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Unit 2: Grammatical Cohesion Contents 1.0 Introduction 2.0 Unit Objectives 3.0 Main Content
3.1 What is grammatical Cohesion
3.2 Reference
3.2.1.
Personal Reference 3.2.2. Demonstrative Reference
3.2.3. Comparative Reference
3.3 Substitution
3.4 Ellipsis
3.5
Identification Self-assessment Exercises
4.0 Conjunction
4.0.1. Additive Conjunction
4.0.2. Adversative Conjunction
4.0-3.
Temporal Conjunction 5.0. Tutor-marked Assignment
6.0. Conclusion
7.0. Summary
8.0. References/Further Reading
1.0 Introduction This Unit is a
followup to the previous unit, which was its introduction. In this Unit, we shall be looking at in greater details at cohesion at the grammatical level and how it is signaled in texts. We shall examine the devices used for grammatical cohesion, such as Reference, Ellipsis,
Substitution, Identification, and Conjunction.
2.0 Unit Objectives At the end of this Unit, you should be able to do the following
• define each of the grammatical cohesive
devices to be treated • analyze a text and bring out the elements that signal grammatical cohesion
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• differentiate between substitution, ellipsis and identification as grammatical cohesive devices
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