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B11.3 Conclusion
Grammar is a complex and multi-dimensional mechanism, not the simple random
collection of rules that is presented to learners of language. But we should not expect
anything less of a system that is the basis of the subtleties of human communication
and the expression of human thought.
Comments
Activity B11.1:
1. The links are anaphoric: ‘Betty and Barney Hill’ – ‘this rather ordinary American
couple’ – ‘they’.
2. The links are: ‘Ötzi’ – ‘him’, and the use of
yet to show the relationship between
the ideas in the two clauses.
Activity B11.2: We logically think first of all that he was wearing his pyjamas, that
in
my pyjamas is
an adverbial, and that is how he shot the elephant. But from the second
sentence we understand the elephant was wearing them and that
in my pyjamas is
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