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Al-Rawi, Maather Mohammad; Al-Shurafa, Nuha Suleiman Daoud – English Language Teaching, 2016
The main aim of this paper is to examine the syntactic status of a selected text-corpus focus, with a special focus on the verb within its Verb-Phrase. The major claim is that the power of the verb in its VP is loaded syntactically through which the speaker's desire of the doublespeak within X-Phemism is achieved. In order to fulfill this claim, a…
Descriptors: Syntax, Verbs, Phrase Structure, Language Usage
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Gholami, Javad – English Language Teaching, 2015
Pragmatic competence and its development has been a pivotal issue in ELT in the last two decades. This paper explored pragmatic knowledge incorporation into Iranian EFL textbooks. Three high school English books named "English Book 2," "English Book 3" and "Learning to Read English for Pre-University Students" were…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Pragmatics
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Perez, Elizabeth – English Language Teaching, 1973
Classification of some adnominal prepositional phrases, e.g., on the go,'' into distinct syntactic groups. (RS)
Descriptors: Classification, English Instruction, Function Words, Nouns