tailieunhanh - Longman grammar of spoken and written english part 28

Tham khảo tài liệu 'longman grammar of spoken and written english part 28', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 354 NOUNS PRONOUNS AND THE SIMPLE NOUN PHRASE 1 One doesn t raise taxes with enthusiasm but the alternative is public sector borrowing going through the roof news 2 Success and acclaim were seen as a means of validating one s existence. news 3 One could set oneself to endure forty-eight hours of almost anything she told herself fict 4 One does not wish to repeat oneself unduly and the reader is referred to other parts of this book. acad Note the possessive form one s in 2 and the reflexive form oneself in 3 and 4. In 4 one conveys a veiled reference to the author this is characteristic of the impersonal style often adopted in academic prose. It is also significant that the reader is addressed in the third person. The pronoun one distribution CORPUS FINDINGS 2 AAA Substitute one is far more common in conversation than in the written registers. The singular forms are consistently more frequent than the plural forms. Generic one is far less common overall than substitute one. Generic one is restricted primarily to the written registers especially fiction and academic prose. Table Distribution of substitute and generic one occurrences per million words each represents 50 represents less than 25 CONV FICT NEWS ACAD substitute one this one D Cl these ones 0 that one those ones 0 the other one a the other ones a 0 which one which ones 0 a generic one DISCUSSION OF FINDINGS The register distribution of substitute one is in broad agreement with the overall distribution of pronouns although conversation and the written registers are even more sharply differentiated with substitute one. The special significance of substitute one is that it provides a general means of countable reference. The probable reason for the sharp differentiation is that conversation relies far more than the written registers on implicit links and references . The higher frequency of singular one is related to the higher overall frequency of singular nouns . Other .