4. Learning Outcomes:
- Identify and construct the four types of sentences
- Improve the writing style by using the types of sentences
- Identify and revise sentence problems
5. Language Focus:
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- Words, Phrases, and Sentences
- Simple, Compound, Complex, and Compound-Complex Sentences
- Fragments and Run-On Sentences
8. How do you define clauses and sentences?
o I agree.
o The woman ate her dinner quickly.
o I cannot move because my back hurts.
independent clause dependent clause
All of these
are sentences
17. Simple Sentences
I stay out too late.
I’ve got nothing in my brain.
I go on too many dates but can't make them stay.
I used to bite my tongue and hold my breath.
My mum and dad are doctors.
18. Compound Sentences
I go on too many dates, but I can't make them stay.
I want your love, and I want your revenge.
20. “A comma and FANBOYS
are like soul mates in
compound sentences”
21. Complex Sentences
When the cost goes up, customers buy less clothing.
Wherever you go, you can always find beauty.
I have to save this coupon because I don’t have time to shop
right now.
After she died, he still had feelings for her.
22. To use or not to use a comma in complex sentences
When the cost goes up,customers buy less clothing.
Customers buy less clothing when the cost goes up.
23. Compound-Complex Sentences
I’ve got the eye of the tiger, a fighter, dancing through the
fire ‘cause I am a champion, and you're gonna hear me roar.
Sorry for using these
informal words.
‘cause= because
gonna= going to
27. Run-ons
Comma splices:
✘I knew it but, I didn’t care.
(wrong place of comma)
✘I go on too many dates. but I can't
make them stay.
(wrong punctuation)
✘I need it because, it is obligatory.
Fused sentences:
✘ I knew it but I didn’t care.
✘ I go on too many dates but I can't
make them stay.
✘ Because it is obligatory I need it.
28. REFLECTION
Draw an attractive mind map about Sentence Sense.
Explain the concepts in the mind map to yourself or to
your friend.