CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

ABSTRACT

摘要

Chapter One  INTRODUCTION-1

Chapter Two  LITERATURE  REVIEW-3

Chapter Three  ELLIPSIS-5

Chapter Four  SYNTACTIC FEATURES-7

4.1 Sentence Structure-7

4.1.1 Phrases-7

4.1.2 Complete sentences-8

4.1.3 Questions and rhetorical questions-8

4.1.4 The use of pre-attribute-9

4.2 Tense-10

4.2.1 The simple present-10

4.2.2 General future tense-11

4.2.3 The present continuous tense-11

4.3 Voice-12

Chapter Five  PUNCTUATION-13

5.1 Single Quotes-13

5.2 Dashes-13

5.3 Comma-14

5.4 Colon-14

Chapter Six  CONCLUSION-17

REFERENCES-18