00831英语语法简答题

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1、LExplainthesyntacticdistinctionbetweenthepredictiveandnon-predictiveuseofmodalauxiliarywithexamples.Thesyntacticdistinctionbetweenthepredictiveandnon-predictiveuseofmodalauxiliaryisclearinthefollowingtwosentences:1)Hecan'thavebeenthereyesterday.2)Hecouldn'tbethereyesterday.Thetwosentencesrevealtwoq

2、uitedifferentusesofthemodalauxiliary.Thefirstsentence,wherethepredictivecan'trelatestoimpossibilityandthemainverbismarkedforpasttimereference,referstothespeaker^presentdenialofpossibilityofapastevent.Inthesecond,themodalauxiliaryitself,innon-predictiveuse,ismarkedforpasttense,referringtolackofabili

3、tyinthepast.2>Whafsthefunctionofrelativepronoun?Therelativepronounservesasa"link"betweentherelativeclauseanditsantecedent.Itperformstwofunctions:showingconcordwithitsantecedentandindicatingitsfunctionwithintherelativeclause・3>Iftenseisrelatedtotime,whatisaspectrelatedto?Whentensepointstothetemporal

4、locationofaneventorastateofaffairs,aspect"reflectsthewayinwhichtheverbactionisregardedorexperiencedwithrespecttotime^.4.Apartfromqueryingthetruthofastatement,whatotherpotentialfunctionscanaNoquestionperform?Theymayberegardedasthespeaker'sinvitationsorsuggestions,madeinatentativewayastheyoftenare,ra

5、therthanhisnegativeassumptions.Theyarelikeimperatives.Forexample:Won?tyoucomein?Won5tyousitdown?Theycanalsobelikeexclamations:Isn'titlovely?Aren'tyousilly?5・Listthetypesofantecedents.Theantecedentisdividedintonominalantecedentandnon-nominalantecedent.Nominalantecedentsfallintodifferentsubclasses:th

6、eymaybecommonnounsorpropernouns,personalpronounsordemonstrativepronouns・Non-nominalantecedentcanbesubdividedintothreetypes:clause,verbphrase,predicativeadjective・6

7、ons,(result)Heworkedhardersothathecouldpasstheexaminations・(purpose)7.Provideexamplestoillustratethethreedegreesofcomparison.Mybrotherisastallasme.(positivedegree)Mybrotheristallerthanmyfather,(comparatived