SENTENCE PATTERNS

BY: BAHROZ HASHIM MAWLOOD

2017

SENTENCE STRUCTURE

• IS THE ORDER AND ARRANGEMENT OF THE CLAUSES IN A SENTENCE, WHICH IS A GROUP OF WORDS THAT EXPRESS A COMPLETE THOUGHT.

THREE OF THE MOST COMMON TYPES OF SENTENCE STRUCTURE ARE SIMPLE, COMPOUND, AND COMPLEX SENTENCES. EACH OF THESE CAN BE IDENTIFIED BY THE NUMBER AND TYPES OF CLAUSES FOUND WITHIN THEM.

TYPES OF SENTENCE• SIMPLE• A SIMPLE SENTENCE STRUCTURE CONSISTS OF ONE

INDEPENDENT CLAUSE. SUCH AS “MATT WASHED HIS CAR”.• THE PREVIOUS EXAMPLE IS SIMPLE AND EXPRESSES A

COMPLETE IDEA. WHILE IT IS A SHORT EXAMPLE, SENTENCE LENGTH CANNOT BE USED TO JUDGE ITS TYPE.

"THE MAN WALKED DOWN THE STREET TO SEE IF THE NEWSPAPER HAD ARRIVED AT HIS FAVORITE CORNER STORE,“

IS SIMPLE, WITH ONLY A SINGLE INDEPENDENT CLAUSE, THOUGH IT IS MUCH LONGER THAN THE PREVIOUS EXAMPLE.

TYPES OF SENTENCE

• COMPOUNDCOMPOUND SENTENCES CONSIST OF TWO OR MORE

SIMPLE OR INDEPENDENT CLAUSES, JOINED BY A COORDINATING CONJUNCTION SUCH AS "AND“.

"I WALKED TO THE STORE," AND "THE SHOPKEEPER WAVED HELLO," ARE BOTH SIMPLE SENTENCES.

THEY CAN BE JOINED TOGETHER TO CREATE THE COMPOUND, "I WALKED TO THE STORE, AND THE SHOPKEEPER WAVED HELLO."

TYPES OF SENTENCE • COMPLEXA COMPLEX SENTENCE HAS ONE INDEPENDENT CLAUSE JOINED

TOGETHER WITH A DEPENDENT CLAUSE. SINCE DEPENDENT CLAUSES DO NOT EXPRESS COMPLETE IDEAS, THEY OFTEN BECOME SUBORDINATE CLAUSES THAT DO NOT HAVE AS MUCH STRENGTH AS INDEPENDENT ONES.

FOR EXAMPLE, "BOTH GOLD AND COAL ARE VALUABLE, ALTHOUGH GOLD IS WORTH MORE," CONSISTS OF THE INDEPENDENT CLAUSE "BOTH GOLD AND COAL ARE VALUABLE" AND THE DEPENDENT CLAUSE, "ALTHOUGH GOLD IS WORTH MORE.

" THIS DEPENDENT CLAUSE DOES NOT EXPRESS A FULL IDEA, AND IT IS A SUBORDINATE BECAUSE THE CONJUNCTION "ALTHOUGH" INDICATES THAT WHAT FOLLOWS IT IS LESS IMPORTANT THAN THE OTHER CLAUSE.

SUBJECT+ INTRANSITIVE OR TRANSITIVE VERB

WE LOVE AND LOSE IN CHINA,WE WEEP ON ENGLAND'S MOORS,AND LAUGH AND MOAN IN GUINEA,AND THRIVE ON SPANISH SHORES.

 MAYA ANGELOU'S

• AND NOW, EACH NIGHT I COUNT THE STARS.• AND EACH NIGHT I GET THE SAME NUMBER.AMIRI BARAKA

SUBJECT+ VERB+ SUBJECT COMPLEMENT

SHE SEEMS LIKE A HAPPY YOUNG GIRL. WITH THOSE TEETH AS WHITE AS PEARLS. SHE'S AS BEAUTIFUL AS AN ANGEL QUEEN. BUT THERE'S A LOT THAT ISN'T SEEN. 

ZACKERY ROGERS

SUBJECT+VERB+OBJECT

• I WAS ANGRY WITH MY FRIEND:I TOLD MY WRATH, MY WRATH DID END.I WAS ANGRY WITH MY FOE:I TOLD IT NOT, MY WRATH DID GROW

WILLIAM BLAKE

SUBJECT+VERB+INDIRECT OBJECT+DIRECT OBJECT

I GAVE YOU ALL THE TRUST, BUT YOU MISUSED IT.

I GAVE YOU THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT, AND YOU PROVED EVERYONE

RIGHT.

I GAVE YOU MY LIFE AND YOU KILLED ME DAY BY DAY.

 

BIANCA SANTAMARIA

SUBJECT+VERB+OBJECT+OBJECT COMPLEMENT

I CALL HER BEAUTIFUL; — SHE SAYSGO TO; YOUR WORDS ARE IDLE;

• RALPH WALDO EMERSON

SHE MAKES ME LOSESHE MAKES ME WINSHE MAKES ME BLUESHE MAKES ME GRIN

BRENDAN WHITMANTWO ROADS DIVERGED IN A WOOD,

AND I—I TOOK THE ONE LESS TRAVELED BY,AND THAT HAS MADE ALL THE

DIFFERENCE.ROBERT FROST

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