Tham khảo tài liệu 'oxfore guide to english grammar part 59', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | GLOSSARY PAGE 400 ing-form the form of a verb with ing added . making flying used as gerund or active participle. intonation the rise and fall of the voice 54 intransitive verb a verb that cannot take an object although it may have a prepositional phrase after it . Something happened. You must listen to me. 8 invert inversion Inversion means changing the order. In the question Has the play started there is inversion of subject and auxiliary verb Theplay has started. . irregular See regular. linking adverb . also however finally 216 linking verb a verb like be seem become look feel that can take a complement 9 literary A literary style is a formal style typical of literature of writing. main clause A sentence has one or more main clauses . It rained or It rained and I got wet. A main clause can have a sub clause . I woke up when the alarm went off. Here I woke up is the main clause and when the alarm went off is a sub clause. A main clause can stand on its own but a sub clause is part of the main clause. 239 2 main verb the finite verb in a main clause . I like classical music. Hearing a knock hejumped up. Yourfriend will expect us to be ready. manner An adverbial of manner tells us how something happens . sadly in a hurry. 209 mid position in the middle of the sentence after an auxiliary verb but before an ordinary verb . I was just writing a note. For details 208 4 . modal auxiliary verb The modal verbs are will would shall should can could may might must need ought to dare. modifier modify In the phrase a narrow street the adjective narrow is a modifier. It modifies the noun street. It changes our idea of the street by giving more information about it. Other kinds of words can modify I ve got a tennis ball. We stopped suddenly. nationality word . English French Japanese Mexican 288 negative A negative sentence has n t or not or a negative word such as never nothing. 17 nominalization expressing the meaning of a clause . They are .
