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Xuelan, Fang; Kennedy, Graeme – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research in Southeast Asia, 1992
Ways in which the notion of causation is expressed in written British English are examined in a study that collected 130 different expressive devices. The use of causative conjunctions was found to be the most frequent of eight major ways of marking causation, closely followed by causative adverbs. (21 references) (Author/LB)
Descriptors: Adverbs, Classification, Conjunctions, English
