ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with grammar clause that has an ideational function. People could think of these new patterns as extended propositions, in that there is more than one predicator together with whatever complements and adjuncts the extra predicators and this is a complex area of English structure. Propositions are ideational and complements are essential to the integrity of propositions. The chapter discusses the two verbal groups: one with the main verb want and the other with give. The second verbal group is necessarily non-finite; it has no possibility of being modal or tensed. If a phase verb is also selected for the second predicator a third predicator can be introduced. Further, it is often possible to find contrasts of active and passive voice in association with either the first or second predicator. Phase-verbs can then be classified according to whether they occur in the various phase structures or not and it is a recursive pattern; it can be repeated indefinitely.
