1.1 Clauses
Clauses are the principal structures of which sentences are composed. A
sentence may consist of one or more than one clauses. According to Oxford
Advanced Learners’ Dictionary, a clause is “a group of words that includes a
subject and a verb forming a sentence or a part of sentence”. There are three ways
that clauses may be described and classified:
In terms of the clause elements (subjects, verbs...) from which they are
constructed and the verb patterns which are formed from these elements.
In terms of the amount of use which a clause makes of verb phrase
structure. On this ground, we distinguish between finite clauses, nonfinite clauses
and verbless clauses.
In terms of clause functions, that is the function a clause performed in a
sentence, such as: nominal clauses, adverbial clauses,...
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