Publisher's Synopsis
Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1.5, University of Constance, language: English, abstract: The following term paper is a result of the presentation on clause types. This term paper focuses on declaratives, imperatives, interrogatives and exclamatives. With the help of examples from English, the authors are going to highlight the underlying structuresof the four clause types and, whenever possible, provide examples of different languages in a comparative way. Beforehand, a brief overview of the clause and sentence structure will be given. For the use of this term paper, it can be said that a clause is the smallest grammatical unit that can express a complete proposition . Usually, this is represented as a syntactic construction consisting of subject and predicate.
