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soon.The use ofwillin the first person does not express simple future but in- stead signifies a promised action, as inI will giv ...

Whendois used for emphasis, it is referred to asdo support. Dois analyzed as part of the auxiliary. In Standard English,docannot ...

This new rule allows us to analyze sentences like the following: Macarena wasdancingat China Club. The band members wereplaying ...

The key to understanding the difference lies in recognizing the distinct roles the two subjects have in these sentences. In sent ...

The waveswere glistening.(predicate adjective) Buggsywas watchingfrom the deck of his beach house. (progressive verb form) He f ...

detÆ pro NP poss art + ì í ï î ï ü ý ï þ ï possÆ’s This analysis shows that a determiner is a pronoun, a noun plus posses- sive ...

are several goons and that one of them has a gun in his hand. In 41, there is only one goon, and he just happens to have a gun i ...

Subordinate Clauses We discussed subordinate clauses (SC) on pages 86 to 89 and noted that they al- ways begin with a subordinat ...

clauses nevertheless are deemed nonrestrictive. They have to be because as adverbials they must modify either a VP or an S. In t ...

138 Sentence 4.45: Macarena exercised until she was exhausted. Sentence 4.46: Although he was uncultivated, Buggsy liked opera. ...

Complement Clauses Earlier we looked at a common problem in nonstandard English that involves a subordinate clause and a linking ...

We can describe this construction by again adjusting the relevant phrase-structure rule. We simply need to add a complementizer ...

141 Sentence 4.52a: Raul knewhe should get a job. Sentence 4.52: Raul knewthat he should geta job. (object) ...

APPLYING KEY IDEAS Directions: Analyze these sentences to check your understanding of the concepts in the last few sections. You ...

more than just linking words. They are like regular pronouns in that they re- place a duplicate noun phrase in a sentence. In ad ...

like 59, in which the relative pronoun replaces an object noun phrase. Sentence 59a clearly shows thatthe bookfunctions as the o ...

The structure of these relative clauses is quite different.Whofunctions as the subject ofownedin the first case, andIfunctions a ...

about distinctions, much in the way that Spanish is concerned about identifying gender:La muchacha es linda(The girl is pretty) ...

Following are some additional examples that show the difference between the two types of nonrestrictive modification: Fritz enj ...

148 Sentence 4.57: Buggsy bought the housethathad belonged to Liberace. Sentence 4.59: The bookthatFritz borrowed lacked an inde ...