She brought some Belgian ones from her last trip, which were delicious. Do you think I should phone Barry and ask him to come and look at it. Yes , do. B uses do to avoid repeating phone Barry and ask him to come and look at it. We can use substitution to refer backwards or forwards. Forward substitution is far less common than backward substitution The noun being referred to is underlined in the examples.
If you need them , there are nails in the toolbox forward substitution. We can use many different words and phrases in substitution, including words such as both, either, some indefinite quantifying pronouns , do and so , and expressions such as the same and thus. The following words and phrases are commonly used as substitutes:. Which do you think Mark would prefer?
We use do, do so, do it, do the same to substitute for a verb and whatever accompanies it complement :. We do too. Do substitutes for have toast and coffee in the morning. Do as a substitute verb. We can use so as a substitute in a number of ways: for an adjective it remains so , an object clause I think so , with reporting verbs so I heard and in exclamations so he is! So as a substitute form. There are two second-hand ones at the end of the street on the right. Where there is nothing before or after ones , some or any are used as a plural substitute:.
Some and any. We can use indefinite quantifying pronouns such as a little, all, both, many, much, neither, few to substitute for noun phrases:. Hundreds of people went to the village festival and all seemed to enjoy themselves very much.
Determiners used as pronouns. The water for the factory was that from the local reservoir. The books he read were those which he found in the old library.
The head has a similar shape and size to that of a mammal. This , that , these , those. Outsets and onsets! Indefinite quantifying pronouns. Substituting with do. See also: Do as a substitute verb. Substituting with so. One , some , ones. See also: Any One Some Some and any. Indefinite quantifying pronouns little, all, both, neither. See also: Pronouns Determiners used as pronouns. That , those. See also: This , that , these , those. Popular searches 01 Adverbs and adverb phrases: position 02 Other , others , the other or another?
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Affect or effect? All or every? All or whole? Allow , permit or let? Almost or nearly? Alone , lonely , or lonesome? I think there's a good reason why people don't take much notice of the particular operator specified for or with. As soon as you hear the word substitute you pretty much know one of the two important words following will already be 'on the table', so to speak it's in the sentence being considered for revision, for example.
Once you identify that 'existing' word, you know the other is a proposed replacement. The third word is effectively just 'noise' in this context, so neither the speaker nor the hearer really care about it. FumbleFingers: cooking.
Fumble: But the problem is that the OP there is using "for" with the entities swapped, i. And my point was to provide a counterexample to your statement that you generally know which item is the replacement - you don't always! Show 4 more comments. There is also simply to substitute X , without a Y: Petrochemical oil is a very useful type of fuel with a high energy yield; if we substitute vegetable oil, we may have less pollution, but we'll need larger fuel tanks.
Henry Henry 3, 21 21 silver badges 22 22 bronze badges. What controls the respective meanings of the direct object X and the prepositional object Y is not the preposition but the verb, as others have stated. The second paragraph here is wrong and misleading, and doesn't deserve to be here, misleading future readers.
The traditional construction is like this: The mechanic had to substitute a generic steering wheel for the original Bentley wheel. It is also possible to mention only the substitute: The recipe said she needed "bacon". She hated bacon. She decided to substitute parma ham. That does not ring true in my easy - I strongly miss it for or it with parma ham in the second part Am I correct or just non-native ; — mplungjan.
As to substitute without for , you can see a few examples from books here: google. The two verbs have complementary syntax. One replaces Old with New , but substitutes New for Old. The prepositions vary all over the lot, of course; but then they always do. In a comment to another answer, FumbleFingers wrote "Mostly you can tell which elements to substitute simply by looking to see which one you've already got!
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