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McDonalds
Im lovin it.
CET 1524
McDonalds
PP
NP
AP
Complex clauses:
Compound clauses:
[
Clause1
C AP
VP
Simple sentences:
O NP
V VP
it is demanding]
5 major constituents:
Subject
Verb
Verb
KCH 3108 Well I think I can remember something like that then.
V_VP
>
V_VP
Well I [
think] I [
s] good.
V_VP
EX0 596
Strong or dark shades [
nomadic and tribal rugs.
V_VP
AVP
are [
Verb
Intransitive
require no complementation:
G16 1052
Copular
GX2 141 I am delighted that they all passed with flying colours.
EEX 392
Transitive
Mono-transitive: Od
Di-transitive: Od + Oid
HPH 245
B7G 2095 In June the Indonesian cabinet gave its blessing to the drive.
Complex transitive: Od + CO or Od + AO
EEX 392
B2U 1949
Calculate the cost of the goods and enter it onto the invoice.
Subject
What is a subject?
But: S = doer?
(stative verb)
This is great.
(copular verb)
HE9 521
(passive)
Subject
What is a subject?
Formal criterion:
NP:
but:
BNN 115 That luck played a big part in the distribution of favours at Dovercourt is confirmed by
Anna Saville.
B1D 386 Why Brunel should have agreed to spare the time to become involved with the
competition is not clear, ()
Distributional citerion:
but:
KBB 6808 Audio Why people spend good money to go and listen to that sort of stuff I'll never know.
CH6 6776 Last night, all the family were seriously ill in hospital.
Object
refers to the entity that benefits from the action (Kreyer 2010: 112)
AR8 56
Object
Only active clauses with Od and/or Oid can be transformed into passive:
but not: K97 4292 He lived in Hoole. > *In Hoole was lived by him.
mostly by NPs
E9T 148 But when I went back the next day, I was told the two shops were no
longer connected. (that-clause)
CKB 1064
K8V 2022
Complement
Subject complement:
HAE 1717 He is a
striker very much on a
revenge mission.
Object complement:
be "Tom is a coward."
Source:
https://
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dia.org/
wiki/
List_of_En
glish_cop
ulae
Adverbial
Circumstance adverbials:
CCE 488 The agony of his death confronted Jesus as he prayed in the garden of
Gethsemane.
HTT 2416 He put his foot on the first step and paused, listening.
FSB 241
Adverbial
Stance adverbials:
optional
G0Y 1181 It looks to me, frankly, like a clear case of chronic timidity, laced with
apathy.
B75 897
Broadly speaking, the printing process falls into two stages,
typesetting and printing.
Adverbial
Linking adverbials:
optional
connective function
mostly clause-initial
G1X 87
Speaking of which, why didn't you marry that lieutenant
when I told you to?