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Peer reviewedShaw, Philip – Applied Linguistics, 1992
The Introduction sections of some Ph.D. dissertations were examined to determine the significance of verb form in reporting verbs like "find" or "show." When forms were classified in relation to sentence function, some correlation with tense was found, but there were also correlations between tense and voice and between these two and sentence…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Comparative Analysis, Doctoral Dissertations, Language Research
