of benefits and weakness in them. Also, there exist many parts which the Korean students have difficulty in learning the most, so we decide to focus on those parts’ features and weakness. They are 1) tense and aspect of the verbs, 2) modal verbs, and 3) relative pronouns. Therefore we deal with the 3parts and the reason why we chose those 3 parts as the most difficult lesson for the Korean stud
① Contraction with “not”
(3) a. He shouldn’t see her.
b. *He worksn’t with her
→ Main verbs cannot contract with not.
(4) a. He may not come.
b. *He mayn’t come.
c. We shan’t be very long.
d. We won’t be very long.
→ May cannot contract with not.
Shan’t exists only in British English.
② Subject-aux inversion in yes/no questions &
tag questions
Politeness principle,
Like Cooperative principle
Lakoff suggests,
Don’t impose
Give options
Make your receiver feel good
No immediate practical purpose
may be taken or left as the receiver wishes
There is no burden!
But,
literary texts
take up a great deal of time
⇒ burdensome!
Both keep and break the maxim,
‘Don’t impose
하는 사람) (그는 브라운 씨라는 사람이다.)
I wish to become a Newton.(~와 같은 사람) (나는 뉴우턴과 같은 과학자가 되고 싶다.)
The Kims went to Busan yesterday. (집안사람) (김씨 가족들은 어제 부산에 갔다.)
There are three Kims in our class.(~라는 이름의 사람) (우리 학급에는 김씨 성을 가진 사람이 셋 있다.)
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