This document discusses different types of sentences and their components. It defines a sentence as a group of words containing a subject and a predicate. There are four main types of sentences: simple sentences containing one independent clause, compound sentences containing two or more independent clauses, complex sentences containing one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses, and complex-compound sentences containing multiple independent clauses with at least one dependent clause. Sentences can also be classified by purpose as declarative, interrogative, exclamatory, or imperative. The document also discusses minor sentences which lack finite verbs and factors that influence sentence length and complexity.

1. ROY S. CAPANGPANGAN
BSED III-ENG

3. Examples:
• God is good.
• Love and patience are both godlike.
• The heart of man is swayed by various emotions.
• The girl in the old house felt lonesome everyday last
year.
• The individual owner of land does not create land value.
• The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

4. COMPONENTS
• CLAUSE --> is a group of words containing a subject
and a predicate.
• SUBJECT --> is the word(s) about which something is
said.
• VERB --> is a word that denotes action, state or being.
• PREDICATE --> word(s) that tells something about the
subject.
• NOUN --> a word that names a person, place, or thing.
• PHRASE --> is a group of words, containing neither
subject nor predicate, which act as a single part of
speech.

5. CLASSIFICATION
1) BY STRUCTURE
2) BY PURPOSE
3) MAJOR & MINOR SENTENCES

6. BY STRUCTURE
One traditional scheme for classifying English sentences is by
the number and types of finite clauses:
1. A Simple Sentence consists of a single independent
clause with no dependent clause.
2. A Compound Sentence consists of multiple independent
clauses with no dependent clauses. These clauses are
joined together using conjunctions, punctuation, or both.
3. A Complex Sentence consists of at least one independent
clause and one dependent clause.
4. A Complex-Compound Sentence (or Compound-Complex
Sentence) consists of multiple independent clauses, at
least one of which has at least one dependent clause.

7. SIMPLE SENTENCE
Examples:
1. Come.
2. Boys like to play in the woods.
3. Gerry and Luis are working in the shop.
4. By the river a tall narra tree grew.
5. Minutes are the gold dust of time.

8. COMPOUND SENTENCE
Examples:
1. Food is essential to life, but it should not be the end of
existence.
2. I shall go, but you must stay.
3. We knew the password, but we were too tongue-tied to
speak.

9. COMPLEX SENTENCE
Example:
I, who am your friend, will help you.
--”I will help you” is the main clause. It expresses a
complete thought and therefore can stand alone.
--”Who am your friend” is the subordinate clause. Even if
we put a period at the end of this clause and begin it
with a capital letter, still the thought is remains
incomplete; so the clause cannot stand alone.

10. BY PURPOSE:
Sentences can also be classified based on their purpose:
1. A Declarative Sentence or declaration, the most common
type, commonly makes a statement: "I have to go to work.“
2. An Interrogative Sentence or question is commonly used
to request information — "Do I have to go to work?" — but
sometimes not.
3. An Exclamatory Sentence or exclamation is generally a
more emphatic form of statement expressing emotion: "I
have to go to work!“
4. An Imperative Sentence or command tells someone to do
something (and if done strongly may be considered both
imperative and exclamatory): "Go to work." or "Go to
work!"

11. MAJOR & MINOR
SENTENCE
1. MAJOR SENTENCE is a regular sentence; it has
a subject and a predicate.
For example: "I have a ball." In this sentence one can change the
persons: "We have a ball.“
2. MINOR SENTENCE is an irregular type of sentence. It
does not contain a finite verb.
Example: "Mary!”
"Yes.“
"Coffee.“

12. Other examples sentences:
1. Headings (e.g. the heading of this entry)
2. Stereotyped Expressions ("Hello!")
3. Emotional Expressions ("Wow!")
4. Proverbs
5. This can also include nominal sentences like "The
more, the merrier". (These do not contain verbs in order
to intensify the meaning around the nouns and are
normally found in poetry and catch phrases)

13. SENTENCE LENGTH
After a slump of interest, sentence length came to be
studied in the 1980s, mostly "with respect to other
syntactic phenomena".
By some definitions, the average size length of a sentence
is given by "no. of words / no. of sentences".
The textbook Mathematical linguistics, written by András
Kornaiin suggests that in "journalistic prose the median
sentence length is above 15 words".
The average length of a sentence generally serves as a
measure of sentence difficulty or complexity.
The general trend is that as the average sentence length
increases, the complexity of the sentences also
increases.

14. SENTENCE LENGTH
In some circumstances "sentence length" is expressed by
the number of clauses, while the "clause length" is
expressed by the number of phones.
Sentence length, as well as word difficulty, are both factors
in the readability of a sentence.
However, other factors, such as the presence of
conjunctions, have been said to "facilitate
comprehension considerably".

15. END OF DISCUSSIONS
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16. SHORT QUIZ
• Direction: Identify the correct word.
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