tailieunhanh - Longman grammar of spoken and written english part 59

Tham khảo tài liệu 'longman grammar of spoken and written english part 59', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 792 adverbial DISCUSSION OF FINDINGS In conversation most adverbial prepositional phrases are simple constructions. That is the noun or pronoun serving as the complement of the preposition typically has no modifier Did you want me to get it for you conv They re all going to college conv Well just keep quiet and we ll talk about it in a minute conv Charlie came up to us this morning conv As can be seen in the above examples pronouns which are common in conversation often function as the object of the preposition in conversation . you it us . Their use contributes to the short length of the phrases in this register. Fiction too often has short prepositional phrases which contain no or few nominal modifiers No one called it by that name but that was how the boy thought about it. fict On the streets he was tense quick erratically light and reckless ricr f However the more descriptive nature of fiction also leads to the use of longer more complex prepositional phrases as circumstance adverbials A yellow dressing gown ungirdled was sustained gently behind him on the mild morning air. fict But she diverted his reasoning with a question which startled him. fict The expository written registers most commonly have complex prepositional phrases as circumstance adverbials these often include prenominal and postnominal modifiers within the phrase. For example consider the following passage from academic prose This book is written in the belief that there is a widespread feeling among sociologists that contemporary social theory stands in need of a radical revision. Such a revision must begin from a reconsideration of the works of those writers who established the principal frames of reference of modern sociology acad The first sentence in this extract includes an adverbial prepositional phrase that contains a noun complement clause that there is . which itself includes another noun complement clause that contemporary social theory . and an adverbial prepositional .