We can all speak and understand each other; do we need to investigate how?

Contents

Chapter 1 THE SENTENCE ............................................................................5

1.1 Structural classification of sentences..........................................................6

Chapter 2 THE SIMPLE SENTENCE

2.1 Two-member sentences...............................................................................6
2.2 One-member sentences...............................................................................7
2.3 Elliptical (incomplete) sentences................................................................7

Chapter 3 COMMUNICATIVE TYPES OF SENTENCES

3.1 Declarative sentences..................................................................................8
3.2 Interrogative sentences ...............................................................................9
3.3 General questions........................................................................................9
3.4 Alternative questions..................................................................................10
3.5 Suggestive questions...................................................................................10
3.6 Imperative sentences...................................................................................10
3.7 Exclamatory sentences................................................................................11

Chapter 4 NON-SENTENCE UTTERANCES..................................................11-12

Chapter 5 PARTS OF THE SENTENCE
5.1 Word-forms....................................................................................................13
5.2 Phrases............................................................................................................13
5.3 Clauses.............................................................................................................15
5.4 Levels of syntactical analysis..........................................................................15
5.5 The subject ......................................................................................................16
5.6 The predicate...................................................................................................17
5.7 The simple nominal predicate.........................................................................18
5.8 The compound predicate................................................................................18
5.9 The object.......................................................................................................19

Chapter 6 WORD ORDER

6.1 The grammatical function of word order.........................................................20

6.2 Direct word order............................................................................................20
6.3 Inverted word order.........................................................................................22
6.4 The emphatic and communicative functions of word order............................22
6.5 The linking function of word order.................................................................22

List of literature…………………………………………………………………23