What is the grammatical role of do in Ty and Chris caring MORE about Arsenal than they do the Arsenal?
In the next sentence,
Ty and Chris care more about Arsene Wenger. They care more for Arsenal.
What is the proper name for the role of the verb do here in the context of grammar?
Each member of you in this sentence is a pronoun since it replaces Ty and Chris to avoid duplication. The same goes for do which replaces the phrase care for, but do is a verb so it is definitely not a pronoun. What is the correct name for a vehicle?
What is a reasonable explanation for an unsatisfactory situation in Argentina?
What does happen to a person who uses “do” in English? English auxiliaries are characterized by the “NICE” grammatical properties, which are described by this series of slides by Geoff Pullum.
- I: can take Initial position in Interrogatives C:
- “Code” interpretation of COMPlement ellipsis (your example
- shows ellipsis) E: special emphasized forms when stressed Auxiliaries are
- normally classified as verbs and hence
called auxiliary verbs although I’ve heard from Greg Lee that there are some theories of syntax that treat them as not being verbs… As is true with the expressions (for example)
What does happen to a person who uses “do” in English? English auxiliaries are characterized by the “NICE” grammatical properties, which are described by this series of slides by Geoff Pullum.
- I: can take Initial position in Interrogatives C:
- “Code” interpretation of COMPlement ellipsis (your example
- shows ellipsis) E: special emphasized forms when stressed Auxiliaries are
- normally classified as verbs and hence
called auxiliary verbs although I’ve heard from Greg Lee that there are some theories of syntax that treat them as not being verbs… As is true with the expressions (for example)
