Tham khảo tài liệu 'the grammar book teacher course part 115', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 806 The Grammar Book Even if my friend Is here even adverbial clause 1 won t be happy. 6. It is not necessarily easy to explain to a student why advertisers novelists or news columnists may take liberties that student writers are not supposed to take in academic writing. One reason for punctuating sentence fragments in this way may be to highlight or stress both clauses for dramatic effect In the deodorant ad both the product and the reason for using it are stressed by means of short pointed statements one does not feel that the reason-clause is subordinated in the same way as ecause-clauses are normally subordinated. Why is it not possible for a writer of formal academic discourse to follow the same pattern of writing adverbial clauses It simply seems to be the case that effecting a sense of equal stress in this way is not a prescriptive option in formal academic writing. Another reason for punctuating in this way may be to achieve the effect of an afterthought clause a clause which was not originally planned for when the clause prior to it was written. In such cases a teacher might point out to students that in highly planned discourse writers do not usually present clauses with the intention of signaling to the reader that a certain clause was intended as an unplanned afterthought 7. Such student writing overfilled with cohesive expressions is commonly seen where teachers have overstressed the need for such devices to mark meaning relationships among sentences. One way to begin would be to ask the student to eliminate exactly half of the expressions asking with each eliminated expression whether the intended meaning relationship is adequately conveyed without the expression. Of course the teacher s personal judgement will be of great value here. It would also be worthwhile to point out to the student that one does not normally use the expression moreover in simple lists of items there must be a more complicated relationship one most often involving evidential .
