1.
Difference in form
and meaning between the members of the following sentence pairs:
A
-------S--- V
dO
1 The deer enjoys carrots.
-----S---- -----V-------
----dO-----
2 The deer are enjoying the
carrots.
Syntactically,
sentences A1 and A2 are identical, with the syntactic pattern SVdO. The verb
ENJOYV is monotransitive, and requires an object to create a
grammatically correct sentence. It has a valency of two, meaning that it
requires two constituents, specifically a subject and a direct object. The
formal difference between the sentences is found in the respective verbals, and
in the presence of a determiner in the noun phrase realizing the dO in sentence
A2.
