English sentence patterns Flashcards
sentence pattern #1
strong active verbs –> action that adds emphasis
- devastated
- intercepted
- employs
sentence pattern #2
open with an adverb –> modifies a verb or adjective. answers the questions: how? when? where? why? etc
- anxiously
- clearly
- often
- sometimes
sentence pattern #3
open with a prepositional phrase –> modify nouns or verbs
- direction
- position
- time
- means
- abstract
sentence pattern #4
use a simile or metaphor
sentence pattern #5
use apposition –> appositives - nouns or pronouns that extend the meaning of preceding nouns
- Alan Smith, a reporter and historical researcher
- George Elliot, a British novelist
sentence pattern #6
open with an adverbial clause –> subject and predicate but cannot stand alone
- after she seized control, the situation changed drastically
- although he chirped away like a happy bird, I knew John’s sorrow
sentence pattern #7
use parallel structure in words, phrases, and sentences –> compares 2 or more things with equal importance
- in one summer, the student read the shock doctrine, the ruins, and brain on fire
sentence pattern #8
open with an adjective
- breathless and weary, he trudged down the road
sentence pattern #9
open with an adjective phrase
- consist of adjectives and a group of words, often a phrase, without subject or verb
- shocked at the news…
- confident when in possession of pencil and paper…
sentence pattern #10
open with a verb
- declaimed Marc Antony over Caesar’s body
- says one white house aide…
sentence pattern #11
write a compound sentence using a comma before the conjunctions for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so
- Arthur likes music, but Chris has a tin ear
- one must humor him, or he will have a tantrum
- I won’t go to the dance, nor will I buy a ticket
