UNDERSTANDING SENTENCE

UNDERSTANDING SENTENCES

1.       PATTERN

2.       KINDS OF CLAUSE

THE KINDS OF WORD:

    THE BE PATTERN=SUBJECT + BE + ADVERBIAL (TIME OR PLACE)

E.G: California is in the west   US.

    THE LINKING VERB=SUBJECT + LINGKING VERB + S.COMPLIMENT

E.G: The lake appreas  calm.

    INTRANSITIVE VERB= SUBJECT + INTRANSITIVE VERB

E.G: The camera battery died.

    BASIC TRANSITIVE VERB= SUBJECT + TRANSITIVE VERB + DIRECT OBJECT

E.G: Our secretary distributes our weekly timesheets.

BASIC SENTENCE PATTERNS:

S=Subject          V= Verb                               O= Object           C= Compliment

      S +V

      S + V + C

      S + V +O

      S +V + O + C

      S + V + O + O

SENTENCE PATTERN

They are two kinds of clauses:

       Independent Clauses

Is like 5 basic sentence pattern.

       Dependent Clauses

Adjective clauses: Who, whom   , which , whose ,that

E.G: A man who is stand up in front of you is my brother.

(“who” is adjective clauses pronoun).

E.G: Agirl who is sitting in front of the office is my friend.

Adverbial phrases: before  , after, because

E.G: Before coming to the super market ,I have called her.

E.G: Before I go to campus, I breakfast.

(“before”is adverbial pronoun)

Noun clauses: What, when, where, how, why, who.

E.G: I do not know what she want.

(“what” is noun clauses).

Compliment parts  are two: adverb and adjective.

Verb can be devide two: tobe and action.