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  2. Subjunctive by attraction - Wikipedia

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    One authority, Hale, explains the usage as follows: [23] In complex sentences made up of a main sentence with subjunctive verb and one or more subordinate sentences, the modal feeling in the speaker's mind which expresses itself in the main sentence is, in the nature of things, very likely to continue in the speaker's mind in the subordinated sentence or sentences, either quite unchanged or ...

  3. Nonfinite verb - Wikipedia

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    The second sentence shows the following dependency structure: The verb catena (in purple) contains four verbs (three of which are non-finite) and the particle to, which introduces the infinitive have. Again, the one finite verb, did, is the root of the entire verb catena and the subject, they, is a dependent of the finite verb. The third ...

  4. Finite verb - Wikipedia

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    In the following sentences, the finite verbs are emphasized, while the non-finite verb forms are underlined. Verbs appear in almost all sentences. This sentence is illustrating finite and non-finite verbs. The dog will have to be trained well. Tom promised to try to do the work. The case has been intensively examined today. What did they want ...

  5. English grammar - Wikipedia

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    The combination of SVO order and use of auxiliary verbs often creates clusters of two or more verbs at the center of the sentence, such as he had hoped to try to open it. In most sentences, English marks grammatical relations only through word order. The subject constituent precedes the verb and the object constituent follows it.

  6. Clause - Wikipedia

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    In language, a clause is a constituent or phrase that comprises a semantic predicand (expressed or not) and a semantic predicate. [1] A typical clause consists of a subject and a syntactic predicate, [2] the latter typically a verb phrase composed of a verb with or without any objects and other modifiers.

  7. V2 word order - Wikipedia

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    In syntax, verb-second (V2) word order [1] is a sentence structure in which the finite verb of a sentence or a clause is placed in the clause's second position, so that the verb is preceded by a single word or group of words (a single constituent).

  8. Adjunct (grammar) - Wikipedia

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    The following sentence uses adjuncts of time and place: Yesterday , Lorna saw the dog in the garden . Notice that this example is ambiguous between whether the adjunct in the garden modifies the verb saw (in which case it is Lorna who saw the dog while she was in the garden) or the noun phrase the dog (in which case it is the dog who is in the ...

  9. Subject–auxiliary inversion - Wikipedia

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    Here the subject is Sam, and the verb has is an auxiliary. In the question, these two elements change places (invert). If the sentence does not have an auxiliary verb, this type of simple inversion is not possible. Instead, an auxiliary must be introduced into the sentence in order to allow inversion: [3] a. Sam enjoys the paper.