II. Comment on the use of the predicate-verb in the singular or in the plural.
1. ... His people in Oughterard were written to. (Joyce).
2. After all it was his own fifty pounds ... (Coppard).
3. Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. (Joyce).
4. There ... stand three young men ... (Shaw).
5. The fleet drops behind ... (Shaw).
6. ... We found that the band had arrived, and were standing about in the hall rather pink in the face. ... The band were to be our guests for the night, and after we had welcomed them the band were borne off to their quarters ... (Du Maurier).
7. Mr. Murdstone and I were soon off. (Dickens).
8. ... Before Brodie could speak he added: "How are all the family?" (Cronin).
9. "The Mungo Clothing Company have taken the shop next door to your husband ..." (Cronin).
10. "Oh, you [the unemployed] weren't to have been paid. The North-East [Company] never pay their crowds." (Mansfield).
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12. TENSE
The problems for discussion
The expression of grammatical time.
The main temporal opposition.
Different interpretations of the combinations of the verbs shall and will with the infinitive.
The modal factors in the meaning of the English future tenses.
The category of the futurity option.
The construction conveying the idea of an immediate future action.
The neutralisation of the category of the prospective time.
Key terms: absolutive time (the past, the present, the future), relative time (priority – “relative past”, simultaneity – “relative present”, posteriority – “relative future”), factual time, tense, “primary, absolutive, or retrospective time” (past vs. non-past), “historic present”, “preterite of modesty”, “relative, or prospective time” (future vs. non-future), modal colouring, obligation, volition
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