tailieunhanh - The grammar book teacher course part 99

Tham khảo tài liệu 'the grammar book teacher course part 99', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | M2 The Grammar Book Imperatives can also be reported with ordinary that-clauses the presence of the indirect object with verbs like tell is dealt with later in the chapter Please go away He said that I should go away. He told me that I should go away. However it is probably most common for imperatives to be paraphrased with infinitival complements using the main-clause verbs tell order ask Please go away He told asked ordered me to please go away. Imperatives can of course be used for purposes other than outright commands. They can for instance be used for invitations as in Stop by for some dessert and coffee tonight She asked invited us to stop by for some dessert and coffee tonight Indirect imperatives with to tend to be much less problematical for ESL EFL students than subjunctive forms perhaps because they are simpler and also occur much more frequently in native speaker discourse and thus in the input the learners are likely to receive. Indirect Questions An indirect question or embedded question is so called because the utterer is typically not asking a question but reporting a real or hypothetical The difference between direct and hypothetical questions may be illustrated with the following pair of sentences Is anyone interested in the movie She wants to know whether if anyone is interested in the movie. In the first case the speaker is asking the question while in the second case the speaker may simply wish to state a fact about someone elsc s wishes and does so with whether or if plus a dependent clause. Just as we have placed the complementizer that into a comp position directly under the embedded S just to the left of the S position so will we place whether if into comp in yes no indirect questions. In all other respects the trees are identical. Word Order We covered the formation meaning and use of direct yes no and zzjA-questions in Chapters II and 13. There we discussed the fact that direct questions involve subjectoperator inversion and .