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referent

referring expression

The children looked tired. 

They

had been travelling all day.

referent

referring expression 

They arrived at 

the resort. 

Here

at last was a place they could relax.

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Anaphora; Cataphora; Endophora; Exophora

Reflexive A construction that contains a verb with a reflexive pronoun object, or

a reflexive pronoun complement of a preposition where the referent of the

complement is the same as that of the subject:

Shall 

I

serve 

myself?

Did 

you

hurt 

yourself?

He

kept it all for 

himself.

Reformulation Some discourse markers can signal reformulations or alternative

expressions, indicating that the speaker has not selected the most appropriate

way of expressing things and is refining what they say with a more apt word or

phrase. Among such markers are: I mean, so to speak, to put it another way.

Register Refers to the style of speaking or writing that is used in particular fields

of discourse or particular social contexts (e.g. academic writing, journalism,

advertising, legal, science and literary conventions).

Regular verb Refers to the form of verb which simply adds inflections to the 

base form without any change (base form: cough; present form: cough; 

-s

form: coughs; -ing form: coughing; past form: coughed; -ed participle:

cough

ed).

Relative clause Relative clauses are of two main kinds: 

● embedded clauses used to postmodify noun heads (

The book 

that I want

is

not available in the library

.)

● sentential relative clauses: which-clauses referring to a whole sentence or

stretch of discourse (She’s always out when I call, which is very

inconvenient.)

Normally they are preceded by a relative pronoun.