Generative Sentence Building I

1. DS 014 Writing Generative Sentence Building I

2. Today's Agenda • Edit/polish our story from Wednesday • GSR Step 1: Sentences as groups of structures • GSR Step 2: Basic sentence patterns • Journal

3. Our Story • I had never been to the circus before. But i decided to go for the fun of it. When I arrived I seen clowns with red noses and dogs walking on their hind legs. I also seen cats doing backflips and a talking monkey. I seen a Jiraffe riding on the Jag Tran. I saw a baby lion jumping through holes of fire. I saw the motorcycle go through fire hoops. But I also seen an elephant dancing on a ball. When I was on my way home, I seen a dog taking a poop. the man was shot in the head, but to find out the culpret was spongebod. He was mad cause he couldn’t go jellyfishin.

4. Sentences as structures--the “Building Blocks” • noun="the name of a person, place, or thing" • verb="shows action or state of being" • adjective="modifies a noun" • adverb "modifies a verb"

5. What about those words that fit more than one category? • Examples-- • Ship • “The ship will sail at noon.” • “I shipped the package yesterday.” • Trail • “The trail was wet from yesterday's storm.” • “The police trailed the suspects for miles.” • How can we tell that a word is a noun, a verb, or being used as something else? • CUES!

6. “Cueing Frames” • These sentence “frames” can be used to determine how a word is being used (what kind of building block it is). • Noun Frame: I was thinking of _________ (-s). • Verb Frame: They might ___________(them). • Adjective Frame: They seem ______________. • Adverb Frame: That one did it ____________.

7. “Cueing Additives” • Nouns might be marked by "the" or "a" beforehand or “-s” added to the end. • Verbs may be marked by “-s,” “-ed,” “-ing,” "is," and "has." • Adjectives may be marked by “-er,” “-est,” "more," "most," and "very." • Adverbs being marked by “-y,” “-lier,” and “-iest.”

8. Examples of Additives • Noun: The calm, A calm • Verb: Has calmed, Is calming • Adjective: calmer, calmest, more calm, very calm, most calm • Adverbs: slowly, slower, slowest

9. Basic Sentence Pattern (BSP) • The vast majority of sentences we come across on a daily basis falls into four basic structural patterns. • BSP-1 "Jim laughed." (noun plus verb) • BSP-2 "Jim drives a truck." (noun plus verb plus noun) • BSP-3 "Jim is a plumber." (noun plus linking verb plus noun) • BSP-4 "Jim is rich." (noun plus linking verb plus modifier)

10. Practice naming BSPs Jason is very creative. He attends art classes. He paints, sketches and plays guitar. Jason's band is called The Friday Night Gigolos. They practice almost daily. On the weekends, they play at the casinos.

11. ~Journal~ • It's the end of our third week of classes. What's the most important thing you've learned so far? What have you been most interested in (curricular or extra-curricular)? What is it that you would like to see or do by the end of the semester? What does a successful semester look like to you?

12. Coming Up • Grammar Test/Worksheet due Monday • Next week—How to modify the BSPs in wonderful and horrific ways.