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The grammar book teacher course part 84

Tham khảo tài liệu 'the grammar book teacher course part 84', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 584 - The Grammar Book These logical subject head nouns tend overwhelmingly to have indefinite determiners but are specific in reference as well as being human furthermore they strongly favor relativized subjects over relativized objects In the two cases below the italicized locatives there and In the U.S. ground the head nouns in the discourse.7 The relative clause moves the discourse forward that is it gives new information that contributes to the development of the discourse There were two people there who were constantly on stage. ExS Logical SS In the U.S. there are over a hundred thousand people who are over a hundred years old. ExS Logical SS Ordering A final observation made by Fox and Thompson was the overwhelming tendency for head nouns modified by two relative clauses to have the preferred relative clause type occur first and the less typical relative clause pattern to occur second. Recall the preferred patterns inanimate subject head nouns prefer relativized objects inanimate object head nouns prefer relativized subjects existential human head nouns following there subjects prefer relativized subjects . One thing they said in the article that was really interesting was that in the U.S. there are over a hundred thousand people who are over a hundred years old. Here the first relative clause after One thing follows the preferred SO pattern that they said in the article while the second relative clause that was really interesting is the less preferred SS pattern for an inanimate subject head noun. Fox and Thompson conclude that communicative factors determine to a large extent the tendencies they uncovered in the combinations of head NP and relative clause that were significant in their oral data. For example the speaker grounds new NPs in the ongoing discourse by showing their relationship to contextually clear or previously mentioned NPs. Use of Relative Clauses in Writing In another study this one a large-scale corpus analysis of three written registers