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In this chapter, we examine the ways in which lexical verbs and adjectives determine, in this way, the grammatical patterns that follow them.
Source: A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language by Randolph Quirk, Sidney Greenbaum, Geoffrey Leech.
I don’t quite understand what the phrase “in this way” mean in this sentence. Could you paraphrase it for me?
Source: A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language by Randolph Quirk, Sidney Greenbaum, Geoffrey Leech.
I don’t quite understand what the phrase “in this way” mean in this sentence. Could you paraphrase it for me?