Hi all,
I really need help with some things before my SAC this week, so would love a reply!
1. Just wondering what subsystem would 'incorrect punctuation' go under?
So there's a question on 'describe register and refer to at least three linguistic evidence from more than one subsystem'.
Now there's a lot of unnecessary capitalisation in the text (incorrectly punctuated)
So could I use this as a linguistic evidence to say the register is moderately formal text? (the text is for a formal SA by the way)
But what subsystem would this fall under?
And can I link it to register in the first place? because it does sound more like standard/non-standard thing than register?
2. Is an infinitive considered as the beginning of a subordinate clause?
3. How would you find an example of nominalisation if there were no possessives? (i.e. "the institution's intentions).
Without possessives like these, I'm finding it a bit hard to find nominalisations just by looking at suffixes.
Is there a simpler way?
4. What would be the sentence structure of these:
- Then the removal van did not arrive, leaving us stranded. --> The 'then' is really confusing me. Because 'the removal van did not arrive' would be a main clause, but is it still the main clause even though the 'then' is there? And then 'leaving us stranded' is one subordinate clause right? Would this be a complex sentence?
- just checking, is this a compound-complex sentence?
"The fact that we were helpless was not too disturbing, but the sudden change in the weather was since we were stuck outside."
- "Things did not remain the same for long because things were not quite what they seemed" --> this is a complex sentence right?
Thank you very much guys!
Would love some help!