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TOPIC 25 :<3: RELATIONS OF CAUSE, CONSEQUENCE AND PURPOSE
INTRODUCTION
This topic is of great importance to improve students' performance (the aim of LomLoe) since it deals with grammar, something crucial (according to Rossiter, 2021) to understand others and progress in learning a Foreign Language. Additionally, this topic deals with discourse analysis, focusing on relations which Loureda affirms to help us interpret and produce coherent and cohesive texts.Furthermore, The LOMLOE aims to improve educational performance and adapt the educational system to the challenges of the 21st century, the study of cause, consequence, and purpose relations is even more relevant. This law emphasizes the importance of personalizing the learning process and the continuous improvement of schools, and mastery of these grammatical relations is essential to achieving these objectives.
JUSTIFICATION
I've chosen this topic due to the relevance it has in today's world, where understanding the relations of cause, consequence, and purpose has become increasingly relevant. As outlined in Decree 102/2023, one of the key challenges of our time is the complexity of societal issues, which often involve multiple interconnected causes and effects. The ability to discern these relationships is crucial for problem-solving and decision-making in various fields, from politics and economics to science and technology.Moreover, this topic is directly related to current societal problems. For instance, climate change, a pressing issue of our time, is a complex problem with numerous causes and consequences. Understanding these relations can help us devise effective strategies to mitigate its effects. Similarly, in the realm of social justice, comprehending the cause-effect relationships can aid in addressing systemic issues and achieving equitable outcomes.
REFERENCES
- Loureda, O. (2003). "Introduction to Text Typology".
- Rossiter, A. (2021). "The Importance of Grammar"
- Crystal, D. (2012). "English as a Global Language"
- Canale, M. & Swain, M. (1980). "Theoretical Bases of Communicative Approaches to Second Language Teaching and Testing"
- Hymes, D. H. (1972). "On Communicative Competence"
- Greenbaum, S. & Quirk, R. (1990). "A Student's Grammar of the English Language"
2.1. RELATIONS OF CAUSE OR REASON CLAUSES
- Greenbaum and Quirk (1990) established that cause is concerned with motivation seen with some objectivity but also involving relatively personal and subjective assessment. However, they called them "Reason Clauses" as they express notions such as reason and cause for what is conveyed in the main clause.
- they're are a sort of adverbial clause that conveys a direct relationship with the main clause or matrix .
- These clauses may express indirect reason not related to the situation in the main clause but it being a motivation for the implicit speech act of the utterance
Greenbaum & Quirk state that reason is mostly expressed by means of adverbials, mostly introduced by conjunctions subordinators : because/since/as/for/seeing that
Circumstantial subordinators:
- as: predication OPTIONALLy fronted: As she was feeling tired, she decided to leave the party early.
- that: subject-complement OBLIGATORily fronted: That he passed the exam was a relief to everyone.
- what with refers to +1 given circumstances of an unspecified set, whereas circumstantial with implies only one: what with the prices so high, and with my wife being unemployed I cannot afford a new refrigerator. There's a stereotyped phrasal analogue: What with one thing and another, I could not sleep.
just in case: when mentioning a possible future situation which is sb's reason for doing sth. Present tense used unless the reason is in the past
🕴🏻 formal expressions are used to say why a statement you've made is true. (to the extent that, in that, in as much as, in so far as)
Non-finite Reason Clauses are another (+) formal way to express the idea of reason through participle clauses: "Having mastered pokemon battles, Ash beat Cynthia"
Reason can also be expressed through prepositional phrases (owing to/ due to/ because of/ on account of /from/ out of from)
Verbless Clauses, such as now that I come to think of it, with no subordinator and with a verb in the base form
Even an if-construction can be used when referring to a statement made previously: If you do not like meat, why did you order a burger?
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