I would too.  Simple sentence types tend to correlate closely with
verb types, at least in a typical Halliday/Quirk sort of analysis.
 I teach eight sentence types.  Morenberg's text teaches six.  The
older versions of the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
and the Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary of English both had
about 50.  Beth Levin's English Verb Classes and Alternations
focuses on verb pattern rather than sentence type, and she comes
up with over 300 classes.  24 seems a fairly large number, and I'm
curious what principles are used to identify them.

Herb Stahlke

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Hi PH:
I'd love to know more about your 24 sentence patterns.
Amy B

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