Топик: Grammar
Condition(without, in case of): IGA-You can get tickets without booking them. IGP- You can’t see me without being invited.
Cause(for, for fear of, owing to, trough, because of): IGA-I decided to miss my classes for fear of making a fool of myself. IGP-Through being read to, he understood the topic. PGA-I felt better for having spent a good deal of my time abroad. PGP-He was in hospital for having been run by a car.
Concession(in spite of/despite): IGA-In spite of being busy, he did everything to help me. IGP-In spite of being looked through, the documents were not signed. PGA- In spite of having visited his parents, he missed them very much.
G & Participle:
G may be preceded by a preposition, may be modified by a noun in the possessive case or by a possessive pronoun, can be used as a subject, object, predicative. As an adv mod is always preceded by a preposition. If we have a gerund as part of a compound noun, the person denoted by the noun doesn’t perform the action expressed by ing-form: dancing hall-hall for dancing. If we have a participle used as an attribute the person denoted by the pronoun performs the action expressed by the ing-form: a dancing girl-girl who dances. 2 interpretations: hunting dog, sewing machine.
G & VERBAL NOUN:
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G has double character, verbal noun only nominal.
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G can’t be used without article, verbal noun-can(I want you to give my hair a good brushing).
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G has no plural form, vn-our likings are regulated by our circumstanses.
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G of a transitive verb takes a direct object: He received a lot of letters & had given up in reading them.
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VN can’t take a direct object, it takes a prepositional object with of: She was rallying her nerves to the reading of the paper.
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G can be modified by an adverb(drinking, even temperately, was a sin. VN may be modified by an adjective:Hi took a good scolding aout clodding Sam.
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Subject
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It’s always easy to
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It’s hard to
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It’s important to
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It gives him pleasure to
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It’s dangerous to
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It’s wise of him to
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It does people a lot of good to
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It won’t do you any harm to
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It has become his habit to
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It surprised me to
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It made me feel awkward to
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It was natural to
Part of a compound verbal modal predicate.
Part of a compound verbal aspect (вид) predicate.
1. Modal verbs: can, may, must, to be to, to have to, should, ought, will, would, shall, need.
2. Modal expressions had better, would rather.
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