LING 2P10 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Relative Clause, Adverbial Clause, Dependent Clause
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Primary auxiliaries are those such as be , do and have , which add grammatical information and inflect for tense and person (ex did not vs does not, or do vs does) Modal auxiliaries are those such as can , must , could , would , should , will and may , which do not add grammatical information and are not inflected for person or tense (ex he could, i could, she could, they could etc) They convey semantic meaning and pragmatic information. The breakdown: modal aux + base form. Contrast: however, nevertheless, still, yet, in fact. Voting ended late at night; however, the election results were released early the next morning. However, the election results were released early the next morning. The election results, however, were released early the next morning. The election results were released early the next morning, however. Have a main clause and a subordinate clause, which is introduced by a subordinating conjunction or subordinator.