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Longman grammar of spoken and written english part 41

Tham khảo tài liệu 'longman grammar of spoken and written english part 41', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Adjectives in combination 537 A related and more frequent structure for phrasal comparatives repeats more conjoining it to itself with and So things are getting more and more - fraught coNvf Eventually it ll get more and more computer wise coNvf It got more and more popular strangely enough conv CORPUS FINDINGS 2 Table 7.8 Conjoined identical comparative adjectives are rare in all registers but most common in fiction. There is a slight tendency for inflected sequences in conversation as against phrasally compared variants in academic prose. Distribution of repeated adjectives across registers occurrences per million words. Based on analysis of 14 common adjectives in repeated sequences funnier bigger smaller slighter rarer younger weaker better brighter darker hotter lighter stronger and worse. each represents c. 2 CONV FICT NEWS ACAD adjective er and adjective er more and more adjective DISCUSSION OF FINDINGS 7.10.2 The overall greater frequency of these structures in fiction suggests that they are more a device of descriptive narrative than spontaneous speech. The intensifiers good and and nice and Conjoined sequences beginning with good and or nice and often serve to intensify the degree of the second adjective. This so-called pseudo-coordination is characteristic of predicative rather than attributive uses as in Everything looks nice and burnt Sequences of this type are especially common in fictional dialogue and natural conversation. The following examples all from fictional dialogue illustrate the intensifying effect of these sequences when in predicative position You re going to be good and sorry you grabbed Nurse Duckett by the bosom. fict Furthermore we ll end this conversation when I m good and ready. fict I m good and sick of it Tom said fict I ll be nice and pissed conv Good for your teeth. Makes your teeth nice and strong conv The police want a local lab nice and handy and who s to blame them fict In contrast similar sequences in attributive position .