... Non-Continuous Verbs / Mixed Verbs
It is important to remember that Non-Continuous Verbs cannot be used in any continuous tenses.
Also, certain non-continuous meanings for Mixed Verbs cannot be ... Non-Continuous Verbs / Mixed Verbs
It is important to remember that Non-Continuous Verbs cannot be used in any continuous tenses.
Also, certain non-continuous meanings for Mixed Verbs cannot be ... tastes like.
to think:
ã He thinks the test is easy. Non-Continuous Verb
He considers the test to be easy.
ã She is thinking about the question. Normal Verb
She is pondering the question, going...
... given by a specific (definite or indefinite)
time adverbial in the sentence itself (e. g. three days ago, a long time ago). If
there is no such adverbial, the necessary temporal information must ... to swim’, and
this may be the main point that the speaker wishes to communicate by using
the adverbial.)
(b) There may be other constituents in the clause that are pragmatically linked
with a ... before the stock market crash. (The present perfect is
totally ruled out by the presence of the adverbial referring to a definite past time.)
In this context we may also refer to sentences like...
... phrase with the correct verb.
Example: go clubbing
1 ________ at a campsite
2 ________ on a boat trip
3 ________ the sights
4 ________ in a hotel
5 ________ shopping
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Is the food good?
Is the weather good?
Dear
__________
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Are the restaurants good?
Are the museums good?
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Thanks for your e-mail! I
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5 __________ 6 __________ 7 __________
8 __________ 9 __________ 10 __________
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Example: ... total
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3 Complete the sentences. Use the verbs in brackets.
Example: John and Mary have (have) two children.
1 Simon ________________ (not ... ________________ she ________________ (have) a
party next week?
10 Who ________________ (be) the three greatest
politicians of the twentieth century?
11 He has an exam tomorrow so he ________________
(study)...
... temporal
adverbials 589
Chapter 13. Adverbial when-clauses and the use of tenses 635
Chapter 14. Adverbial before-clauses and after-clauses 685
Glossary 759
References 831
Index 833
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... called
weak verbs or
regular verbs.
play Ϫ played; love Ϫ loved; cry Ϫ cried; equip Ϫ equipped; picnic Ϫ picnicked
However, there are quite a few verbs in English that are irregular verbs or
strong verbs. ... case the verb is a ‘copula’ or ‘linking verb (see immediately below).
1.13.2 The term ‘transitive verb does not cover one-complement verbs like
be, seem, become, etc. which are linking verbs or ... four tenses involving a form of have can be grouped together as perfect
tenses
.
6. For some linguists, ‘strong verb and ‘irregular verb do not cover the same concept, nor
do the terms ‘weak verb ...
... duration adverbials
1.46.1 A formal test to distinguish between bounded and nonbounded clauses
is the addition of a particular type of duration adverbial. A
noninclusive
duration adverbial
(answering ... adverbial is usually considered to be a test for (a)telicity rather
than (non)boundedness: it is claimed that telic VPs and atelic VPs are only
compatible with inclusive and noninclusive adverbials, ... duration
adverbial. If in an hour measures the temporal distance between a contextually given
time of reference and the beginning of John’s speaking, it is not an inclusive duration
adverbial and...
... associated with the lexical verb Ϫ is actually referred to.
Such verb forms establish a future domain but are not future tense forms. We call them
futurish forms. ‘Be going to ϩ verb may be a futurish ... past tense is supported by
the fact that the two tenses behave differently with certain adverbs. (In chapter 6 it
will be shown that certain adverbials referring to a time that is connected to ... the following assumptions:
(a) There does exist a future tense in English. This tense has future time refer-
ence only.
(b) English also has ‘futurish’ forms. These have dual time reference in...
... has already been estab-
lished. (In fact, as well as pure absolute tenses and relative tenses, English has
absolute-relative tenses, such as the one used in By Friday, the elephant will
have arrived. ... Thus, on the view that tenses must be distinguished by inflectional mor-
phemes, English has only two tenses: past and present. There is also a view
that the fact that English has two temporal ... with tenses. (For example, when we say that a tense relates a situation
time to an orientation time.)
2.54 What is (and is not) expressed by tenses
Here we have discussed absolute and relative tenses, ...
... alternative (nonfactual) world. Such a context is created by
(amongst other things) ‘intensional verbs’ (‘verbs of propositional attitude’) like want,
expect, believe, think, imagine, etc. Clauses ... clause is not affected when a referring
386 8. Temporal domains and relative tenses: theoretical foundations
in English, which is used to locate a situation time prior to t
0
. However, the ... sufficient on its own to discard any analysis denying
the existence of a relative past tense in English.
8.24.3 All the examples given in 8.24.1, and in fact in all the other arguments
that will...
... tense in English, an absolute
and a relative one, is supported by the fact that an absolute past tense form
is compatible with an unanchored punctual time-specifying adverbial (i. e. an
adverbial ... (e. g. I hear John has
been promoted).
8.43 Evidence for the existence of two past tenses
There are two tenses in English that make use of the same past tense morphol-
ogy but which differ in meaning: ... Ϫ
shows that Dutch has two past tenses, an absolute one and a relative one. This
suggests that it is quite possible that in English, too, there are two distinct
past tenses.
8.44 Further theoretical...
... (HORN)
I have often been in Japan when the cherry trees were in bloom.
682 13. Adverbial
when
-clauses and the use of tenses
However, apart from examples like these, we can also find examples in ... about the presentness
of the habit which produces that experience.
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when
-clauses and the use of tenses
the when-clause situation as counterfactual or tentative. Finally, it ... Summary
In this chapter on adverbial when-clauses we have presented an analysis of the
temporal structure expressed by when and examined the possibilities of tense
choice in adverbial when-clauses and...