Sentence types & discourse functions; Coordination

Guidance will be given to enable you to (a) clearly see the linguistic structures of the following expressions; and (b) readily produce expressions with such structures.
To ensure your success, adequate examples will be further provided with clear explanation.

Sentence types and discourse functions

• • Aren’t you joining us this evening?
  • Hasn’t he told you what to do?
  • Hire a Rolls Royce and be driven by a uniformed chauffeur.
  • Do not, my friends, consider that all is lost.
  • Would you pay for me? Yes, I will.
  • Of which country is Doha the capital?
  • Who said what to whom?
  • Let’s discuss it now, shall we?
  • Let no one fool himself that he can get away from it.
  • What a charming lady!
  • If only I had been there!
  • Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
  • Revealing details of discussion would breach the confidentiality rule of the Executive Council (ExCo). Suffice to say that ExCo’s decision was taken having regard to Hong Kong's overall interests.
  • Hands up! Eyes down!
  • Serves him right!
  • No pushing!

Coordination

• • They were neither able nor willing to provide the capital.
  • I am prepared to meet them when and where they like.
  • He came not to help but to hinder us.
  • The country can and must recover from its present crisis.
  • He has not met either her mother or her father.
  • You must take the course and pass the exam.
  • He is a businessman well-known both in Hong Kong and on the mainland.
  • The enemy attacked quickly and with great force.
  • I’ll try and come tomorrow.  
  • They must have liked the apartment, otherwise they wouldn’t have stayed so long.
  • Most people have read the book or seen the film.
  • Good cooking can disguise, but cannot improve, the quality of the ingredients.