M. Iriskulov, A. Kuldashev a course in Theoretical English Grammar Tashkent 2008

 
Self-control questions 
1. What linguistic unit is called a sentence? 
2. What are the main features of sentences? 
3. What theories on sentence do you know? 
4. What is the difference between primary and secondary predication? 
5. What criteria are used to classify sentences? 
6. What do you understand by structural classification of sentences? 
7. What do you understand by the classification of sentences according to the aim 
of the speaker? 
8. What do you understand by the classification of sentences according to the 
existence of the parts of the sentence? 
9. What is the difference between one- and two-member sentences? 
10. What sentences are called elliptical? 
11. What is “syntagmatically restored” and “paradigmatically restored” 
elliptical sentences? 

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Composite Sentences 
 
Problems to be discussed: 
- the difference between simple and composite sentences 
- the types of composite sentences: 
a) compound 
d) complex 
c) mixed (compound-complex) sentences 
The word "composite" is used by H. Poutsma (39) as a common term for 
both the compound and complex sentences. 
There are three types of composite sentences in Modern English: 
1. The compound sentence contains two or more independent clauses with 
no dependent one. 
2. The complex sentence contains one dependent clause and one or more 
independent clauses. The latter usually tells something about the main clause and is 
used as a part of speech or as a part of sentence. 
J. The compound-complex sentence combines the two previous types. The 
compound-complex sentences are those which have at least two independent 
clauses and at least one dependent (subordinate) clause in its structure: Blair found 
herself smiling at him and she took the letter he held out to her. 
That there are three types of composite sentences in languages is 
contemporary approach to this issue. Historically not all the grammarians were 
unanimous in this respect. According to it H. Sweet (42) there are structurally two 
types of sentences: simple and complex.
“Two or more sentences may be joined together to form a single complex 
sentence … In every complex there is one independent clause, called the principal 
clause together with at least one dependent clause, which stands in the relation of 
adjunct to the principal clause. The dependent clause may be either coordinate or 
subordinate”. Examples: 
Principal clause 
1.You shall walk, and I will ride. 
Coordinate clause 
Co-complex 
Principal clause 
2. You are the man I want. 
Subordinate clause 
Sub-complex 
As one can see in H. Sweets conception there’s no place for compound 
sentences since even so-called “co-complex” there’s subordination. 
In this paper we shall classify the composite sentences into three types as 
has been mentioned above. 

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