CHAINS & CHOICE IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE

[yas61]

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Can anyone let me know what does the term CHAIN & CHOICE means and how many chains are possible in English Language???

[Tdol]

Chains are the links that are necessary to create larger units, which could be phonological, at the lowest level, or grammatical. Choices are the different possibilities we have in a chain- adjective + noun is a chain, but we have a choice of adjective. Given that chains could be anything from combinations of letters, to every grammatical construction, there would be a huge number.