These are the
sentence types that I will be teaching you-
NOTE:
November to
January- Advanced Writing Tutorial
Aimed at English
11/12 who are planning to go to post-secondary and who want more help with
their sentences.
Tuesday nights –
4:30-5:30 pm
Drop-in, not sign
up
Zoom, online
You are welcome
to join next year: November, 2022- January, 2023
I will publish
the link in early November on my blog. I will post the Zoom link on the blog.
Stay tuned.
Some of this you
will already know. A lot of it will be new.
I will go deep
into the sentence types.
Four sentence
types:
SIMPLE
COMPOUND
COMPLEX
COMPOUND COMPLEX
- mix of COMPOUND and COMPLEX
These are the foundations
for all of your writing. When I write, I use these sentence types.
-good for school,
college, work, life
SIMPLE SENTENCE–
one main clause clause = subject + verb
clause –
collection of words that has a subject and verb
main clause=
independent clause= simple sentence
FORMS OF SIMPLE
SENTENCES:
SV Subject Verb-
easiest kind of sentence
The dog is sleeping. SV
My car is red.
ADVICE: Simple but
powerful- anything important that you want people to remember, say it in a
simple sentence e.g. topic sentence, thesis statement
SSV subject verb
verb
The dog
and the cat are sleeping. SSV
Doctors and nurses are struggling with Covid 19. SSV
North Vancouver and Chiba, Japan are sister cities. SSV
John and I share
a hobby: cooking.
SVV
The kids are running and are yelling. SVV
Mariko is working
parttime and studying at Langara. SVV
MORE ELABORATE: Mariko
is working parttime days in Metrotown at a
jewelry store and studying third-year
biology at Langara in the evenings. SVV
(in Metrotown)
(at a jewelery store) – prepositional phrases
(at Langara) (in
the evenings)- prepositional phrases
Sarah lives in
Richmond but works in Delta.
Derrick watched Top
Gun 2 but didn’t enjoy it.
SSVV
You and I drink
coffee and talk.
IDIOM chew the
fat- talk casually, gossip
IDIOM shoot the
breeze- talk casually, gossip
My son and
I like to walk around the park and chew the fat. SSVV
SIMPLE SENTENCES
- no commas SV SSV SVV
SSVV
COMMON ERRORS
My son and
I like to walk around the park, and
chew the fat. XXX
My son,
and I, like to walk around the
park, and chew the fat. XXX
My son and
I like to walk around the park and chew the fat.
We walk and talk. No commas SVV SIMPLE SENTENCE
We walk, and
talk. XXX
We walk, and we
talk. COMPOUND
STUTTERER- speakers
who get caught usually on consonants
**WORDS IN A
SERIES , comma
We walk, talk, and laugh.
SIMPLE SVVV
She likes cats,
dogs, and fish.
cats, dogs, and
fish nouns in a series
She plays soccer,
runs, and lifts weights.
plays soccer,
runs, and lifts – verbs in a series
* DETAIL- Oxford
comma AAA, BBB, and CCC.
She likes dogs,
cats, and fish. Oxford comma, formal-looking, old-fashioned looking
She likes dogs,
cats and fish. modern looking, simpler
Your choice! The
Oxford comma makes the sentence clearer in meaning. It shows more separation
between the elements in the series.
She plays soccer,
runs, and lifts weights. Oxford comma
She plays soccer,
runs and lifts weights.
Next time you
read a book or an article, pay attention to how the writer uses commas.
We can understand
the writing at a deeper level.
Reading with
intention.
A couple more
kinds of simple sentences:
** Imperative – command - tell someone to do something
Close the door!
Stop making so
much noise!
Shut up!
Come in. Sit down. Watch out!
You sit down.
XXX sounds very aggressive
You Sit down.
POLITENESS
Sit down, please.
Please sit down.
Have a seat,
please.
Please have a
seat.
Useful models for
commas.
SLANG- CASUAL
Take a load off.
NOTE- MY ADVICE
Exclamation
points are often overused, especially in casual writing.
They have almost
no place in school writing, academic writing.
personal writing,
narrative writing – ok to use sparingly, very infrequently, rarely
Sit down! exclamation mark ! - shows energy, makes it sound loud
!! – overused
Watch out!
Watch out!!!!! too
much
MY ADVICE- avoid
them in school writing
Great.
Great!
Great!!! XXX Ok
for casual writing, not for serious school writing or business writing
Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Incredible!
Be cautious of
using ! to show emphasis.
Interrogative(a)
– question, interrogate(v)
The police interrogated
the criminal.
Is it going to
rain today?
How are you?
What time is it?
Is that your
phone?
REVIEW:
SIMPLE- SV SSV SVV SSVV
Imperative Interrogative
HOMEWORK:
Write a few simple sentences using the styles that we just covered:
SV SSV SVV
SSVV Imperative Interrogative
Email them to me by 3pm. We will share them tomorrow.
No need to do the whole attachment thing. Just an email would be
great.
I will grab them and put them into a document. Then we look at
them tomorrow in class.
My name is Joe. too low for us
I have two kids. too low for us
Try. Push yourself a bit. Try something new.
comma -breath mark
, wait a beat
celebrant(n)- a person who is celebrating
spouse- husband or wife
harass(v) harassment(n)- bother somebody
over and over
ADVICE: Don’t be a weirdo. Don’t be a creep.
SIMILE: a comparison between two unlike people
or things that use ‘like’ or ‘as’
Jim’s son is like his mother. not simile
Jim’s son is growing like a weed. simile
comparison between a person and a plant,
unlike things
She is as tall as tree/giraffe.
He is as smart as Einstein.
Your voice is like music/a symphony.
Your voice is like nails on the blackboard.
It gives me shivers up and down my spine.
as white as a ghost – pale, sickly-looking,
scared
as stubborn as a mule/ox – inflexible, will
not listen
It’s like talking to a wall.
as cool as a cucumber- cool- relaxed, calm
DIFFERENT MEANING OF cool – stylish cool- temperature
Nurses have to be as cool as a cucumber.
as sly as a fox – cunning, smart and tricky, cannot
be trusted
clever- smart in a tricky way
as good as gold – well-behaved children
Your daughter is as good as gold.
as deaf as a post – totally deaf
His grandmother is as deaf as a post.
as easy as ABC // as simple as ABC
as easy as pie- This math is as easy as pie. pi? 3.1415926
a piece of cake This math is a piece of cake.
as red as a rose
as busy as a bee / as busy as a beaver
I am busy as a bee today.
as big as a house – Sarah is nine months
pregnant. She is as big as a house.
as heavy as lead
as strong as an ox- physically strong or very
healthy
Jun’s 80-year-old father is as strong as an
ox.
as warm as toast
as proud as a peacock
Dan is as proud as a peacock of his new car.
as quiet as a mouse
Her friend, Julie, is as quiet as a mouse
until you get to know her.
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