1. See, for example, Otto Jespersen,A Modern English Grammar(Part VII: Syntax), London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1954 and 1958, Chapters X and XI: Comparison; G. O. Curme,Syntax, Boston: D. C. Heath and Co., 1931, pp. 498–508, and for various similar constructions pages 294–308.
2. On the notion “Rule of Grammar”
3. Ibid., also see R. B. Lees,The Grammar of English Nominalizations, Bloomington: Indiana University Research Center in Anthropology, Folklore, and Linguistics, Publication Number 12, July, 1960, (International Journal of American LinguisticsXXVI, Number 3, Part II), especially pp. xviii–xix.
4. Three models for the description of language