Ideophones are a particular lexical class of expressive words depictingperceptual events or states, and are said to be a universal or near-universal feature oflanguage (Dingemanse, 2012:655;Kilian-Hatz, 2001:163). This paper presents anoverview of Ẹdo ideophones to characterize them in terms of their occurrence ingrammatical syntactic frames. It investigates what sets them apart within word classes inẸdo and how they differ from their non-ideophonic counterparts in sentential constructions.The Basic Linguistic Theory was adopted as the method for data analysis. This was done toshow how ideophones manifest syntactically in the language. Ideophones appear in copularframes with some verbs in the language, especially the verb ‘to be’. This paper concludesthat Ẹdo ideophones do not occur pre-nominally in the language.