tailieunhanh - Longman grammar of spoken and written english part 58

Tham khảo tài liệu 'longman grammar of spoken and written english part 58', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 778 ADVERBIALS We were frantically doing that painting conv I found myself writing slowly and rewriting piecemeal endlessly fict Thứ is blue-sky country where they play their music in that western way. nbws Adverbiais of comparison can also be considered manner adverbials comparing the manner of a state or action relative to another There are few better exponents of the art of looking as though life is a complete grind. NEWsf Then 1 would go through the refrigerator like a vacuum cleaner sucking in whatever there was. fict The lip curled like a snail s foot the left nostril gaped fict We also include under manner those adverbials that show accompaniment. As the following examples illustrate these adverbials lie along a continuum from clearly conveying manner to encompassing more ambiguous meanings 1 I had dinner with Clay the other night. coNvf 2 I would feel safer leaving with somebody else anyway conv 3 He s coming downstairs with two sleeping bags over the top of his head conv Some occurrences such as examples 1 and 2 contain adverbials that show physical accompaniment. Though they are not always obvious answers to a How question they can be replaced with the opposite manner adverbials such as independently or by myself and thus fit the manner category most clearly. However other occurrences as in 3 are more ambiguous. In some sense the adverbial in 3 conveys information about the manner of coming downstairs but the precise semantic relationship between the adverbial and the rest of the clause is difficult to define. See for further discussion of ambiguity in the meanings of circumstance adverbials. Process circumstance adverbials also include the subcategory of means that is adverbials telling the means by which an activity or state was accomplished The US as the country of origin for the uranium had originally insisted that shipments be made by air. news We examined this question by excluding birds for 3 years from experimental plots. ACad Further .