Sentence Flashcards
A sentence is composed of…
a main clause plus one or more subordinate clauses
A sentence must have…
subject and predicate
A sentence ends…
with a full stop, exclamation or question mark
Which are the sentence patterns?
- S + V
- S + V + Cs
- S + V + O
- S + V + Oi + Od
- S + V + Ac
- S + V + O + Co
- S + V + O + Ac
An example of a sentence with S + V pattern is…
He cries.
An example of a sentence with a S + V + Cs pattern is…
I am a man.
An example of a sentence with a S + V + O pattern is…
Sandra eats strawberries.
An example of a sentence with a S + V + Oi + Od pattern is…
You sent her a letter.
An example of a sentence with a S + V + Ac pattern is…
I am here.
The adverbial complement can be of…
-Position
-Direction
-Movement
An example of a sentence with a S + V + Od + Oc pattern is…
She painted her house blue.
An example of a sentence with a S + V + Od + Ac pattern is…
Gabriel put his phone inside his bag.
A ____ definition of sentence refers to the idea it conveys. It sees the sentence as a ‘’complete thought’’
notional
A ____ definition of a sentence refers to the form or shape of what the term refers to. Here we have the ‘’string of words beginning with capital letter and ending with a full stop’’ definition.
formal
An _____ sentence refers specifically to its written form.
ortographic
Criteria to classify a sentence:
- Major types
- Number of clauses
- Polarity
- Voice
- Pattern
- Speech act
Which are the major types of sentences? How do we identify them?
- Declarative - It follows the canonical order
- Interrogative - S-V inversion
- Imperative - No explicit subject present + verb in bare infinitive
- Exclamative - Finishes with an exclamation mark + it starts with a WH- word
Which classification is inside the number of clauses of a sentence?
- Simple sentence
- Multiple sentence
-Compound
-Complex
-Compound complex (a compound inside a complex sentence)
Which are the minor types of questions?
- Exclamatory questions
- Rhetorical questions
Exclamatory questions…
-Structure: interrogative
-Illocutionary force (speech act): exclamatory assertion
-Invite hearer’s agreement
-Speaker has strong feelings
-Meaning: positive
-Do not admit nonassertives (it would be transformed into an inquiry)
e.g Hasn’t she grown!
Am I hungry!
