Collins Cobuild English Grammar (231 page)

reporting statements and thoughts
7.29

reporting questions
7.32

reporting requests
7.39
–
7.42

reporting suggestions
7.43
–
7.44

reporting intentions and hopes
7.45
–
7.47

reporting uncertain things
7.48

reporting conditional statements
7.59

used for performing an action
7.64
–
7.67

mentioning the hearer
7.77
–
7.80

reporting someone’s actual words
see
 
direct speech

requests
5.43
,
5.157
–
5.164
,
5.169

polite additions to requests
5.170

reporting requests
7.39
–
7.42

result clauses
8.54
–
8.64

rhetorical questions
5.44
,
9.94

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s
form of verbs
R52
–
R58

’s
see
 
apostrophe
s

same
10.33
–
10.35

same as
2.135
–
2.137

say
7.6
,
7.36
,
7.84

seem
3.132
–
3.136
,
7.70
–
7.71
,
9.53

seldom
4.114
,
5.80
–
5.86

semi-modals
5.246
–
5.255

dare
and
need
5.247
–
5.251

inflected forms
5.248

use with other modals
5.249

use with
do
5.250

used to
5.252
–
5.256

negatives
5.255

sentence adverbials
9.56
–
9.68

sentence connectors
10.48
–
10.56

indicating an addition
10.49

indicating a similar point
10.50

contrasts and alternatives
10.51

showing cause
10.52

showing sequence in time
10.53

putting points in order
10.54

conjunctions
10.55

several
1.154
,
1.223
–
1.224
,
4.115
,
8.87

several of
2.177
,
2.179
,
2.182

shall

talking about the future
4.53
,
5.108
,
R104

expressing certainty
5.130

shall not
for forbidding
5.148

giving formal instructions
5.167

making suggestions
5.186
–
5.187

expressing intentions
5.191

shan’t
5.59

she
1.95
–
1.96
,
1.98

should

expressing certainty
5.122

expressing expectation
5.131
–
5.134

should not
for undesirable actions
5.150

should like
for requests
5.169

making offers of help
5.176

making suggestions
5.182

expressing wishes
5.203

expressing importance
5.213
,
5.216

being polite
5.220

shouldn’t
5.59

similarity
2.123

things with the same quality
2.124
–
2.131

with
like
2.132
–
2.134

same as
2.135
–
2.137

adjectives meaning
the same
2.138

since

with present perfect
4.34
,
4.137

in time clauses
8.19

in reason clauses
8.50

singular nouns
1.34
–
1.40

so

so
,
so that
and
so as to
in purpose clauses
8.43
–
8.47

so
and
so that
in result clauses
8.54
–
8.60

so
as a substitute for something already mentioned
10.24
–
10.27

if so
10.25

so
with reporting verbs
10.26

some
1.236
–
1.238

structures used with
some-
1.139

as indefinite determiner
1.223

some of
2.179
–
2.180
,
2.185

somebody
1.128
–
1.139

someone
1.128
–
1.139

something
1.128
–
1.139

somewhere
6.61
–
6.71

split infinitive
6.11

split sentences
9.4
,
9.25
–
9.30

it
as the subject
9.26

using
what
and
all
9.28
–
9.30

focusing on the topic
9.29

focusing on what someone wants or needs
9.30

statements
5.2
–
5.9

stative verbs
4.69
,
R120
–
R122

still

with comparatives
2.160
,
6.51

for existing situations
4.77

for expected situations
4.78

subject pronouns
1.96
–
1.104

I
1.97

you
1.98

he
and
she
1.99

it
1.100
–
1.101

we
1.102
,
1.222

they
1.103

submodifying adverbs
2.140
–
2.156

used with other adverbs
6.51

subordinate clauses
4.6
,
8.1
–
8.145
,
R124

subordinating conjunctions
8.1
–
8.82

substituting for something already mentioned: using
so
and
not
10.24
–
10.27

such

with
not
2.130

used in result clauses
8.61
–
8.63

as a determiner
10.29

as a predeterminer
10.30

as an adjective
10.31

referring forward
10.46

suffixes
1.74
–
1.75
,
2.118
,
2.201
,
9.61

suggestions
5.46
,
5.180
,
5.181
–
5.187

polite suggestions
5.184

superlative adjectives
1.180
,
2.112
–
2.122
,
R20
–
R31

used in front of a noun
2.114

used after a linking verb
2.115

structures used after superlatives
2.116
–
2.117

used with other adjectives
2.118

used as nouns
2.119
–
2.120

used with ordinal numbers
2.121

the least
2.122

superlative adverbs
6.30
–
6.35
,
R150
–
R154

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