In sentences containing reported speech, thought, or perception, it is possible to distinguish different voices or views, associated with different discourse roles. They originate in two different clauses: one clause signals a reporting situation, and the other a reported situation. This volume examines the methods used for combining these two types of clauses in a range of languages. The articles concentrate on the Slavic languages Russian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian, Croatian, and Slovene, the Romance languages Latin, Old and Modern French, and Spanish, the Germanic languages Swedish, German, Dutch, and English, the Indo-Iranian language Bengali, and Mandarin Chinese.
Taking both an empirical and a theoretical view of the prosodic phrasing of parentheticals in English, this book reviews the syntactic and prosodic literature on parentheticals along with relevant theoretical work at the syntax-prosody interface. It offers a detailed prosodic analysis of six types of parentheticals - full parenthetical clauses, non-restrictive relative clauses, nominal appositions, comment clauses, reporting verbs, and question tags, all taken from the spoken part of the British Component of the International Corpus of English.
Begginer to Intermediate 100 sample quizes are designed for busy teachers to check that students have mastered the lesson objectives. Those quizes are useful after each lesson completion including:Adverb Clauses, Conditionals, Determiner, sGerunds and Infinitives, Miscellaneous, Modals Noun Clauses Passive Voice, Relative Clauses, Reported Speech, Tag Questions, Tenses, Mixed Materials
Introduction to noun clauses - Grammar short lessons - 2014 -
A noun clause is a group of words that contains a subject and a verb. It acts as a noun. Note that a noun clause cannot stand alone. It is a subordinate clause and it needs to be attached to an independent clause.
A noun clause can be the subject or object of the verb in the main clause...
