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... to use it with their students.
Verbs: infinitives, -ing forms, etc.
Verbs with and without objects
37 Verb + to-infinitive or bare infinitive
38 Verb + to-infinitive or -ing?
39 Verb + -ing
40 ... to die )
D We often use be to + infinitive in //-clauses to say that something must take place first (in the main
clause) before something else can take place (in the //-clause):
ã are to survive ... John's being )
ã I'm going to be in Tokyo in May. (not I'm being in Tokyo )
We tend to avoid going to + go and use the present continuous form of go instead:
ã I'm going to town...
... should disappear in England as it has in France, all
distinctions would thereby be lost. Here Burke avows the central role of
masculine heterosexual discipline in creating and maintaining social,
political, ... not so much with
how femininity figures in the Reflections, but in what ways and for what
purposes it is written out, or written in, as a force in maintaining or
disturbing the Burkean status quo. ... other)
novelists play in constituting and contesting Irish and English national
identities. Marking writers or writings in these ways, moreover, occludes
their heterogeneous origins and destinations: that...
... italicized words in (13) and think about the question whether
kicks in (13a), drinking in (13b), or students in (13c) should be regarded as ‘new words’
in the sense of our definition.
(13) ... meaning through which speakers signal their
belonging to a certain group. In sum, truncations can be assigned a meaning, but the
nature of the morph expressing that meaning is problematic.
In ... should
be redefined as “a phonetic string which can be connected to a linguistic entity
outside that string” (1976:15). In the case of verbs involving the phonetic string
[fär], the ‘linguistic...
... actions we find
instrument nouns such as blender, mixer, steamer, toaster, nouns denoting entities
associated with an activity such as diner, lounger, trainer, winner (in the sense
‘winning shot’). ... certain sets of affixes can also be
illustrated by another interesting phenomenon. Both in compounding and in certain
cases of affixation it is possible to coordinate two words by leaving out ... nouns denoting a collective entity or quantity, as in acreage, voltage,
yardage. Due to inherent ambiguities of certain coinages, the meaning can be
extended to include locations, as in orphanage....