Chapter published in:
English Sentence Constructions
Marjolijn H. Verspoor, Tim Kassenberg, Merel Keijzer and Gregory J. Poarch
[Not in series 240] 2022
► pp. 15–31

Chapter 1
Sentences

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
  • Notes
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