the sentence.ppt

Sentence Sense Sentence Types Effective Sentences Sentence Sense  What is a sentence? A sentence is the expression of a single complete thought. A sentence is a group of words containing a subject and a predicate and expressing a complete thought. The three requirements Subject + Predicate Verb S+V Not a dependant clause Beginning with a capital letter and ending with a terminal mark Make it stand by itself Attach it to a sentence. Acceptable sentence fragments Oh, my God! “Going somewhere?” Toni asked. “To the gym,” Brad replied. “With whom?” Toni asked. “Tom and Big Fred,” he answered. Kissme, queen of cosmetics! High quality with low price! Insert right punctuation. Adding a connecting word. The comma fault refers to the use of a comma in place of a period, a semicolon, a colon, or a dash in English writing. The comma fault occurs when two or more complete sentences are joined together only by commas. Sentence Types  Sentence Types Sentence Types Loose Periodic sentences Loose sentence Periodic sentence Parallel Structure or Parallelism Balanced Sentences Choppy English That day it was very cold. A fierce wind was blowing. It was snowing hard. Wang stood there before us. He talked in a low voice. His voice was earnest. We felt in him sincerity and dedication. These qualities are not common to ordinary men. Inappropriate long sentence On hearing the peddler’s cry, I put down the book I had been reading and went to the balcony, where I saw a lot of people with small basins in their hands rushing to the peddler, around whom people began to jostle with each other and finally lined up into a long queue. Mixed sentences Mixed sentences begin with one topic or grammatical pattern, then shift to another. (Usually this happens when a writer gets a new idea in the middle of writing a sentence.) Mixed : By designing the questionnaire carefully made Valerie’s psychology study a success. Because of the rebellious atmosphe