tailieunhanh - A Study of the Noun Phrase in Spoke andWritten English

In this section of the questionnaire, students were asked to indicate the extent or degree of agreement to the 11 course objective statements, based on a five-point Likert scale with one for strongly disagree, three for neutral and five for strongly agree. In general, the majority of students either agreed or strongly agreed that the course had fulfilled its objectives, except probably for the improvement of grammar accuracy (Item No. 9) (see Table 7). Specifically, at least two-thirds of the students either agreed or strongly agreed that the course had helped them understand the general characteristics of academic. | A Study of the Noun Phrase in Spoken and Written English 1 Introduction Aim and scope The present paper is concerned with noun-headed phrases and pronoun-headed phrases in subject and object function in spoken and written English. The study is based on Samplers of the Christine corpus and the Susanne corpus in TIGERSearch software. Both are based on spoken and written English respectively. Sampler of the Christine corpus is a sampler of 200 sentences from the Christine corpus which includes 200 numbers of corpus graphs and 895 number of tokens on the other hand sampler of the Susanne corpus is a sampler of 200 sentences from the Susanne corpus which includes 200 numbers of corpus graphs and 5257 number of tokens. Since both corpora are syntactic corpora with prominent tagging of noun-headed phrases and pronoun-headed phrases they facilitated my study in different texts with different functions. However the corpora are so small that there might be a discrepancy between the results based on these two corpora and the results based on the big size it is very necessary to confirm that my results are based on the present samplers only. The aim of the paper is twofold first to investigate the frequency of pronounheaded and noun-headed phrases in subject function and object function in spoken and written English second to compare the results with the present investigation with previous reserch. 1 Background The noun phrase According to Bakken 2006 the head of a noun phrase is a noun or a pronoun. If the head is a noun it may combine with determiners premodifiers and postmodifiers. On the contrary if the head is a pronoun determiners will normally not occur and even if any modifiers occur these are usually post-modifiers. As the main elements of a sentence the noun phrases may function as subject object subject and object predicative and prepositional complement. All of these mentioned above are nominal functions. In addition noun phrases can .