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I hereby declare Tuesday Shakespeare Day. what sentence pattern is this?
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I hereby declare Tuesday Shakespeare Day . What sentence pattern is this? This is a statment which gives information or rather declaration.
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I hereby declare Tuesday Shakespeare Day. What sentence pattern is this?
This is a statment which gives information or rather declaration. It is expressed in the present simple tense with the transitive verb that takes an object (Tuesday) and a noun complement of the object (Shakespeare Day) according to the pattern verb + object + noun as in
This is a statment which gives information or rather declaration. It is expressed in the present simple tense with the transitive verb that takes an object (Tuesday) and a noun complement of the object (Shakespeare Day) according to the pattern verb + object + noun as in
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AnonymousI hereby declare Tuesday Shakespeare Day. what sentence pattern is this?Among other things, it's a performative.
It's got an object (Tuesday) and an object complement (Shakespeare Day), if that's what you're interested in.
CJ
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