REDUCTION OF ADVERBIAL SUBORDINATE CLAUSE BY NON-FINITE FORMS OF VERBS

Abstract

Several linguistic disciplines study the language in different way. Grammar, which consists of two branches - morphology and syntax, occupies a central place in the system of these disciplines. These fields study two different but closely related aspects of language structure. While morphology studies the groups of words in the language, their general grammatical meanings and categories , the subject of syntax is the combination of words in a sentence. Syntactic categories are closely related to morphological categories, and many syntactic categories are often based on their morphological features.

Simple and complex sentences are different syntactic mechanisms and instruments for expressing opinion in the  English language. It means, that each sentence is able to express one and the same semantic meaning with its specific syntactic structure.

Based on the study of the non-finite verb syntactic function, as it was identified that non-finite verbs play an important role  in formation of reduced sentence in English. In particular, the verb of dependent sentence is changed into a non-finite form  and linked to the main sentence as a  part of a sentence and it gives the possibility to form  reduced sentences in  English languages.

The article discusses the reduction of a complex sentence with  adverbial subordination by means of non-finite forms of the verb in the English language and the  specifics of the adverbial subordinate clause during reduction.

Keywords: Complex sentence, Syntactic structure, Reduced sentence, Non-finite forms of verbs.