Tham khảo tài liệu 'longman grammar of spoken and written english part 60', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Circumstance adverbiais 805 She s come . in the smallest truck that U-Haul would rent her from New Jersey. Before that she was in North Carolina. Before that Calcutta India fict The non-clausal contingency adverbiais that appear in initial position tend to be from two sub-categories - concession and purpose In spite of the circumstances which had brought me to Ashington Grange I could not help but be thrilled fict Despite modern-day technology no better materials have been developed which will do the job as well news Despite its accumulation by plants chlorine is required in relatively low concentrations acad For detailed discussions of the definition of a system the meaning of feedback and other issues we have glossed over consult the control theory literature. acad For notes on this act and these rules reference should be made to the eighth edition of this book acad Initial concessive adverbiais note contrary conditions before presenting the reader with the rather surprising information of the main clause. Initial purpose adverbiais often have ties to the previous discourse in the examples above the term system and this act and these rules. Thus they help to create coherence before going on to the main clause. A high proportion of initial position is also characteristic of finite clauses of concession though not of non-finile clauses of purpose . Finally adverbiais of respect which are used to limit or define the universe of discourse fbr the entire following proposition also tend to be used in initial position 1 As for worship or religious observance as the legislation calls it I agree entirely with Marjorie B. Clark that compulsory acts of worship can never be educationally justified. news 2 With respect to those employees that remain technically dominant Larson notes that even they do not control key financial decisions. news These initial respect adverbiais tend to occur in the written registers rather than in conversation. In addition they can be .
