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In today’s English class, we will be learning about Sentence Building
To understand sentence building is to imagine what it’s like to build a house. Have you ever wondered how a house is built? When you go to any construction site, some of the things you’ll find on ground include blocks, cement, scaffolds, laborers, an architect and other building materials.
The reason you find all these people there is because without them, you cannot have a building.
Sentence Building
Sentence building is the order of all the parts in a sentence. This includes subject, predicate, objects, phrases, punctuation, and so on.
Aside from knowing the parts of a sentence, you also have to follow the grammar rules. The grammar rules that must be followed in sentence building are:
- Capitalize the first letter of the first word in a sentence.
- End a sentence with a period, question mark, exclamation point, or quotation marks.
- Most of the time, the subject of the sentence comes first, the verb comes second, and the objects come last. (Subject -> Verb -> Object)
Before we get into those different sentence structures, it’s important to understand how clauses work. A clause is a group of words that contains a subject and a verb.
Sometimes a clause is a complete sentence on its own, but other times it needs help before it expresses a complete thought.
A clause that is a complete sentence is called an independent clause. It contains everything you need for a complete sentence: subjects and verbs, with objects optional.
For example, “We will eat breakfast by seven”, is a clause that is complete on its own.
An example of an incomplete clause is, “The boys came.”
Example 1 provides complete information while example 2 doesn’t.
4 Types of Sentence Structure
Depending on how you combine clauses, you can create four different types of sentence structure:
- Simple: 1 independent clause
- Compound: 2 or more independent clauses
- Complex: 1 independent clause + 1 or more subordinate clauses
- Compound-Complex: 2 or more independent clauses + 1 or more subordinate clauses
In summary, to understand Sentence building is to know that it is the order of all the parts in a sentence which includes subject, predicate, objects, phrases, punctuation, and so on.
Evaluation
List all the parts that make up a sentence building as explained in the class.
Reading Assignment
- What is Sentence Building?
- List the grammar rules you must follow in sentence building
Weekend Assignment
- Explain the major difference between an incomplete clause and a complete clause.
- What are the four types of sentence structure
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