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Vincent Teo Posted 9 years ago
Grammar
Sentence structure / pattern
What kind of sentence structure? How do I use it correctly?
Peter woke up feeling tired and sluggish.
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This sounds OK[grammatically] to me; one may wake up feeling bad, sick, nauseous, tired or sluggish.
- This sounds OK[grammatically] to me; one may wake up feeling bad, sick, nauseous, tired or sluggish.
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This sounds OK[grammatically] to me; one may wake up feeling bad, sick, nauseous, tired or sluggish.
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It is usually called sentence pattern #1 where the action stops with the verb-- no action is transferred to an object. And there isn't an adverb complement.
Vincent TeoPeter woke up feeling tired and sluggish.
Peter=Subject
Woke up= verb (intransitive)
feeling tired and sluggish= a modifier of 'Peter'
Pattern #1: Subject + Verb
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