At an early stage in the preparation of the book, the authors benefited from the comments of distinguished academics who reviewed the plan, and read one or two "trial* chapters: Florent Aarts, Paul Bmthiaux, Paul J. Hopper, Yoshihiko lkegami, Graeme Kennedy, Christian Mair, Keith Mitchell Randolph Quirk (Lord Quirk), Jan Svartvik, and Michael Stubbs. | Non-finite clauses 199 The only way out of the dilemma is to suppose that sometimes the photon gets through and sometimes it does not. acad D Direct object Do you want me to send them today conv He upset you very much and J hate to see that fict E Object predicative Some of these issues dropped out of Marx s later works because he considered them to have been satisfactorily dealt with. acad Feare 1970a thought it to be at least 90 during the first winter acad F Adverbial A little group of people had gathered by Mrs. Millings to watch the police activities on the foreshore fict To succeed again they will have to improve their fitness and concentration. news G Part of noun phrase He is the third man to be murdered on the corner of the Donegal Road and the Falls Road in the past two years news They say that failure to take precautions against injuring others is negligent acad In the first example the infinitive clause is a postmodifier comparable with a relative clause in the second a noun complement. H Part of adjective phrase They re too big to fight that s the trouble isn t it conv I think the old man s a bit afraid to go into hospital. coNvj In all these roles except A and F and the first type illustrated in G fo-infinitive clauses act as complement clauses . ng-clauses fng-clauses can have a range of syntactic roles A Subject Having a fever is pleasant vacant fict Understanding how a planet generates and gets rid of its heat is essential if we are to understand how that planet works acad B Extraposed subject Anyway 1 says to Alice it s not fair getting in somebody s car feeling the way I feel I says - and puking in car. conv There is only around five tonnes of newsprint left and it s very difficult getting supplies into Sarajevo. news C Subject predicative Erm what I m thinking of is disconnecting the pipe there and running it through - that way. conv The real problem is getting something done about the cheap imports. news 200 CLAUSE GRAMMAR D Direct .
