SYNTACTIC CATEGORY AND ITS FUNCTIONS

Journal Title: Lire Journal: Journal of Linguistics and Literature - Year 2018, Vol 2, Issue 1

Abstract

This research described about the“Syntactic Category and its Functions” of English language which only implemented on the “present tense”. This research was more focused on some certain sentences elements and expanded into some type of verbs such as ordinary intransitive, complex-intransitive, semitransitive, ordinary monotransitive,complex-transitive, ditransitive and prepositional partial of ditransitive. This research was intended to increase the English learners and teachers’ abilities to have a better understanding related to the sentence elements of English language in the future time. The theories of syntax proposed by Huddleston and Pullum (2005) and Verhaar (2012) were appliedto determine the syntax category and its functions in this research.The introspective reflexsive method was applied to gain the data in this research, however the qualitative descriptive method was applied to analyse the data in this research.

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antonio Soares

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  • EP ID EP431457
  • DOI 10.33019/lire.v2i1.17
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antonio Soares (2018). SYNTACTIC CATEGORY AND ITS FUNCTIONS. Lire Journal: Journal of Linguistics and Literature, 2(1), 13-16. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-431457