영문법에서 문장 5형식 개념의 기원 및 적절성에 관한 연구

A Study on the Origin and Adequacy of the Notion of the Five Forms of the Sentence in English Grammar

One of the first things that most Koreans learn about English grammar is the notion of the five forms of the sentence. This notion, however, is not well-known to native English speakers and is rarely found in English grammars published in English-speaking countries. In this paper, I attempt to trace the origin of this notion and the course it took to become a kind of iron-law in the teaching of English grammar in Korea. In doing so, I also show that the way this notion is commonly interpreted in Korea exhibits not an insignificant divergence from what its originator intended. I further investigate the conceptual and empirical problems with this notion, particularly the lack of consistency in its approach to the classification of predicates, and suggest ways to resolve the problems.