By Jonathan Hope, Laura Wright
Utilizing quite a lot of twentieth-century literary prose, Laura Wright and Jonathan wish supply an interactive creation to the options of stylistic research. Divided into 5 sections--the noun word, the verb word, the clause, textual content constitution and vocabulary--the e-book additionally presents an creation to the fundamentals of descriptive grammar for starting students.
Stylistics offers a accomplished thesaurus of phrases. Designed for use in a number of study rooms, it introduces scholars to a massive diversity of twentieth century literature. And for every linguistic function lower than dialogue, the reader is accessible a definition, a textual content for research, routines and projects, as well as a advised resolution.
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It is less usual to find a text that displays a narrow range, such as only using simple verb phrases, or only using one kind of auxiliary. TASK Are the verb phrases in Texts 3, 4 and 5 simple or compound, finite or nonfinite? What are the time-schemes? TEXT 3 The door was narrow, grilled and topped by a lancet arch. Below the grille there was an iron knocker. I hammered on it. Nothing happened. I pushed the bell at the side of the door and heard it ring inside not very far off and waited and nothing happened.
Iron comb to straighten your hair, pomades and lotions to make it shine, and of course, wigs. Wigs is in now. All STYLISTICS 33 kinds of Afro hair styles on display in the shop window, mixed up with some blondy, long-haired ones for those who have aspirations to be fair. The girls stand up by the window looking in like professional head hunters, then they went in and start to try on wigs. I don’t know if you have seen them women in C & A or Woolworths trying on hats, how they turn and twist and do Yoga exercises in an attempt to change their physiognomies to suit the hat they fancy.
Even now, when you were seventy-nine, you could never see a bicycle go past your bedroom window without a sick plunge at the apex of your stomach…in the bicycle shed you’d seen it, something nasty, when you were very small. That was why you stayed in this room. You had been here for twenty years, ever since Judith had married and her husband had come to live at the farm. You had run away from the huge, terrifying world outside these four walls against STYLISTICS 29 which your thoughts rubbed themselves like drowsy yaks.