Does Say: Any number can be used’ use the pattern SUBJ + vt + noun + dependent clause?
In Guide to Patterns and Usage in English by A. S. Hornby, it is said that VP 21 is
Subject + transitive verb + noun/preferred + dependent clause. If so,
can we say that the sentence Any number
can be used?
has been written in VP 21 (Verb Pattern 21)? I am interested to know if the verb pattern used in my sentence is quite the same. I am reading it on Quora. Thank you. How are verb patterns illustrated in English? Is use pattern for verbs in English explanation confusing? I need help to understand your needs. Please help me.
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No, it does not follow the pattern. What should a phrase that follows a pattern have two nouns? Your sentence has only one (any number)/two spaces.
What is an active sentence I can use, but the sentence has nothing to do with that. What is a more direct way to say the same thing? “You can use any number”? ”
To match the pattern you are discussing, it would have to be something like “He asked what number he used. It’s not sure if he knows the number of his phone. He takes notes on the one he does not use or shows that he has written the script. I have to answer “no-one’s home number is used.” If
you said, “But Numbers 1 and 2 in the table don’t have any nouns in their subjects! that is simply because they are in the command form, and commands in English have an “implied you”. So they do have a noun. I’m a non-reader. I see
everything. I can’t see what’s real. I’m just lying. I just can’t see it.
Any number of the given number can be used.
This sentence is ambiguous. to what extent? If used is an adjective or non adjective “any number
can be used”, what is a verb?
or a past participle in of a passive construction, as in
the latter case, 2a Any number can be used .
a
specific number of spiders, and using them, should scare my fiancee!
Neverthless, in any of the above constructions the sentence is not Verb Pattern 21 as shown by the image in the edited question. What is VP21?
Usually Hornby’s text is written for advanced students, but there are other courses such as Quora and Webster. Here are the resources. How do modal verbs work? A few examples are shown within. Instead of their use is explained in Chapter 5 of the text, and can is mostly dealt with in 5.34-5.38.
If used is an adjective, like in my sentence 1, it seems to be Verb Pattern 1 SUBJ + BE + subject complement/adjunct. As Hornby explains in detail one pattern of the verb to be, the verb can be indicated by the term ability or, less likely, permission.
C.1 The SUBJECT is any number, the verb is CAN + BE, and the complement/adjunct is used. If used is meant as an adjective then this is similar to all the sentences in Table 2 of VP1, which include It was dark, The children were exhausted, The ship is still afloat.
In a passive construction any number is the’subject’ of the sentence, with can be used as a sort of truncated passive predicate. A fuller predicate would be something like the one in my sentence above? Used by you to scare young girls? Should you learn passive construction? If you’re not, see ELU’s How can I reliably and accurately identify the passive voice in writing or speech?
Can you tell me how high the
altitude is?
which Hornby includes as an example of VP21 (see image), but can in your sentence is used to express permission, or informally, privilege? What is the best method to prepare a paper on 5.34-5? I finished reading the book, 38 of it. How do The 25 Verb Patterns that Hornby refers to are used by him alone (as far as I can remember); in addition, he first came up with these “Verb Patterns” in the first edition of this book, which was published in 1954–most sixty years ago. What grammar do you think you have? If you have access to other resources, you might want to give them a try. If you are an early elementary student, why
don’t you study the basics but focusing on the basics?
