tailieunhanh - Longman grammar of spoken and written english part 49

Tham khảo tài liệu 'longman grammar of spoken and written english part 49', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Head nouns taking noun complement clauses 651 DISCUSSION OF FINDINGS The combination noun that is ambiguous introducing either a complement clause or a relative clause. For the less common head nouns taking a that complement clause both possibilities regularly occur. Complement clause A second reason that probability samples are so important is from the point of view of internal validity acad Relative clause But that would be a case of our having a competing or countervailing reason that conflicted with our main positive reason for not killing or stealing. acad However the head nouns that occur most commonly with a complement clause such as possibility doubt impression belief almost never occur with relative clauses. For other head nouns there are often strong register-specific preferences. For example the head noun knowledge occurs 80 percent of the time with a that complement clause in fiction but it occurs 80 percent of the time with a that relative clause in academic prose. Complement clause in fiction His plans were suddenly brought to a head by his knowledge that Sir Charles was about to leave the hall on the advice of Dr. Mortimer fict Relative clause in academic prose We use stereotypical labels to make sense of other people based on cues or knowledge that we have about them acad The head noun fact is exceptional in this regard. On the one hand the noun fact in academic prose is by far the most common head noun that takes a noun complement clause. However the combination of fact followed by a that-clause also commonly represents an extraposed construction rather than a noun complement clause It is an accepted fact that people associate showrooms with pressure news It is an experimental fact that any property can be expressed as a function of two other independent properties acad J Further the head noun fact also occasionally takes a relative clause The overall figure would be even higher a fact that is to he explained in part at least by Zhou Youguang