Tham khảo tài liệu 'the grammar book teacher course part 71', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Chapter 24 Coordinating Conjunction res 489 4. Stockwell Schachter and Partee 1973 in a classic treatment assumed a rule of correlative addition whereby the word both is inserted optionally this rule captured the essential synonymy of identical sentences one of which contained both while the other did not John and his brother are mechanics versus Both John and his brother are mechanics. Both may be used to put special focus on the fact that notjust one but two brothers are mechanics. 5. The neither in this sentence is a quantifier not a correlative conjunction. Although both forms are identical and obviously related semantically remember from Chapter 17 that quantifiers function as determiners as neither does here or pronouns. 6. For judgments on Mandarin thanks go to Regina Wu and to the Taiwanese students in the Summer 1997 Academic English Program at UCLA. 7. But also has the meaning of except as in We had everything but what we needed. This is an historically old use of the word in this context it seems to function more as a preposition than as a conjunction and is usually treated as such in descriptive grammars. But may also be used in a second seemingly noncontrastive context where it often combines with instead. The rain did not go away but instead came down harder than ever. In this use but most often coordinates VPs rather than full clauses. 8. This fact seems incidentally to be the source of frequent production errors among Chinese ESL EFL students who attempt to combine although at the beginning of an initial clause with but at the beginning of the second. 9. Note that the conjunction so is generically distinct from the so discussed earlier in this chapter as a marker of VP-deleted material I can swim and so can you. Chapter 25 Adverb iars Introduction Adverbials are morphologically and syntactically the most diverse grammatical structures in English. Traditional grammarians define adverbs as words that modify a verb an adjective or another adverb. .
