Tham khảo tài liệu 'longman grammar of spoken and written english part 51', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | That-clauses 679 Second a main clause with its verb followed by a series of complex noun phrases or prepositional phrases favors the use of pre-predicate over extraposed that-dauses. The complex phrases are highlighted by That the restrictions are at last to be lifted in part reflects universal acknowledgement that terror of the communications revolution has been a prime contributor to the technological backwardness of the country news That this egg mortality was not due to parental ageing was indicated by the similar trends taking place in pods laid by old or young adults acad In addition some examples combine post-predicate phrasal elements with a complex complement clause That a Lvf superiority in reaction time emerged at 100 msec. however was taken by Moscovitch et al. to mean that the right hemisphere had some advantage with respect to a more stable representation of the stimulus acad Pre-predicate that-clauses are favored in these cases because they are easier to process. If the thnt-clause were extraposed it would follow the other complex postpredicate constituents. This would place a great burden on the short-term memory of the receiver who would need to process all intervening constituents before finally reaching the logical subject of the main clause . the extraposed clause . Topic and style Topical domain and personal style also influence the choice of pre-predicate that-clauses over extraposed constructions. CORPUS FINDINGS 3 Sports writers have a stylistic preference for pre-predicate that-clauses about 60 of the pre-predicate t int-clauses found in news are from sports articles seven out of 12 examples in a million-word sample even though sports reportage comprises only c. 15 of the news writing in the sample. Some authors have a strong stylistic preference for pre-predicate that-clauses and clauses beginning with the fact that. 60 of all pre-predicate t mt-clauses found in academic prose are from four texts nine out of 15 examples in a .
