A Corpus-based Study on the Frequency and Usage of Participial Clauses in Two Science Journals
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This study presents the frequency and usage of participial clauses in two representative science journals, Cell and Physical Review Letters, PRL. This linguistic feature functions as an important cohesive device connecting clauses, making the relationships clear and straightforward. A total of 300 journal papers, 150 published in Cell and 150 published in PRL, were analyzed using a computer program developed for this study. Sentence-ending participial clauses with the Main Clause, V+ing structure were most frequently found in both journal papers, with the proportion of 5.1 % of sentences in Cell papers and 2.5% in PRL papers. Verbs used in sentence-ending participial clauses represent the characteristics of each journal. The other types of participial clauses did not differ much in terms of frequency. Some pedagogical implications for the teaching of non-native speakers of English working in the field of science and technology are made.
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This study presents the frequency and usage of participial clauses in two representative science journals, Cell and Physical Review Letters, PRL. This linguistic feature functions as an important cohesive device connecting clauses, making the relationships clear and straightforward. A total of 300 journal papers, 150 published in Cell and 150 published in PRL, were analyzed using a computer program developed for this study. Sentence-ending participial clauses with the Main Clause, V+ing structure were most frequently found in both journal papers, with the proportion of 5.1 % of sentences in Cell papers and 2.5% in PRL papers. Verbs used in sentence-ending participial clauses represent the characteristics of each journal. The other types of participial clauses did not differ much in terms of frequency. Some pedagogical implications for the teaching of non-native speakers of English working in the field of science and technology are made.
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