19 Dic Tema 20- Expresión de la cualidad, el grado y la comparación
With gradable adjectives and adverbs there are 3 types of comparison...
With gradable adjectives and adverbs there are 3 types of comparison...
When a verb f.i: be, live, put takes an obligatory predication adjunct this is almost all cases concerned with position or direction...
Obligatory predication adjuncts of time occur with be-clauses where the subject refers to an event...
Adverbial finite clauses of time are introduced by one of the following subordinators: after, as, before, once, since, till, until, when, whenever, while...
All semantic types of process adjuncts can be realized by prepositional phrases...
Verbs that express all these meanings (opinion, desire, preference and state of mind are the following ones: care, like, love, hate, prefer and wish among others...
The distinction between active and passive voice applies only to sentences where the verb is transitive. The difference between the active and the passive voice involves both...
Conditional clauses: The central uses of conditional clauses express a direct condition. They convey...
Instead of thinking of truth and falsehood in black-and-white terms, we can think of terms of likelihood. The extremes of the scale are impossibility and certainty or logical...
It is normally expressed by the infinitive...