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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThe present study was conducted to find out the English syntactic
structure of a three-year-old boy. This study was aimed to investigate the types of
sentences produced by the subject and the two main patterns namely functional
and categorical. The writer used the theories proposed by Crystal (1976) and
Quirk et.al. (1985) as her main review of related literature. This research was a
descriptive research. The writer got the data from the spontaneous English
utterances produced by the subject. Then she defined the types of sentences,
complete or incomplete sentences. Finally, she analyzed the data to identify the
functional and categorical patterns of each sentence. The findings show that the
subject produced both types of sentences, complete and incomplete sentences. The
subject produced some functional patterns of complete and incomplete sentences.
The subject also produced various categorical patterns. It was found that N
(noun), Pron (pronoun) and NP (noun phrase) fill S (subject); P (predicate) is
filled by V (Verb) and VP (Verb phrase), O (object) is filled by N (noun) and NP
(noun phrase). Moreover, C (complement) is filled by Adj (adjectives); A
(adverbial) is filled by PP (prepositional phrase) and Adv.P (adverb phrase).