Literature and Stylistics for Language Learners pp 140-154 | Cite as
Non-Standard Grammar in the Teaching of Language and Style
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Thus spoke a bright and well-motivated undergraduate student on my second-year English language module at Queen’s University Belfast during the Spring term of 2005. The module which prompted the remark is one which explores the structure and function of English from a broadly systemic-functional perspective and the student’s faintly disapproving comment came in the wake of a difficult two-hour class on the structure of English clauses.
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Matrix Clause Declarative Sentence Grammatical Rule Nominal Element Grammatical Subject
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