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English Sentence ConstructionsMarjolijn H. Verspoor, Tim Kassenberg, Merel Keijzer and Gregory J. Poarch
[Not in series 240] 2022
► pp. 15–31
Chapter 1Sentences
Communicative functions and typical patterns
Article outline
- 1.1Introduction
- 1.2Declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory sentence patterns
- 1.3Participants, process, attributes, and setting
- 1.4Subject, predicator, object, attribute, and adverbial
- 1.5Typical sentence patterns
- 1The running pattern (intransitive verbs)
- 2The being pattern (copula verbs)
- 3The doing/seeing pattern (monotransitive verbs)
- 4The giving/buying pattern (ditransitive verbs)
- 5The making/considering pattern (complex-transitive verbs)
- 1.6Same verb, different patterns
- 1.7English word order
- 1.8Summary
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Notes
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