The Art of Styling Sentences

1. The Art of Styling Sentences

2. There are 20 patterns (with variations). • Practicing what these patterns can do will show you a way to improve your writing and understanding of correct punctuation. • The patterns have been divided by grade levels. The Art of Styling Sentences

3. What is a Sentence? an effort to communicate a complete thought • What?(communicates the confusion or surprise of the speaker) • Stop! (issues a simple command to an intended audience) • Drats! (expression of emotion)

4. Basic sentences have a subject and verb The cat ate. I fell. subject verb

5. Basic sentences have a subject and verb The cat ate. I fell.

6. Basic sentences have a subject and verb The cat ate. I fell .

7. Basic sentences have a subject and verb gray The cat ate. awkwardly I fell .

8. Single Modifier The gray cat ate. I fell awkwardly.

9. Single Modifier The gray cat ate. I fell awkwardly.

10. Phrases as modifiers The gray cat ate. I fell awkwardly.

11. Phrases as modifiers with yellow eyes ate. The gray cat . I fell awkwardly to the stage

12. Phrases as modifiers ate. The gray cat with yellow eyes . I fell awkwardly to the stage

13. Clauses • Independent clauses--complete thoughts that can stand on their own as complete sentences • Subordinate clauses--may have a subject and verb, but are ultimately an incomplete thought

14. Dependent Clauses complex sentence: dependent clause + independent clause After the mean neighborhood dog left, the gray cat with the yellow eyes ate. complex sentence: independent clause + dependent clause I fell awkwardly to the stage when the choreography required me to spin in a circle. Subordinate ClauseTest: Read it. If the thought is incomplete, then it is subordinate.

15. Sentence types Simple Sentence--a single independent clause I fell.

16. Sentence Types Compound sentence--has 2 independent clauses, makes two statements or has two or more subject/verb combinations I fell and I cried.

17. Sentence Types Complex sentence--contains an independent clause and one or more dependent clauses I fell awkwardly to the stage when the choreography required me to spin in a circle.

18. Sentence Types Compound complex sentence--has two or more independent clauses and one or more dependent ones. The crowd booed and then they threw rotten apples at me when I fell on the stage. independent clause + independent clause + dependent clause

19. We’re almost finished appositive--a word or description that renames something elsewhere in the sentence Bill tried to ask the new girl out.

20. We’re almost finished appositive--a word or description that renames something elsewhere in the sentence Bill , my awkward cousin from Frog Creek, Pennsylvania, tried to ask the new girl out.

21. You should be comfortable with: • subjects • verbs • dependent clauses • independent clauses • appositives • simple sentences • compound sentences • complex sentences • compound complex sentences

22. If you are not comfortable with any or all of these: COME TO TUTORING SOON!!!