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The nice boy has a lot of friends.

Learn how to construct sentences with various structures like simple, compound, and complex. Explore the basic elements of sentences such as subjects and predicates. Enhance your writing skills with examples and exercises.

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The nice boy has a lot of friends.

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  1. The nice boy has a lot of friends.

  2. Sentence Structure:Sentence Types

  3. Sentence Types • Simple • Compound • Complex • Compound-Complex

  4. Basic Elements of Every Sentence SUBJECT PREDICATE

  5. Basic Elements SUBJECT PREDICATE Mary plays tennis.

  6. Simple Sentence A simple sentence has one subject and one predicate.

  7. Simple Sentence Observe how a simple sentence is constructed: We went to San Juan yesterday.

  8. Simple Sentence Pronoun Verb Prepositional phrase We went to San Juan . Simple subject Complete predicate

  9. SIMPLE SENTENCE PREDICATE SUBJECT plays tennis. Mary one subject one predicate

  10. Simple Sentence Tom and Mary play tennis. Compound Subject &

  11. Simple Sentence play tennis and swim. Tom and Mary Compound Subject Compound Predicate & &

  12. SIMPLE SENTENCEwith compound subject Tom and Mary play tennis.

  13. SIMPLE SENTENCEwith compound subject andcompound predicate Tom and Mary play tennis and swim.

  14. Compound Sentence

  15. Compound Sentence • A compound sentence has more than one part that can stand alone (independent clauses). • Independent clauses are connected by coordinating conjunctions, conjunctive adverbs or a semi-colon.

  16. Compound Sentence We went to San Juan, and most of us danced all night.

  17. Compound Sentence Subject Verb Prepositional phrase Wewentto San Juan, Predicate Coordinating Conjunction andmost of usdancedall night . Subject Modifying phrase Verb

  18. Compound SentenceUse of Coordinating Conjunctions SUBJECT PREDICATE and SUBJECT PREDICATE

  19. Compound Sentence Tom swims, and Mary plays tennis.

  20. COMPOUND SENTENCE:COORDINATING CONJUNCTIONS FOR AND NOR BUT OR YET SO

  21. COMPOUND SENTENCE:COORDINATING CONJUNCTIONS Tom swims,and Mary plays tennis. Clause 1 Clause 2 Independent Independent

  22. COMPOUND SENTENCE:COORDINATING CONJUNCTIONS Tom swims, andMary plays tennis. Comma before “and” in compound sentences!

  23. Semicolons “If the relation between the ideas expressed in the main clauses is very close and obvious without a conjunction, you can separate the clauses with a semicolon” (Little, Brown Handbook, 9th Edition, p. 361).

  24. COMPOUND SENTENCE:SEMICOLON Tom has benefited from his exercise program; he is slim and energetic.

  25. Exercises Say if the following sentences are: Simple, compound

  26. The bell rang. • Bridget ran the first part of the race, and Tara biked the second part. • The skier turned and jumped.

  27. Answers • Simple • Compound • Simple

  28. You and I need piano lessons. • I planned to go to the hockey game, but I couldn’t get tickets. • Dorothy likes white water rafting, but she also enjoys kayaking.

  29. Answers • Simple • Compound • Compound

  30. References Writing Academic English, Second Edition, by Alice Oshima and Ann Hogue. White Plains: Addison, Wesley, Longman, 1999. The Little, Brown Handbook, by H. Ramsey Fowler and Jane E. Aaron, Pearson, 2004.

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