ENG 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Pathos, Cold Reading, Second Cup

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 1100
• Professor: Alan West

Document Summary

Parts of speech : determining what a word is doing in a sentence depends on context, many words can be used in more than one way. (ex. The pronoun who can be used to help describe or identify something or someone. ) The word is the same in each case, but its function is completely different. So context is always important: this course will work roughly like checkmate does. Wild and free is a phrase: clause: a group of words that has at least a subject (main doer that applies to the verb), and a verb. Mars, having no water, supports no life. this sentence is comprised of a clause and a phrase. Mars supports no life is a clause: it has a subject and a verb. Having no water is a phrase: having is not working as a verb here. It is describing a condition of mars: main clause: has what it takes to be a complete sentence.