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Task 2

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Task 2: Sentence Patterns in Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death”
By Anna Adams

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Sentence Pattern 1
NP+be+ADV/TP
“It was in this apartment…” (Poe, 1850, p. 2).

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Sentence Pattern 2
NP+Be+ADJ
“But the Prince Prospero was happy and
dauntless and sagacious” (Poe, 1850, p. 1).

Sentence Pattern 3
NP+be+NP1(compliment)
“Blood was its Avator and its seal---the redness
and the horror of the blood” (Poe, 1850, p. 1)

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Sentence Pattern 4
NP+lnk verb+ADJ
The masqueraders seem afraid of the intruder (Poe, 1850, p. 3).

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Sentence Pattern 5
Np+Linking Verb+NP1(compliment)
The intruder became the Red Death (Poe, 1850, p. 4).

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Sentence Pattern 6
NP+Intransitive Verb
"But in this chamber only, the color of the windows
failed to correspond with the decorations" (Poe, 1850, p. 2).

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Sentence Pattern 7
NP+Transitive Verb+Direct Object
“He had a fine eye for colors and effects” (Poe, 1850, p. 2).

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Sentence Pattern 8
NP+trans verb+IO+DO
The prince threw his guests a party (Poe, 1850, p. 1).

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Sentence Pattern 9
Np+transVerb+DO+
ADJ
The masqueraders did not consider the prince mad (Poe, 1850, p. 2).

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Sentence Pattern 10
Np+transVerb+DO+
Compliment
The prince did not think the intruder dangerous (Poe, 1850, p. 4).

Reference List
Kolln, M., & Funk, R. (Eds.). (2012). Understanding the English grammar (9th ed.) New York, NY: Pearson Education, Inc. 31.
Poe, E. A. (1850). The masque of the red death, 1-5. PDF file.

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