Sentences

Sentence – a set of words that contains a subject and a predicate and conveys a statement, command, question, or an exclamation.

Sentence Parts

Subject – what/who the sentence is about The Bakery was closed down due to a fire. Predicate – what the subject does The students were learning about the dierent types of food coloring.

Sentence Types

Declarative – a sentence that makes a statement (ends with a period mark) Pre-heating the oven makes cooking easier Imperative – a sentence that makes a command (ends with a period mark) Stop adding all your eggs at once, do it one by one.. Interrogative – a sentence that asks a question (ends with a question mark) Why doesn’t the hard candy go stale? Exclamatory – a sentence that expresses great emotion, passion, excitement (ends with an exclamation mark) The donut filling was delicious!

Sentence Patterns

Simple Sentence: A sentence that is just one independent clause. Jane sat down and ate pasta Compound Sentence: A sentence with multiple independent clauses, but no dependent clauses - connected by FANBOYS (coordinating conjunctions) or a semicolon (;). Many students are finishing their donuts, they just need to decorate it. Complex Sentence: A sentence with one independent clause and at least one dependent clause. The candy store open up at 9, many kids enter to buy candy for a snack

Complex-Compound Sentence: A sentence with multiple independent clauses and at least one dependent clause. Even if you start from scratch or buy ready ingredients, making exotic food can take a lot of time

Loose Sentence: A sentence that contains an independent clause plus a subordinate construction (either a clause or phrase) with your main point at the beginning. Matcha latte from starbucks tastes terrible, some people may like it but it tasted like grass Periodic Sentence: A sentence in which the independent clause is given at the end of the sentence in order to create interest or generate suspense with the main point coming at the end. Chocolate and vanilla ice cream gets boring, cookies and cream is a better choice

Parallel Structure: A sentence using the same pattern of two or more verbs or ideas that match in tense or structure to show that they are of equal importance and to help the reader comprehend what is being written - this sentence requires symmetry. Cooks tend to work hard, not waste food, or even donate it, they get a lot of respect Balanced Sentence: A sentence where phrases or clauses at the beginning and the end parallel each other by virtue of their likeness of structure, meaning, or length - this sentence requires symmetry. Students bake at day and sell them at noon, then they clean during night Chiasmus: A sentence that includes a repetition of ideas (words, phrases, or clauses) in inverted (reversed) order - this sentence requires symmetry. Without baking powder most pastries would be here without it. Asyndeton: A sentence that leaves out conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses for a rhetorical purpose. Traditional food are usually, unique, tasty, and sweet Polysyndeton: A sentence that uses multiple conjunctions in close proximity to each other between words, phrases, or clauses for a rhetorical purpose. Matcha can be sweet, bitter, and nasty but many people still like it. Anaphora: A sentence that features the purposeful repetition of a word, words, or a phrase at the beginning of several successive clauses in order to place emphasis and draw attention. Cooking can be hard for some people, from fear of getting burned, can’t follow instructions, not enough money and straight up dont like cooking.

Epistrophe: A sentence featuring several phrases or clauses ending with the same word or words. Milk comes from cows, at first it is liquidy that can be mixed with many things, if felt out to harden , it becomes cheese which is still from a cow

Sentence Errors

Run-On/Rambling/Fused Sentence – a sentence construction error where two or more independent clauses are connected incorrectly without punctuation. Cindy refrigerated the batter over night overslept and it became hard [WRONG] Cindy refrigerated the after overnight but overslept and became hard [RIGHT] Comma Splice – a sentence construction error where two or more independent clauses are connected incorrectly using commas Jelly conistis of water jelly powder and gelatine [WRONG] Jelly consists of water, jelly powder, and gelatine. [RIGHT]

Fragment – incomplete sentence pieces that are not connected to or do not form an independent clause The cookie became stale [WRONG] The cookie became stale since it was left out of its bag . [RIGHT] Misplaced/Dangling Modifiers – modifiers are words, phrases, or clauses that add description; a misplaced modifier describes the wrong part of a sentence and a

dangling modifier is missing the part it’s supposed to modify

At the party, rose’s aunt gave a tamale to her friend that was very tasty [WRONG] At the party, rose’s aunt gave a tamale that was very tasty to her friend. [RIGHT] Double Negative – combining two or more negative words in a sentence in a way that is supposed to produce a positive force The students diddnt know that they can 't put the eggs first before the flour [WRONG] The students didn’t know that they can not put the eggs first before the flour. [RIGHT]