Build a Sentence

Contents:

• Actions alternatives
• Adverbs: relative vs. non-relative (CGEL)
  • Relative adverb
  • Non-relative adverb
  • Core contrast
  • Usage as common adverbs
  • CGEL alignment note
• Adverbs usage
  • How not to use adverbs
  • Many adverbs don’t have another better choice
• Cheatsheet: build a sentence
  • Readers and value
  • Main point and peripheral Info
  • Modifiers
  • Relative Clauses
  • Adverbial
  • Time
  • Infinitive phrases
  • Tense, aspect of future
  • Modal verbs
  • Fill in the coordination blanks
  • Prepositions
  • Accurate Meaning
  • Concise
  • Types
• Clause: adverbial by semantic function
• Clause: CGEL form
  • Declarative
  • Interrogative
  • Imperative
  • Exclamative
  • Optative
  • Summary
• Clause: CGEL valency/transitivity
  • Predicate-argument structure
  • Intransitive clause
  • Monotransitive clause
  • Ditransitive clause
  • Copular clause
  • Complex-transitive clause
  • Prepositional-complement clause:
  • Summary table
• Clause: content
  • Definition of the content clause
  • Possible CGEL form type:
  • Complete thought
  • Properties
  • Examples
  • Key properties:
  • As subject
  • Declarative
  • Interrogative
  • Exclamatives
  • Mandative
• Clause: matrix clause
  • Relationship of containment
  • Matrix vs. main clause
  • Structural roles within the matrix
  • Matrix clauses and parentheticals
• Clause: passive
  • Definition
  • Structure
  • VP with Be
  • Preceding verb
  • As modifiers
  • The long passive
  • Short passives
• Clause: relative
  • Definition
  • Examples
  • Sample relativisation
  • Key properties
  • Integrated
  • Supplementary
  • When you can drop a relative pronoun
  • Non-finite infinitival relatives
  • The relative clause gap
  • Relativising
  • Ways to Introduce Relative Clauses in CGEL
  • Fused
  • Relativise adjuncts
  • Real examples
• Clause: semantic
  • Semantic clauses
  • Semantic by CGEL
• Clause: syntactic reference
  • Usage Tips
  • Subordinate clauses by grammatical function
  • Finite vs non-finite
  • Adverbial clauses
  • Relative clause
  • Key Structural Features
  • Typical subordinate clause introducers
  • Usage guide
• Conditionals
  • Interrogative content clause (complement)
  • Conditional adjuncts
• Conjunctions
  • Coordinators
  • Subordinators
  • Subordinator vs. prepositions
  • Caveat with That sbr
• Dummy pronouns
  • Intro
  • Extraposition
  • It-Cleft
  • Existential construction
• Existential construction
  • Intro
  • Structure
  • Bare vs. extended existential
  • Matrix predicator
• Focus adjuncts
  • Category vs Function
  • What a focus adjunct can modify
  • Key Properties
  • Contrast With Degree Modifiers
  • Summary
• Interjections
  • Primary vs. secondary
  • When to use primary vs secondary
  • How to use interjections correctly in writing
  • Very short rule
• Layering
  • Layering vs. stacked
  • Layering options
  • Practical template writers use
• Mind the gap
  • Hollow clause
  • Types of hollow clauses
  • Unexpressed subject
  • Reduced relative clause and hollow clauses
  • Ellipsis
  • Restriction to passive voice gap
  • Note about ECM
• Nice sentence patterns
  • Complex
  • Simple
• Participles usage
  • Why participles are important
  • Participle by type
  • The Gerund-Participle (The -ing form)
  • The Past Participle (The -en form)
  • Usage
• Phrases
  • Noun phrase
  • Adjective phrases
  • Adverb phrases
  • Common roles of prepositional phrases
  • Verb phrase
• Postmodifiers
• Predication
  • Predicator
  • What the verb does?
  • Change vs. Result
  • NP is heavy, AdjP is light
  • Anchor change or identity with preposition
• Qualities
• Relative adverb vs. non-relative adverb (CGEL)
  • Relative adverb
  • Non-relative adverb
  • Core contrast
  • CGEL alignment note
• Semantic sentence patterns
  • Facts >> conclusion
  • Fact >> reason
  • Fact >> result
  • Action >> result
  • Then vs. Now
  • Generalized with concession
  • Extreme concession
  • Concessive: Although x, y
  • Induction, Deduction
  • Chronological
  • Establishing pre condition
  • Directions
  • Reversibility
  • Effect
  • Prediction - long term
  • Prediction - casual
  • List of items where one is more important
  • List of actions (modal verb + multiple verb phrases, should go, eat…)
  • Mini reference
• Semantic roles
• Sentence communicates one thought
  • Action sentence
  • Cumulative, elaboration
  • Comparison
  • Result
  • Contrast
  • Evaluation
  • Temporal
  • Speculative
  • Suggestion
  • Question
  • Reasoning
  • Periodic
  • Misc / Declarative
• Sentences
• Stacked clauses
  • Stacked
  • What to look for
  • Tools
• Stranding
  • What is stranding?
  • The conflict
  • Prepositional passive
  • Wh-questions
  • Relative clauses
  • Passive clauses
  • Topicalisation / focus movement
  • Cleft sentences
  • Infinitival relatives
  • Summary
• Stranding in a relative clause
  • Stranding vs. pied-piping in a relative clause
  • Pied-piping
  • Stranding
  • Stranding a relative complement vs. adjunct
  • With pronoun
  • Non-finite infinitival relatives
  • Impact
  • Which is better when writing?
  • Preposition position impact summary
• Subject
  • The Principle of End-Weight.
• Subject: unexpressed
  • “How”: licensing by non-finiteness
  • Is it unique to English?
  • Why do we do it? (The Functional Reason)
  • The “Inverse Relation”
  • Mechanism
  • Construction
  • Testing
  • Usage
  • Summary
• Tenseless subordinate clause
  • Subordinates with plain form
  • Subordinates with gerund-participle
  • Subordinate with past-participle
• Verb: Dynamic
  • Stative
  • Select the appropriate dynamic effect
  • Dynamic impact
  • Dynamic and stopping point
  • Activities
  • Achievements
  • Accomplishments
  • Semelfactives
  • Using for/in
  • Done state and process
  • Achievement vs Accomplishment
  • Dynamic summary
• Verb usage
  • Focus
  • Aspect
• Word categories
  • Nouns
  • Verbs
  • Adjectives
  • Adverbs
  • Determinatives
  • Prepositions
  • Subordinators
  • Coordinators
  • Interjections