coordination, we should rewrite like “Could you turn off the fire and turn on the light?”
(2) *Your mother won’t put (and your wife is fed) up with your disgusting behavior.
Surprisingly, 'fed up with' is phrasal-prepositional verb. Phrasal-prepositional verbs consist of verb, adverb and preposition. Because phrasal-prepositional verbs end with a preposition, there is always a direct ob
1. What dows UNDP do?
1) what is the UN?
The United Nations (UN) an international treaty that spells out the rights and duties of member states. is a unique international organization of 192 sovereign states established in 1945. Its goal is to maintain international peace and security, to develop friendly relations among nations, and to promote social progress, a better living standard and hum
coordinated. Adjunct cannot be coordinated with a Complement since Complements are attached at the N level, whereas Adjuncts are attached at the N-bar level. Therefore, the sentence (a) is grammatical because [of the riots] and [of their implication] are both Complements. Both of them are attached at the N level. Also, the sentence (b) is grammatical because [at the match] and [in the bar] are Ad
On the other hand, 'down' could act as a preposition and make a prepositional phrase. Here, down means the direction downward, so the sentence would mean that John will be running downward the road.
Exercise Ⅳ.
(1) (a) Up a huge hill john ran.
(b) *Up a huge bill John ran.
Only whole phrase not just a part of a phrase can be preposed. In the sentence (a), therefore, the prepositi
It seems plausible to assume that the source of the ambiguity of [an old French student] is structural in nature, and that part of the ambiguity relates to the fact that ‘old’ and ‘French’ has two different categorical functions above. We can support this analysis with empirical evidences according to syntactic, semantic, and phonological views.
1. Syntactic analysis
As you can see, [a