Activity A12.2
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Activity A12.3
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Activity A12.1:
1. Do you get (= ‘understand’) it?
2. I told you so.
3. It sounds good to me.
These and others have become so common that they are almost fixed phrases.
Activity A12.2: In full the text would be (added sections underlined):
Ok, I will contact Jonny.
I presume you mean Tuesday 2nd November. It would be good to catch up
though . . .
Make sure you bring your thermals when you get back – there have been heavy
frosts the last few mornings . . .
The last line shows a more extensive use of ellipsis, with the subject, auxiliary and
verb being omitted. See the reading in D12 for more discussion of the nature of email
communication.
Activity A12.3: One possibility is that Peter represents a vocative: the person being
addressed. The other is that it is a case of right dislocation, implying Peter is a friend
of mine. In speech there would be different intonation: the vocative would have low
flat intonation.
Section B
DEVELOPMENT
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