A Student's Introduction to English Grammar

§4 Predicative complements 73 In [i] we have preposing of a complement: the canonical version is She gave him everything else. T ...

74 Chapter 4 Clause structure, complements and adjuncts term 'predicative complement': the complement typically represents what ...

§4.1 Syntactic differences between predicative complements and objects 75 position. A PC can have the form of a bare role NP, bu ...

76 Chapter 4 Clause structure, complements and adjuncts This provides further evidence that English grammar distinguishes the PC ...

§5 Five canonical clause structures 77 In the first case, a friend of mine is ascriptive. I might be talking about someone I had ...

78 Chapter 4 Clause structure, complements and adjuncts major structures for canonical clauses on the basis of which internal co ...

§6.3 Modifiers and supplements^79 6.1 Semantic kinds of adjunct Grammars traditionally classify adjuncts on the basis of meaning ...

80 Chapter 4 Clause structure, complements and adjuncts perceived as a slight pause. Modifiers, by contrast, are intonationally ...

tests that are appropriate, and explain why the other tests are not appropriate. To morrow Pat will be backfrom skiing. ii Is to ...

.-: Nouns and noun phrases I Introductory survey 82 2 Number and countability 85 3 Determiners and determinatives 90 4 Complemen ...

§ 1 Introductory survey 83 (c) Dependents. There are various kinds of dependent that occur exclusively or almost exclusively wit ...

84 Chapter 5 Nouns and noun phrases fa inted or a young woman, for example, the first division is between the determiner and the ...

§2.2 Count and non-count nouns 85 Proper nouns characteristically function as the head of NPs serving as proper names, names ind ...

86 Chapter 5 Nouns and noun phrases imply, count nouns can take cardinal numerals (one, two, three, etc.) as dependent, while no ...

§2.2 Count and non-count nouns 87 The meaning distinction between count and non-count A count noun generally denotes a class of ...

88 Chapter 5 Nouns and noun phrases Treasurer in [ia] is what we have called a bare role NP (one without a deter­ miner: see Ch. ...

Measure expressions 2.3 Subject-verb agreement 89 Expressions like ten days, twenty dollars,five miles, etc., are plural in form ...

90 Chapter 5 Nouns and noun phrases The examples in [iii] are cases in which variation would be less likely. In [iiia], the prop ...

3.1 Definiteness §3.l Definiteness 91 The main semantic contribution of the determiner is to mark the NP as definite or indefini ...

92 Chapter 5 Nouns and noun phrases when you hear that nominal you know very little about it. The predicate of the clause then g ...