[英语学习]sentence.ppt

The Sentence Alan.lan What is a correct sentence? Has got a room. How to operate the machine? But you failed. I have killed. Would you please pass me? I laughing at a boy. she didn’t give me her promise. i love the girl! What is a correct sentence? She did not allow me to do it for you “Goodbye!” she said Isn’t it a nice day She lived in Sichuan so she became a famous writer. She finishes her work. Requirements for a correct sentence It should be structurally correct. It should begin with a capital letter. It should end with a full stop / a question mark / an exclamation mark an ellipsis mark. It should express a single complete idea. Completeness in structure Because he hadn’t finished his assignment, so he continued in the classroom. The company offered me. The old man returning home after eight years’ absence to find 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. Starting sentences with capital letter he wanted to fly in the sky. what have you done with my computer? He said: “the book is mine.” Ending sentences with full stops I set out for the biggest bookstore in town, at the school gate I saw a girl of my class, she was going there, too, we decided to go together, we walked, the bookstore was not far away. In fact, this is not one long sentence, but a series of short sentences: there are six of them. When a sentence is structurally complete, whenever long or short, it should end with a full stop. So the six sentences should be punctuated like this. (1). I set out for the biggest bookstore in town. (2). At the school gate I saw a girl of my class. (3). She was going there, too. (4). We decided to go together. (5). We walked. (6). The bookstore was not far away. To join two or more sentences with commas may be possible in Chinese, but it is wrong in English. There is a name for such a mistake: the comma fault or the comm