... caused us to lose powers for days on end.
6. Many household products are recycled, especially papers and glasses.
7. You need to allow a lot of time so that the paints will dry between coats.
... is a component of the computer.
In this section, however, we are going to focus solely on how English forms the possessive.
Before Shakespeare’s time the possessive form of nouns was spelled...
... replacement test.
Adjective clauses are the only type of dependent clause that will be inside the boundaries of the
third-person pronoun substitution. Here is the third-person pronoun test applied ... odds.
7. A new painting by the English painter Turner has just been discovered.
8. I had no illusions about my chances.
9. The witness to the crime refused to testify.
10. We couldn’t understand ...
modifying the noun dinner. The only way to reliably identify adjectival prepositional phrases is
by testing the prepositional phrase by third-person pronoun substitution. When a prepositional
phrase...
... sentences to avoid the inappropriate use of he and she. Do not use the com-
pound he or she in your answers.
Every employee must wash his hands before returning to work.
All employees must wash their ... constellation in the Southern Hemisphere.
12. I will vote for the candidate that has expressed the greatest concern for health costs.
13. My husband and his friends have taken the kids camping this...
... other test is the third-person substitution test for gerund phrases. Here is the test applied
to both sentences:
it
Progressive tense: The cat was getting ready to pounce.
Third-person pronoun test: ... to pounce. When we apply the same test to the gerund
phrase, it makes perfect sense:
it
Gerund: My big concern was getting enough sleep.
Third-person pronoun test: My big concern was getting ... is human, to forgive is divine.
Infi nitive phrases differ from gerund phrases in one respect. English speakers often prefer to
move longer infi nitive phrases to the end of the sentence, putting...
... his gas tank as soon as he locate the nearest fi lling station.
9. The whole group complete the test by the time the class fi nish.
10. The landlord furnish the apartment by the time we move...
... population of the world is rising very fast. (not 'rises')
* Is your English getting better? (not 'does your English get better')
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EXERCISES
1.1 Complete the sentences with ... student).
In the edition with answers there is a new Study guide to help students decide which units to study (see To the
student). The Study guide is only In the edition with answers.
There are two ... etc.) or present perfect continuous (I have been ~ing
etc.).
1. Maria has been learning (learn) English for two years.
2. Hello, Tom. I (look) for you all morning. Where have you been?
3. Why...
... perspective away from
grammar as a list of arbitrary problems, and towards grammar as a means of free expression.
We have tried to produce a grammar of real English the English that people speak ... usage.
Some great grammars of English for example Otto Jespersen's A Modern EnglishGrammar
support each statement with citations from published books, just as the major dictionaries of
English ... compilers. It is the first
grammar of its kind, and it is deferent in many respects from other kinds of grammar.
This grammar attempts to make accurate statements about English, as seen in the huge...