Transcript Sentence level revision - Texas Tech English 1301

SENTENCE LEVEL
REVISION
Week Thirteen
Lesson Objectives
• Discuss the following:
• Conjunctions (Coordination and Subordination)
• Comma Splices and Fused Sentences
• Sentence Fragments
• Modifier Placement
Coordinate Conjunctions
Connect elements of equal importance.
Conjunctive:
• And
Disjunctive
• But
• Or
• Nor
• Yet
Subjunctive Conjunctions
Connects elements of differing importance.
After
Even if
Save
Until
Although
Even though
Since
When
As
Except
Than
Whenever
As if
For
That
Where
As though
If
Though
Wherever
Because
Lest
Till
Whether
Before
Provided
Unless
While
How to Choose the Right Conjunction?
Questions to ask:
• Are the elements of equal importance?
• Are they bringing the elements together, or creating opposition?
• Do the elements need each other to make sense?
• Place? Where, Wherever
• Time? After, Before, Since, Until, When, Whenever, While
• Manner? As, As if
• Reason? As, Because, In order that, Since, So, That,
• Possibility/Conditionality? Although, If, Even if, Provided, Though,
Unless
• Comparison? As, Than
Quiz: More Practice
• Revise the following sentences into complex
sentences:
1. Sam loves to cook. He loves to eat more.
2. Jane went to the movies. I went, too.
3. They will stay. They will go.
4. The impetus for some critics is to dismiss
Harte as unreliable. It is important to remember
that Bret Harte is not an isolated case of
aggrandizement.
5. You’ve been gone. I can breathe for the first
time.
Comma Splices and Fused Sentences
The difference? Punctuation
• Many motorists are unaware of the dangers of
texting while driving, lawmakers have taken the
matter into their own hands.
• How would you revise these sentences?
• The number of vaccine manufacturers has
plummeted the industry has been hit with a flood
of lawsuits.
Sentence Fragments
Causes:
• Fragment is missing a subject or verb.
• Long stretches of white beaches and shady palm trees.
Give tourists the impression of an island paradise.
• Fragment is a dependent clause.
• The number of vaccine manufacturers has plummeted.
Since the industry has been hit with a flood of lawsuits.
• As soon as the seventy-five-year-old walked onstage.
The audience burst into applause.
Modifier Placement
• The coach awarded a medal to the most valuable
player made of solid brass.
• What is “made of solid brass?” The play or the medal?
“Misplaced modifiers cause confusion because they are not
close enough to the words they modify or because they
seem to modify more than one thing” (St. Martins 38a).
• Disruptive
• Dangling
Disruptive Modifier
“Disruptive modifiers interrupt the connections between
parts of a sentence, making it hard for readers to follow the
progress of the thought” (St. Martin’s 38b).
• The director encouraged us to loudly and enthusiastically
applaud after each scene.
• Splitting the infinitive
• Strong economic times have, statistics tell us, led to
increases in the college dropout rate.
• Misplaced subject
• Statistics tell us that strong economic times have led to
increases in the college dropout rate.
Dangling Modifier
“Dangling modifiers seem to modify something that is
implied but not actually present in the sentence” (St.
Martin’s 38c).
• Often have to add a subject the modifier clearly refers to.
• Trying to attract younger viewers, news is blended with
comedy on late-night talk shows.
• The issue: What is “trying to attract younger views” modifying?
News or late-night talk shows?
• Original Revision: Trying to attract younger viewers, late-
night talk shows blend news with comedy.
• Late-night talk shows blend news with comedy to attract
younger viewers.
Quiz: More Practice
Revise the following sentences:
6. The development of the Overland was, as Harte feared,
7.
8.
9.
10.
almost “short-lived.”
Chosen for their looks, the journalistic credentials of
newscasters may be weak.
When the levee breaks. I’ll have no place to stay.
This creates an authorial position for Harte Nissen
delineates Harte’s authority as being positioned in the
documentary rather than the imaginary.
Highlighting local events, important international news
stories may get overlooked.
Homework
Saturday
• Turn in Brief Assignment 9
Tuesday
• Read the student
introductions in First-Year
Writing:
• Laura McGiness (281-2)
• Joy Van Marion (322-3)
• James R. King (361-2)
• Megan Sheehan (397-8)
• Arianne Folkema (427-8)
• Curt Gritters (467-8)
• Cathryn Ghena (502)
• Cherilyn Dudley (534-5)