The most significant difference between these function words as signals of “inclusion” and
the forms given above as signals of sequence lies in the fact that these function words of inclusion
at the beginning of a sentence look forward to a coming sentence unit, while the signals of
sequence look backward to the preceding sentence unit.
When sentence units are included in larger units they can fulfill a variety of structural
functions. In the structure of the larger sentence unit in which they are included they often operate
as a single unit substitutable for one of the single part of the speech.
C.H. Fries, as we see, makes an attempt to reject the traditional classification and terms. He
substitutes for the traditional doctrine his theory of included sentences and sequences of sentences.
His attitude towards the traditional concept of the compound sentence is primarily a matter of the
punctuation of written texts.
Study questions
1. What does the term “composite” mean?
3. What types of composite sentences do you know?
4.
Specify the compound, complex
and mixed type of composite sentences.
5. What are the problems connected with compound sentences?
6. How are the complex sentences are classified?
7. What does H. Sweet mean by “co-complex” and “sub- complex”?
8. What is the structural approach to the problem of composite sentences?
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