Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Sentence Patterns
• I like English.
• I am an IT manager.
• A young businessman
• Students in this classroom
• My computer hanged.
• This program is good.
• A floppy disk on the big table in the lab
What is Sentence?
Every sentence has a subject and a predicate.
What is Sentence?
A subject can be a noun or pronoun that is partnered with a
verb.
subject verb
What is Sentence?
A predicate is the rest of the sentence coming after the
subject.
subject predicate
What is Sentence?
Sometimes the predicate will be composed of 2 or 3 verbs that
fit together.
subject predicate
Simple Sentence
Pattern 3: Subject + Linking Verb+ Subject Complement
Subject Verb Subj Complement Adverbial
Simple Sentence
Pattern 4: Subject + Verb+ Indirect Obj + Direct Obj
• He is giving a presentation.
• She is bored.
Compound Sentence
A compound sentence contains 2 simple sentences joined by a
coordinating conjunction (and, but, so, for, or) with a comma
preceding it.
simple
Simple 1 1 simple 2 Simple 2
Compound Sentence
Coordinating Examples
conjunctions
And shows addition Imagesetters produce very high-solution
output, and they are extremely fast.
Compound Sentence
Coordinating Examples
conjunctions
So shows a result The computer crashed, so I lost all of my
work.
For shows a reason: Good programmers usually test their
programs many times, for they don’t want to
overlook any errors.
Compound Sentence
Coordinating Examples
conjunctions
Or shows an alternative Computer programmers write programs for
or choice: users, or end users purchase and use
computer software.
Combining Sentences
Combining Sentences
Combining Sentences
We use units such as KB, MB, and GB, for we want to avoid
astronomical figures and sums in the calculation of bytes.
Combining Sentences
Combining Sentences
Combining Sentences
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Combining Sentences
You can buy things on the Web easily and safely with
digital cash.
Combining Sentences
Combining Sentences
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