ENGL1007 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Dependent Clause, Ditransitive Verb, Adpositional Phrase
22 Aug 2018
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Lecture 7 structure of english: the clause. A clause is a grammatical unit which has a single verb group (either a main verb, or a main verb and its conciliation of auxiliaries). A sentence will consist of at least one clause but may consist of several. Clause is the unit which conveys the major information in the text (sentence). We don"t need to worry so much about the sentence, the clause is the essential unit we look at in analysis. The verb group is the only obligatory element in a clause; you can have clauses that consist of just one verb - imperative clauses. Verbless clauses (in example) either contain the preposition at or to or the adverbs up or home. There could have easily been verbs in these spaces, these are irregular with respect to the basic definition of clauses previously given. As an element of grammatical arrangement which centralises around a single verb group.
