ABSTRACT
Many scholars have done primary exploration of kinds of English sentences in the area of message passing
function. Besides, some suppositions are offered. This is not only significant for a good understanding and
analysis of English articles, but also beneficial for English learners to get a correct mastery and application of
all kinds of sentences. However, it is still blank for negative sentences in this area. Therefore, the author
makes a conclusion about negative sentences message passing function from a careful analysis of plenty of
sentences by random sampling of EST and many new discoveries have been found about the function to
compare topics
1. Introductions
Nowadays English of science and technology has
been developed into a very important style of
English. EST is entitled with its own distinctic
characteristics, one of which is that a great amount
of passive voice sentences, ellipsis sentences, broken
sentences and inverted sentences are used ( Chen
Xin, 1999). Based on consistent research and
analysis on plenty of EST articles, which come from
authentic English magazines,the author found that
negative sentences have been also very common and
popular in EST. In the recent 20 years (1987
2013), the research on negative sentences in EST
have been much fruitful, which centered on
translation of negative structure, on the classification
of negative structure, on negative words and on
special negation. However, among so much
research ,there is so little involving how negative
sentences influence the information passing of EST
sentences and in which way such information can be
passed, while the research on these aspects will be
very favorable for students to improve abilities to
read and write. During these years the research on
information function and information function in
passages is as well as fruitful, mainly concerning
two aspects as information function of rhetorical
4. Conclusions
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