... to use it with their students. Verbs: infinitives, -ing forms, etc. Verbs with and without objects37 Verb + to-infinitive or bare infinitive38 Verb + to-infinitive or -ing?39 Verb + -ing40 ... to die ) D We often use be to + infinitive in //-clauses to say that something must take place first (in the mainclause) 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, alldistinctions would thereby be lost. Here Burke avows the central role ofmasculine heterosexual discipline in creating and maintaining social,political, ... not so much withhow femininity figures in the Reflections, but in what ways and for whatpurposes it is written out, or written in, as a force in maintaining ordisturbing the Burkean status quo. ... other)novelists play in constituting and contesting Irish and English nationalidentities. Marking writers or writings in these ways, moreover, occludestheir 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....