What are conventions?

A helpful definition for those wanting to know what Language conventions are: Language conventions are basically different ways the writer uses and manipulates language to encourage the audience to view…

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Commenting and viewpoint adverbs

Comment and viewpoint adverbs add information about the speaker's opinion of events. They do not usually give information about how something happened. Comment and viewpoint adverbs often modify the complete…

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Modal words

The term ‘modality’ is a cover term for a range of semantic notions such as ability, possibility, hypothetically, obligation, and imperative meaning. This is a serviceable definition for practical purposes…

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Stance adverbials

In language there are certain linguistic elements that are more frequently or typically used in a parenthetical or detached way than other elements. In English, this is the case with…

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Means of Expressing Parenthesis

Conjuncts Speaking about the Parenthesis, Conjuncts should also be mentioned. Conjuncts serve to mark semantic relationships between propositions expressed by different clauses, or between larger sections of a text. In…

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Positional characteristics of Parenthesis

Defining the placement of Parenthesis in the sentence, should be taken into account its position in the sentence and in the whole text. On the one hand, the Parenthesis can…

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Structural characteristics of Parenthesis

Defining the structure of Parenthesis, the next aspects must be taken into consideration: a) Syntactical aspect; b) Morphological. Speaking about Syntactical aspect, it is important to remember that parenthesis is…

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Difference between micro and macro sociology

It is generally accepted that sociologists investigate society at two levels: macro and micro. Microsociology in the study of human communication in their daily lives, in their immediate interpersonal interaction.…

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Semantic classification of Parenthesis

Parenthesis is used to enclose loosely related comment or explanation within the sentence, to enclose figures numbering items in a series, and to enclose figures spelled out to avoid misreading…

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Gerund complements as Subjects

The distribution of subject gerunds closely parallels the infinitive cases and this is why we will not discuss it in any detail. The constructions are often interchangeable from a syntactic…

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