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To avoid this problem, English provides a set of special pronouns that sig- nify a reflexive action: Singular: myself, yourself, ...

The bookthat Fritz borrowedwas a first edition. In these sentences,who, whom,andthatare relative pronouns. These and others ar ...

Teaching Tip Some languages, such as Chinese, do not mark verbs for tense. Instead, they indicate the time of an action through ...

The perfect, as these sentences illustrate, consists of a tensed form of the verbhaveand a verb that has-edor-enattached (the-ed ...

Fritz cooked. In each of these cases, the verb can function either transitively or intransi- tively. To repeat: Transitive ve ...

Teaching Tip A few teachers try to solve the “lay/lie” problem by providing students with a memory aid: “Dogs lay down, but peop ...

40.Fred senthis mothera card. 41.Buggsy askedFritza question. Let’s look carefully at these sentences. If we remove the noun phr ...

Fred bought his mother a present. Fred bought his mother. From this analysis, it appears that ditransitive verbs require two o ...

link a complement to the subject of a sentence. All forms ofbecan function as linking verbs, as can all sensory verbs, such asta ...

The complete picture is more complex than this overview may suggest. Modifiers also may supply information to other modifiers an ...

Macarena painted the townred. Notice that the adjectiveredcompletes the predicate, but it doesn’t immedi- ately follow the ver ...

when modifiers are more complex than simple adjectives and adverbs, as in the sentence below from Ernest Hemingway: Manuel swun ...

Usage Note Large numbers of people have difficulty with the modifiersgoodandwell. Part of the problem is thatgoodalways is an ad ...

appropriate response isI am good,although the inherent ambiguity here is in- teresting. It could mean that one is virtuous, whic ...

ferred to assemantic content.Indeed, we can say that meaning is a primary characteristic, given that language is by nature full ...

54.Thecar was wrecked. We could hearaman’s voice coming upthestairwell. After our ordeal, we had to search foranalibi. Teachin ...

Macarena could feel the ocean breeze against her face,soshe preferred to stay outside. Fritz asked Macarena to go to Catalina,a ...

Teaching Tip Writers can connect independent clauses erroneously in three ways: (a) with a coordinating conjunction only, (b) wi ...

67.While the band played “Moonlight Serenade,”Buggsy whispered sweet nothings in Rita’s ear. Rita was afraid to movebecause she ...

move because she had heard of Buggsy’s reputation—the subordinate clause supplies information of causality. Formal standard usag ...