Sentence structure 英语写作 教材.ppt

* * Sentence structure Complex and compound-complex Quiz: Write C if the sentence is compound; write S if the sentence is simple. Mary and Jane were working in the garden. Mary worked hard, but Jane often sat and rested. The roses needed food, so they worked fertilizer in the soil around the roots. The roses grew rapidly and blossomed profusely. The girls picked a basket of flowers, yet many still remained on the bushes. Both flowers and vegetables grew in the garden. We sold vegetables, but we kept the flowers for ourselves. I like cabbage and carrots, so I planted a large crop. Worms and insects damaged some of the plants. Tilling the soil carefully and watering the plants in dry weather produced a good crop of vegetables and flowers. continued answer C: 2, 3, 5, 7, 8 S: 1, 4, 6, 9, 10 Quotes I went back to the good nature books that I had read. And I analyzed them. I wrote outlines of whole books-outlines of chapters-so that I could see their structure. And I copied down their transitional sentences or their main sentences or their closing sentences or their lead sentences. I especially paid attention to how these writers made transitions between paragraphs and scenes. –Annie Dillard A dependent clause is not a complete sentence. If he comes home… When I find the book… After he is elected… Each of these examples leaves the reader asking, “Then what happens?” They are not complete sentences (not complete thoughts). EXAMPLES To make them complete sentences, they may be written this way: A complex sentence contains an independent clause and a dependent clause. It may contains more than one dependent clause. The independent clause and the dependent clause each has a subject and a verb. A simple sentence + a dependent clause = a complex sentence. Maria, who lives in Boston, is my sister. A simple sentence + a dependent clause + a dependent clause = a complex sentence. Maria, who works in Boston and who is my sister, lives with her cousin Elena. If I had money, I