ABSTRACT
The presence of the reported clause is not optional since the dominant contains a reporting verb. People call the dominant clause in such structures as a reporting clause. The report structure consists of a reporting clause as dominant and a reported clause as bound expresses a relation between a person and an idea where the bound clause expresses the idea and the dominant relation. In these patterns, the subject of the dominant clause is the 'empty' it and its function is to fill the position of subject and anticipate the presence of a reported clause. Both verbs and adjectives can feature in the reporting clauses structure. The difference between reporting-clause patterns structure and the FBrep pattern are explained in terms of textual organization, of the relative prominence given to the constituent parts of the message and from this point of view the rank shifted structure, with the reported clause as subject is marked.
