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When is a

Sentence not a
Sentence?
Which one do you like best?
A sentence is …
• A group of words that expresses a complete
thought
• A grammatical structure that begins with a
capital letter and ends with a full stop
• A grammatical structure that contains a finite
verb
• A grammatical structure that has a subject and a
predicate
Sentence structure
• A group of words that
contains a finite verb is
called a major sentence:
I live in Singapore.

• A group of words
without a finite verb is
called a minor sentence:
Wet suits for hire!
Sentence word order

Subject The boy That girl


Verb stroked is
Object the iguana
Complement sixteen
Adverbial affectionately tomorrow
Simple sentences
Subject Predicate
(includes main verb)

The house is empty.

The boy fell off his bike.


Inversion
• In asking questions:
– Are you well?
• After neither, nor and so:
– I hate opera. So do I
• After negative adv. expression and adv
expression beginning with only:
– Under no circumstance will I leave
– Only then did she see him truly
Inversion
• In descriptive writing:
– On the bed lay a beautiful princess.
• For poetic effect:
– Much have I travelled in the realms of gold …
Direct and indirect objects
Direct: He hugged the woman.
Indirect: He gave the woman a hug.
or He gave a hug to the woman.

Personal pronouns
Direct object first: Give it to me.
Verbs
Transitive Intransitive
assess appear
chase fall
inform go
organise wait
grow park
eat smoke
Four kinds of sentence
• Declarative – convey
information

• Interrogative – ask a
question

• Exclamatory – make an
exclamation

• Imperative – give a
command
Negative sentences
• add the negative word after the first
auxiliary
• if there is no auxiliary use ‘do’ before
the negative word

e.g. Present: I do not …


She does not …
Past: We did not ...
Questions
• Yes/no questions:
Have you eaten?
Do you eat meat?

• Wh- questions:
Who was calling?
Where has he been?
What did he mean?
Your parents don’t like him, do they?

He’s been smoking, hasn’t he?


form
form
It isn’t yours, is it? ==declarative
declarative++tag
tag

We are early, aren’t we?

the Subject is always present in the tag as a


pronoun, so to find out what the Subject is,
add a tag
A: Sir, you’ve put too many stamps on
this letter.
B: Oh dear, it won’t go further than I
want it to, _____________?
A: Doctor, come quickly!
B: What’s the problem?
A: We can’t get into our house.
B: That’s not really a job for a doctor,
________?
A: My baby swallowed our house key.
• My doctor says I can’t play tennis.
• Oh, so she’s played with you too,
_________?
• “Sir,” said the young man,
• “I’d like to marry your daughter.”
• “So,” replied the father, “You want to
become my son-in-law, __________?”

•“Not really, but I don’t have much


choice, _________?
Task b - Text 1

• Text type: School report


• Major sentence: declarative, giving information
• Audience: parents
• Purpose: to inform
• Tone: formal
Text 2
• Text type: Recipe
• Major sentences: imperative
• Audience: people who want to cook
• Purpose: to give instructions
• Tone: brisk/direct to reader
Text 3

• Text type: oral sports commentary


• Major & minor sentences:
declarative / exclamative
• Audience: sports fans
• Purpose: listeners’ information /enjoyment
• Tone: informal
Text 4
• Text type: questionnaire/health leaflet
• Major sentence type: interrogative
• Audience: reader interested in healthy
living or healthcare patient
• Purpose: seek information
• Tone: formal
Text 5
• Text type: Holiday advertisement
• Sentences: declarative,
• Audience: prospective holiday-maker
• Purpose: persuasion
• Tone: informal
• Each person speaks one at a time, going around
the group.
• Topic 1: Was there anything in today’s unit that
you want to remember for your own English?
Please be very specific

• Topic 2: What is one thing from this unit that


you want to remember to teach your pupils?
Please be very specific.

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