The message The sentence English Morphosyntax. The skeleton of the message Traditionally, the clause (or simple sentence) is divided into two basic units,

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The message The sentence English Morphosyntax

The skeleton of the message Traditionally, the clause (or simple sentence) is divided into two basic units, Subject and Predicate. The Subject tends to be quite a simple constituent: Tom watched TV yesterday The Predicate, the most informative part of the sentence, is normally made up of several other constituents: Tom watched TV yesterday

The skeleton of the message The Predicate constituents may be obligatory or optional. In the sentence Tom disappeared suddenly after the concert, the groups suddenly and after the concert are optional, not essential for the completion of the clause. (By the way, they are called adjuncts) In other cases what is predicated of the Subject must be made up by a Predicator together with one or more complements, without which the clause would be incomplete.

The skeleton of the message Examples of complements All the men wore dark suits.SPOd She handed me the telegram.SPOiOd Your idea sounds great.SPCs They found the test difficult.SPOdCo He put the letter in an envelope.SPOdCp

The skeleton of the message Distinction between objects and other complements objects typically refer to participants in the event different from the subject; they extend the sentence. Due to that immediate relationship between verb and object they normally occur immediately after the verb in transitive clauses The Direct Object does so without any preposition. Objects can also become Subject in a passive clause and be substituted by object pronouns (me, you, him,...)

Basic syntactic structure of the sentence Relationships among the elements of the clause. SPTom disappeared SPOdTom hired a car SPOiOdI have sent them an invitation SPOprYou can rely on Tom SPCsMy brother has become a ski instructor SPOdCoThey appointed him First Secretary SPOdCpThey charged him with robbery

Basic syntactic structure of the sentence Other optional elements : Adjunct (A): an optional circumstance of the process expressed by the clause. Tom disappeared suddenly after the concert. Disjunct (D): a comment by the speaker on the sentence. Obviously, he'll rely on you even more now. Conjunct (C): element which serves to join together two utterances. The hotel was rather noisy. On the other hand, it wasn't expensive.