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HUNSTON 200)
IS Phat do the underlined phrases in
these sentences have in commor?
4 I never stomped loving him, but
cone day it dida’t geom right ary
rare. (Magazine)
2 The Istamio invaders instcuctod
and philesoohy.(Non-ction)
2 You think they have @ chance of
‘eating Austalia? (Spoken)
4 Professor Horne scoffed at the
susaestion that dreams mean
‘anything. (Journalism)
65 Trish was interested to notice
how fast Terry sprang to his feet
when she appeared, (Fiction)
6 Did you ever get angry with her
forall this? (Spoken)
patterns
Susan Hunston sees
the importance of teaching
learners the way words
work together.
In each case the phrase “belongs to! one
of the words init (the word in red). For
example, in loving him, the -ing form is
used because it follows stopped; in the
Europeans in mathematics and
philosophy, the pattern of 'noun + in +
noun’ belongs to instructed; and in of
beating Australia, the preposition of
| followed by an ~ing form is used
because it follows chance. Phrases such
as these don't occur at random, but
because they are part of the way that
stop, insiruct of chance are used. We
‘might say that all the underlined
phrases in the sentences above are part
of the ‘grammar’ of the words in red.
Identifying patterns
tis not only a few words, such as sp,
instruct, chance and suggestion that
bbehave in this way - in fact most words
do, That is, most words are found in
phrases made up of particular other
kinds of words or clauses. These
restrictions on how words are used are
known as ‘patterns’. The pattern of
stop, shown above, is ‘verb + -ing’. The
Flin tis short extract, deserve the
pattern of incruct i ‘verb + noun + in
* noun’, Chance has the pattern ‘noun
+ of + ing’. Suggestion has the pattern
“noun + tha-lause’. The pattern of
interested i ‘adjective + toininitive’
and the pattern of angry is ‘adjective +
swith + noun + for + nour’. (Words ean
have more thaa one pattera~ sta, for
‘example, can be used with a number of
differen patterns: sop someone; stop 10
cio something: stop doing something:
‘stop someone from doing something;
(oF just stop!)
‘Before we look at the advantages
for learners in being able to
identify word patterns, you might like
to raise your own awareness of the
different patterns that words have. Try
these exercises in identifying patterns
FEM cok at these two sets of
‘sentences. Each sentence from the
first set matches one from the second
set In that the word in bold has the
‘same pattern. Match up the two sets,
(For example, sentence 1c matches 2a
‘because in both the verb is followed
by of and a noun = died of a heart
attack and complained of a headache,}
Hi.a Thoy'vo ust banned bikes from
the ety
'b He's much more familiar with
those kinds of issues than Iam.
© She died of a heart attack.