English Grammar: a resource Book for Students
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English Grammar- A Resource Book for Students
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It is claimed, or tacitly assumed, in narrative studies that temporality should be
explored in narrative texts where it functions as a dominant principle of organisation. A range of impersonal it-expressions are common in academic texts to attribute propositions to unnamed people. These include: it is (widely) accepted it is believed it is /has been said it is generally agreed it is/has been claimed it is/has been suggested It is generally agreed that one of the most influential reports published during the war was the Beveridge Report, published in 1942, which mapped out the future welfare state. Literature, it is claimed, seeks to recapture and reconstruct tradition. The use of a raised subject as an alternative to, anticipatory it, similarly, enables the writer/speaker to make a less direct commitment to a proposition. Common passive expressions of this type include: H E D G I N G A N D B O O S T I N G 225 be believed to be found to be shown to be claimed to be said to be thought to be considered to be seen to The value placed on children is believed to have changed from pre-industrial so- cieties to the present time. Operating practices are said to have been a major obstacle to improvement. Boosting 146e Boosting in academic texts, to make a claim more assertively, is often carried out by the use of a range of adverbial and prepositional constructions (plus some other types of expression). Common boosting expressions include adverbs such as: categorically indisputably plainly certainly inevitably undeniably clearly irrefutably undoubtedly definitely observably unquestionably emphatically obviously This is clearly a very restrictive hypothesis, which requires verification, and Light- foot suggests that language change represents a useful testing ground. While most people were indisputably poor, the economy had a considerable surplus above basic subsistence needs, although much of that surplus was concentrated in the hands of those in the top 10 per cent or so of the income distribution. Yet utilities and transport unquestionably provide a service rather than a commodity. Other expressions used in boosting include: for sure/for certain there is/was no doubt that it is/was clear/obvious/ that without doubt indisputable/etc. Download 1.74 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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