chapter 7 formal and informal style.pptVIP

A Handbook of Writing Unit SevenFormal and Informal Styles I. Purposes 1. To make the students aware of the importance of writing and different writing ways in both Chinese and English. 2. To increase their awareness of writing style of the text. 3. To develop their writing skills and strategies in class. II. The Gist of the Chapter 1.The Meaning of Style 2. Formal and Informal Styles III. Formal and Informal Styles Every student learning to write English should at least have some basis know- ledge of the characteristics of formal and informal English. The following are some specific features that distinguish these two types of English: III. Formal and Informal Styles 1. Contractions like don’t etc., are generally used in informal writing. In formal writ- ing the full forms are preferred: do not. 2. For indefinite reference you is often used in informal English while one is often used in formal English, as: p.286 III. Formal and Informal Styles 3. In informal English who can be used instead of whom as an object in questions, e.g. 4. In informal English that can often be left out before an object clause, espe- cially after verbs of saying or thinking, e.g. p.287 III. Formal and Informal Styles 5. In informal style they is often used as a pronoun referring to every- / some-/ any-/ nobody, p.287 6. When the subject is I or he (she, it), was can be used instead of were in the subjunctive mood in informal style: p.287 III. Formal and Informal Styles 7. Participial phrases are generally used in formal style: p.287-288 8. Nominative absolute constructions are generally used in formal style: p.288 9. Adjectival and adverbial phrases placed before the subject often make the sentence formal: p.288 III. Formal and Informal Styles 10. Parenthetical remarks often make a sentence formal: p.289 11. A series of nouns, verbs, o