Ps HUNSTON 200) IS Phat do the underlined phrases in these sentences have in commor? 4 I never stomped loving him, but cone day it dida’t geom right ary rare. (Magazine) 2 The Istamio invaders instcuctod and philesoohy.(Non-ction) 2 You think they have @ chance of ‘eating Austalia? (Spoken) 4 Professor Horne scoffed at the susaestion that dreams mean ‘anything. (Journalism) 65 Trish was interested to notice how fast Terry sprang to his feet when she appeared, (Fiction) 6 Did you ever get angry with her forall this? (Spoken) patterns Susan Hunston sees the importance of teaching learners the way words work together. In each case the phrase “belongs to! one of the words init (the word in red). For example, in loving him, the -ing form is used because it follows stopped; in the Europeans in mathematics and philosophy, the pattern of 'noun + in + noun’ belongs to instructed; and in of beating Australia, the preposition of | followed by an ~ing form is used because it follows chance. Phrases such as these don't occur at random, but because they are part of the way that stop, insiruct of chance are used. We ‘might say that all the underlined phrases in the sentences above are part of the ‘grammar’ of the words in red. Identifying patterns tis not only a few words, such as sp, instruct, chance and suggestion that bbehave in this way - in fact most words do, That is, most words are found in phrases made up of particular other kinds of words or clauses. These restrictions on how words are used are known as ‘patterns’. The pattern of stop, shown above, is ‘verb + -ing’. The Flin tis short extract, deserve the pattern of incruct i ‘verb + noun + in * noun’, Chance has the pattern ‘noun + of + ing’. Suggestion has the pattern “noun + tha-lause’. The pattern of interested i ‘adjective + toininitive’ and the pattern of angry is ‘adjective + swith + noun + for + nour’. (Words ean have more thaa one pattera~ sta, for ‘example, can be used with a number of differen patterns: sop someone; stop 10 cio something: stop doing something: ‘stop someone from doing something; (oF just stop!) ‘Before we look at the advantages for learners in being able to identify word patterns, you might like to raise your own awareness of the different patterns that words have. Try these exercises in identifying patterns FEM cok at these two sets of ‘sentences. Each sentence from the first set matches one from the second set In that the word in bold has the ‘same pattern. Match up the two sets, (For example, sentence 1c matches 2a ‘because in both the verb is followed by of and a noun = died of a heart attack and complained of a headache,} Hi.a Thoy'vo ust banned bikes from the ety 'b He's much more familiar with those kinds of issues than Iam. © She died of a heart attack.