Introduction Course: English Grammar Lecturer: Rongcheng Pan Object: English Major05-5&6 Textbook: English Grammar Course (Fourth Edition) by Zhang Zhenbang, Shanghai Foreign
1 Definition Subordination means putting a grammatical unit in a lower rank or position. A grammatical unit that functions as a constituent of another unit of equal or lower rank of structure is called subordinate constructi, which might
A coordinate construction is a sequence of semantically-related grammatical units that are similar in form, equal in rank of structure, identical in function and are connected by coordinators
A conditional sentence (or \conditional\ for short) is commonly composed of two parts: conditional clause main clause. Despite the many possible sequences of verb forms in conditionals, the following four types represent perhaps the commonest and the most useful ones:
