Sentences

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 wrongfully convicted murderer patiently awaited her revenge.

Predicate – what the subject does The wrongfully convicted murderer patiently awaited her revenge.

Sentence Types

Declarative – a sentence that makes a statement (ends with a period mark) Learning to travel to hell helps witches overcome their fears.

Imperative – a sentence that makes a command (ends with a period mark) Learn to travel to hell immediately.

Interrogative – a sentence that asks a question (ends with a question mark) Why would anyone want to travel to hell?

Exclamatory – a sentence that expresses great emotion, passion, excitement (ends with an exclamation mark) That trip to hell was terrifying!

Sentence Patterns

Simple Sentence: A sentence that is just one independent clause. Most people who have unfinished business are in the form of spirits.

Compound Sentence: A sentence with multiple independent clauses, but no dependent clauses - connected by FANBOYS (coordinating conjunctions) or a semicolon (;). Many episodes for AHS take up lots of time, but they all can be finished.

Complex-Compound Sentence: A sentence with multiple independent clauses and at least one dependent clause. Whether you plan ahead or not, most evil can be prevented, but they can take up 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. This show will haunt your mind, no matter what you're afraid of.

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. No matter what you’re afraid of, this show will haunt your mind.

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. Warlocks tend to be inferior, to practice all spells and incantations, only to fail where witches succeed.

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. Witches spend their days getting stronger while Warlocks never seem to progress.

Chiasmus: A sentence that includes a repetition of ideas (words, phrases, or clauses) in inverted (reversed) order - this sentence requires symmetry. The supreme makes the coven what it is and without her the coven would be nothing.

Asyndeton: A sentence that leaves out conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses for a rhetorical purpose. The supreme typically exhibits power, tenacity, leadership, radiant health.

Polysyndeton: A sentence that uses multiple conjunctions in close proximity to each other between words, phrases, or clauses for a rhetorical purpose. The supreme typically exhibits powerfulness and tenacity and leadership and ultimately, radiance of health.

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. For many witches ,attempting the 7 wonders could be the end of their life, while for one it can lead to supremacy , but most will agree that the 7 wonders is a dangerous exam. Epistrophe: A sentence featuring several phrases or clauses ending with the same word or words. Witches devote their loyalty to the coven, their energy to the coven, their lives solely committed to their fellow witches and if broken, burned at the stake.

Run-On/Rambling/Fused Sentence – a sentence construction error where two or more independent clauses are connected incorrectly without punctuation. The actors wanted to stop working on their interviews they needed to do work for other shows they had no time. [WRONG] The actors wanted to stop working on their interviews BECAUSE they needed to do work for other shows AND they had no time. [RIGHT]

Comma Splice – a sentence construction error where two or more independent clauses are connected incorrectly using commas Mr Jingles wanted to stop Richard Ramirez from killing his son, Richard wanted to kill him, he had no escape. [WRONG] Mr Jingles wanted to stop Richard Ramirez from killing his son. Richard wanted to kill him; he had no escape. [RIGHT]

Fragment – incomplete sentence pieces that are not connected to or do not form an independent clause Because the witches had no time. [WRONG] Because the witches had no time, they had to work faster to defeat Michael Langdon. [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 debate, the politician gave a speech to the gunpoint at cult leader. [WRONG] At the debate, the politician gave a speech to the cult leader at gunpoint. [RIGHT]

Double Negative – combining two or more negative words in a sentence in a way that is supposed to produce a positive force The survivors knew that it wouldn’t do them no good to spare Dandy. [WRONG] The survivors knew that it would not do them any good to spare Dandy. [RIGHT]