{"id":694,"date":"2011-03-25T17:45:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T21:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/day-74-phrases-clauses-and-sentences\/"},"modified":"2015-09-11T14:41:02","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T18:41:02","slug":"day-74-phrases-clauses-and-sentences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/day-74-phrases-clauses-and-sentences\/","title":{"rendered":"day 74: phrases, clauses, and sentences"},"content":{"rendered":"
We have talked at length about what a sentence contains:<\/p>\n
C apital<\/p>\n
A ll makes sense<\/p>\n
V erb<\/p>\n
E nd mark<\/p>\n
S ubject<\/p>\n
CAVES!<\/p>\n
Again, most people have trouble witht the A one–All makes sense. When a “sentence” doesn’t make sense, it is often because it is not a sentence at all, but it is a phrase or a clause. <\/p>\n
We are going to talk in detail about phrases and clauses in the upcoming weeks because we are going to talk a lot about sentence structure–openers, simple sentences, compound sentences, etc.<\/p>\n
So…a little “phrase and clause” lesson is in order first:<\/p>\n
1. Phrase–<\/p>\n
a. Group of words<\/p>\n
b. Group of words that is not a sentence<\/p>\n
c. Group of words that is not a sentence and does not usually contain a subject and a verb (though may seem to have one or the other)<\/p>\n
d. There are various types of phrases–the one that people are most familiar with is the prepositional phrase–begins with a preposition and ends with the object of the preposition:
i. over the clouds
ii. into the clouds
iii. around the clouds
iv. within the clouds
v. under the clouds<\/p>\n
2. Clause<\/p>\n
a. Group of words<\/p>\n
b. Group of words that might or might not be a sentence<\/p>\n
c. Group of words that contains a subject and a verb<\/p>\n
d. Two kinds of clauses<\/p>\n
i. Independent clause–also called a sentence<\/p>\n
ii. Dependent clause–also called a subordinate clause<\/p>\n
Don’t despair! These are not as complicated as they sound! You write with them all the time–but I hope to help you recognize them and punctuate them correctly in sentences–over the next few weeks!<\/p>\n
Happy writing!<\/p>\n
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We have talked at length about what a sentence contains: C apital A ll makes sense V erb E nd mark S ubject CAVES! Again, most people have trouble witht the A one–All makes sense. When a “sentence” doesn’t make sense, it is often because it is not a sentence at all, but it is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[628,640,82,632],"tags":[141,147,238,346,192,142,179],"yoast_head":"\n