2008년 10월 6일 월요일

15 essentials, the nuclei of structure

Not to get lost in the trail of grammar, first of all, we must get acquainted with the fundamental structure of English. Already having known the varied 5 sets of a sentence, we Koreans may well be noted that they are multipled by 3 types of structural patterns and be one of the 15 basic fundamentals.
They come as follows based on the axis of verbs;

3 types x 5 patterns = 15 essentials


Coaches help the learners get the basic circuit installed in the mindset, so as to have a nice romantic outing with the phlegmatic buddy, grammar. Otherwise, you know how BORING it could be. However complicated they may look, all the English sentences are of the basic units, invisible to the random translators.
All the learners are advised that they follow the route; simple sentence - complex sentence - compound sentence. It is noted that over 80% of the sentences in spoken English are made up of the first one. It can be further said that natives speak the simple ones faster than the EFL learners.

Now, do they have to go abroad for the sake of learning English?

3 types
; A-type
A subject and a verb abut each other.

; B-type
A subject distances itself from a verb. Relatives or relatives converted parts of speech such as prepositional phrases and participles come between them.


; C-type

A verb precedes a subject. We can see it in inversed sentences. Adverbial or prepositional phrases lead these sentences.

5 patterns
; 1st - s+v
; 2nd - s+v+c
; 3rd - s+v+o
; 4th - s+v+i.o.+d.o.
; 5th -s+v+o+o.c.

English evolves around this basic set of 15 sentences.
The language does not move out of this centrifugal force,however complicated they may come.


examples:
A-1. The birds sing in the forest.
A-2. He is a policeman.
A-3. He loves to read books.
A-4. Uncle sent me a beautiful doll.
A-5. They selected him chairman of the committee.

B-1. The car which broke down yesterday belonged to Tom.
B-2. The food which was kept in the freeze didn't go bad.
B-3. Harrison Ford, a famous movie star, still fascinates the audience.
B-4. Joe's sister who worked as a nurse for a local hospital sent each patient a gift certificate for his/ her birthday.
B-5. The fund raising campaign to support the Republican candidate made the core members rally together behind him.

C-1. There comes the bus.
C-2. Bemused was the prodigy in the theory of relativity.
C-3. No sooner had he heard the news than he went pale.
C-4. Not only English had Jim taught them, he also helped the native kids recognize their potentials.
C-5. Not until this morning did a landlady tell the tenant to leave the property.

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