Tony Foster, Martijn Lemmen, Dick Smakman, Aletta G. Dorst & Philomeen Dol - English Grammar through Dutch Eyes

11 Whatever will be will be: future

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11.1 The future is now 11.2 Futurates in Dutch

11.3 The most frequent futurates in English 11.4 Other futurates in English

12 Yes, you can! Modality

12.1 How modals behave

12.1.1 Modals are also NICE

12.1.2 Differences between Dutch and English modals

12.2 What do modals mean? 12.2.1 Epistemic modality 12.2.2 Deontic modality 12.2.3 Dynamic modality

12.3 Modal ambiguity

12.3.1 One modal, but many meanings 12.3.2 Modal ambiguity and past time reference

13 The road to hell is paved with adverbs: adverbials

13.1 What do adverbials do? 13.2 Adverb or adjective?

13.2.1 Telling adverbs from adjectives in Dutch 13.2.2 Telling adverbs from adjectives in English

13.3 Which categories can be adverbials? 13.4 The position of adverbials 13.5 Adverbial position and meaning in English 13.6 Adverbials and subject-verb order

14 Words, words, words: building sentences

14.1 Apposition 14.2 Relative clauses 14.3 Participle clauses 14.4 Conditionals

14.2.1 Which relative pronoun?

14.5 Building cohesive sentences

14.5.1 Accessibility, end-focus and end-weight principles

14.5.2 Initial-subject principle

15 Try to make sense: cohesion

15.1 Paragraphs

15.1.1 What is a paragraph?

15.1.2 Topic sentences and theme statements 15.1.3 Developing a topic sentence

15.1.4 Paragraph blocks