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BASIC SENTENCE PATTERNS - Coggle Diagram
BASIC SENTENCE PATTERNS
6 Basic English patterns
- Equational Assertion Pattern
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- Instransitive Assertion Pattern
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- Transitive Assertion Pattern
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- Transitive Receiver Assertion Pattern
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- Complement Assertion Pattern
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- Indefinite Equational Pattern
an indefinite subject is moved to the right of the copula, where it can be more freely modified (A man is in the other room → There’s a man in the other room)
6 Basic Spanish Patterns
- Equational Assertion Pattern
S and P are linked equationally (note that with NP or ADJ the linkage is regularly marked by AGREEMENT)
- Instransitive Assertion Pattern
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- Transitive Assertion Pattern
the VP includes an object, but it requires the object after the VP if the object is a noun phrase but before the VP if it is a pronoun.
- Transitive Receiver Assertion Pattern
the VP includes both an object and a receiver (IO), like in English, but only in the surface
- Complement Assertion Pattern
like the English one (the symbol complement represents various kinds of nominalized verb phrases) but more complex and different in many significant details.
- Indefinite Equational Pattern
like the English one (an indefinite subject is moved to the right of the copula, where it can be more freely modified) with an exception