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Delahunty and Garvey e. We give our highest priority to discussing language. [Preposi- tional object] Gerunds can generally be p ...

Multi-Clause Sentences b. I want them to leave through the window. c. For them to leave through the window would be insulting to ...

Delahunty and Garvey infinitive or a to-infinitive; and (c) identify the grammatical role the infinitival plays in the sentence ...

Multi-Clause Sentences (65) a. Pressed by reporters, the president acknowledged that the war was a fiasco. In cases like (65a), ...

Delahunty and Garvey tences; (b) for each participle you identify, say whether it is a Ving (present) or a Ven (past) participle ...

Multi-Clause Sentences (69) a. People sentenced to life in prison... b. Anyone walking on the grass... And compare them with: (7 ...

Delahunty and Garvey Compound-complex sentences The sentences of (73) illustrate coordination of main clauses. However, sub- ord ...

Multi-Clause Sentences is interpreted as what upsets Oscar’s parents, though in (76a) the clause appears as the subject of the m ...

Delahunty and Garvey NP movement (raising) clauses Consider now the following two sentences with almost identical meanings: (78) ...

Multi-Clause Sentences believe that the reason has to do with the discourse functions of subjects. Typically, though by no means ...

Delahunty and Garvey (85) It was in 1789 that the French Revolution broke out. The construction here suggests something like spe ...

Multi-Clause Sentences But just as clefts do not mean exactly what their non-cleft counterparts mean, neither do pseudo-clefts a ...

Delahunty and Garvey where nothing resonated, where the past could not pretend to shape itself into the present, where planes ha ...

Multi-Clause Sentences adjective clause: common misnomer for relative clause. adverbial clause: clause that functions in the ran ...

Delahunty and Garvey non-restrictive relative clause: relative clause whose information is not necessary to the identification o ...

Subject Index Index A absoluteconstruction425, 442 . See alsonoun abstractnoun185, 186 accent9, 20 , 105 accepta ...

Delahunty and Garvey analyticlinguistics48 antecedent195, 196 , 197 , 202 , 204 , 231 , 232 , 354 , 398 an ...

Subject Index by-phrase233, 404 , 409 . See alsopassivevoice,voice C case35, 52 , 60 , 68 , 80 , 83 , ...

Delahunty and Garvey See alsocomplementizer comparative76, 127 , 140 , 142 , 173 , 174 , 177 , 180 , 185 , ...

Subject Index context5, 13 , 20 , 29 , 33 , 37 , 47 , 90 , 111 , 138 , 153 , 154 , 170 , 196 , ...