ENG100H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Emor, Oneword, Tree House
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Chapter 5: writing 2 (writing that makes sense) Sentences are the individual planks/ building materials. Architects (from the analogy in chapter 1) take this building material (sentences) for granted. English speakers: they think that by ordering specific sizes of a specific product will result in sentences being constructed according to an agreed upon form. Inflections: changes in words themselves, that show how they are related to other words in sentences. There are 5 core syntactical principles in english. By understanding the 5 core principles, we can write sentences that meet the readers expectations: principle 1 - old/new. Regardless of what we are writing, we tend to arrange sentences in a similar order. First comes the old information (information that can be recovered from earlier sentences), and then comes the new information. It indicates that an information is old: example: i love pizza. Sentences contain 2 parts: subject and predicate (in that order)
