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Modal Verbs
Tense and Aspect
Objects
Passive Sentences
Types of Sentences
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These type of modal verbs have all the typical characteristics of modals
What is pure modals
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This refers to how an action is to be viewed with respect to time, rather than its actual location in time
What is 'aspect'
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These verbs can take both transitive and intransitive objects
What is 'ditransitive verbs'
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All passive constructions are formed with THIS after the verb 'to be'
What is 'past participle'
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This 'appendix' question usually has the reverse polarity of the main sentence
What is 'the tag question'
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This semi modal is used where 'must' has no tense form
What is 'have to'
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This aspect is typically used with such adverbials of time as 'ever', 'always', 'so far', 'lately', etc
What is 'perfect aspect'
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Some verbs follow this pattern when you move the indirect object after the direct object
What is 'prepositional pattern'
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This preposition in the passive sentence introduces a subject of its active counterpart
What is 'by'
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You need to use these verbs to form most interrogative and negative sentences
What is 'auxiliary verbs'
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All pure modals use this form of the verb after them
What is a bare infinitive
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This refers to the aspect of verbs that is inherent in their meaning
What is 'lexical aspect'
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In the prepositional pattern, the verbs 'cook', 'bake' or 'buy' are followed by an indirect object with this preposition only
What is 'for'
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Short passives, unlike long passives, do not have THIS
What is a 'by-phrase'
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This modal verb is used in tag questions that follow all imperative sentences except those that begin with 'let's'.
What is 'will'
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This modal verb of advisability cab also express reproach or regret
What is 'should'
400
These verbs express cognitive, emotional or physical states
What is 'stative verbs'
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If the direct object is THIS, the sentence cannot occur in the dative movement pattern
What is 'a pronoun'
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This register uses the largest number of passives of all other registers
What is 'the academic register'
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This kind of negation is used when you negate the second verb in the sentence
What is 'secondary negation'
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This is the least commonly used modal verb
What is 'shall'
500
This verbs are lacking an end point in their meaning
What is 'atelic verbs'
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A verb that can be both transitive and intransitive, and whose subject when intransitive corresponds to its direct object when transitive
What is an 'ergative verb'
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This term is usually used to refer to 'someone or something that performes the action'
What is 'the agent'
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All imperative sentences in English imply the use of this personal pronoun (although the pronoun itself is rarely used).
What is 'the second person pronoun 'you''