New Probe on the Sentence Pattern "The Reason…… Is because of ……
Wang Tai-rong · Journal of Jiangxi Normal University · 2004
reason is of …… is simple sentence and isn't a sentence of two or more clauses.Because The reason …… is a substrantive phrase consisting of modifier and the word it modifies,it is subject part in the pattern;is is used as predicate in the patternis of ……,the preposition Phrase because of …… is used as object,it is predicated part in the pattern;there is a kind of similar structure in ancient Chinese.The pattern is typical determinatiove sentence.