A Student's Introduction to English Grammar

§6 Main-clause and lower-level coordination 233 top level we contrast employed with unemployed; at the lower level we distin­ gu ...

(^234) Chapter 14 Coordination and more [26] a. One teacher was [popular and patient]. b. One teacher was popular and one teache ...

§8.3 Right nonce-constituent coordination 235 In this final section we very briefly discuss various kinds of non-basic coordina­ ...

236 Chapter 14 Coordination and more Second, the coordinates are required to be syntactically parallel: the separate ele­ ments ...

Exercises 237 [ 33 ] a. Kim was included on the shortlist, but not Pat. b. [Kim but not Pat] was included on the shortlist. ii a ...

'-Information packaging in the clause I Introduction 245 2 Passive clauses 247 3 Extraposition 254 4 Existential clauses 256 5 T ...

§ 1 Introduction 239 For the passive, there is an established name for the basic counterpart: [lib] is an active clause. But the ...

240 Chapter 15 Information packaging in the clause [4] EXISTENTIAL NON-EXISTENTIAL a. There weren't many members present. b. Man ...

§2.2 Differences between active and passive clauses^241 [6] ACTIVE VOICE a. Everyone saw the accident. 11 a. His colleagues disl ...

242 Chapter 15 Infonnation packaging in the clause clause subject appears internal to the passive VP, like internal complements ...

§2,4 Lexical restrictions 243 Things are different in [ii], however. Suppose the context is one where I've just said that I've b ...

244 Chapter 15 Infonnation packaging in the clause [13] a. The town boasts a great beach. b. *A great beach is boasted by the to ...

§2.8 Bare passives 245 prepositional passive and some don't. Come across (meaning "encounter") and lose patience with don't perm ...

246 Chapter 15 Information packaging in the clause (a) Bare passives as complement in complex catenatives A few verbs that occur ...

Prescriptive grammar note §3.1 Subject extraposition^247 Some writers on scientific topics appear to think that passives are req ...

248 Chapter 15 Infonnation packaging in the clause Extraposition: more frequent and less constrained than the alternative In [22 ...

§4 Existential clauses 249 [25] a. *lfind that he uave up disappointing. b. I find i1. disappointing that he uave up. 11 a. * Sh ...

250 Chapter 15 Information packaging in the clause structure or acceptability). We call these bare existentials. They have NO CO ...

§5 The it-cleft construction 251 [30] i a. A policeman is here. b. Th ere 's a policeman here. ii a. *Two holes were in my sock. ...

252 Chapter 15 Information packaging in the clause Syntactic structure of the it-cleft The foregrounded element functions as com ...