align="justify"> which are required by a verb or a preposition., unlike government or agreement, is on the increase in ENE. As no agreement is possible between an adjective and a noun, adjoinment becomes the only means of syntactical bond between them.becomes as significant in ModE as adjoinment. Not only adjectives and nouns, but also other parts of speech and even phrases can be found enclosed between a preposition/or an article and the noun which they refer to: e. g. the then government; He went on in a more-matter-of-fact tone.
4. The development of the composite sentence
is traditionally viewed that historically subordination (hypotaxis) as a kind of syntactical bond between clauses appears later on the basis of coordination. For OE it is not always easy to draw the line between the two phenomena. We often run into difficulties as we try to find out whether the clauses of a composite sentence are joined by means of coordination or subordination.we take, for e. g., such a composite sentence as: Ic wat D { t þ u eart wlitih "I know that you are wonderful" and try to identify the function of the word "ðæt" , we at once face an alternative.
a) It may be a part of the 1 clause where it is a demonstrative pronoun and the sentence is a compound one.
b) It may be a conjunction introducing a subordinate object clause. The sentence then is complex.already in OE there existed a rather distinct system of both compound and complex sentences which fall under classification and description.
a. The compound sentence
clauses of a compound sentence in OE are linked together by means of coordinative conjunctions, the most frequent of which are: and, ac (but), o ГѕГѕ e (or). is necessary to mention that very often the structure of the composite sentence on the whole is dependent on the requirements of style. Thus, in OE frequent repetition of the connective "and" is characteristic of the narrative style of chronicles.clauses of a compound sentence may be joined without any special conjunctions or conjunction words. Here the relations are expressed by intonation and by the lexical meaning of the words they consist of.ME and later in ENE with the appearance of new conjunctions and the use of the old ones for expressing new relations between clauses it became possible to specify these relations and to clarify the sentence structure. coordinative conjunctions: and, not only ... but, neither ... nor, or, either ... or, otherwise, else, but, yet, still, for, therefore etc. are employed in ModE to express copulative, adversative, disjunctive and other types of relations between the clauses in a compound sentence.the other hand lexical meaning of the words is still an important factor in expressing semantic relations between the clauses.
b. The complex sentence
were different types of complex sentences in OE. Subordinative conjunctions were of major importance in making a variety of syntactical relations between the principle and the subordinate clauses possible.an additional means signalizing interdependence of the clauses there should be mentioned the use of the subjunctive mood in indirect discourse in order to form different types og subordinate object clauses, and also resultative, conditional and other clauses.subordinate subject clause is introduced by the conjunctions D { t, hif, hw { Гѕ er eg D ? w { s { fter monehum dahum, Гѕ { t < span align = "justify"> Гѕ e cyninh c? mt? Гѕ ? Me? Lode "it was after many days, that the king came to that island".
The subordinate object clause is found in OE texts most often. It usually depends upon such verbs as sechan (say), cwe D an (speak), Гѕ yncan (think), witan (know) etc. Subordinate object clauses are introduced by such conjunctio...
