A Student's Introduction to English Grammar

§4 Complements 93 Apart from the interrogatives, all the indefinite markers have to do with quantifica­ tion. Among the definite ...

94 Chapter 5 Nouns and noun phrases criticism is related to criticise, the complement of the noun that corresponds to the object ...

Subordinate clause complements §5 Internal modifiers 95 Subordinate clauses may be finite or non-finite, and both types are foun ...

(^96) Chapter 5 Nouns and noun phrases � Determinatives, again alone or with dependents, are modifiers when they FOLLOW a determ ...

§ 7.1 Three kinds of fused head 97 There are preferences as to relative order, especially among pre-head modifiers. A big black ...

98 Chapter 5 Nouns and noun phrases The partitive subtype Partitive is intended to suggest denoting a part rather than the whole ...

What §7.3 Fused modifier-heads 99 In the case of what we need to distinguish carefully between two items: the deter­ minative wh ...

100 Chapter 5 Nouns and noun phrases Instead of the fused-head construction in cases like these we use an NP with one as head: a ...

§8.1 Deictic and anaphoric uses of pronouns^101 In this section we deal with just the first two types: the others will be covere ...

102 Chapter 5 Nouns and noun phrases The examples of deixis given above included not only pronouns but also other kinds of expre ...

§8.2 Personal pronouns 103 comes out of hospital Y.QH should take a holiday together} or it might not (Will you now please turn ...

104 Chapter 5 Nouns and noun phrases antecedents.) Examples of semantically singular they are given in [52]: [52] Nobodv in thei ...

§8.3 Inflection 105 Prescriptive grammar note Usage manuals vary considerably in their attitude to semantically singular they. T ...

106 Chapter 5 Nouns and noun phrases g. In the complement use the reflexive forms generally contrast with non-reflexive ones: [i ...

Plain case §8.3 Inflection 107 In Present-day English the contrast between nominative and accusative fonns is found only with pe ...

108 Chapter 5 Nouns and noun phrases 4ft The dependent form usually functions in NP structure as determiner to a follow­ ing hea ...

§9.1 Genitive NPs as subject-detenniner 109 Underlining here marks the genitive dependent, while brackets enclose the NP in whic ...

110 Chapter 5 Nouns and noun phrases available. Her letter might be the letter she wrote or the letter she received, and there a ...

where it is a plural-only noun, and one where it is a singular: arts ii beginnings iii brains vi holidays vii letters viii spect ...

_Adjectives and adverbs 1 Adjectives 112 2 Adverbs 122 1 Adjectives 1.1 Distinctive properties of prototypical adjectives Adject ...