![]() ![]() Or sentences beginning with ‘what’ that contain multiple verbs: (5) We’ve defended other nations’ borders while refusing to defend our own’ ![]() (4)…to become part of a historic movement the likes of which the world has never seen before He does occasionally make his utterances more complex by using relative clauses: The explanation for these differences is that most of Trump’s sentences are straightforward in their structure, consisting of either one clause or simple linked clauses, such as Trump uses 184 verbs (5.7% of the total word count) while Obama used 329 (13.6%). Trump’s clauses are shorter with the average number of words per finite clause at 10.28 for Trump and 14.08 for Obama. Trump’s speech has 143 (non-embedded) finite clauses against Obama’s 171. The speech is 1471 words long, compared with 2404 words for Barack Obama’s inaugural speech in 2009. President Trump’s inaugural speech is short and grammatically simple. ![]()
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