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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jan 31.
Published in final edited form as: J Psycholinguist Res. 2015 Feb;44(1):7–25. doi: 10.1007/s10936-014-9328-0
a. None of the astronomers saw the comet, /but John did. (Available verb phrase)
b. Seeing the comet was nearly impossible, /but John did. (Embedded verb phrase)
c. The comet was nearly impossible to see, /but John did. (Verb phrase with trace)
d. The comet was nearly unseeable, /but John did. (Negative adjective)