English Grammar: a resource Book for Students
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English Grammar- A Resource Book for Students
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Activity A11.1: Most European languages are SVO, as is Chinese. Examples of SOV are Japanese, Hindi, Persian and Turkish, of VSO Classical Arabic, Welsh, Irish and Tagalog. Activity A11.2: The adverbial in stores has been placed in front of the direct object (underwear . . . ). It is unusual to place adverbials between the verb and object, but in this case the object noun phrase is very long; it is postmodified by not just one but two relative clauses: underwear that would fit someone who was the size of fat Bev so to place the adverbial at the end could be confusing: Amy had never seen underwear that would fit someone who was the size of fat Bev in stores. In this version it is not clear that in stores is actually an adverbial for the main clause (rather than postmodification of fat Bev). Activity A11.3: There are two examples, underlined below. 1. ‘In some cases we can simply move to the front of a clause an element that normally comes after the verb.’ It is not only in some cases that has been ‘moved’; another prepositional phrase, to the front of a clause, has been placed between the verb and object to prevent it appearing after a lengthy object. 2. ‘In addition, in the first example above the fronting . . .’. In addition, of course, is a linking adverb. Activity A11.4: 1. ‘It is also possible to say To live so long in such awful conditions must be terrible.’ The unextraposed version would be ‘To say To live so long in such awful condi- tions must be terrible is also possible’, but this sounds very awkward; there is too much before the main verb. 2. ‘the use of it makes it clearer that the following element is an object’. Here it represents the object, with clearer as the object predicative. The unextraposed 70 I N T R O D U C T I O N equivalent would be ‘the use of it makes that the following element is an object clearer’, but this is not possible since the verb make does not allow a that clause as an object. Activity A11.5: The three possibilities are: It was John who noticed the damage later. It was the damage that John noticed later. It was later that John noticed the damage. The subordinate clause in this last sentence is not, strictly speaking, a relative clause (for example, the antecedent is not a noun, and that cannot be replaced by which, though when is a possible replacement). Download 1.74 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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