Clause Organisation and Sentence Structure

Abstract

This chapter is divided into two major sections. The first deals with the different types of clause: declarative (7.1), imperative (7.2), interrogative (7.3) and exclamatory (7.4). In each case the basic structure is illustrated before variant orders are presented. Although subordinate finite clauses (7.1.2) and non-finite clauses (7.1.3) are described within the section on declarative clauses, their treatment depends upon all types of main clause, though some non-finite participial clauses were dealt with under ellipsis in 6.3. The second major section deals with different types of sentence structure within and beyond the sentence (7.5). Finally, there is a brief review of some distortions in syntax (7.6). This second part has much in common with stylistics and the influence of rhetoric, though neither is tackled directly.KeywordsRelative ClauseSentence StructureDirect ObjectMain ClausePrepositional PhraseThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.