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SIMPLE VS COMPLEX SENTENCES. SIMPLE SENTENCES. Simple sentences consist of one topic and one comment For example: The first nugget was about half muscle, with the rest a mix of fat, blood vessels and nerves . The nuggets came from two national fast food chains in Jackson.
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SIMPLE SENTENCES • Simple sentences consist of one topic and one comment For example: • The first nugget was about half muscle, with the rest a mix of fat, blood vessels and nerves. • The nuggetscame from two national fast food chains in Jackson.
TYPES OF COMMENTS (1): is/am/are/was/were + noun (thing) noun phrase (things modified) adjective (characteristics) quantity/size (number) prepositional phrase (preposition followed by a noun/noun phrase)
Simple Sentence: Topic + Comment (1) • The tropical rain forestis a forest of tall trees in a region of year-round warmth. • Seventy percent of the plants in the rainforest are trees. • Other characteristics are bright colors and sharp patterns, loud vocalizations, and diets heavy on fruits. • Its average humidity is between 77 and 88%. • Its rainfall is often more than 100 inches a year. • Many plants are in riparian areas.
TYPES OF COMMENTS (2): • VERB + NOUN/NOUN PHRASE • VERB + PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES • VERB + ADVERB • VERB + QUANTITY
Simple Sentence: Topic + Comment (2) • Tree harvesting provides employment for labour. • Leucaena cultivation requires additional expenditure mainly due tothe cost of the planting material, its transportation to the field, pitting and planting. • Three-month-old 30-cm tall seedlings were transplanted in pits. • A small quantity of water was added to each pit immediately after transplanting to prevent seedling mortality • Pits of the size 0.3 × 0.3 × 0.3 m were dug manually • The selected fields were ploughed twice using a disc harrow.
COMPLEX SENTENCES COMPLEX SENTENCES ARE COMPRISED OF A MAIN CLAUSE AND ONE OR MORE SUBORDINATE CLAUSES. THE SUBORDINATE CLAUSES MAY BE ADVERBIAL CLAUSES, ADJECTIVE CLAUSES OR NOUN CLAUSES • MAIN CLAUSE + ADVERBIAL CLAUSE • MAIN CLAUSE + NOUN CLAUSE • MAIN CLAUSE + ADJECTIVE CLAUSE
COMPLEX SENTENCES: MAIN CLAUSE + ADVERBIAL CLAUSE • Chicken nuggets tend to have an elevated fat content because they are breaded and fried. • The stunted trees are capable of a sudden growth surge when a gap in the canopy opens above them. • The bark of different species is so similar that it is difficult to identify a tree by its bark. • Consumers aren't necessarily being misled, since much of the nutritional information they need is readily available.
NOUN CLAUSES • Recently, Mississippi researchers found out why two nuggets they examined consisted of 50 percent or less chicken muscle tissue, the breast or thigh meat that comes to mind when a customer thinks of "chicken.“ • What has happened is that some companies have chosen to use an artificial mixture of chicken parts rather than low-fat chicken white meat, batter it up and fry it and still call it chicken. • The brief chicken nugget exploration was not meant to be an exposé of the chicken industry or fast food generally, but to remind consumers that "not everything that tastes good is good for you. • He and his colleagues chose not to reveal which chain restaurants they visited were.
COMPLEX SENTENCES: RELATIVE CLAUSE • topic+comment+(joining words) +comment • This has been a discouraging factor for small landholders who need regular income to establish leucaena plantations. • Emergent trees are 100 to 240 feet tall with umbrella-shaped canopies that grow above the forest. • Leucaenaleucocephalais cultivated at close spacingsthat do not permit intercropping.
ADJECTIVE CLAUSE • 1. Close inspection revealed cells that line the skin and internal organs of the bird. • It is really a chicken by-product high in calories, salt, sugar and fat that is a very unhealthy choice. • The nuggets he examined would be okay to eat occasionally, but he worries that since they are cheap, convenient and taste good, kids eat them often. • Chicken nuggets are an excellent source of protein, especially for kids who might be picky eaters. • This study evaluates only two chicken nugget samples out of the billions of chicken nuggets that are made every year
SIMPLE SENTENCES + REDUCED RELATIVE CLAUSE (active) This has been a discouraging factor for small landholdersneeding regular income to establish leucaena plantations. Emergent trees are 100 to 240 feet tall with umbrella-shaped canopies growing above the forest. Leucaenaleucocephalais cultivated at close spacingsnot permitting intercropping.
SIMPLE SENTENCE + REDUCED RELATIVE CLAUSE • These qualities make leucaena wood suitable for a wide variety of uses, ranging from the traditional small-scale useby farmers and smallholders to the more recent utilization by large-scale industriesfor pulp and energy generation (Pottinger and Hughes, 1995). • According to the NCC, its member producers and processors account for about 95 percent of the chicken produced in the U.S.
COMPLEX SENTENCES: RELATIVE CLAUSE • topic+comment+(joining words)+ topic + comment • Leucaenais one of thefew trees from which wood is used for both industrial and non-industrial purposes.
Eucalyptus, leucaena and casuarina are the important tree species used as rawmaterial for the manufacture of paper and packaging material in southern India
