A Critical Review of English Education (121)
Since 120 days ago, we have picked out and been discussing the following sentence,
This is a pen.
which unfortunately has long been stigmatized as a typical one of the most unexpected utterances in daily spoken English.
However, isn’t this kind of statement a mere echo of others―perhaps? What’s more, isn’t it possibly just a unilateral blanket opinion?
With this awareness of the issue, we have been executing “factor decomposition” as follows in pursuit of acquiring a more penetrating vision to locate the latent problems involved:
imagination usefulness grammar pronunciation
Today, as yesterday, I will deviate a little bit from the thread of my talk. Enjoy!
a digression (2)
First, there is often a “discrepancy” between a sentence’s “phonetic configuration” and its “syntactic structure.”
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