Theme: Word order in Middle English
word order ME
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Consists of two independent clauses and one dependent clause. |
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“I worked, even though I was tired, and then I made dinner.“ “Though nervous, he proposed, and she said yes.“ “Because she smiled, he was happy; then she took his hand.“
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This is just an overview. In the following sections, I’ll go into more detail about how these sentence transformations work, starting with the basics of word order in English.
Basic Sentence Structure Rules
As mentioned earlier, in English, you only need two words to create a whole sentence: The subject (S) and the verb (V). This is the SV sentence structure.
“Sarah writes.“
You can add more information to this simple sentence by adding an object (O) to the end. This becomes the SVO sentence structure.
“Sarah writes poetry.“
The SV and SVO sentence structures are the most common structures in the United States. The only real exception is when people are giving a command or asking a question. In this case, they may be able to get away with using one word or an incomplete thought:
“Peter!” (S)
“Stop!” (V)
“The book!” (O)
“Why?” (Question)
In the cases above, the context will help you determine the meaning.
In all other situations, it’s most proper to use the SV or SVO structure (unless you want to talk like Yoda with OSV).
3. Let’s Add Prepositional Phrases
1- The Baics
What happens to a sentence when you add a prepositional phrase? What does that look like?
A prepositional phrase adds information to simple sentences. Often, it answers the questions of where, when, how, and why something happened.
Here are four examples of prepositional phrases:
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