SIMPLE
SENTENCES
SV “Jook
Liang is a five-year-old girl.”
SVV “Jook
Liang is five years old and lives in Chinatown.”
SSV
SVVV
SSSV
complete
subject + complete predicate
Jook
Liang is a five-year-old girl.
predicate and
verb slightly different but related
SV. Trans,
SV.
Wong Bak was
an ugly old man. Despite this, Jook
Liang loved him.
COMPOUND
SENTENCES
SV ,FANBOYS SV
for, nor, yet- LOW FREQUENCY
SV ,SOBA SV
SV ; SV.
SEMICOLON
SV ; TRANS,
SV
Wong Bak was
an ugly old man; despite this, Jook Liang loved him.
Wong Bak was
an ugly old man. Despite this, Jook
Liang loved him.
COMPLEX
SENTENCES
NOUN CLAUSES
WAE Ch12
ADVERB CLAUSES
WAE Ch13
ADJECTIVE
CLAUSES WAE Ch14
NOUN CLAUSES
think, feel,
believe. know, guess, say, hope
“that”
“I think that it
will rain later.”
“She feels that he is telling the truth.
“Jook Liang
believes that Wong Bak is the Monkey King.”
“She hopes
that he will come back.”
He says that
she is a “bandit princess” (30).
Poh Poh says
that her granddaughter is “mo yung girl” (32).
noun clause
as subject of a sentence- unusual
That Poh
Poh had a tough childhood is obvious.
It is
obvious that Poh Poh had a tough
childhood. MORE USUAL
She doesn’t
know that Wong Bak is leaving.
Father doesn’t
say that her fiend is going away.
Jook Liang
doesn’t care that Wong Bak is ugly.
IF WHETHER
Jook Liang doesn’t
mind whether her dress is old or not.
Jook Liang doesn’t
mind whether or not her dress is old.
Jook Liang doesn’t
mind whether her dress is old. X
Jook Liang doesn’t
mind if her dress is old.
Jook Liang doesn’t
mind that her dress is old.
Wong Bak
doesn’t care if/ whether Jook Liang is a good dancer or not.
I have to do
my work whether I want to or not.
I must weather
the weather whether I like the weather or not. PUN
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