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Sentence Structure. Incomplete sentences Have become disconnected from the main clause in some way Purdue offers many majors in engineering. Such as electrical, chemical, and industrial engineering. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Sentence Structure
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Sentence Fragments
• Incomplete sentences • Have become disconnected from the main clause in
some way• Purdue offers many majors in engineering. Such as
electrical, chemical, and industrial engineering. • Coach Dietz exemplified this behavior by walking off the
field in the middle of a game. Leaving her team at a time when we needed her.
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Clauses
• Dependent- Cannot stand alone, does not make sense by itself
• Independent- Stands alone, makes sense by itself • You vs Your Parents
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Simple Sentences
• One independent clause• Has ONE SUBJECT and ONE VERB• Either, or both, the subject and / or verb, can be compound• Kayla and Ally talk and laugh.• Noah reads a book.
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Sentence Sort
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Sentence Sort
Sentences • Finding a parking space
there is usually easy during the week.
• Who borrowed Stephanie’s car Saturday night?
• While living there, he made very few friends.
• Shaking his ne boss’s hand, Tony knew he would like working there.
Fragments• While waiting for her neighbor to
move the car that blocked the driveway
• Driving in the city during the evening rush hour
• Asking the interviewer how often he would have to work on the weekend
• By making sure no one will park across the driveway again
• Many of his customers coming back three or four times over the summer
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Compound Sentences
• Consists of two or more independent clauses• Can be joined in THREE ways:• With a coordinating conjunction and a comma• For, and, nor, but, or, yet, so (FANBOYS)
• With a semicolon• With a coordinating conjunction• Independent clause; coordinating conjunction, independent
clause
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Complex Sentences
• An independent clause joined by one or more dependent clauses
• The independent clause is the main clause• These sentences use subordinating conjunctions to link
ideas• The subordinate conjunctions establishes the relationship
between the dependent and independent clauses.
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Common Subordinating Conjunctions
afteralthoughasas ifas long asas thoughbecausebeforeeven ifeven though
ifif onlyin order thatnow thatoncerather thansinceso thatthanthat
thoughtillunlessuntilwhenwheneverwherewhereaswhereverwhile
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Complex –Compound Sentences
• Has at least two independent clauses and one dependent clause
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• The dog barked. • Leaning first this way and then that, the large tan dog with a
wide black collar barked loudly at the full moon last night from under the lilac bush in the shadow of the north side of the house.
• The dog and the cat howled. • The dog howled and barked. • The dog barked, and the cat yowled. • The dog howled although he was well fed. • Because the dog howled so loudly, the student couldn't eat his
hamburger. • The dog, although he was well fed, howled loudly. • As the dog howled, one cat sat on the fence, and the other licked
its paws.
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• Pauline and Bruno have a big argument every summer over where they should spend their summer vacation.
• Pauline loves to go to the beach and spend her days sunbathing.
• Bruno, on the other hand, likes the view that he gets from the log cabin up in the mountains, and he enjoys hiking in the forest.
• Pauline says there is nothing relaxing about chopping wood, swatting mosquitoes, and cooking over a woodstove.
• Bruno dislikes sitting on the beach; he always gets a nasty sunburn.
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• Bruno tends to get bored sitting on the beach, watching the waves, getting sand in his swimsuit, and reading detective novels for a week.
• This year, after a lengthy, noisy debate, they decided to take separate vacations.
• Bruno went to the White Mountains of New Hampshire, and Pauline went to Cape Cod.
• Although they are 250 miles apart, they keep in constant contact on the internet.
• Bruno took the desktop computer that he uses at work, and Pauline sits on the beach with her laptop computer, which she connects to the internet with a cellular phone.