Forms Of Sentences

Front 1

Simple sentence

Back 1

A sentence having one independent clause

(a complete idea and containing a subject and a verb)

Examples

1. 'Heather stopped'

2. 'the carpenter and the electrician arrived simultaneously'

Front 2

Compound sentence

Back 2

Is the sentence where two or more independent clauses are joined together by a semicolon or a comma and conjunction.

'Mary went to the concert; Bill stayed home with the baby.'

Front 3

Complex sentence

Back 3

A sentence which contains one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses.

'no one responded when (she rang the doorbell) '

Front 4

Compound-complex sentence

Back 4

A sentence which has at least two independent clauses and at least one dependent clause.

Example:

(Because he knew that the job was important,) he begain very carefully, (but as time passed,) he grew impatient.

(When the heat comes), the lakes dry up, and the farmers know that their crops will fail.

Front 5

How to make a good, elaborate sentence

Back 5

1. Take a simple sentence

2. Add an independent clause.

3. Build in a dependent clause

4. Attach a dependent clause

Jim, Sam and Sally, (who had met at a church party) , mediated and debated about life and death, (while they were waiting for the minister) , but they could not agree about anything.

Jim, Sam and Sally mediated and debated about life and death. They can not agree about anything. They had met Church party while they were waiting for the ministry.

Front 6

Purpose of simple sentence

Back 6

Focus attention on a single idea.

Front 7

Purpose of compound sentence

Back 7

Please two or more ideas are level of equality.

Front 8

Purpose of complex-compound and complex sentences

Back 8

Provide the important information in the main clause while the rest of the ideas are subordinate to the main ideas.

Front 9

A clause

Back 9

Is simply a word group that contains a subject and a verb.

Example: (Early in the morning,) George proposed.

Front 10

A phrase

Back 10

A phrase is a group or words that express a concept and is used as a unit within a sentence.

Example: It was a story as old as time.

Front 11

Subordination

Back 11

1. Attaching a number of statements to one independent or principal clause and putting them in 'sub' order to it.

2. Adding a dependent thought (clause or phrase) to an independent thought or clause.

Example: even though I was tired, I stayed up to watch the horror movie.

Front 12

A sentence fragment

Back 12

Is any group or words that is punctuated like a sentence but does not fulfill the requirements because it is an incomplete idea.

Example: 'Because he loves you very much'

Front 13

A run-on sentence

Back 13

Occurs when two or more sentences run together with no adequate sign is provided to mark the break(s) between them.

Bad Example: 'He is the meanest little kid on the block he eats only the heads of animal crackers.'

Good example: 'he is the meanest little kid on the block; he eats only the heads of animal crackers.'

Note: semicolon.

Front 14

Parallel sentence structure

Back 14

Occurs when identical grammatical constructions - whole sentences or parts of sentences - are used in order to place ideas side-by-side. Parallel structure makes use of balance, but unlike the balance sentence, it may also include unbalanced elements.

Aka Putting items in a list in the same grammatical structure.

There were cats everywhere - big cats and little cats, young cats and old cats, grey cats and black cats; the place was littered with them. (parallel abjectives)

Front 15

Sentence balance

Back 15

Sentence balance exist when identical grammatical constructions are used to place two ideas in parallel structure. Balance may occur within a sentence or between sentences. In a balanced structure, the complete sentence is involved, no unbalanced elements may be included.

Example: Dogs love to do what pleases their owners; cats love to do it pleases themselves.

Front 16

Sentence variety

Back 16

Sentence variety is essential in creating interesting writing and can be achieved by expressing thoughts and feelings in a variety of sentence forms as well as in a variety of sentence length.

Martha's essay is the best of the lot, even if it's too long.

Martha's essay, even if it's too long, is the best of the lot.

Even if it's too long, Martha's essay is the best of the lot.

Front 17

Denotative language

Back 17

Denotative language is the exact, literal meaning of the word it is precise, dictionary use of the word. It is usually a characteristic of more formal language.

Example: she was able to spell all the words correctly while competing in the spelling bee.

Front 18

Connotative language

Back 18

Connotative language is language which suggests or implies, usually to achieve an emotional impact on the reader. It is a suggested meaning of a word based on personal experience or association.

Example: Santa Claus was the Jolly man in the red suit who delivered the present that he brought in his bulging sack.

Fat can mean chubby (denotative) and Jolly (connotative)

Front 19

Another word for dependent clause

Back 19

Subordinating clause

Front 20

Another word for Independent Clause

Back 20

Principle clause.