Communicative functions of sentences, compound, and complex sentences

Question 1

What sentence structures do we recognize?

Answer 1

Declarative
Interrogative
Imperative
Exclamative

Question 2

What are the distinguished sentence functions?

Answer 2

Statement
Question
Command
Exclamation

Question 3

What types of questions do we recognize?

Answer 3

yes- no
wh-questions
alternative (rise fall int. - tea or coffee?)
declarative (He left yesterday?)
exclamatory (Hasn’t she changed!)
Rhetorical
question tags (agreement expected: falling intonation/open answer - rising intonation)
echo

Question 4

What types of sentences do we distinguish?

Answer 4

Simple
Compound (syndetic (coordinators) and asyndetic coordination- commas)
Complex: One main + any number of subordinate
Compound-complex: 2 main clauses + any number of subordinate

Question 5

What is the classification of subordinate clauses according to their function?

Answer 5

Nominal: subject, object, complement, nominal-relative (They will do whatever they manage.)

relative: adnominal (restrictive and non-restrictive), sentential (related to the previous sentence: She passed her exams, which is perfect), nominal

appositive

Adverbial: place, manner, time, condition, concession, purpose, reason, result, contrast,…

Question 6

What coordinators do we have?

Answer 6

and, or, but

Question 7

What are correlative coordinators?

Answer 7

either..or
neither…nor
not only…but
both…and