Newly compiled Japanese sentence patterns

Author: Ma Fengming
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Publish Date: 1999-09-01
Features: Sentence patterns are classified sentence forms derived from individual, concrete expressions. Japanese sentence patterns can be broadly divided into three types: one is the structural pattern, which divides sentences into simple and compound sentences based on the relationship between the subject, modifier, and predicate; another is the functional pattern, which categorizes sentences by their expressive functions, such as declarative, interrogative, exclamatory, and imperative sentences; the third is the collocational pattern, which consists of conventional combinations of nouns, particles, auxiliary verbs, verbs, adverbs, and their various compound forms. The three types of sentence patterns are classifications from different perspectives, and sometimes they overlap. Sentence patterns represent the rules of word choice and sentence construction, which are particularly important for learners of foreign languages, especially collocational patterns, which are commonly referred to as idioms. This is because such patterns are habitual usages formed through long-term linguistic practice and are sometimes difficult to explain or explain through grammatical theory. Newly Compiled Japanese Sentence Patterns collects exactly such patterns.