Good morning!

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Good morning!

• Write todays word and its definition on your new
  vocabulary sheet, and then get out materials to
  take some grammar notes. (You dont need to write
  todays vocab. sentence yet.)

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Phrase vs. Clause

• Clause a group of words with both a subject and
  a verb
• Phrase a group of words that does not have both
  a subject and a verb

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Types of Clauses

• Independent Clause (I.C.)
• a group of words with both a subject and verb
  that can stand alone as a sentence
• Examples I like pizza.
• I have a dog.
• Robert runs fast.

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Types of Clauses continuedDependent Clause,
also called Subordinate Clause (D.C.) a group of
words with both a subject and verb that cannot
stand alone as a sentence

• Examples
• When I grow up
• Because I like gravy
• If we win the lottery
• Since it is raining
• After we came home
• Although he is my friend

• Whenever Sam calls
• Before you go home
• Unless we win the game
• While you eat dinner
• Wherever we drive
• Anywhere he stands

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Types of Sentences

• Simple I.C.
• Examples
• We went outside.
• I passed English.
• The puppy is sleeping.

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Types of Sentences continued

• Compound I.C. I.C.
• Examples
• We went outside, and the sun was shining.
• I passed English I studied so hard.
• The independent clauses must be joined either by
  a comma and a coordinating conjunction (FANBOYS)
  or by a semicolon.

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Types of Sentences continued

• Complex I.C. D.C.
• Examples
• I passed English since I studied very diligently.
• Because the sun was shining, we went outside.
• When the dependent clause comes first, it must
  be followed by a comma.
• You dont need a comma when you write the
  dependent clause last.

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Types of Sentences continued

• Compound-Complex I.C. I.C. D.C.
• Examples
• We went outside, and it was a beautiful day
  because the rain had stopped.
• We went outside because the rain had stopped,
  for it was a beautiful day.
• Because the rain had stopped, we went outside
  it was a beautiful day.

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Create Your Own(yes you can use your notes today)

• 2 compound-complex sentences
• Identify
• Verb
• Subject
• I.C. (x2)
• D.C.
• Circle the word that makes D.C the dependant
  clause
• In the I.C. clauses identify what makes it
  compound

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My sentences

• i.c. i.c.
• I went to the store, and I bought bread and
• d.c.
• peanut butter because my kids like it.

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What type of sentence is this?

• Last night the puppy was sleeping on a rug under
  the stairs with her mother happily snoozing by
  her side.

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What Type of Sentence is This?Simple!!

• S V
• Last night the puppy was sleeping on a rug under
  the stairs with her mother happily snoozing by
  her side.

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What type of sentence is this?

• We went outside the sun was shining brightly
  because the clouds had moved out of the way.

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Compound-complex

• S V i.c. S V i.c.
• We went outside the sun was
• shining brightly because the
• S V d.c
• clouds had moved out of the way.
• (i.ci.c.d.c.)

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Participles

• A participle is a verb form that acts as an
  adjective. It describes a noun or a pronoun.
• the sleeping child
• a flying bug
• You may think of sleeping as an actionor verb
  but here it is used to describe the childso it
  is used like an adjective.
• A participial phrase is a phrase with the
  participle and its modifiers (what it modifies)
  and complements.
• Dancing crazily, the flower girl made every
  member of the wedding party laugh.

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Present Participle a participle with a present
tense verb

• Misplaced or dangling participle the participial
  phrase modifies the wrong object.
• Drifting gently to the ground, Jordan was
  overwhelmed by the beauty of the snow.
• Corrected
• Drifting gently to the ground, the snow was
  overwhelmingly beautiful to Jordan.

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Past Participles

• Our repaired window shows no sign of the rock
  that crashed through it.
• A hush fell on the crowd as the injured player
  was carted off the field.
• The polluted bay cannot sustain any marine life.
• A watched pot never boils, but the liquid inside
  it does.

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Find the Past Participial Phrase

• My brother, known to everyone at school as a math
  whiz, became an engineer.
• Concerned about her home, the elderly woman
  refused to leave it when the storm blew through.
• Published in 2006, Twilight has been an
  extraordinary success in the world of popular
  fiction.
• My cousin, excited to begin skiing, jumped from
  the lift and fell right on his face.

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All of the following sentences are correct which
might have the strongest impact on a reader?

• My new dress, splashed with yellow paint, was
  ruined.
• Splashed with yellow paint, my new dress was
  ruined.
• My new dress was ruined, splashed with yellow
  paint.