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Usenet Posted 18 years ago
English in UK
Topicalization
Hello,
two days ago, I showed a few people (including you) ten sentences asking whether they were grammatically correct or not.
Everybody agreed this one was NOT correct:
1) Two first class honors Carl wants among his senior sophister studentsthis year
But then I heard of "Topicalization" (aka Topic fronting aka Left dislocation) :
- Most rap, I enjoy
- That car, I would like to own
- That, I'm not sure about
- That kind, I kind of enjoy
Considering this (and adding a comma), wouldn't sentence 1 be "correct" ? (again, it's all about grammar, not about style...)
Thanks !
two days ago, I showed a few people (including you) ten sentences asking whether they were grammatically correct or not.
Everybody agreed this one was NOT correct:
1) Two first class honors Carl wants among his senior sophister studentsthis year
But then I heard of "Topicalization" (aka Topic fronting aka Left dislocation) :
- Most rap, I enjoy
- That car, I would like to own
- That, I'm not sure about
- That kind, I kind of enjoy
Considering this (and adding a comma), wouldn't sentence 1 be "correct" ? (again, it's all about grammar, not about style...)
Thanks !
Top answer
[nq:1]But then I heard of "Topicalization" (aka Topic fronting aka Left dislocation) :[/nq] Lithium controls the condition, but currently it's incurable. [nq:1]- Most rap, I enjoy - That car, I would like to own - That, I'm not sure about - That kind, I kind of enjoy[/nq] Most rap, you enjoy already? Mazel tov.
- [nq:1]But then I heard of "Topicalization" (aka Topic fronting aka Left dislocation) :[/nq] Lithium controls the condition, but currently it's incurable.
- [nq:1]- Most rap, I enjoy - That car, I would like to own - That, I'm not sure about - That kind, I kind of enjoy[/nq] Most rap, you enjoy already?
- Mazel tov.
- It's also used in other dialectical forms of English, but you won't hear such constructions employed in standard English.
- [nq:1]Considering this (and adding a comma), wouldn't sentence 1 be "correct" ?
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[nq:1]But then I heard of "Topicalization" (aka Topic fronting aka Left dislocation) :[/nq]
Lithium controls the condition, but currently it's incurable.
[nq:1]- Most rap, I enjoy - That car, I would like to own - That, I'm not sure about - That kind, I kind of enjoy[/nq]
Most rap, you enjoy already? Mazel tov. It's also used in other dialectical forms of English, but you won't hear su
Lithium controls the condition, but currently it's incurable.
[nq:1]- Most rap, I enjoy - That car, I would like to own - That, I'm not sure about - That kind, I kind of enjoy[/nq]
Most rap, you enjoy already? Mazel tov. It's also used in other dialectical forms of English, but you won't hear su
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