A possessive case noun construction placed before the main noun

A prepositional word combination with of (e.g., a brute of a man)

A close appositive without punctuation marks

A loose, detached appositive separated by commas

 Combinability

Concord

Polarity

Complementation

It is semantically intermediate, containing a structure that lacks a fully expressed subject or predicate but depends on a primary clause.

It must contain at least three independent clauses joined by coordinating conjunctions.

It contains a single independent clause with no secondary predication or expansion.

It relies entirely on punctuation marks without using any conjunctions.

The dog followed its owner wherever she went.

The document was exactly where I had left it.

We met where the road ends.

Where the law is weak, crime flourishes.

Declarative question structure

Interrogative structure

Imperative structure

Exclamatory structure

She is a very faithful creature and I trust her.

You are modern; I am old-fashioned.

If I let this chance slip, I am a fool.

Mike acted as though nothing had happened.

The independent Caused-Motion construction provides the syntax and interpretation of movement.

The sentence is syntactically ungrammatical but pragmatically understood via context.

An underlying hidden transformation derives it from a modular generative syntax.

The verb sneeze undergoes a lexical rule that permanently changes its core definition.

Optional depending on the verb

Only used in formal contexts

Identical to English

 Absent

Commissive

 Directive

Declaration

Assertive / Representative