Exercise 2 Analsying [sic] elliptical groups
Analyse the elliptical verbal groups in the responses in the following examples.
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This example analysis is misleading, because it misrepresents the logical structure of this elliptical verbal group in two ways. Firstly, the structure realises future tense, not modality, because it is not an expression of inclination ('want to'), obligation ('has to') probability ('maybe') or usuality ('sometimes'). Secondly, as an expression of the simple future, there is only one tense choice, and only one structural element:
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