FREQUENCY OF PARTICIPIAL MODIFIER CLAUSES IN A SELECTION OF TEXTS IN THE MAGAZINE GENRE
FREQUENCY OF PARTICIPIAL MODIFIER CLAUSES IN A SELECTION OF TEXTS IN THE MAGAZINE GENRE

Summary/Abstract: The paper explores the frequency of participial modifier clauses in a selection of texts in the magazine genre. Non-finite clauses containing the main verb in the participle form, called –ing and –ed forms, are not uncommon in written English. This paper aims to determine the frequency of such participial clauses when they have a modifier function, namely serving as adverbials to verbs or as sentence adverbials, or as modifiers within noun phrases, in a selection of texts in the magazine genre. It was hypothesised that participial clauses would have a significant presence in this genre, especially the – ing clauses, and that their predominant function would be adnominal. The corpus under consideration has provided evidence of significant presence of participial modifier clauses in this genre and supported the initial assumption of prevalence of –ing clauses, and their adnominal function.

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