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1、SyntacticFeaturesofLegalDocumentsofBusinessEnglishAbstract:IthasbeenmanyyearssinceChinaadopteditspolicyofreformandopeningtotheoutsideworld.MoreandmorepeoplearebeginningtoattachimportancetostudyingbusinessEnglish.Thepurposeofthispaperistoquestforsyntacticfea
2、turesoflegaldocumentsofbusinessEnglish.KeyWords:SyntacticFeaturesLegalDocumentsBusinessEnglishBusinessEnglishisanimportantlanguagetoolforpeopletopursueinternationalbusinessactivities.WithChina’ssuccessfulentryintoWTO(theWorldTradeOrganization),businessEngli
3、shismorewidelyused.ThelegaldocumentsofbusinessEnglishrefertothelaw-orienteddocumentsduringthecourseofinternationalbusinessactivities.Merchandisersorrelevanttranslatorsmayusetheminbusinesstransactions.Thelegaldocumentsusethewrittenformtosetforththeinvolvedri
4、ghtsandobligations,whicharestipulatedinthelaws.Theyareanindispensablepartforpeopletocarryoutinternationalbusinessactivities.Syntaxreferstotherulesfororderingandconnectingwordsintosentences.Itallowsvariouspossibilitiestobeexploitedforeffectivelinguisticcommu
5、nication.Asystematicdescriptionofsyntacticfeaturesshouldinclude:sentencetypes,clausetypes,phrasetypes,etc.Here,itisonlynecessarytomentionthesyntacticfeaturesoflegaldocumentsofbusinessEnglish.1.LongSentencesLongsentencesarecommoninlegal,politicalandtheoretic
6、alwriting,whichdependsonmodificationforaccuracy.InlegaldocumentsofbusinessEnglish,youcanfindthesentencesusedarelongandquiteoftentheentiredocumentiscomposedintheformofasinglesentence.Inlegaldocuments,longsentencesaremorethananywhereelseandinfact,adeedisusual
7、lywritteninonelongsentence.Longsentencesarecapableofexpressingcomplexideaswithprecision,becausetheymaycontainmanymodifiers.Thestructuresofthelongsentencesareoftenintricate,whichoftenincludeseveralclausesormodifiers.Whenanindependentclausecomprisesoneormored
8、ependentclausesasitselement(s),thismakesacomplexsentence.Longsentencesareoftencomplexsentences,whichincluderelativeclausesoradverbialclauses,etc.Thefollowingexamplewillbeusedtoillustratethispoint.Thepr
