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Peer reviewedTregidgo, P. S. – English Language Teaching Journal, 1980
Attempts to show that conditional sentences are based on two separate binary choices: the choice between "open" and "theoretical" and the choice between "event condition" and "truth condition." Truth conditions, unlike event conditions, are concerned not with what might or might not happen but with what…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Semantics, Sentence Structure, Structural Analysis (Linguistics)
Peer reviewedMatthews-Bresky, R. J. H. – English Language Teaching Journal, 1978
In English there seems to be a large group of so-called reflexive verbs that do not possess any definable reflexive meaning. Grammatical reflexives are distinguishable from semantic reflexives and display considerable variation from one another also. Eight patterns or groupings of verbs are considered. (Author/SW)
Descriptors: English, English (Second Language), Grammar, Language Patterns
