Unit 3

Question 1

Clauses

Answer 1

Principal structures of which sentences are composed; a unit structured around a verb phrase; a group of related words that contains a subject and a predicate and is a part of a sentence

Question 2

The predicate can be broken into…

Answer 2

A verb phrase and a number of complements(objects, complements, adverbials)

Question 3

Clause elements

Answer 3

Subject; Verb; Object: indirect(IO), and direct(DO); Complement: Subject comp.(Cs), Object comp.(Co); Adverbial

Question 4

Linking or copular verb

Answer 4

Connects the subject and it’s complement

Question 5

Three main types of adverbials

Answer 5

Adjuncts (circumstance adverbials), disjuncts (stance adverbials), conjuncts (linking adverbials)

Question 6

Basic clause patterns

Answer 6

S+V; S+V+A; S+V+C; S+V+O; S+V+O+O; S+V+O+C; S+V+O+A

Question 7

Order variations on clause patterns

Answer 7

Inversion; fronting; postponement; the passive; existential ‘there’; extraposition; clefting; ellipsis