A Student's Introduction to English Grammar

§3.1 Prepositions vs adjectives 133 prepositions, not adverbs, with respect to one or both of constructions (a) and (b) above, b ...

134 Chapter 7 Prepositions and preposition phrases [14] at home with X ("familiar with X, knowledgeable about X"), in control, i ...

(d) Complement of become §3.2 Prepositions vs verbs 135 One of the main functions in which AdjPs appear is that of predicative c ...

(^136) Chapter 7 Prepositions and preposition phrases adjectives have to be related to a predicand, and verbs in predicator func ...

§5 Preposition stranding 137 What makes 'grammaticised' an appropriate tenn for such prepositions is that where they are placed ...

(^138) Chapter 7 Prepositions and preposition phrases Prescriptive grammar note A stranded preposition quite often occurs at the ...

[25] STRANDED PREPOSITION a. *This is the safe [which the key to was stolen]. ii a. *1 have a lecture ending at two [which I'll ...

140 Chapter 7 Prepositions and preposition phrases [27] OBJECT NP ii PREDICATIVE iii pp iv ADVP V CLAUSE I was talking [to a fri ...

Prepositions with no complement §6.2 Modification 141 Although most PPs contain a complement, there are some prepositions that t ...

142 Chapter 7 Prepositions and preposition phrases A number of PPs with metaphorical or idiomatic meanings are gradable, and the ...

§ 7.2 The complements of prepositional verbs 143 The prepositions that begin the underlined PPs are not in contrast with other p ...

(^144) Chapter 7 Prepositions and preposition phrases The same kind of fossilisation is found in transitive clauses. Compare: [ ...

§7.4 Verbal idioms 145 [35]; and so on. Two other constructions that often contain such verbal idioms are illustrated in [39]: [ ...

146 Chapter 7 Prepositions and preposition phrases they are generally quite ordinary, and often identical to the structure the s ...

Exercises 147 an NP. If by means of were really a single preposition, we wouldn't expect to be able to insert similar after the ...

148 Chapter 7 Prepositions and preposition phrases Determine which of the verbs below belong to the class of prepositional verb ...

__ Negation and related phenomena I Negative and positive clauses 149 2 Subclausal negation 150 3 Clausal negation 151 4 Non-aff ...

150 Chapter 8 Negation and related phenomena crucial point is that it can occur in the negative clause [ii] but is impossible in ...

§3 Clausal negation 151 contains a negative verb-form. The latter clause is of course negative, but the former is positive, as i ...

(^152) Chapter 8 Negation and related phenomena [7] VERBAL NEGATION NON-VERBAL NEGATION a. She didn 't tell me anything. b. She ...