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SENTENCE PATTERNS

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In general, academic writing displays quite complex sentence patterns, including

frequent use of all the types of subordination which occur in general English usage

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Non-finite subordinate clauses are particularly common:

Surprisingly, the pioneers of modern urban healthcare supported a ‘return to

nature’ by mobilizing anti-urban and pro-rural discourse. 

Comparing

Nottingham and Saint-Etienne

, this article addresses the politics that produced

this paradox. 

To explore further the perceptual component

, we measured perceived temporal

frequency in human subjects with unilateral optic neuritis for whom optic

nerve transmission is known to be relatively slow and generally similar to the

normal physiological state under low luminance.

Ellipted subordinate clauses are also frequent:

Specifically,

when asked in the post-use interviews how using the computer-

tutor influenced their behaviour, students most commonly mentioned an

increase in their level of effort.

This approach could admit the possibility of conflict between an individual’s

use of freedom and the attainment of happiness 

while denying that happiness

could be attained without freedom.