Predicates and subjects: the predicator as the sentence nucleus

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SYNTACTIC FUNCTIONS Introduction to the syntactic function of the elements of a sentence, concerning role and form, and considering traditional-discursive approach versus syntactic approach. Antonio Anderson Marques de Sousa 1. Itens iniciais Purpose This study aims at understanding and analyzing the sentence structure from a syntactic perspective, focusing on its nucleus elements, the sentence predicators, and the constituents required by them, besides analyzing the semantic roles of modifiers. Understanding the sentence structure is a helpful tool for writing and speaking grammatical, cohesive, and clear sentences. – terminar a frase aqui! Cortar: and more coherent texts in consequence and more coherent texts in consequence. Goals To describe predicates and subjects. To define the syntactic functions of verbs. To identify other syntactic functions. Warm-up In the 1980s, the American duoThe Weather Girls released a song that would become one of the greatest dance hits of all time: the hit song's name isIt’s Raining Men. If you try to translate this song's title to some Romance language, like Spanish or Portuguese, you will notice that the subject-pronoun “it” has no equivalent in ...