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Slide1
Simple Sentences
Slide2A
simple sentence
consists of one independent clause.
Clause: group
of words with a subject and a
predicate
Independent - strong
, stands alone
Dependent - weak
, needs
support
Examples
The students yawned.
Jason jumped.
Slide3A
simple sentence
consists of a subject and a predicate.
Subject: Who or what the sentence is about (noun)
Predicate: What the subject is doing (verb)
Examples
:
The
students
yawned
.
Jason
jumped
.
The
assignments
were due on Friday
.
Subjects
Predicates
Slide4A
simple sentence
has only one independent clause, but it can have more than one subject or
predicate.
Examples:
TWO SUBJECTS:
The student and his friend
yawned.
TWO VERBS : The student
yawned and fell asleep
.
Slide5Usually, simple sentences are
short
. For this reason, they are generally preferred for
young writers
, because short sentences are easier to control and
easier to read
. Perhaps the most famous writer of short sentences was
Ernest Hemingway
. He also wrote many sentences that were moderately long, but his short, staccato sentences are part of his legacy. Consider the following passage
from
The Short Happy Life of Francis
Macomber
Slide6The Short Happy Life of Francis
Macomber
, about a man finding his courage on a safari after an embarrassing display of cowardice:
Beggar had probably been afraid all his life. Don’t know what started it. But over now. Hadn’t had time to be afraid with the buff. That and being angry too. Motor car too. Motor car made it familiar. Be a
fire
eater now. He’d seen it in the war work the same way. More of a change than any loss of
childhood.
Fear gone like an operation. Something else grew in its place. Main thing a man had. Made him into a man. Women knew it too. No bloody fear.
Slide7The
sentences in this passage average fewer than six words.
You will notice that Hemingway also used some sentence fragments.
His short style looks easier than it is. Give
it a try yourself.
Assemble
the following items into a paragraph in which you write sentences no more than
six words
in length.
No sentence fragments.
You
can use all or some of the items listed.
An
island . . . a family . . . a storm . . . treasure . . . rescue . . . sharks