"clause" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Imperatives, on the other hand, agree with both subject and object in transitive clauses.
- Word order in transitive clauses is subject-auxiliary-object-verb-adverb.
- The two types could be used alone or combined in transitive clauses, where they function like subject and object in English:
- Basque does not have subjects, but has an agent-object-verb order in transitive clauses:
- Basic word order in transitive clauses is subject-object-verb.
- These are not to be confused with transitive clauses:
- In other languages the word order of transitive and intransitive clauses may not correspond.
- In this way a single word can encode information about all the elements in a transitive clause.
- The direct construction is used when the subject of the transitive clause outranks the object in salience or animacy.
- The distinguishing function is used to distinguish between the core arguments, the subject and the object, of a transitive clause.
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