EF3/4 Introduction to sentence styles

Three sentences styles

SIMPLE

SV , Subject Verb
"Joan likes coffee."
"Henry likes tea."


COMPOUND
SV SV

"Joan likes coffee. Henry likes tea."

"Joan likes coffee XXX Henry likes tea."

and
but
"Joan likes coffee, and Henry likes tea."
"Joan likes coffee, but Henry likes tea."

MOST USEFUL
so
or
but
and

; - semicolon

; therefore,
; however,
; also,
; nevertheless,
; moreover,

"Joan likes coffee; however, Henry likes tea."



COMPLEX

adjective clauses
who that which
"The people who live next door are very quiet."
"The phone that she bought yesterday was only $150."
"Her sister, who is a nurse, plays soccer."

adverb clauses
because
when
if
though/even though/although
just as
even if
even though
as long as
"She is late because the Sky Train was running late."
"Call me if you want to see a movie."
"If you want to see a movie, give me a shout."

"Give me a shout." idiom Call me.

noun clauses
that
why
how

verbs - feel, think, understand, believe, trust, doubt, consider, know, imagine

"He thinks that it will rain later today."
"She doesn't know why her son is angry."


Three sentence types:
SIMPLE
COMPOUND
COMPLEX






challenging - difficult, hard, problem

euphemism (you fem ism) - polite word that we use instead of a less polite word