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SENTENCE STRUCTURES
Mustafizur rRhman:
EXCLAMATORY SENTENCE:
## WERE + NP+ A/AN+ ADJECTIVE+ NP+!
Example: Were I a poor man!
##WERE +NP+ ADJECTIVE+ EXTENSION!
Example: Were I strong enough to kill Mr. Bush!
##HAD +NP+ A/AN+ ADJECTIVE+ NP+!
Example: had I a beautiful face/hair-cut!
Mustafizur rRhman:
EXCLAMATORY SENTENCE:
# WHAT +A/AN +ADJECTIVE+ NP+ BE+!
Example: what a fool I am!
## [WHEN THERE IS AN ADJECTIVE IN THE SENTENCE]
#WHAT +A/AN +ADJECTIVE +NP+ NP+ BE+!
Example: what a fine smile it is!
## WERE+ NP+ NP+!
Example: Were I a king!
Mustafizur rRhman:
STRUCTURES FOR EXCLAMATORY SENTENCES
# HOW+ADJECTIVE+NP+BE+!
Example: How boring the class is!
# HOW+ADJECTIVE+A/AN+NP+NP+BE+!
Example: How beautiful a shirt it is!
Mustafizur rRhman:
Structures for constructing Optative sentences
## STRUCTURE: MAY+YOU+VERB+EXTENSION.
Example:
May you live in the hell in peace?
** But if we are praying to someone else then the structure will be:
## ’MAY+THE PERSON TO WHOM WE ARE PRAYING+VERB+ OBJECT+EXTENSION’
Example:
May Allah punish/bless us all.
Mustafizur rRhman:
Structures for constructing Imperative sentences
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##structure: [where the subject is ‘you’.]
## Verb + extension (object).
Example: Get out of the room.
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## (where the ‘subject/object’ is 1st or 3rd person)
## Structure: Let+ subject+ verb.
Example: Let her recite a melodious poem.
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