著者

渡辺 勉

出版者

拓殖大学人文科学研究所

雑誌

拓殖大学論集. 人文・自然・人間科学研究 = The journal of humanities and sciences (ISSN:13446622)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.39, pp.43-59, 2018-03-25

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The so-called “five sentence patterns” have been widely used in the teaching of English at junior and senior high schools in Japan. The wide-spread use can be attributed to Hosoe’s(1952)grammar book which owes the large part of its description to Onions(1904). This study has investigated how “five sentence patterns” are described in the educational publications: four self-help books; Hosoe’s grammar book(1971); a recent high school textbook(2013); 18 grammar textbooks for high schools used in 1980s.The findings of the investigation can be summarized in three points:(1) the publications investigated are divided into two kinds, those dealing with only simple sentences in the demonstration of the “five sentence patterns” and those taking up complex sentences as well; (2)the complement and the object are realized by grammatical items assuming various functions; a complement can be realized by adjectives, nouns, that-clauses, to-infinitives, gerunds, present participles, past participles and prepositions; (3)the analysis of the structure”object+to-infinitive” is controversial; some treat it as part of “SVOC”, others regard it as part of “SVOO”.The need of developing a new type of “five sentence patterns” is suggested with the idea of verbal valency in mind.