Express a stance: Non Argumentative

How to express a stance: Non Argumentative (Factual and Monologic)

Authors mean to presents facts or describe actions in non-argumentative. Therefore, make sure NONE of the three key linguistic items,
(1) modal auxiliaries,
(2) proclaiming or possiblity adverbs (and sometimes adjectives), and
(3) countering or conditional conjunctions appear in such an expression.

Learning Objectives & Strategies:
Familiarize with the linguistic patterns for expressing Non Argumentative stance.
1. Find the linguistic patterns for expressing Non Argumentative below
2. Then search by the linguistic patterns (keywords, pre/suffix, tense, etc.) you found in the "Stance Sentence Examples" XXpage.xHere is a reference list for you.
3. You can also compare the linguistic expressions across the 4 stances in "Distinguishing the 4 stances")

(key linguistic expressions in red)

Sentence Types (What is this?)

Linguistic Expressions

	Modal Auxiliary (e.g. should, can, may)	Proclaiming or Possibility Adverb (e.g. indeed, probably, likely)
1) S. + Active verb (e.g. contribute to, reflect, require, present, provide, consider, outline)	No	No
2) Passive form (e.g. It is made of.., We are expected to...)	No	No
3) Be + N, adj or to V (e.g. This is a dilemma, The study is to identify)	No	No