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        3 On Adjectives
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        Ben Okri
        
 and Zelda Fitzgerald 
                                    
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                                            Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
 - Acknowledgements V
 - Contents VII
 - Introduction 1
 - 1 On Nouns 5
 - 2 Premodification in the Noun Phrase 13
 - 3 On Adjectives 21
 - 4 On Definite and Indefinite Articles 29
 - 5 Personal Pronouns 35
 - 6 Prepositional Phrases 43
 - 7 On Verbs: Tense 49
 - 8 Phrasal Verbs 57
 - 9 Auxiliary Verbs 63
 - 10 Auxiliary Verb do 71
 - 11 Modal Auxiliary Verbs 77
 - 12 On Aspect 87
 - 13 Adverbs 95
 - 14 Adverbials 105
 - 15 On Clauses 117
 - 16 On Clauses: Coordinators and Subordinators 125
 - 17 On Clauses: Relative Pronouns 131
 - 18 -ing forms 141
 - 19 On Anaphora 149
 - 20 On Cataphora 153
 - 21 End Focus and Endweight 159
 - 22 Collocation and Colligation 167
 - 23 Cohesion and Coherence 173
 - 24 Deixis 181
 - 25 Conversational Implicatures 191
 - 26 Speech Acts 199
 - Primary Sources 205
 - References 207
 
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
 - Acknowledgements V
 - Contents VII
 - Introduction 1
 - 1 On Nouns 5
 - 2 Premodification in the Noun Phrase 13
 - 3 On Adjectives 21
 - 4 On Definite and Indefinite Articles 29
 - 5 Personal Pronouns 35
 - 6 Prepositional Phrases 43
 - 7 On Verbs: Tense 49
 - 8 Phrasal Verbs 57
 - 9 Auxiliary Verbs 63
 - 10 Auxiliary Verb do 71
 - 11 Modal Auxiliary Verbs 77
 - 12 On Aspect 87
 - 13 Adverbs 95
 - 14 Adverbials 105
 - 15 On Clauses 117
 - 16 On Clauses: Coordinators and Subordinators 125
 - 17 On Clauses: Relative Pronouns 131
 - 18 -ing forms 141
 - 19 On Anaphora 149
 - 20 On Cataphora 153
 - 21 End Focus and Endweight 159
 - 22 Collocation and Colligation 167
 - 23 Cohesion and Coherence 173
 - 24 Deixis 181
 - 25 Conversational Implicatures 191
 - 26 Speech Acts 199
 - Primary Sources 205
 - References 207