Trang 1 TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC THỦY LỢITrung tâm Đào tạo Quốc tế - Bộ môn Tiếng AnhMôn học: VIẾT NÂNG CAO 1Tên giảng viên: Vũ Thị Thu HươngEmail: vuhuong@tlu.edu.vn Trang 2 Chapter 1: Types of
TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC THỦY LỢI Trung tâm Đào tạo Quốc tế - Bộ môn Tiếng Anh Môn học: VIẾT NÂNG CAO Tên giảng viên: Vũ Thị Thu Hương Email: vuhuong@tlu.edu.vn ĐT: 0988.205.366 Chapter 1: Types of sentences Main points & Unit objectives • Kinds of clauses: dependent clauses / independent clauses / noun clauses/adjective clauses… • Kinds of sentences: simple / compound / complex… • Sentence problems: fragments, run-ons, comma splices, choppy and stringy sentences • Using Parallelism and Fixing sentence Problems I Kinds and features of clauses Independent clause (IC) Dependent Clause (DC) contains a subject and a verb contains a subject and a verb express a complete thought does not express a complete thought can stand alone as a sentence by itself can not stand alone as a sentence by itself S+V Subordinator + S + V I Kinds and features of clauses • What are the subordinators of DC? After Before That When Which Although Even though Though Whenever While As, just as How Unless Where Who As if If Until Wherever Whom As soon as since what Whether Whose Because So that I Kinds and features of clauses Practice 1: Distinguish IC and DC (Prac – p.3) Complete sentences, using IC or DC (Handout) II KINDS of SENTENCES Freshwater boils at 100 degrees Celsius at sea level (simple sentence) Salt water boils at a higher temperature than freshwater, so food cooks faster in salt water (compound sent.) Sentences Although women in the United States could own property, they could not vote until 1920 (complex sent.) Although women in the United States could own property, they could not vote until 1920; and after 1920, their vote was legal (compound-complex sent.) II.1 Simple Sentences Features: • Have one Independent clause (IC) • End with a stop (.) • Basic form: S+V • Eg: Freshwater boils at 100 degrees Celsius at sea level Freshwater boils at 100 degrees and freezes at degrees Celsius Notes: There exist some variations of simple sentences Practice 2: Read the paragraphs and decide what variation each sentence belongs to Practice : Write sentences - Topic: the Internet II.2 Compound Sentences • two or more independent clauses joined together • end with a stop (.) • basic forms: IC, coordinator IC IC; conjunctive adverb, IC IC; IC