Лекции по теоретической грамматике английского языка. Тивьяева И.В. - 108 стр.

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The following types of concessive clauses are clauses that give information

about the circumstances despite or against which what is said in the principal

clause is carried out:

e.g. I went to the party, though I did not feel like it.

11. Clauses of Manner and Comparison:

Sub-clauses of manner and comparison characterize the action of the

principal clause by comparing it to some other action.

e.g. She was nursing the flower, as a mother nurses her child.

4. Asyndetic Sentences

In some composite sentences clauses are not attached to one another in any

grammatical way, they simply abut against each other, they make contact but are

not connected. Grammar books differ in identifying the linguistic essence of such

syntactic structures. In traditional grammar asyndetic sentences, just as syndetic

ones, were classified into compound and complex. For instance, the sentence He

came to her; she did not move would be classed among the compound sentences,

and the sentence I can see what you are driving at among complex ones.

This traditional treatment of asyndetic composite sentences was criticized by

some scholars. For example, a different approach is found in N. S. Pospelov's

treatments of asyndeton in Russian syntax where asyndetic sentences are viewed as

a special syntactic category with no immediate relevance to subordination or

coordination.

Various approaches to classifying asyndetic composite sentences have been

sought, but non of them has provided an adequate interpretation of this

phenomenon so far.

According to Prof. Ilyish, in some types of asyndetic composite sentences,

there is a main and a subordinate clause, while the other types of asyndetic

sentences do not admit of such a distinction.

E g. This is the most interesting book I have ever read. – attributive clause

I think you should go there right away. – object clause

Should any problems occur, give me a call. – conditional clause