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    The document discusses different types of sentences in English. It defines clauses as groups of words containing a subject and verb, and describes two types: independent and dependent clauses. It explains that clauses can be connected using subordinators, coordinators, or conjunctive adverbs to form simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences. Prepositional phrases are discussed as well as subject-verb agreement and avoiding mistakes with prepositional phrases.

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    WEEK 2: TYPES OF SENTENCES

    CLAUSES
    • Clauses are the building blocks of sentences.
    • A clause is a group of words that contains (at least) a subject and a
    verb.
    WEEK 2: TYPES OF SENTENCES
    • There are two kinds of clauses: independent and dependent.
    WEEK 2: TYPES OF SENTENCES
    • There are two kinds of clauses: independent and dependent.
    WEEK 2: TYPES OF SENTENCES
    Clause Connectors (Three groups of words are used to connect
    clauses in order to form different kinds of sentences).
    • Subordinators (subordinating conjunctions),
    • Coordinators (coordinating conjunctions), and
    • Conjunctive adverbs.
    WEEK 2: TYPES OF SENTENCES
    Clause Connectors (Three groups of words are used to connect clauses in order
    to form different kinds of sentences).
    WEEK 2: TYPES OF SENTENCES
    Clause Connectors (Three groups of words are used to connect clauses in order
    to form different kinds of sentences).
    WEEK 2: TYPES OF SENTENCES
    Kinds of Sentences
    • A sentence expresses a complete thought.
    • There are four kinds of sentences in English:
    • simple sentences,
    • compound sentences,
    • complex sentences, and c
    • compound-complex sentences.
    WEEK 2: TYPES OF SENTENCES
    Complement
    WEEK 2: TYPES OF
    SENTENCES
    Subject-Verb Agreement

    Sometimes students make mistakes in subject that begins with a preposition and ends with a pronoun, noun, or noun phrase.
    WEEK 2: TYPES OF SENTENCES

    Prepositional Phrases is a group of words that begins with a preposition


    and ends with a pronoun, noun, or noun phrase.
    • Prepositional phrase express time, place, possession, and some other
    things.
    • A prepositional phrase usually tells where, when, how, why, or whose.
    WEEK 2: TYPES OF SENTENCES
    Prepositional Phrases
    • A prepositional phrase may come after the subject
    of a sentence, but it is not part of the subject.
    • Therefore, you should ignore 1 it most of the time
    when you are trying to decide which verb form to
    use.

    One (of my sisters) is also a singer


    (The subject is one, which is singular)
    WEEK 2: TYPES OF SENTENCES
    Singular subjects

    D
    WEEK 2: TYPES OF SENTENCES
    Plural
    Subjects
    Unfortunately, telling a singular subject from a plural subject isn’t always easy. A few can be either singular or
    plural. In these cases, you must refer to the noun in the prepositional phrase.

    D
    WEEK 2: TYPES OF SENTENCES
    Compound Sentences
    • Two or more independent clauses joined together.
    • There are three ways to join the clauses:
    WEEK 2: TYPES OF SENTENCES
    Compound Sentence
    WEEK 2: TYPES OF SENTENCES
    Compound Sentence
    WEEK 2: TYPES OF SENTENCES
    Complex Sentence
    WEEK 2: TYPES OF SENTENCES
    Complex Sentence
    WEEK 2: TYPES OF SENTENCES
    Compound-Complex Sentence
    WEEK 2: TYPES OF SENTENCES
    Compound Sentences (Coordination)
    vs
    Complex Sentences (Subordination)

    • Good writing requires a mixture of all four kinds of sentences: simple, compound,
    complex, and compound-complex.
    • A composition with only short, simple sentences is boring and ineffective, as is
    writing that uses too many compound sentences.
    • Writing with complex sentences and participial phrases, structures that use
    subordination, is generally considered more mature, interesting, and effective in
    style.
    WEEK 2: TYPES OF SENTENCES
    Compound Sentences (Coordination) vs Complex Sentences (Subordination)
    WEEK 2: TYPES OF SENTENCES
    Compound Sentences (Coordination) vs Complex Sentences (Subordination)

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