English Writing.(1.Sentence Fundalmentals).ppt

English WritingSentence Skills Part 1 Sentence Fundamentals Sentence Skills The requirements of a correct sentence Five Basic Sentence Patterns Compounding and modification Grammatical classification Functional classification Rhetorical classification The requirements of a correct sentence Complete in structure (S+P) Beginning with a capital letter Ending with a full stop, or a question mark, or an exclamation mark Making sense by itself Five Basic Sentence Patterns Subject +Predicate (Verb) 1. S+V: David cried. 2. S+V+SC: David looks tired. 3. S+V+DO: David loves his mother. 4. S+V+IO+DO: David gave me the book. 5. S+V+DO+OC: David makes his mother angry. Compounding and Modification 1. The woman stood. (simple subject +simple predicate) 2. The man and the woman stood and talked. (compound subject+ compound predicate) 3. The tall, beautiful woman stood under a tree reading a book. (complete subject+ complete predicate) Recognize the Sentences Neither John nor Mary attended the meeting. She turned and smiled and said good night to her father. The dog ran past the stranger and into the barn behind the house. The old man returning home after eight years absence found that all the neighbors he had known were no longer there. Mark Twain whose experience as a sailor on the Mississippi provided him with abundant material for the novels he was to write. The short, wrinkled old woman who was wearing a jacket stood behind the counter reading a fishing magazine. John, who dislikes both Frank and the speaker, did not attend the meeting. Now the music was over, and Mary saw, through the tears welled on her eyes, the expression on her mother’s face. Sentence Classification 1. Grammatical Classification 2. Functional Classification 3. Rhetorical Classification Grammatical Classification 1. Simple sentences 2. Compound sentence 3. Complex sentence 4. Compound-complex sentence 1. Simple sentences