The Highlighting Devices in English Grammar “Postponement Use and Meaning” | ||
| Basic Education College Magazine For Educational and Humanities Sciences | ||
| Article 1, Volume 0, Issue 8, February 2018, Pages 436-446 | ||
| Author | ||
| Sura Abbas Obaid | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Postponement which involves the replacement of the postponed element by a substitute form is termed EXTRAPOSITION. It operates almost exclusively on subordinate nominal clauses. The most important type of extraposition is that of clausal subject – ie a subject realized by a finite or nonfinite clause. The subject is moved to the end of the sentence, and the normal subject position is filled by the anticipatory pronoun it. The resulting sentence thus contains two subjects, which we may identify as the POSTPONED SUBJECT (the one which is notionally the subject of the sentence) and the ANTICIPATORY SUBJECT) | ||
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| The Highlighting Devices in English Grammar | ||
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