means that a new item entirely, bearing little if any similarity to the native language item, must be learned such as definite/indefinite article, There construction, Relative nouns and aspect of the verb. In addition, split is the most difficult level that one item in the first language becomes two or more in the second language; there are more tense and modal verbs in English than the Korean.
Certain forms of AdjP occur right at the beginning of the NP, before the indefinite article a.
E.g.
a. [How big a box] do we need?
b. We'd select [this big a box].
a. It seemed [such a computer].
b. [What a handsome] I was.
[noun]
- virtual disaster *his almost death
[verb]
- It virtually evaporated. He almost died.
[adjective]
- It was virtually impossible. He was
The verb say takes a that-clause as a direct object, optionally with to + object ,and only say takes a direct quotation as a direct object.
And say takes a limited number of noun phrases.
Many say that seat belts are unnecessary.
Tim said to Marco, “It's funny, It looks like a turtle.”
He said that “it is necessary to get up
earlier.”
They said some nice things about you.
Exercise V
(1) *Could you turn off the fire and on the light?
In this case, we can assure that 'turn off' is phrasal verb in few perspectives. First, we can only have the preposition after the pronominal object as in ‘turn it off’ but ‘*turn off it’. The other reason is that preposing of ‘on the light’ is impossible because ‘turn on’ itself is a phrasal verb.
Therefore, we can
- To-infinitivals are marked by the word to
- When a to-infinitival contains a subject,
→ it also contains the clause subordinator for.
[For John to lose his temper like that] is highly unusual.
We can’t afford [for everyone to travel business class].
SUBJECT
EXTRAPOSED SUBJECT
EXTRAPOSED OBJECT
INTERNAL COMP OF VERB
COMP OF PREPOSITION
ADJUNCT IN CLAUSE
To turn ba