Sentence Structure: A Comprehensive Guide to Clauses and Modalities

Sentence Structure: Clauses and Modalities

CD: SN, personal pronoun, a + SN: With predicative verbs.

CI: Personal pronoun, a + SN: With linking verbs and predicates.

C Reg: Prep + NP

C Ag: For + NP: Predicative verbs, passive voice. Subj if it goes active.

CC: S adv, SN.

AT: S adj, SN: Linking verbs.

C PVO: S adj, NP: Predicative verbs.

Classification of Simple Sentences

Active, passive, attribute, predicate, transitive, intransitive.

Sentence Modalities

Declarative, interrogative, exclamatory, imperative,

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Subordinate Clauses: Types and Examples

1. Similarities and Differences Between Juxtaposition and Coordination

Juxtaposition and coordination are two methods of connecting propositions. Juxtaposed propositions have no explicit link. For example: “Yegua, maturity, etc.” Coordinated propositions, on the other hand, are connected by a nexus. For example: “Juan eats, etc.” Coordinated clauses can be copulative, disjunctive, distributive, or explanatory.

2. Types of Adverbial Subordinate Clauses

There are several types of adverbial subordinate

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Sentence Structure, Catalan Dialects, and Literary Masters

Understanding Sentence Structure

Mussitar: whisper / Flatter: flatter, soap (figuratively) / Rebequeries: quirks, rarities / Disabled: damaged, corrupt / Enlletgir: make ugly / Nasty: rude.

A sentence is a linguistic unit with complete sense that relates a subject with a predicate. When a sentence has only one verb in a personal form, the sentence is called simple. If it has more than one verb, it is called a compound sentence. A compound sentence consists of propositions, which are simple sentences

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Phonetics and Phonology: Sounds, Phonemes, Morphology

The Phonic Level

Phonetics is the discipline of linguistics that studies speech sounds. It analyzes their physical nature. There are three areas within phonetics:

  • Articulatory Phonetics: Deals with how sound is produced in the speech apparatus.
  • Auditory Phonetics: Studies how sounds spread through the air and are perceived by the auditory system.

Phonology

Phonology studies the mental or abstract aspects of sounds in language. The minimum unit of study in phonetics is the sound, while in phonology, it

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Lexicon, Functional Categories, and Clause Structure

Topic 1: A Review of the Lexicon and Constituent Structure

A lexical entry is composed of categorial information, a subcategorization frame, argument structure, and a theta-grid.

Category

There are two types of categorial information:

  • Lexical categories: N (noun), V (verb), A (adjective), P (preposition), and Adv (adverb).
  1. a. They have no __ car, conscience, friends… (N)

    b. *They have no __ went (V), older (A), conscientiously (Adv)…

  2. a. They can __ stay, leave, hide, starve, die… (V)

    b. *They can

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Understanding Clause Elements and Embedding

NOUN PHRASE, ADJECTIVE PHRASE, PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE.

When we talk of sensitive elements, we are thinking of the way different kinds of formal phrases FUNCTION, how the same kind of phrase can express different elements.

Noun Phrases

Noun phrases can be: subject, object, object of preposition, and complement.

Adjective Phrases

Adjective phrases can be: complement.

Prepositional Phrases

Prepositional phrases can be: part of a noun phrase, an adverbial.

Semantic Functions of Clause Elements

Subject

  • AGENTIVE:
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