constructive he can
do -- like start an avalanche?
SYLVIE (to JEAN-LOUIS)
Va jouer, mon ange.
JEAN-LOUIS scampers off, content to have gotten off so
lightly. SYLVIE notices REGGIEs lunch which consists of
cold chicken, potato salad, rolls and butter, wine and
coffee.
SYLVIE
When you start to eat like this something
is the matter.
No answer from REGGIE. SYLVIE begins reading a magazine
as R
It = Pronoun? - controversial
Though “it” seems to refer to focus phrase, it does not
The referent of “it” is obscure
Number agreement with focus phrase
It is cookies that I want.
*They are cookies that I want.
Tense Agreement
It is John that I see.
*It is John that I saw.
But depends on context
Available phrase to be removed= What can be focus phrase?
It was gre
The Witching Hour
Screenplay by ANNE RICE
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FADE IN:
EXT. A SCOTTISH MOOR - NIGHT - 1670 A.D.
Far off, a massive stone castle looms. Trees silhouetted an
the horizon against the star-dotted, qreen-purple sky. The branches of one tree seem to reach
for the stars...
TRACKING IN - the tree is A HOODED FIGURE: SUZANNE - 20, golden hair spilling from her hood,
dazzling green eyes. Nestled in the f
Exercise V
(1) *Could you turn off the fire and on the light?
In this case, we can assure that 'turn off' is phrasal verb in few perspectives. First, we can only have the preposition after the pronominal object as in ‘turn it off’ but ‘*turn off it’. The other reason is that preposing of ‘on the light’ is impossible because ‘turn on’ itself is a phrasal verb.
Therefore, we can