A Grammar of Newspaper Editorial Language: The Complex Sentence
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2012
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Legon Journal of the Humanities, University of Ghana
Abstract
This study sets out to examine what linguistic choices are made at the level
of the sentence in selected English Language editorials in a particular
newspaper in Ghana – the Daily Graphic. Data for the study consists of
338 selected sentences from 22 editorials of the Daily Graphic published
in January 2008. We have limited ourselves to the complex sentence,
and specifically, to the dependent clause as it occurs in these editorials.
At the end of the analysis, we identified the following patterns: (a) only
declarative sentences were used, (b) there was overwhelming reliance
on complex sentences and (c) most of the complex sentences consisted of
multiple rankshifted structures.