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... syntactic functions of NPs and how women are described in PUD . To say that men treat us as the " objects " who " receive " the actions they perform is accurate enough . But to proceed to say that we want to be the " subjects , " not ...
... syntactic functions of NPs and how women are described in PUD . To say that men treat us as the " objects " who " receive " the actions they perform is accurate enough . But to proceed to say that we want to be the " subjects , " not ...
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... syntactic exploitation , first in a paper entitled " Syntactic Exploitation : Passive Adjectives in English " ( 1972 ) , then as one of several rhetorically useful syntactic structures in “ The Stylistics of Belief ” ( 1976 ) . Later ...
... syntactic exploitation , first in a paper entitled " Syntactic Exploitation : Passive Adjectives in English " ( 1972 ) , then as one of several rhetorically useful syntactic structures in “ The Stylistics of Belief ” ( 1976 ) . Later ...
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... syntactic structures . For example , the agent can be omitted in infinitive clauses Mary liked to drink soda ) , passive sentences ( The car was totaled ) , and reduced relative clauses ( the jewels stolen last night ) . When a passive ...
... syntactic structures . For example , the agent can be omitted in infinitive clauses Mary liked to drink soda ) , passive sentences ( The car was totaled ) , and reduced relative clauses ( the jewels stolen last night ) . When a passive ...
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Speaking Freely: Unlearning the Lies of the Fathers' Tongues Julia Penelope No preview available - 1990 |
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