Our report on Sentence as Structure and Postmodifiers. Reference: Dadufalza, Reading Into Writing 1

1. Communication Arts1
BS Biology
Ancheta
Larracas
Magnaye
Perez
Protacio

2. THE SENTENCE
AS STUCTURE

3. HEADWORD/HEADNOUN
• He started teaching as a religion teacher at De La
Salle Lipa in 1983.
• Aunor is also one of the few Asian actresses to be
nominated as best actress in three Asian film awards.

4. PREMODIFIERS

5. ARTICLES:
• Ona is recognized as one of the top surgeons in the
field of vascular surgery and organ transplantation in
the country.
• Erin Gruwell is an American teacher known for her
unique teaching method

6. QUANTIFIERS:
• A few years later, the family moved to Wilmington,
Delaware, where Oz was raised.
• Aunor has also appeared in several stage plays, television
shows, and concerts.

7. DEMOSTRATIVES:
• This election was marred by fraud because of the
nationwide power outages.
• Those policies have come to be known as
Thatcherism.

8. POSSESSIVES:
• He won the 2006 Printz Award for his debut novel,
Looking for Alaska.
• The 2007 film Freedom Writers is based on her
inspirational story

9. WH-DETERMINERS:
• Malala Yousafzi proved that education is a right
regardless of whatever sexuality or social status you
belong to.
• “We have this weird thing in the world where you
don't get insulted for what you do, you get insulted for
who you are.”
―John Green

10. CARDINAL NUMBERS:
• Grace Kelly has featured in over sixty television
productions.
• Dr. Benjamin Carson Sr. led a surgical team with fifty
members.

11. ORDINAL NUMBERS:
• Kelly was the third child in her family.
• Dr. Carson is credited for being the first surgeon to
successfully separate conjoined twins joined at the
head.

12. GENERAL ORDINALS:
• Kelly’s final performance at the American Academy
of Dramatic Arts was in “A Philadelphia Story”.
• Michael Oher worked with a tutor for for 20 hours a
week for further education.

13. ADJECTIVES:
• The couple began tending to Michael’s needs after
becoming familiar with his difficult childhood.
• Dr. Carson became the youngest director in John’s
Hopkins history, at only thirty-three years old.

14. -ed PARTICIPLES:
• Margaret Thatcher’s political initiatives were launched
with the intended purpose of reversing the country’s
high unemployment rate.
• Because of his reputation and being an experienced
athlete, Michael was offered a contract, and is now a
member of the Tennessee Titans.

15. -ing PARTICIPLES:
• Margaret Thatcher was dubbed the “Iron Lady”
because of her uncompromising politics and
leadership style.
• Michael’s life story was featured in the Academy
Award-winning film, “The Blind Side” (2009).

16. NOUNS:
• Michael Oher is famed for being a football player
with a degree in criminal justice.
• The students Ms. Erin Gruwell inspired would later
grow up to be the Freedom Writers, who continually
share the insights they learned from their teacher.

17. GENTIVES:
 Kelly Grace’s sophistication, astounding beauty and talent
earned her worldwide respect and admiration.
 Kelly’s raw and uncharacteristically stripped-down
performance in The Country Girl (1954) garnered her a n
Academy Award, beating Judy Garland

18. COMPOUNDS:
• One of Margaret Thatcher’s staunchest allies was US
President Ronald Reagan, a fellow conservative,
whom she shared similar right-wing, pro-corporate
political philosophies.
• Her strong-willed, uncompromising politics and
leadership style led her to be dubbed as the “Iron
Lady.”

19. POSTMODIFIERS

20. ADJECTIVES:
• The life story of Michael Oher, athlete extraordinaire
speaks volumes of something so vivid and
inspirational, a representation of human kindness
and familial integration.
• His life of abandonment soon transformed into a life
of joy, love aplenty.

21. ADVERBS:
• Having knocked to a different life, Michael Oher
cannot believe how far he had gone from nothing to
winning the Super Bowl in the 12-13 season against
the San Francisco 49ers.
• The person behind the supreme change of Great Britain
was Margaret Thatcher, its first ever woman to hold
the position of Prime Minister.

22. -ed PARTICIPLES/ PARTICIPIAL
CLAUSES:
• Carson believed his hand–eye coordination and three-
dimensional reasoning skills made him a gifted surgeon.
• In 1987 Carson successfully separated conjoined twins,
the Binder twins, who had been joined at the back of
the head, making them craniopagus twins

23. -ing PARTICIPLES/ PARTICIPIAL
CLAUSES:
• John and Hank Green’s Crash Course has been helping
students understand complex diversities of learning
areas and at the same time, having fun while doing
so.
• Brilliant filmmaker Sarah Polley will be writing and
directing a film adaptation of Looking for Alaska, John
Green’s bestseller.

24. INFINITIVES/INFINITIVE
CLAUSES:
• He worked into establishing De La Salle Philippines,
which replaced the system.
• During the Civil War, Clara Barton sought to help
the soldiers in any way she could.

25. PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES:
• Not content sitting on the sidelines, Barton served as
an independent nurse and first saw combat in
Fredericksburg, Virginia, in 1862.
• He had grown tired of marches, going to jail, and
living under the constant threat of death.

26. APPOSITIVE CLAUSES:
• When she was 14, Malala and her family learned that
the Taliban had issued a death threat against her.
• In the 1970s, FBI files, released under the Freedom
of Information Act, revealed that he was under
government surveillance, and suggested his
involvement in adulterous relationships and
communist influences.

27. CLAUSES OF TIME, PLACE
AND MANNER FUNCTIONING
AS RELATIVE CLAUSES:
• Obama, Jr. only saw his father when his father visited
Hawaii in 1971.
• When she was 14, Malala and her family learned that
the Taliban had issued a death threat against her.

28. RELATIVE CLAUSES
(RESTRICTIVE):
• Obama also struggled with the absence of his father,
who he saw only once more after his parents
divorced.
• In 1977, Princess Diana became reacquainted with
their older brother, Prince Charles, who was 13 years
her senior.

29. RELATIVE CLAUSES
(NON-RESTRICTIVE):
• Luistro co-founded De La Salle Catholic University
of Manado, currently known as De La Salle
University, in Indonesia.
• In contrast, Ceasar Purisima, the Secretary of Finane,
had $252 million.

30. Functions of
Noun Phrases

31. SUBJECT:
• Martin Luther King Jr’s life had a seismic impact on race
relations in the United States.
• His life and work have been honored with a national
holiday, schools, and public buildings named after him,
and a memorial on Independence Hall is Washington,
D.C.

32. SUBJECTIVE COMPLEMENT:
• British royalty Princess Diana Spencer was born on
July 1, 1961 near Sandringham, England.
• Initially overwhelmed by her royal duties and intense
media coverage of nearly ever aspect of her life, she
began to develop and pursue her own interests.

33. DIRECT OBJECT:
• As a child, Malala Youfaszai became an advocate for
girl’s education, which resulted in the Taliban issuing a
death threat against her.
• She gave a speech at the United Nations on her 16th
birthday, in 2013.

34. INDIRECT OBJECT:
• Malala delivered the people a speech on women’s
rights to education.
• Beckham gave his fans sad news when he announced
his retirement.

35. OBJECTIVE COMPLEMENT:
• Beckham is a product of Sir Alex Ferguson's school
of hard graft at Manchester United.
• He is also a patron of the Elton John AIDS
Foundation.

36. OBJECT OF THE
PREPOSITION:
• A portion of Malala’s skull was removed to to treat
the swelling in her brain.
• Barton was nicknamed “the angel of the battlefield”
for her work.

37. SUBJECT ON AN –ing
PARTICIPIAL PHRASE:
• Princess Diana supported the people addressing the issue
on the use of land mines.
• David Beckham denied the rumors surrounding his
alleged affairs while his wife supported him.