Explanations on advanced grammar points and structures, such as mixed conditionals, fronting, inversions, parallel structures, split infinitives,etc., that are usually taught to students when they reach the most advanced levels in English.
The course won’t turn you automatically into a fluent English speaker but if you pass the exam after taking it, your score will definitely be higher. This course is designed for enthusiastic English learners who want to prepare for IELTS by themselves and just within a short period of time. You’re maybe around Intermediate or Upper-Intermediate and you’ve finally decided to pass IELTS. You are ready to work hard and you only want a real, visible result.
Fusing insights from cognitive grammar, systemic-functional grammar and Government & Binding, the present work elaborates and refines Davidse’s view that the English grammar of lexical causatives is governed by the transitive and ergative paradigms, two distinct models of causation (Davidse 1991, 1992). However, on the basis of extensive synchronic and diachronic data on verbs of killing (e.g. kill, execute, choke or drown), it is shown that ‘transitivity’ and ‘ergativity’ are not absolute but prototypical characteristics of verbs which may be overruled by the semantics of the construal in which they occur.
Blockbuster is designed for learners studying English at Beginner to Intermediate level. The series follows the principles of the Common European Framework of Reference and combines active English learning with a variety of lively topics presented in themed modules.
