英语语法术语

fronting 前置

Fronting is a term which refer to removal of an item from the unmarked post-subject position to marked pre-subject position.

for exemple:

"this man over there people in the vicinity have a very lower option of "

" people in the vicinity have a very lower option of this man over there"

unit nouns 单位名词

there are a number of nouns which can be used with to mass nouns (不可数名词) to indicate the units called unitnouns.

the most common one are bit and piece.

tag question 反义疑问句

A tag question is a question that normally consists of a statment and a question tag.

"he is a good boy,didn't he"

the infinitive 动词不定式

the infinive occurs as a verb in the base form which may go with or without to,the former being called the to-infinitive and the latter one called bare-infinitive.

for example:

he expected to finish the word.(to-infinitive)

he may finsh it.(bare-infinitive)