I. Identify the types of grammatical cohesion in the following.

1) A: Have you met Jane recently?

B: Yes. She is very busy.

2) They pressed round him in ragged fashion to take their money, Andy, Dave, Phil, Stephen, Bob.

3) I can’t get any reliable information. This is what worries me.

4) Can you give me a few nails? I need some.

5) I’ve heard many strange stories, but this one is perhaps the strangest one of all.

6) Yesterday I left under the weather and today I feel the same.

7) --Who speaks English?

--Mary does.

8) --Have you moved the furniture?

--We have done so.

教师解析

I.

1) Jane-she (reference)

2) They—Andy, Dave, Stephen, Bob (personal reference)

3) I can’t get any reliable information—this (anaphoric reference)

4) nails—some (nominal substitution)

5) stories—one (nominal substitution)

6) under the whether—the same (clause substitution)

7) speakers—does (verbal substitution)

8) have moved the furniture—have done so (verbal substitution)