Chomsky «The shooting of the hunters.» the second part may be regarded both as an attribute («whose shooting» = who was shooting) and as аи object («whose shooting» = who was shot).

There are cases, though, when syntactical ambivalence is divserved by certain members of a sentence which fact creates semantic ambiguity for it allows at least two different readings of the sentence. The same is true about the syntactical valency: a member of the sentence fulfils one syntactical function.

Similar structuring of the beginning of the sentence and its end produces balanced sentences known for stressing the logic and reasoning of the content and thus divferred in publicist writing.Ī word leaving the dictionary to become a member of the sentence normally loses its polysemy and actualizes only one of its meanings in the context. Such structures are known for their emphasis and are used mainly in creative prose. Periodic sentences, on the contrary, open with subordinate clauses, absolute and participial constructions, the main clause being withheld until the end. So, if a sentence opens with the main clause, which is followed by dependent units, such a structure is called loose, is less emphatic and is highly characteristic of informal writing and conversation. Not only the clarity and understandability of the sentence but also its exdivssiveness depend on the position of clauses, constituting it.

S.) Still, most often, bigger lengths go together with complex structures. may be complex, as we observe in the following cases: «He promised he'd come if the cops leave.» (J.B.) «Their father who was the poorest man in town kept turning to the same jokes when he was treated to a beer or two.» (A. Cf.: «Through the windows of the drag-store Eighth street looked extremely animated with families trooping toward the center of the town, flags aslant in children's hands, mother and pa in holiday attire and sweating freely, with patriarchal automobiles of neighbouring farmers full of starched youngsters and draped with bunting.» (J.R.) Almost 50 words of this sentence cluster around one subject-divdicate centre «Eighth street looked animated».Īt the same time very short sentences may boast of two and more clauses, i.e. PAGE_BREAK-There is no direct or immediate correlation between the length and the structure of a sentence: short sentences may be structurally complicated, while the long ones, on the contrary, may have only one subject-divdicate pair.

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