Clauses
• Independent Clause: An independent clause contains a subject and a verb and expresses a complete thought. It can stand alone as a sentence by itself. An independent clause is like an adult person: it is independent and can “live” by itself.
• Dependent Clause: A dependent clause begins with a subordinator such as when, while, if, that, or who, followed by a subject, verb, and complement. It does not express a complete thought and cannot stand by itself as a sentence. A dependent clause is like a little child: it cannot “live” by itself.
Sentences
• Simple Sentence: A simple sentence is one independent clause. Like an adult person, it can “live” alone.
• Compound Sentence: A compound sentence is two or more independent clauses joined together, like two adults joined together in marriage. Each clause is of equal importance and could stand alone. There are three ways to join independent clauses to form a compound sentence:
With a coordinator: I enjoy playing tennis, but I hate playing golf.
With a conjunctive adverb: I enjoy playing tennis; however, I hate playing golf.
With a semicolon: I enjoy playing tennis; I hate playing golf.
• Complex Sentence: A complex sentence contains one independent clause and one (or more) dependent clause. It is like a mother with one or more children depending on her. In a complex sentence, one idea is generally more important than the other one. The more important idea is placed in the independent clause, and the less important idea is placed in the dependent clause.
• Compound—Complex Sentences: A compound—complex sentence is a combination of two or more independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses. It is like a family of two adults and one or more children.
Source: Oshima, A. & Hogue, A. 1991 Writing Academic English
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Sentences
Refer to this very self-explanatory web page to understand types of sentences.
http://www.eslbee.com/sentences.htm
http://www.eslbee.com/sentences.htm
Task 5
In this text you will have the opportunity to analyze and identified each sentence, clause and all phrases you have studied so far.
If any question emerges, please let me know.
At the little town of Vevey, in Switzerland, there is a particularly comfortable hotel. There are, indeed, many hotels, for the entertainment of tourists is the business of the place, which, as many travelers will remember, is seated upon the edge of a remarkably blue lake--a lake that it behooves every tourist to visit. The shore of the lake presents an unbroken array of establishments of this order, of every category, from the "grand hotel" of the newest fashion, with a chalk-white front, a hundred balconies, and a dozen flags flying from its roof, to the little Swiss pension of an elder day, with its name inscribed in German-looking lettering upon a pink or yellow wall and an awkward summerhouse in the angle of the garden. One of the hotels at Vevey, however, is famous, even classical, being distinguished from many of its upstart neighbors by an air both of luxury and of maturity. In this region, in the month of June, American travelers are extremely numerous; it may be said, indeed, that Vevey assumes at this period some of the characteristics of an American watering place. There are sights and sounds which evoke a vision, an echo, of Newport and Saratoga. There is a flitting hither and thither of "stylish" young girls, a rustling of muslin flounces, a rattle of dance music in the morning hours, a sound of high-pitched voices at all times. You receive an impression of these things at the excellent inn of the "Trois Couronnes" and are transported in fancy to the Ocean House or to Congress Hall. But at the "Trois Couronnes," it must be added, there are other features that are much at variance with these suggestions: neat German waiters, who look like secretaries of legation; Russian princesses sitting in the garden; little Polish boys walking about held by the hand, with their governors; a view of the sunny crest of the Dent du Midi and the picturesque towers of the Castle of Chillon.
If any question emerges, please let me know.
At the little town of Vevey, in Switzerland, there is a particularly comfortable hotel. There are, indeed, many hotels, for the entertainment of tourists is the business of the place, which, as many travelers will remember, is seated upon the edge of a remarkably blue lake--a lake that it behooves every tourist to visit. The shore of the lake presents an unbroken array of establishments of this order, of every category, from the "grand hotel" of the newest fashion, with a chalk-white front, a hundred balconies, and a dozen flags flying from its roof, to the little Swiss pension of an elder day, with its name inscribed in German-looking lettering upon a pink or yellow wall and an awkward summerhouse in the angle of the garden. One of the hotels at Vevey, however, is famous, even classical, being distinguished from many of its upstart neighbors by an air both of luxury and of maturity. In this region, in the month of June, American travelers are extremely numerous; it may be said, indeed, that Vevey assumes at this period some of the characteristics of an American watering place. There are sights and sounds which evoke a vision, an echo, of Newport and Saratoga. There is a flitting hither and thither of "stylish" young girls, a rustling of muslin flounces, a rattle of dance music in the morning hours, a sound of high-pitched voices at all times. You receive an impression of these things at the excellent inn of the "Trois Couronnes" and are transported in fancy to the Ocean House or to Congress Hall. But at the "Trois Couronnes," it must be added, there are other features that are much at variance with these suggestions: neat German waiters, who look like secretaries of legation; Russian princesses sitting in the garden; little Polish boys walking about held by the hand, with their governors; a view of the sunny crest of the Dent du Midi and the picturesque towers of the Castle of Chillon.
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