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This study examines the use of shell nouns in the N-be-that construction in popular science articles and professional research articles. It finds that while the semantic distributions are similar, the genres differ in their use of shell nouns to express evaluation, with popular science articles using more explicit and certain language and research articles using more tentative and objective language.

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albertcleistheneswong

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