Additional Vocabulary

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 454.

Basic Vocabulary – see V3 p.140

4.3

Ex. 1 (text) to make a good recovery, for many years to come, in the long term, to question smth., a match (to be a good/better match), undoubtedly, to be a subject for debate, controversial.

Please pay your attention to the following structure:

The woman's face will not exactly resemble her face before, but neither will it completely resemble that of the donor. (The World's First Partial Face Transplant, lines 23-25). This is an example of inversion after negative adverbials. This only occurs when the adverbial occurs at the beginning of a clause.

Negative adverbials include:

• Time expressions: never, rarely, seldom

These are most commonly used with present perfect or past perfect, or with modals such as can and could. Sentences of this type often contain comparatives.

Seldom has the team given a worse performance.

• Time expressions: hardly, barely, scarcely, no sooner

These refer to an event which quickly follows another in the past. They are usually used with past perfect, although no sooner can be followed by past simple. Note the words used in the contrasting clause.

Hardly had the train left the station, when there was an explosion.

Scarcely had I entered the room when the phone rang.

No sooner had I reached the door than I realised it was locked.

• After only

Here only combines with other time expressions and is usually used with past simple.

Only after posting the letter did 1 remember that I had forgotten to put on a stamp.

Other examples are only if/when, only then, only later.