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Delahunty and Garvey likes them. As in the case of the intransitive pattern, modifiers and auxiliaries do not affect the basic p ...

Basic Clause Patterns having three basic elements. The main difference between the two lies in the nature of the head verb and t ...

Delahunty and Garvey (92) a. Mary and Terry became doctors. b. Mary and Terry became a doctor. c. Mary became doctors. Because E ...

Basic Clause Patterns However, nearly all of these verbs may have meanings other than BE or BECOME. When they have those other m ...

Delahunty and Garvey (101a), exemplified by (101b): (101)a. Basic clause pattern 4 Subject Verb Head Direct Object Object Comple ...

Basic Clause Patterns To see the third parallel with subject complements, we must observe the semantic relation between the dire ...

Delahunty and Garvey b. Scott and Zelda painted the door. (Pattern 2) (112)a. Weskin’s false predictions proved him a hoax. b. W ...

Basic Clause Patterns As the formula indicates, the last two functions occur in this order: indi- rect object (IO)—direct object ...

Delahunty and Garvey c. Finkle made a successful legislator. (Pattern 3) d. We made Portnoy our representative. (Pattern 4) Seco ...

Basic Clause Patterns f. Anderson bought souvenirs for us. One drawback of the Dative Test is that it does not distinguish betwe ...

Delahunty and Garvey (128)a. Wanda baked Phyllis the cake. b. *Wanda baked Phyllis it. Exercise (a) Identify the (whole) direct ...

Basic Clause Patterns While the meanings and semantic roles represented by this pattern are not identical to those represented b ...

Delahunty and Garvey Basic clause pattern 7: intransitive Location and Goal clauses Sentences like (134a and b) respectively rep ...

Basic Clause Patterns (140)a. NP AUX [VPV NP {PP/AdvP}] We can represent these VPs by the trees: (140)b. VP (140)c. VP V NP PP V ...

Delahunty and Garvey references and resources Berk, Lynn M. 1999. English Syntax: From Word to Discourse. New York: Oxford Unive ...

Basic Clause Patterns topic. effected (also called factitive): the semantic role that indicates the entity that comes into exist ...

Delahunty and Garvey rate on our discussion of English tenses. While we believe that every (Eng- lish) teacher should have a goo ...

Basic Clause Patterns at least three more dates in this pattern and then fully and accurately describe the pattern. (b) Create a ...

Delahunty and Garvey do it sometime during 6/25/2008. Yesterday refers to the day before the day in which the expression is said ...

Basic Clause Patterns Past tense meanings The basic meaning of the past tense is very simple. It indicates only that something w ...