Writing Academic English 4th Edition

164 Part 1111 ISentenceStructure

r--s----, v

Freshwaterboilsat 100 degreesCelsiusatsealevel.

r--s----, v v

Freshwaterboilsat 100 degreesandfreezesat0 degreesCelsius.

7. Also,changesinworkschedulescancausejetlag


8. Whenhospitalnurseschangefroma dayshifttoa nightshift,
   forexample


9. Althoughthereis nosurewaytopreventjetlag

____10. Therearesomewaystominimizeit

____11. Becausejetlagis causedatleastpartiallybylossofsleep,not

justa changeinthetimeofsleep

____12. Atravelershouldplantoarriveathisorherdestinationaslate

aspossible

____13. Uponarriving,heorsheshouldimmediatelygotobed

____14. Thenthetravelershouldstarttoliveinthenewtimezone

immediately

____15. Evenwhenthetravelerarrivesearlyinthemorningandcannot

gotobedimmediately

Usea separatesheetofpaperforthisexercise.

1. Writetwosimplesentenceswithonesubjectandoneverb.


2. Writetwosimplesentenceswithonesubjectandtwoverbs.


3. Writetwosimplesentenceswithtwosubjectsandoneverb.


4. Writetwosimplesentenceswithtwosubjectsandtwoverbs.

Noticethatthesecondsentencehastwoverbs,boilsandfreezes.Thisis calleda

compoundverb.Thethirdsentencehasbotha compoundsubjectanda compound

verb.Allthreeexamplesaresimplesentencesbecausetheyhaveonlyoneclause.

r--s----, ,--s~r-v-----, ,--v-----,

Freshwaterandsaltwaterdonotboilanddonotfreezeatthesame

temperatures.

Asimplesentenceisoneindependentclause.

Asentenceis a groupofwordsthatyouusetocommunicateyourideas.Everysen-

tenceis formedfromoneormoreclausesandexpressesa completethought.

ThefourbasickindsofsentencesinEnglisharesimple,compound,complex,and

compound-complex.Thekindofsentenceis determinedbythekindofclausesused

toformit.

SimpleSentences

KindsofSentences

Simple

Sentences