The Significance of Relativization in the Teaching of Grammar in English as a Foreign Language Classrooms
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This study investigates the relative clauses included in the plays Major Barbara and Arms and the Man written by George Bernard Shaw. In order to do this, the researcher decided to examine the two to determine the frequency with which relative phrases occurred in each of the works. Within the scope of the study, there are four questions covered in the study . The study discovered that the subject relative clause (RC) occurred 231 times, which is 72.864% of the total, the “ direct object” RC approximately 68 times, which is 21.482% of the total, the indirect object RC occurred 6 times, which is 1.861% of the total, also an eight-time occurrence of the object of the preposition RC, which is 2.151 percent, eleven occurrences of the possessive RC, which is 3.51 %, because there was absolutely no appearance of the object of comparison (0%). This demonstrates that the subject relative clause and the direct object relative clause are at the top of the hierarchy and are used more often in contemporary English literature
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