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Item Sentence Patterning in Oscar Wild e `s Short Story "The Devoted Friend"(2016) Tha`ir Radhi EleiwiIII Abstract This study deals with the problem of the variant occurrence of English BSPs (Basic Sentence Patterns) in the selected short story,"The Devoted Friend",by Oscar Wild e .The study tries to investigate this phenomenon on the basis of syntactic and stylistic ana lyses . It aims at determining the extent of the frequency of English BSPs in the selected text ,presenting semantic and syntactic justifications for that and showing to which pattern every chosen sentence belongs by ascribing it to one of the BSPs. The q uantitative method is adopted in this study where a structural an alysis according to Quirk and Greenbaum(1973) `s model of English BSPs that co nsists of seven patterns is applied to the target population . Then , the score that each one of the BSP s has atta ined is multiplied by one hundred and divided by the total number of the analyzed sentences by the researcher, using a simple calculator to get the percentage that each BSP has attained . The findings of this study is that the first three BSPs attain ed (228 ) points out of three hundred sentences whereas the other four BSPs achieve d only (72) scores in the same text. The researcher recommends that investigation of English BSPs need to be done on short stories by following other models of English BSPs .