Abstract: The present study investigates Chinese EFL (English as a Foreign Language) learners' intonation pattern of exclamatory sentences. The results show that both Chinese EFL learners and English ...

This makes the two ideas equal in the sentence - if you take away one part of it, you are left with a simple sentence again. These are very common when speaking and they are not difficult to ...

A complex sentence communicates more than one idea. One part (the main clause) is like a simple sentence: it can stand on its own. The other part (the minor clause) gives more detail about the simple ...