ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the formation of various modifier forms and then analyses sentence patterns in which they appear as an integral part. Modifiers refer to words or phrases that are used to ‘modify’ a noun or noun-like phrase. In English, modifiers typically include the use of adjectives before the noun or relative clauses that follow the noun. In Korean since adjectives also operate as verbs, the process of forming modifiers follows just one pattern. The expression depicts a reason or cause in the first clause with a result or effect in the second clause. The pattern frequently appears followed by the copula to produce an expression that literally means ‘it is the fact that’. The pattern appears twice in the same sentence to show an alternation or vague choice between one of two or more contradictory but equally likely state of affairs.
