Sentence Patterns in English

Abstract

This group of grammarians is randomly selected for the study. For the purposes of this study, works in collaboration are taken to stand for one grammarian. The order in which the group of grammarians appears in this study is determined by alphabetical rather than by chronological or any other consideration so that the first in the group, is taken to be the basis for any comparison. This paper starts with an exposition of each one of the grammarians' views in regard to English sentence patterns that he believes to be exclusive furnished with examples that appear in his work. Certain syntactic abbreviations are used which are either present in the original work or made by the researcher for research purposes and these are referred to in the exposition process. Structuralism, through its long history, makes various accounts of English sentence patterns. The group of grammarians selected for this study belongs to this heritage of structural linguistics. Below is an account of nine structuralists of the English sentence patterns.