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Takehisa Tanaka Posted 10 years ago
Grammar
Could you help me understand this sentence?
Could you help me understand this sentence?
This is a sentence from my grammar book:
"If we define PRAGMATICS as a study of language in relation to the communicative functions it may be used to perform, then there is a certain division of labour between grammar and pragmatics whereby the more the context contributes to the communicative force of an utterance, the less need there is for the utterance to be grammatically explicit."
I'm wondering how I can separate this sentence into conditional and predicational parts?
I think predicational part begins after the word "perform."
Am I right?
And I think I can change "it" to "which", and get "If we define PRAGMATICS as a study of language in relation to the communicative functions which may be used to perform."
Am I right in thinking in this way?
This is a sentence from my grammar book:
"If we define PRAGMATICS as a study of language in relation to the communicative functions it may be used to perform, then there is a certain division of labour between grammar and pragmatics whereby the more the context contributes to the communicative force of an utterance, the less need there is for the utterance to be grammatically explicit."
I'm wondering how I can separate this sentence into conditional and predicational parts?
I think predicational part begins after the word "perform."
Am I right?
And I think I can change "it" to "which", and get "If we define PRAGMATICS as a study of language in relation to the communicative functions which may be used to perform."
Am I right in thinking in this way?
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Takehisa Tanaka If we define PRAGMATICS as a study of language in relation to the communicative functions it may be used to perform That is the conditional clause. Takehisa Tanaka then there is a certain division of labour between grammar and pragmatics whereby the more the context contributes to the communicative force of an utterance, the less need there is for the utterance to be grammatically explicit. That is the predication.
- Takehisa Tanaka If we define PRAGMATICS as a study of language in relation to the communicative functions it may be used to perform That is the conditional clause.
- Takehisa Tanaka then there is a certain division of labour between grammar and pragmatics whereby the more the context contributes to the communicative force of an utterance, the less need there is for the utterance to be grammatically explicit.
- That is the predication.
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Takehisa TanakaIf we define PRAGMATICS as a study of language in relation to the communicative functions it may be used to performThat is the conditional clause.
Takehisa Tanakathen there is a certain division of labour between grammar and pragmatics whereby the more the context contributes to the communicative force of an utterance, t
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