Tham khảo tài liệu 'the grammar book teacher course part 114', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Appendix 799 4. Do can be used to stand lor an entire VP. not just a verb in sentences like the following She believes the reports that the politician was lying about his involvement with space aliens during his first term of office and I do too. 5. a. Since the conjunction orpresents alternatives. the sentence will be true as long as one of the alterna- tives enters into a true statement. In this case each alternative is a singular proper name. Also in this case the meaning of the sentence makes it fairly clear that or will be interpreted exclusively that is it cannot be the case that both Helen and Judy will be the president this year. The student who produced this sentence might be told simply that when he she uses or to coordinate NPs and when agreement is an issue or should be accompanied by a singular verb in the sentence as long us the final of the two or more conjuncts appears as a singular NP. Recall that in cases where singular NPs are coordinated with plural NPs. the proximity principle tends to make the verb plural in naturalistic discourse Either my mother or my cousins are taking me to the mall. A supplementary meaning-based teacher response to this particular error would be to ask the student how many presidents a club or a company is likely to have in one year letting one as the response the teacher can then point out that the student has used a plural verb form which suggests more than one actual president. b. The error here lies in the fa t that too an adverb that accompanies coordinated alfinnative clauses should be replaced by its negative counterpart either. Students need to become aware that the patterns are Yes too. and No n either. The error is somewhat though not completely parallel to what happens to some when it appears in a negative sentence and becomes any. Since students at the intermediate level are likely to have a fairly good mastery of some auy environments the teacher might exploit the parallel in giving feedback Io a student at .
