EF45 Class 38 sentence combining

 

English Foundations 4/5

 

Today’s agenda

·      Collect writing for today’s presentations

·      Presentations

·      Return Quiz#5 and Test#4

Go over

RW for Bonus pt

·      Begin sentence combining

·      HW   Email about optional replacement test

Do “Coffee” for homework.

 

Wednesday

·      Collect writing for today’s presentations

·      Presentations

·      Continue sentence combining

 

Thursday

·      Optional replacement test (last 1 hour of class)

 

Friday- last day

·      Marks/Final reports

·      One-on-one meetings, just like midterm recs

 

 

Quiz#5

Write a sentence with an adjective clause for each.

1.    restaurant            that

2.    precious               which

3.    bone-tired           who

4.    roses                     which

5.    warm                    who

6.    banquet               that

 

Test#4

Test#4

 

Write a paragraph of at least 150 words on one of the following topics:

 

A.   Why did Maylin and the governor argue?

OR

B.    Why did Maylin name the dish “Roses Sing on New Snow”?

 

Make a plan.

3-4 ideas, vocab,

Write sentences

 

Topic sentence – on topic

“Maylin and the governor had an argument about cooking for three reasons”

 

Don’t copy from the story.Plagiarism.

Express your ideas in your own words.

 

Quality of sentences- simple, compound, complex.

Verb tense and form

Punctuation

 

 

 

SENTENCE COMBINING – culmination of all of sentence work

culmination – using all the sentence knowledge that we have accumulated so far

put it all into practice

 

Next level of work for sentence writing –

 

IDIOM where the rubber hits the road- practical, real-life

 

SENTENCES:

*simple                SV   SSV   SVV   SSVV

*compound        SV, SOBA SV.

*complex             - adverb clauses

                               - noun clauses

                               - adjective clauses

 

You have to know these. You must be able to write them.

 

MY ADVICE- Practice these styles. Follow the patterns.

If you follow these patterns, your writing will probably be ok.

If you don’t follow these patterns, your writing will likely be substandard.

When you are writing , use these styles. Stick to these styles.

 

My motto: Good, but…

 

Sentence combining

-very effective way to get better at sentence writing

-practical, useful

 

IMO (in my opinion)- the best way to get better at sentence writing

-at all levels – absolute beginner, beginner, intermediate, advanced, expert

start at very basic level----- very high university-level exercises

 

Based on the sentence styles- simple, compound, complex

foundation of all writing and speaking in English

sentence combining – puts all of this knowledge into use

                                        

 

William Strong – university professor – taught university students how to be better writers, not ESL EAL, mostly native English speakers

GOAL- LEARN TO WRITE

o   higher-level sentences

o   more prestigious English ‘prestige English”- sounds professional and competent

o   prestige English- sounds high-level

o   maybe even beautiful, elegant, stylish writing

o   sounds good, reads well, smooth and beautiful to read

 

*** Sentence combining books are available if you dig for them. Keep your eyes open for this kind of sentence combining exercise books.

I have amassed a small collection of sentence combining books over the years.

 

VPL   Amazon   used book stores

William Strong

 

BTW I have mountains of sentence combining exervcises. I would happy to give you some.

 

 

BASIC IDEA OF SENTENCE COMBINING

Sentence combining – taking several short sentences and combine the most important parts of them into one sentence

 

 

 

 

 

 

Easy example of sentence combining -

a.     Bill felt hungry.

b.    Bill had no lunch today.

 

COMBINE a and b into one sentence

What kind of sentence would be best? simple   compound   complex

a.     Bill felt hungry.

b.    Bill had no lunch today.          because – complex, adv cl

 

POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS

Bill felt hungry because Bill he had no lunch today.         

Because Bill had no lunch today, so he felt hungry.      

Because Bill had no lunch today, he felt hungry.

Bill had no lunch today so that he felt hungry. COMPLEX – adv cl

 

Bill had no lunch today, so he felt hungry.   COMPOUND   , SOBA

Bill had no lunch today; therefore, he felt hungry.   COMPOUND ;

 

Bill who had no lunch today felt hungry. COMPLEX- adjective clause

Bill who felt hungry had no lunch today. COMPLEX- adjectice clause

 

Bill had no lunch today. Bill felt hungry. SIMPLES

Bill had no lunch today and felt hungry. OK  SVV

 

 

Sentecen combining- “French Fries”

1.French fries are loaded into a basket. KERNEL

Find new information. Avoid repetition.

2.The French fries are white.

3.The basket is wire.

 

 

 

 

French fries are loaded into a basket. KERNEL

white

wire

 

Decide- simple, compound, complex?

 

SIMPLE

The white French fries are loaded into a wire

basket.

 

COMPOUND  , SOBA Overwritten- not a great choice.

 

COMPLEX – adj cl

The French fries which are white are loaded into a basket that is wire.

Overwritten

 

4.Then they are lowered.

5.The lowering is slow.

6.The lowering is into oil.

SIMPLE? COMPOUND? COMPLEX?

 

Then they are lowered slowly into oil. SIMPLE SV

slow -adj slowly-adv

 

7.Their bath crackles.

8.The bath foams.

9.The bath is hot.

 

Their hot bath crackles and foams. SIMPLE SVV

Their bath which is hot crackles and foams. COMPLEX- ADJ CL

 

10-12

The thinly-sliced potatoes release a puff of steam. SIMPLE SV

The potatoes that are thinly-sliced release a puff of steam. COMPLEX-ADJ CL

 

13-14

They come out crispy brown and streaked with oil. SIMPLE- SVV