tailieunhanh - The grammar of the english verb phrase part 95

Tham khảo tài liệu 'the grammar of the english verb phrase part 95', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | II. The temporal structure of adverbial when-clauses 651 He was arrested when he tried to steal a car in 1931 but he had more success in 1933 when he tried again. This example shows that it is sometimes irrelevant whether the speaker uses a when-clause including a second time-specifying adverbial or a timespecifying adverbial accompanied by a when-clause as second time-specifying adverbial. In the latter case the situation time of the when-clause is contained in the first time-specifying adverbial rather than the other way round. Because of this containment relation between the two Adv-times it is not uncommon for the time adverbial to follow when immediately When in late afternoon on the last day in June he saw two people . walk toward the house he quit work immediately and strode to his rifle. BR When a when-clause combines with another time-specifying adverbial the latter may itself be a when-clause He maintains he cannot raise his arm. When it was raised up quickly by a doctor when he wasn t expecting it he let out such a scream that . LOB The relation between the situation time of the head clause and the Adv-time of the head clause The when-clause can specify either the situation time of the head clause or an orientation time which binds the situation time of the head clause in terms of T-anteriority or T-posteriority. In other words the when-clause can be used either as a situation-time adverbial or as an orientation-time adverbial. In both cases the when-clause uses a relative tense which represents the situation time of the when-clause as T-anterior T-simultaneous or T-posterior to the contained orientation time of the when-clause. This means that the situation time of the when-clause is never directly related to the situation time of the head clause the situation time of the when-clause is T-related to the contained orientation time of the when-clause which is contained by the common Advtime. The function of when is to identify an orientation time in