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Why not?
All patterns of this type are two-member sentences. The absence of attributive 
relations between their adnominal and nominal members may easily be proved by 
their structural and semantic traits as well as modulation features. The semantic 
value of the structure is often proved by thematic and rhematic analysis. 
In terms of structure, we distinguish the following peculiarities of verbless 
sentences: 
1) the pronominal member is not a possessive pronoun. Indicating persons or 
things in actual speech, pronouns are most commonly used as substitutes for names 
and as such generally do not need attributive adjuncts. 
Words characterising pronouns are therefore predicative (not attributive) in their 
function, e. g.: 
SP: 
You looking a baby of a thing this morning! 
PS: 
Wonderful civility this! Quite 
serious all this!
2) the presence of elements irrelevant to attributive relations, such as, for instance, 
the adverbial adjunct 
how, 
e. g.: 
How annoying having to stand all the way home in the bus!
3) the presence or interpositional adverbial elements, modal words or negative 
particles, as in: 
Complete Low-Cost Home Training Course now Available. Your cousin, probably, 
enjoying herself!
4) the use of the article: 
Rot the stuff!
Why the terrific hurry!

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The attributive or non-attributive character of the adnominal member may depend 
on its position as to the nominal one. Thus, for instance, in patterns like 
No room 
ready 
the relations between 
room 
and 
ready 
are not attributive, because 
ready 
does 
not go patterning as a post-positional attribute. 
+Patterns like 
Nice furs here 
are also two-member sentences because the 
adverb 
here 
may be replaced by the demonstrative pronoun. 
Verbless two-member sentences abound not only in literature but in spoken 
English as well. As could be seen, they are not necessarily elliptical sentences, for 
very often no unexpressed part is implied. We often find them in a laconic, 
exclamatory or otherwise emphatic style. 
Writers use them as a means to make ideas stand out in vivid, clear relief.