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While academic writing is often characterized as complex, elaborated, and explicit, corpus research challenges these generalizations. Conversation contains more complex clauses with embedded elements like finite dependent clauses. However, academic writing favors compressed structures using embedded phrases over clauses. It uses attributive adjectives, nouns as pre-modifiers, and post-nominal prepositional phrases more than conversation. So academic writing has a different type of complexity relying more on
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- Hijri Desi
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- EN