Complement Flashcards
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Three categories of ‘that’
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- Directive pronoun
Carrying a Stress, - Relative pronoun
- Complementizer
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Complement and adjunct
Definition
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Complement: constituents which complete the meaning of a verb or adj.
Syntactically obligatory
Adjunct: not required for the use of a verb
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Four types of verb predicate
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- Believe type: S of prdc. Is objective
- Advise type: S=PRO (object control)
- Attempt type: S (subject control)
- Want: object control, subject control
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Def. of PRO
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When the sbj of a main clause occurs in the prdc as a sbj, its superficial representaion
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Types Adjective complements
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- S-to-S raising: seem, turn out, appear, happen
2. Tough movement: expression of value(