The Sentence Week 4

7/28/2019 The Sentence Week 4

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The Sentence

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Group 2


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Simple Sentences

Simple sentence one action. Itcontains a subject (the person or thing

doing the action) and a verb (a doing

word).

A simple sentence has one

independent clause and no dependentclauses:

The student yawned.


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Although a simple sentence cannot have

a dependent clause, it can have

modifiers:

The tall student sitting in the back in my

algebra class yawned loudly.

The basic sentence is The student

yawned. The other words are modifiers -they are descriptive words.


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A simple sentence contains only one

independent clause, but it can have more

than one subject or verb:

TWO SUBJECTS: The student and hisfriend yawned.

TWO VERBS : The student yawned andfell asleep.


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TWO SUBJECTS: The student andhis friend yawned.

TWO VERBS : The student yawned

and fell asleep.


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A sentence with all these elements will belong, but it is still simple because it

contains only one independent clause: The tall student sitting in the back in my

physics class and his friend yawned loudlyand fell asleep.

Can you identify the real sentence andthe modifiers?

The tall student sitting in the back in myphysics class and his friend yawned loudlyand fell asleep.


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Compound

sentences


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The second type of sentence is the

compound sentence.

This sentence is composed of two

simple sentences joined together by a

comma and a joining word(coordinating conjunction).

We could also describe a compound

sentence as two independent clausesjoined by a conjunction.


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Complex sentence

A complex sentence has an independentclause with one or more dependentclauses (independent clauses are initalics). Note that introductory dependent

clauses must be followed by commas:

Since we got to the concert late, we hadto make our way to our seats in the dark.

We left class early so that we couldattend a special lecture.


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Complex sentences should be

punctuated in one of two ways:

INDEPENDENT CLAUSE dependent clause(no comma)

We left class early so that we could attend a

special lecture.

Dependent clause, INDEPENDENTCLAUSE (comma)

So that we could attend a special lecture, weleft class early.


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Comparing compound and

complex sentences interest, variety, and coherence

compound sentences differ from complex

sentences in one important way: In a

compound sentence, both clauses haveequal importance; in a complex

sentence, the independent clause is

more important.


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Compare these sentences

COMPOUND John was tired, but he finishedhis homework.

COMPLEX Although John was tired, he

finished his homework.

In the first sentence, the writer iscommunicating that both clauses are equally

important. In the second sentence, the writeris saying that the subordinate clause ("Johnwas tired") is less important than theindependent clause ("he finished his

homework").


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