Đang chuẩn bị nút TẢI XUỐNG, xin hãy chờ
Tải xuống
Tham khảo tài liệu 'the grammar book teacher course part 74', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Chapter 25 Adverbials 511 Yes 110 questions with ever like the above How often . questions may ask about either specific experiences or the frequency of habitual actions Specific experience Have you ever been to Acapulco Frequency Do you ever study in the library Yes no questions with ever that ask about specific experiences tend to elicit specific responses again responses with a prcverbal adverb of frequency are too vague A Have you ever been to Acapulco Yes for one week back in 1971. B i i sometimes go 1 Yes I 4 6 I there. I usually go J On the other hand yes no questions with ewrthat ask about the frequency of habitual actions readily elicit responses with a preverbal adverb of frequency and they arc the only questions with evwthat can do this A Do you ever study in the library B I always usually often sometimes rarely knever do. Therefore preverbal adverbs are not normally elicited by wh-questions and can be naturally elicited by only one type of yes no question i.e. questions about the frequency of habitual actions . This observation has ramifications for teaching since we want our students to practice using preverbal adverbs in contexts that are as natural as possible. Clearly we need a comprehensive discourse analysis of the use of prcverbal adverbs in English speech and writing that will give us some of the information we have about other adverbials based on the research of Lee 1991 Miller 1991 and Ford 1993 . Conclusion This chapter has expanded on our brief earlier discussions about adverbial phrases prepositional phrases used adverbially and adverbial clauses. We have shown that these three adverbial structures can be generated both sentence-finally and sentence-initially with very different implications for the organization of discourse.We also included a discussion of participles functioning as adverbials to complement our earlier discussion of participles functioning as acyectives in Chapter 20. In the final section of this chapter wc introduced .
