Further, we were aided from the start by the dedicated efforts of several research assistants, and at various points along the way helped by the expertise of academic reviewers and advisers, as well as editors and publishers. In this Preface we briefly explain our own individual roles in the work, and pay tribute to the many friends and associates to whom we owe a great deal for their valued aid and support. | 72 WORD AND PHRASE GRAMMAR Either and neither may be determiners pronouns part of correlative coordinators or adverbs. Compare see also Either neither used as determiners Either extreme is possible. acad Neither man got drunk fict Either neither used as pronouns He might deny that either is superior to the other in political morality. ACAD j Neither spoke Hebrew fict Either neither used as part of correlative coordinators Either we can know the position exactly in which case we sacrifice all specification of momentum or we can make the converse choice acao She was neither shocked nor surprised. fict Either neither used as adverbs A It s not my fault. B It s not mine either conv I m not old and neither is Chambers fict Other pro-forms In addition to pronouns there are some other function words which recapitulate a neighbouring expression with the effect of reducing grammatical complexity. The following are the most important. The pro-form so which replaces clauses or verb complements D you think they re going to attack I expect so. fict so that they re going to attack Despite the excesses of some tabloids freedom of the press is sacrosanct and should remain so. news so sacrosanct The pro-predicates do and do so I don t like this any more than you do. fict do like this Health workers cannot use the proper techniques unless they are trained to do so. acad do so use the proper techniques There are also adverbial pro-forms now at this time here in this place then at that time there in that place therefore for that reason hence as a result of this thus in this way as a result of this so in this way as a result of this Note also the adverbial counterparts of interrogative pronouns and relative pronouns . Primary auxiliaries Primary auxiliaries and modal auxiliaries are used to build up complex verb phrases and cannot occur alone unless a lexical verb is recoverable from the context. They reject do-insertion when used with not or in .
