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7 D. =you can smoke – you can drink – anything you wanna do playing golf – you
get to go to some amazing locations=
8 E. =you can get smashed
9 A. all over the world
(= indicates overlapping utterances)
In general, how much ‘grammar’ in terms of grammatical structure is there
in this conversation? How easy is it to identify sentences, i.e. to insert full
stops?
a) Is there any cohesion, i.e. explicit links between utterances (see B11), in
the text?
b) How could you make utterances 2 and 3 more explicitly related to 1?
Are there any nonstandard written forms indicating informal speech?
Who does
you in utterances 4, 6, 7 and 8 refer to?
Compare the second conversation with the monologue above in (A) in terms
of grammatical structure.
Comments
Activity C12.1: Generally the dashes do not correspond to anything grammatical.
However, they do not split phrases (except for
in – the mouth on line 10)
Activity C12.2: Yes, the text could be divided into four sentences on lines 9 and 10,
16, 18 and 19.
Anyway clearly goes with the following text:
Anyway, there was mass
panic . . .
Activity C12.3:
The ‘written’ version would look something like this:
Luckily, I didn’t have any broken teeth, but I had a broken flute and a bloody lip.
The whole formation kind of fell apart, and all these panicking women were running
out onto the field to see what was wrong and I was holding my hand to my
mouth . . .
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