... ancient.
The children are quiet.
Our dinner is ready.
The verb be is by far the most common linking verb. The predicate adjective in linking verb
sentences is used to give information about the ... adjective. The term predicate adjective refers to adjectives
that function as predicates of linking verbs. (These terms are explained in detail in Chapter 10.)
For now, let’s just look at some examples ... have:
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16 Noun Phrases
Exercise 1.6
Fill in the following chart with all of the forms for each noun.
Singular Singular possessive Plural only Plural possessive
wife...
... fi gure out
whether they are adjectival (noun modifi ers) or adverbial (modifi ers of verbs and other adverbs).
Adjectival and adverbial prepositional phrases look exactly alike. For example, ... adjective clause (i.e., whether the
relative pronoun is a subject, object, possessive, adverb of space, or adverb of time), and (2) the
nature of the noun that the adjective clause modifi es. This ... sentence, who is the subject of the verb do.
Please give your dues to Ms. Walker, who is the treasurer of the organization.
Here who is the subject of the verb is.
The musicians who played for...
... (subject, object, or possessive). The following
chart represents all the personal pronouns, with form and person along the left axis of the chart
and number across the top:
PERSONAL PRONOUNS
Form ... sense that they can play the
standard noun roles of subject, object, and complement of linking verbs. For example:
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Pronouns 73
Of the two ...
sentence. While this is generally the case, the antecedent can also be the object of the preceding
verb. For example, look at the following sentence:
Mary told John to help himself to some dessert.
Here...
... 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 ...
ADVERB PLACEMENT
The examples below show the placement for grammar adverbs such as: always, only, never,
ever, still, just, etc.
Examples:
ã You only speak English.
ã Do you only speak English?
ACTIVE...
... Cobuild GrammarChart on the following pages. The skeleton of
English grammar is seen in this chart.
However, there are many minor features of English that cannot appear on a simple summary
chart. ... subject: intransitive verbs 131
Involving someone or something other than the subject: transitive verbs 133
Verbs where the object refers back to the subject: reflexive verbs 136
Verbs with little ... 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...
... PEG chapters 10-16
6 Auxiliary verbs
7 Auxiliaries conjugated with do/does/did
8 Auxiliary verbs
9 Auxiliary verbs
10 Additions to remarks, using auxiliary verbs
11 Agreements and disagreements ... did he?)
Auxiliary verbs
PEG 106-7
Put the following verbs into the past tense. (Auxiliaries are used both by themselves and
as part of certain forms and tenses of ordinary verbs.)
Use had ... PRACTICAL ENGLISH GRAMMAR
EXERCISES 1
CONTENTS
Articles
PEG chapter I
1 Articles: a/an
2 Articles: the
3 Articles: a/an, the
4 Articles and possessive adjectives
5 a/an and one
Auxiliary verbs
...