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[Cohesion #2]
FOCUS: Cohesive ties
Sort concordances by keyword in the following exercises, unless stated otherwise.

1) Search for "the poor child". In line 2 of the hits there is a cohesive tie that tells you which of the following?
that the poor child is a boy
that the poor child is a girl
that the name of the poor child is Lucy

2) Search for "the biology teacher". A cohesive pronoun tells you which of the following?
that the biology teacher is a woman
that the biology teacher is a man
that the biology teacher is either a man or a woman

3) Search for "he drank it". In all of the hits in the corpus the cohesive pronoun "it" refers back to which of the following?
soft drinks
water
alcoholic beverages

4) Search for "a better one". In line 4 of the hits what does the cohesive tie "one" refer back to?
deal
that
idea

5) Search for "of course they do". Has "do" been used as a cohesive tie in all of the hits?
yes
no
no, only in line 1

6) Search for "I never found them". Which of the following does the cohesive pronoun "them" refer back to?
all
keys
heads

7) Search for "I did so". "So" is a cohesive tie of substitution; what does it substitute in line 2?
tell more
think along the same lines
me

8) Search for "I think *" Which of the following has been used as "clausal substitution"? (Sort concordances by right word.)
do
not
this


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