Thebest Posted 21 years ago
Grammar
Explain the terms
I come over an exercise from a text book and find it diffult to answer. Can anyone help?
Experlain the following terms and identify one example of each in the text below:
1. notional passive
2. noun phrase functioning as Direct Object and Subject
3. alternative disjunction
4. concomitative adverbial
5. non-subject sentence theme
Muesli bars can be bought in bettter suppermarkets. They can be eaten either as a snack or with a meal. When very cold, they don't cut easily with a knife, so it's better to let them warm up before using them. Nutritionally, they are packed with healthy ingerdients and are far better than oily or salty junk foods.
alternative disjunction - is a co-ordinator to connect two statements and only of which may be true.
They can be eaten either as a snack or with a meal. either .... or is an alternative disjunction.
Thanks for help.
Experlain the following terms and identify one example of each in the text below:
1. notional passive
2. noun phrase functioning as Direct Object and Subject
3. alternative disjunction
4. concomitative adverbial
5. non-subject sentence theme
Muesli bars can be bought in bettter suppermarkets. They can be eaten either as a snack or with a meal. When very cold, they don't cut easily with a knife, so it's better to let them warm up before using them. Nutritionally, they are packed with healthy ingerdients and are far better than oily or salty junk foods.
alternative disjunction - is a co-ordinator to connect two statements and only of which may be true.
They can be eaten either as a snack or with a meal. either .... or is an alternative disjunction.
Thanks for help.
Top answer
Hello Thebest again Your questions are tough. I can give the definition to three phrases but not to other two. I think Mr CalfJim could give you complete answeres.
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Hello Thebest again
Your questions are tough. I can give the definition to three phrases but not to other two. I think Mr CalfJim could give you complete answeres.
1. 'Notional passive' is such a sentence that its syntactic construct is not passive but the sense is passive. We often call it "ergative construct" or "activo-passive". In the given paragraph, "they don't cut' is th
Your questions are tough. I can give the definition to three phrases but not to other two. I think Mr CalfJim could give you complete answeres.
1. 'Notional passive' is such a sentence that its syntactic construct is not passive but the sense is passive. We often call it "ergative construct" or "activo-passive". In the given paragraph, "they don't cut' is th
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