Modal verbs can be classified into two major categories of me- aning: epistemic and deontic. Epistemic modals refer to the logical status of events or states. The following alternatives are examples of epistemic modals. The only exception is:

One mechanism of grammatical cohesion is the use of substituting pro-forms. The only example of a pro-form is:

According to the Longman Grammar (Biber et al.,1999, p.988), “collocations are associations between lexical words, so that the words co-occur more frequently than expected by chance”. This text presents several examples of collocations. The only exception is:

Adverbs present a range of semantic categories. In this text, we can ?nd some of them: time, manner, degree etc. The only pair that includes adverbs of different semantic categories is:

This text shows several examples of multiple parallel clausal structures. One example particularly shows the repetition of subordinate clauses to describe the preceding noun phrase, producing a certain dramatic effect. The example is: