A Student's Introduction to English Grammar

Exercises Underline the finite subordinate clauses in the following examples and say whether they are (a) relative clauses; (b) ...

194 Chapter 11 Relative clauses viii He 's going to resign which is exactly the right course of action. ix I took with me any fi ...

.: Grade and comparison I Comparative and superlative grade 195 2 More and most 197 3 Less and least 198 4 Comparison of equalit ...

196 Chapter 12 Grade and comparison In [i], the comparison is between the set of boys in the class with respect to height: Max o ...

§2 More and most 197 Set comparison with comparatives Comparative grade is also used in set comparison when the set has just two ...

198 Chapter 12 Grade and comparison functioning as determiner in NP structure in [i] and [ii], and as an adjunct of degree 15 In ...

§4 Comparison of equality 199 much, which occur with plural and non-count singular nouns respectively. The opposites of many and ...

200 Chapter 12 Grade and comparison taller. And the negative Kim isn't as tall as Pat entails that Kim is SHORTER than Pat, not ...

§6 Comparative clauses 201 6 Comparative clauses The prepositions than and as often take as complement a distinctive type of sub ...

202 Chapter 12 Grade and comparison adjective same marking non-scalar equality (as in [19iv] or [17i]). As can also occur in non ...

Exercises I. Re-express the content of the following in a more natural way using comparative or superlative constructions. i The ...

Non-finite clauses and clauses without verbs I Four kinds of non-finite clause 204 2 The form of non-finite clauses^204 3 The fu ...

§2.l Subordinators in to-infinitivals: to andfo r 205 That in turn means that they can never contain a modal auxiliary (because, ...

13 Non-finite clauses and clauses without verbs [3] i [For John to lose his temper like that] is highly unusual. ii We can 't af ...

§2.2 Subjectless non-finites 207 In [ib], Ed was the one they called on, so again we know that Ed is the one whose resignation i ...

208 Chapter 13 Non-finite clauses and clauses without verbs many sentences are found in which no NP in the sentence gives any cl ...

§2.3 Non-finites with an overt subject^209 Examples of both the kinds illustrated in [6] and [7] are extremely common. Many spea ...

210 Chapter 13 Non-finite clauses and clauses without verbs Infinitival clauses In to-infinitivals a personal pronoun with a nom ...

2.4 Hollow non-finite clauses §3 The functions of non-finite clauses 211 We have noted that most non-finite clauses have no over ...

212 Chapter 13 Non-finite clauses and clauses without verbs 3.1 To -infinitivals To -infinitivals function as complement or modi ...