us take the law of our sides; let them begin. According to the above sentence, it is a compound sentence. It includes two meanings in the sentence. In the drama have any other sentences.
First person
Second person Third person
88
49 56 Total 193
46%
25% 29%
explain their opinion and make a real feeling to reader
Different kinds of personal pronouns in the part I You me 26 it 14 Thou She 12 12 Him 5 thee 10 One 1
2. Level of lexis
The level of lexis is through analyzing use of the words to understand the structure of the drama
2.1 hard words
The hard words’ percentage is too high to understand easily. Table 1 Total number Hard words Percentage
This is a long sentence, it too long. It includes too much information, when we read, we should avoid omitting the information.
3.2 Sentence types
3.2.1 simple sentences and multiple sentences Sentence refers to the rulers for ordering words into sentence. In this part ,we mostly concentrate on sentence types Simple sentences Multiple sentences
49 27 he We 10 8
they them us 8 6 5
So many roles Pay attention to understand everyone
3. Level of syntax
A sentence is, grammatically, the largest unit of grammatical organization within which parts of speech and grammatical classes are to function.
e.g. Madam, an hour before the worshipp'd sun Peer'd forth the golden window of the east, A troubled mind drave me to walk abroad; Where, underneath the grove of sycamore That westward rooteth from the city's side, So early walking did I see your son: Towards him I made, but he was ware of me And stole into the covert of the wood: I, measuring his affections by my own, That most are busied when they're most alone, Pursued my humour not pursuing his, And gladly shunn'd who gladly fled from me.
1985 109
(109/1985)*100%=5.49%
Hard words 〈general words Easy to understand
2.2 personal pronoun
In the drama, the personal pronoun table:
Item Data Percentage
Drama is written to be performed by actors on a stage before an audience. And the stylistics is a branch of linguistics which study in scientific and systematic way concerning the manners /linguistic features or different varieties of language at different levels. I will through level of lexis, syntax to analyze the art 1 of Romeo and Juliet to understand the feature of drama.
Sentence types Interrogative sentences Number of sentences 25 Percentage in total number of sentences 15%
Exclamatory sentences
Declarative sentences
27
93
3.2.2 Preference for interrogative sentences, exclamatory sentences and declarative sentences. Interrogative, exclamatory and declarative sentences appear frequently in this short extract as can be seen in the following table:
17%
57%
Imperative sentences
Total number of sentences
17
162
11%
4. Conclusion
Though using the lexical level and syntax level, we know that the drama has few hard words, so it is easy to understand. In this drama, it has total 14 person pronouns, which illustrate that there are many roles in this drama. If you want to understand the drama well, you should distinguish the roles. In syntax level, from the sentence types, we find that the simple sentences are more than multiple sentences so most sentences in the part of drama are not difficult to understand. But there are a few long sentences whose number gets to 91 words in a sentence. We need pay more attention to these sentences. In the other part, there are different sentences in this part. The declarative sentences are more than the other sentences, which illustrate that the drama is through the dialogue among the roles to tell the whole story.
3.1 sentence length
Sentence Long sentences 17 length Short sentences 145
Short sentences 〉long sentences
not complicated to understand.
But some of long sentences is too long.
introduction
1.Abstract 2.Level of lexis 2.1 hard words 2.2 personal pronoun 3. Level of syntax 3.1 sentence length 3.2 sentence types 4. conclusion
1.abstract
98
Total 162
64
Simple sentences more than multiple sentences .A simple sentences show a single concept. explain one’s opinion. But in the drama, the multiple sentences are used to explain omniscient idea.