Patterning in English Written Medical Leaflets

Abstract

The process of patterning is very common andimportant among grammarians. The term "pattern" iswidely used to refer to the basic elements which composethe final form of the sentence (Greenbaum1991:56 andGlauner 2002:70). The term "pattern " is used to applygenerally to the basic unit of any language .The analysis of this paper is mainly based on "Quirket al.,'s model". This model is basically a strict syntacticclassification which has seven patterns. The pattern is thestructure which consists of the basic elements: Subject(henceforth S), verb (henceforth V), and the othercomplements (direct object (O) , complement (C), andadverb (A).