Agenda

• Sentence Structure Presentation• Your Turn! – Practice Identifying Sentence

Types.• Discussion – Anxiety• Closing• Homework: 1) Find Potential Source Number

3; do summary exercise. • 2) Work on E.E. Intro and/or E.J.R. #2

Sentence Types

Types

• Depending on the number and types of clauses they contain, sentences are classified as simple, compound, complex or compound-complex.

• REMEMBER: Clauses come in two varieties: independent and subordinate. An independent clause has a subject, verb and expresses a complete thought. It could be its own sentence.

• A subordinate clause has a subject and a verb, but it does not express a complete thought and is therefore dependent on (or subordinate to) the independent clause.

Simple Sentences Part I

• A simple sentence is one independent clause with no subordinate clauses.

• Alisa made a Powerpoint presentation.• Without a passport, Eva could not visit her parents

in Lima.

• “Without a passport” is a prepositional phrase modifying the proper noun Eva. It is not a subordinate clause because it has neither subject nor verb.

Simple Sentences Part II

• A simple sentence may contain compound elements – a compound subject, verb, or object, for example. The following sentence is simple because its two verbs (comes in and goes out) share a subject (Spring).

• Spring comes in and goes out like a lion.

Death by Chocolate

Compound Sentence

• A compound sentence is composed of two or more independent clauses with no subordinate clauses. The independent clauses are joined by a comma and a FANBOYS or a semicolon.

• The car broke down, but a rescue van arrived within minutes.

• A shark was spotted near shore; people left immediately.

Complex Sentences

• A complex sentence is composed of one independent clause with one or more subordinate clauses.

• If you leave late, take a cab home.

• Spoiler alert: Alisa doesn’t like the second example on p. 379. Ignore it.

Compound-complex sentences

• A compound complex sentence contains at least two independent clauses and at least one subordinate clause. The following sentence contains two independent clauses, each of which contains a subordinate clause.

• Tell the doctor how you feel, and she will decide whether you can go home.

• Spoiler alert: subordinate clauses can appear next to and even within an independent clause without a comma to separate them.

Your Turn!

Practice

• Read the first paragraph of Anxiety. Identify each sentence as Simple, Compound, Complex, or Compound-Complex.

• You can work alone or with a partner.• Spoiler alert: the first sentence is sneaky.

Results

• 1) Simple. Surprised? The first part is a prepositional phrase modifying the noun (and subject) “chance.” There is a compound verb (“came up” and “to spend”) but it shares a subject “chance.” We have a verbal “working” and an adverbial phrase “on a ranch in Argentina.”

• There are lots of compound elements in this sentence, but it still has only one independent clause and no subordinate clauses.

• 2) Compound Sentence = two independent clauses, in this case joined with a comma and a FANBOYS.

• My roommate’s father was in the cattle business, and he wanted Ted to see something of it.

• 3) Compound-complex= at least two independent clauses and at least one subordinate clause.

• Ted said he would go if he could take a friend, and he chose me.

Group Work

In your groups, discuss the following questions:

• What is one key thing you annotated and why? What does your annotation say about your sensibilities as a person/reader/writer?

• What particular insight did you feel Collier provided about life and/or writing?

• What function do paragraphs 17-19 serve in Collier’s essay?