Question

Read the extract and find two examples each of person, spatial and temporal deictic expression,one anaphoric and one cataphoric reference.

Then one Saturday morning everything changes.He is in the city on business ,he is walking down St.George's Street when his eyes fall on a slim figure ahead of him in the crowd.It is Soraya, unmistakably,flanked by two children,two boys.​

Answer 1

Step-by-step explanation:

Person Deictic Expressions:

First Person: "He is in the city on business."

Second Person: There are no examples of second person deictic expressions in this extract.

Third Person: "His eyes fall on a slim figure ahead of him in the crowd." "It is Soraya, unmistakably, flanked by two children, two boys."

Spatial Deictic Expressions:

Demonstrative: "ahead of him in the crowd."

Deictic Adverb: "in the city."

Temporal Deictic Expressions:

Past Time: "One Saturday morning."

Present Time: There are no examples of present time deictic expressions in this extract.

Future Time: There are no examples of future time deictic expressions in this extract.

Anaphoric Reference:

"It" is an anaphoric reference to Soraya, the slim figure mentioned earlier in the extract.

Cataphoric Reference:

There are no examples of cataphoric reference in this extract.