A Student's Introduction to English Grammar

[1 4 ] COMP OF VERB ii COMP OF ADJECTIVE 111 COMP OF PREPOSITION IV COMP OF NOUN §3.3 Gerund-participials 213 I don 't [know whe ...

214 Chapter 13 Non-finite clauses and clauses without verbs Similarly, while prepositions generally don't accept to-infinitivals ...

§4.1 Introduction 215 These can all be regarded as merely special cases of more general constructions in which the same function ...

216 Chapter 13 Non-finite clauses and clauses without verbs [23] SIMPLE CATENATIVE a. I promised to read the report. ii a. We da ...

§4.2 The simple catenative construction 217 Two ways of testing for ordinary or raised subjects in catenative constructions This ...

(^218) Chapter 13 Non-finite clauses and clauses without verbs [26] i Max began to sweep the floor. ii '?The floor began to be s ...

§4.2 The simple catenative construction 219 The significance of these dummy pronouns for the concerns of this chapter is that th ...

220 Chapter 13 Non-finite clauses and clauses without verbs Example [iia] is not entirely natural-sounding, but it is certainly ...

§4.3 The complex catenative construction 221 In the fo r constructionfor them to meet the manager is, as a whole, a catenative c ...

222 Chapter 13 Non-finite clauses and clauses without verbs In [ia] the object a specialist is semantically related to the verb ...

Exercises 223 In [ib], any sunscreen is the subject and on is the predicate, consisting of the locative complement on. The relat ...

224 Chapter 13 Non-finite clauses and clauses without verbs v Should we [�ive more money to charity than we do]? State the func ...

__ COOrdinatiOn and more 1 Coordination as a non-headed construction 225 2 Distinctive syntactic properties of coordination 227 ...

14 Coordination and more A simple piece of evidence for this is that a sentence division can occur between the two clauses. The ...

§2.2 Bare coordinates must be syntactically similar 227 [4] HEAD + DEPENDENT a. Pat is [very young]. b. Ed is [fond of kids]. ii ...

228 Chapter 14 Coordination and more [7] *We invited [the Smiths and because they can speak Italian]. 11 * She argued [persuasiv ...

§2.2 Bare coordinates must be syntactically similar^229 In [12] we state the likeness requirement a bit more precisely in the li ...

230 Chapter 14 Coordination and more In [iii], by contrast, just the first embedded clause is relativised: who attended the dinn ...

§4 The marking of coordination 231 [18] i a. We were left [high and do!.]. ii a. I [� and had breakfast]. b. *We were left [do!. ...

232 Chapter 14 Coordination and more [21] Hefelt [tired. and depressed. and listless]. ii They offered us a choice of [red wine ...