys [who he says saw her] b. a key [(that) he ...

§2 Integrated vs supplementary relatives 187 Example [i] is ungrammatical because whose requires that we front the whole of the ...

188 Chapter 11 Relative clauses apply to all politicians, but just the ones who make extravagant promises. The information given ...

§3 Relative words in integrated and supplementary relative clauses^189 Wh relatives vs non-wh relatives Supplementary relatives ...

190 Chapter 11 Relative clauses Gender: personal vs non-personal Normally the word 'gender' is associated with sexual characteri ...

Prescriptive grammar note §4 Fused relatives 191 Some prescriptive usage books and style guides insist that integrated (or 'defi ...

192 Chapter II Relative clauses ,. The compound forms in [ii] do not occur in the other relative constructions, and nor, in Stan ...