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f)
 reflect the political system it represents,
g)
 in active use among majority of the people to be governed by it,
h)
 has a history of its use in administration,
i)
 has competence to express the aspirations of the Government and the Governed,
j)
 in a position to gain respect from the people who are going to be governed by it,
k)
 find acceptance from all those governed by it, and
l)
 a part of the educational system.
 
423.12.2.4 : STRUCTURAL CHARACTERISTICS
The frequent sentence patterns of Administrative language are listed below (Mallikarjun 1986):
a.
 verbless constructions
b.
 use of prohibitive constructions instead of negative imperative constructions.
c.
 Use of definite imperative constructions instead of imperative constructions.
d.
 Use of the following types of constructions to bring impersonal impressions:
 
i)
 Passive constructions
 
ii)
 Verbal - noun constructions
e.
 Use of derived transitive verbs, and verbs derived from nouns.
f.
 Rare use of intransitive verbs.
g.
 Rare use of constructions with verbs of the informative register.
h.
 Use of constructions in which a non-human noun is referred to by the human pronoun and usage of human personal ending to the verbs.
i
 Use of paragraph sentence constructions.
j.
 Non-use of First and Second person pronouns in the constructions.
k.
 Use of tenseless constructions.
l.
 Constructions rendered in a written style of the language.
m.
 Constructions using the adverbs that are not in frequent use in the informative register.
n.
 Constructions using more than one connector.
o.
 Constructions using nouns as verbs.
p.
 Constructions with deleted case markers.
q.
 Constructions with usual case markers to the nouns, and
r.
 Constructions without figuratives, etc.
 
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