JMM 108 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Independent Clause, Dependent Clause, Interjection
13 Jan 2017
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What is a sentence: a set of words conveying a statement, question, exclamation, or command, contains a main clause, a subject, and predicate, conveys a complete thought, syntax: deals with sentence strucutre. Parts of a sentence: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, pronouns, conjunctions, interjection, article. Add a dependent clause to a simple sentence: compound. Two independent clauses joined by a conjunction and a comma: compound-complex. Has two independent clauses and a dependent clause. Singular subject has to have a singular verb. The clock strikes on the hour : plural. Use if for possession: there, their, they"re, which and that. That used for essential phrases: who and whom. Used in the same way as which and that but for people. If you can reconstruct the sentence or answer a question with an object pronoun, you can use whom. If you can answer with him, use whom; if you can answer with he, use who.
