The Accessory Variables: M_n, M_v, L, C, and I

Abstract

This chapter completes our discussion of the eight fundamental building blocks of English sentences or eight parts of speech. In Chap. 3, we examined N = nouns, V = verbs, and X = pronouns and the ways that these essential components pair together—either as N_s + V or X_s + V—to form spark-producing cores of sentences. Along with adding more nouns, verbs, and pronouns to sentence cores, we can also expand sentence equations into more complex structures using five “accessory” components—M_n = adjectives, M_v = adverbs, L = prepositions, C = conjunctions, and I = interjections—as shown in Fig. 4.1.