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About This Resource
This C1 resource develops control of theme and focus as two dimensions of information structure. It examines how a sentence establishes a point of departure and how another element may become especially informative, corrective, contrastive, or prominent in context.
What You’ll Learn
• Identify the thematic point of departure in a clause.
• Identify the element carrying new, contrastive, or corrective focus.
• Distinguish theme from focus rather than treating them as one fixed division.
• Use word order and grammatical structure to guide the reader through given and prominent information.
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