IgboOptional AgreementClitic. Home All editions This editionEnglish, Book edition: This study, which is purely descriptive without any theoretical colouration, describes and illustrates the optional agreement patterns in Igbo, with the intention to highlight the possibility of number agreement between Igbo verbs and their external and internal arguments.
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This study, which is purely descriptive without any theoretical colouration, describes and illustrates the optional agreement patterns in Igbo, with the intention to highlight the possibility of number agreement between Igbo verbs and their external and internal arguments. Queensland University of Technology. Language English View all editions Prev Next edition 1 of 7. University of South Australia. Scientific Research An Academic Publisher.
University of Newcastle Library. The University of Melbourne. University of South Australia Library. He was asked: 2 The verb and its " Suppose you were left alone on a desert island and you were allowed to take just one luxury with you, what would you choose? Rewrite it in reported speech, b v. The gorillas h phrasal-prepositional v. Dr Schaller: Yes. Each group consists of from five to thirty animals. Free indirect speech 5 I rushed out of the house.
Rephrase the following paragraph, after the second sentence, in free indirect 7 I drove out to my friends. Forster looked about him. He was all alone on a dark,cold railway plat- 9 They all set off down the road. Or have 10 He flew across the Atlantic. No, I haven't. There, in the dim 11 We flew across in no time. Then why is there no one 12 How long can one do without 25 My hat has fallen off. Surely they must have had my telegram! How can they leave water? Well, I will put my suitcases in the waiting-room, and walk.
But where shall I walk to? I remember now. They wrote to tell me the 15 Don't come down. Even then, I can't 16 Don't give up. Exercise Exercise Transform each of the sentences below in the following way: Say whether the adverb, in brackets, could fit into position a, h, c or d. That is the book I was looking for. I They looked a at b the picture C carefully We were just talking about that article. Exercise Exercise Read the answers to Exercises and aloud. Then comment on the stress Change the position of the word underlined, if it is mobile: and intonation.
Exercise 4 The meeting broke up in disorder. Indicate, by a, b, c, etc. Don't run over that child. Supply an acceptable preposition to fill each of the gaps.
If an adjectival 2 The way she treated her servants annoyed him. M ost people. If the complement is structurally obligatory in the context, omit the brackets: 5 The reception they gave him did not content him. Exercise anything.
We are adamant on that point. We are afraid that that is so. I'm ashamed. I am certain of it. We are concerned about that.
Transitive complementation 6 You will understand. We are fully confident of it. Exercise 7 Why do you say that? It is curious. A direct object may be 8 You see our point of view at last. We're delighted. It is essential. The Captain is furious. We feel greatly honoured. You feel at home in our country. Everyone insists on it. That is a great relief to us. I am deeply shocked.
He is very sorry. I'm not sure yet. Is it true? I'm surprised. It is vital. Exercise Finite clause as direct object Rephrase each of the fifteen sentences in Exercise so as to illustrate the Exercise underlying difference between the five types of construction.
I admit it. I doubt it. I don't doubt it. I agree. I agree to that. We agreed on that. We had gone far enough. We could not decide. We had to decide that quickly. We have all decided on that course of action. At least , I expect so. May I ask that?
May 1 ask that? All I ask is that. That is what I suggest. I remember. Complex transitive compleIIlentation 18 Did we take the upper path or the lower one?
Do you remember? Exercise 19 Where did we go wrong? Ah,- now I know. Say whether each of these sentences is a monotransitive or b complex 20 You no longer trust your leader. I sincerely regret that. Exercise 2'27 2 Everyone considered the mistake to be very serious. If to talk in He likes to talk is a non-finite infinitive clause, without a subject, 3 We consider you to be one of our most loyal supporters. Exercise 10 We regret that we must make this criticism.
Exercise 2 I don't approve of you climbing cliffs. Expand the following sentences so as to clarify the difference in meaning 3 Do you mind me opening the window? Exercise -ed participle clauses with a Move the object complement, if it is mobile. Exercise b Replace the object by the corresponding pronoun, then write out the new He got the watch repaired can be paraphrased as He got someone to repair the sentence: watch.
Paraphrase the following: George's conduct made Mary very angry. Exercise 16 I have paid George the whole sum. What example can this one be compared with? I persuaded John to see a doctor. He wanted Mary to. He persuaded Mary to In which of those two ways could the following sentences be analysed? Exercise Say which of the underlined noun modifiers are a restrictive, b non- restrictive: 1 My poor old mother suffers from arthritis. Good old Henry. Make the postmodifier in each of these sentences more explicit by replacing 10 f.
The sentence There is the officer to whom I spoke can have four variations, viz: 2 I don't recognize the man in the garden. Give as many variations of that kind as possible for the following: Unambiguous use of postmodifiers 1 Here is the article about which I was speaking.
Explain the absurdity of the sentences below in terms of noun phrase modifiers. Then rephrase each sentence. Exercise 7 A radish has been grown by one of our members the size of a turnip. Identify the antecedent of the following relative clauses: 8 There is more to Ambridge than the mask of the bizarre behind which 1 We were taken every week to the theatre, at which new plays were constantly our old-world village tries to hide.
Relative clauses 2 We were taken every week to the theatre, which was a great delight to us. Exercise 3 We went to the theatre every week, which was our one relaxation.
Replace the relative pronoun that by who, whom; which or zero: -4 The singer gave five encores, for which he received enthusiastic. Say whether the clause so formed is a restrictive or 2 The first mail to fly non-stop across the Atlantic was John A1cock. Postmodilication by non-finite clauses 7 It was disgraceful that they should refuse to fulfil their promise. Exercise 8 This only made us more determined to succeed on our own.
Convert the participle clause into a relative clause in each of these sentences: 9 Meanwhile, we were not disturbed when the enemy threatened to attack us. At the station, we were met by a man carrying a copy of The Times. Postmodification by prepositional phrases 4 We collided with a car driven by a young man without a licence.
Exercise Replace each prepositiona1 phrase by a relative clause that will make the 5 Any driver not having a licence ought to be sent to jail right away. Exercise 15 Those clients were very satisfied. Accepting that as a criterion, paraphrase the items underlined in the sentences 18 These circumstances worry me.
Explain the difference in function between the two words underlined in each of 3 I learned to climb the tree with a kind of absent-minded dexterity. Exercise Exercise Change the form of the phrases below so that the postmodifiers become The sentence This book interests people very much can be rephrased: premodifiers: This is a very interesting book I A house that has been built well.
Indicate by Yes whether each of the sentences below can be rephrased with the 2 The article which was mentioned above. Then read lines B aloud, with the appropriate emphasis: I A ldon't think you're really interested in this. B But I am interested. Focus, theme and 2 A You haven't understood what I've been saying. B Excuse me, but I have understood. B I do, honestly.
I do see the point. Information focus 4 A You always thought I was wrong. Exercise B That's untrue. I never did think you were wrong. Read the following passage; then read the answers to the questions below, B I'm not sure, but it might be. The world then was a B Yes, that must be it.
From the point of view of an irreverent undergraduate, the dons of B Yes, indeed, we must'have done. We can't have done. That's the house. We are here. He went to the University of Oxford. B Not yet, but I will in a minute. No, he was at the university there. Exercise 3 Did he live in Oxford or outside it? In answering the questions below, use a the information given in brackets, He lived in Oxford.
Thirty years ago? I Who invented the telephone? Graham Bell, in It was forty years ago. Norsemen landed on the coast of North America in the 10th It was a more leisurely place than it is now. Two main types of virus cause it Yes, it was much more leisurely. Chinese 7 When the writer mentions three separate classes, to whom is he referring?
The sun emits it 8 Did the undergraduates find the technically competent dons interesting? No, they found them uninteresting. The master for whom they worked provided them with board and lodging 9 Did the undergraduates admire the third class of men? Theme 10 Does the writer speak about going up to Oxford or going down to it? Exercise He says he went up to Oxford. Identify a the subject, and b the theme, of each of the sentences below. The most striking feature of malarja in Tropical Africa is its high endemicity 5 An angel that's what you are, my dear.
Exercise 8 Break his bloody neck, I will. Using the material in Exercise , form sentences beginning as follows: 9 Die is the last thing I shall do, doctor. Inversion 3 It must have been Admiral Gage Exercise 4 It was probably Bristol Rearrange each of the sentences below, using accepted patterns of subject-verb 5 I think it was Cary's first novel..
Anticipatory it 6 It has never been more difficult for a writer to make his name. Exercise 7 A tall, gaunt figure stood at the far end of the room, staring at us. Rewrite the following sentences beginning each with anticipatory it: 8 We only then realized how much he had suffered. Oeft sentences 5 He is known to double-cross his best friends.
Exercise 6 You seem to have taken a dislike to him. From each of the sentences below form cleft sentences that will focus, in turn, 7 Yes, I happen to have had some nasty experiences in dealing with him.
Sartoris first saw an enormous serpent approaching S, Od. S, Od, C prep. Existential thel'e 4 The Daedalus docked at Bristol on a dark and cloudy afternoon in Exercise Complement of at, complement of on. Rephrase these sentences so as to begin each with existential there: 5 Joyce Cary's first novel was called Aissa Saved Joyce Cary's, first, Aissa Saved. Discontinuous noun phrases 10 Beneath our house was an old cellar with a thick flint wall. Exercise Rephrase the following, postponing all or part of the postmodifier in the long Exercise I noun phrase, but avoiding ambiguity: Rephrase these sentences using existential there: 1.
That loaf that you sold me was stale. Existential have 9 The question of how to allocate these funds most fairly will arise. Exercise 10 New evidence in support of the existence of an ancient city on Santorini has Rephrase these.
Extraposition Exercise Rephrase the following sentences using the anticipatory it:. I To be with you here this evening is a great pleasure. Exercise 4 Can you tell me when we shall see the results?
Punctuate the following. DId you? If it is a question of what is stated or implied in A University Grammar of English, then the Grammar itself is the obvious authority on whether an answer is acceptable or not. If it is a question of modern English grammatical usage, then the actual usage of a considerable number of educated native-speakers of English can be used as a criterion.
If the user of this Work- book is in doubt as to what would be a correct answer to one of the questions in it,. British or American or Scottish or Canadian; b. We have gotten; b. American; c. Centre Brit. Sure, Shucks Am. I have recently been; a number of; which existed. These bookshelves, so popular, we've now added, an extra unit.
Subject: computers. Are computers fairly commonplace Ex. Yes, they are. No, they aren't. Subject: We. Have we or Do we have 7. Yes, we have. No, we haven't or we don't.
Do these stat. What was sprayed Who wrote What did he write? What did he write an account of? Where did the fire start? How did it grams.
How long did it burn? When did that happen? How often did fires break out How much rain How far is it During which century was this castle built? Why was the Aswan anywhere lyetJ 0. LWhat Dam built? Od; b. Oi; b. Co or Od. Cs; b. Od; c. Od; 3. Oi; c. Samuel Pepys was a writer in the seventeenth century.
Big Ben is by the River Thames in London. Pepys saw the fire from his c. See the Grammar, section 3. Die 1, doctor?
Die 1, traitor! SWIm c, f, h. I am never taken to a restaurant present, pass. This exercise must be done again present, M, pass. She must have g, h; get c, g; be a, c. What you say might be Shall I open Would 2. You Ex. We must read. You must not smoke. Can you do. Should we wait. We need not attend. That will be. John could. I might be. You could. You could have stayed, 3. Could, May, Might.
He is able to or has permission to. No; b. Yes; b. No; c. No; d. No; e. No; g. No; h. No; i. Yes; k. Please click button to get a university grammar of english book now. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. There is a pardox in the attempt to isolate the forms oflanguage from the meanings Grammar of English — Quirk, Greenbaum — Scribd — University Grammar of English is a shorter version of A Grammar of Contemporary English on which the authors worked in collaboration with Geoffrey Leech and Jan Svartvik.
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