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* Opening
- Grammar: Simple Sentences
- Copy: A simple sentence has only one independent clause (also known as a main clause) and no dependent/subordinate clauses.
- Now provide as many examples as you need from the following in your notes:
Though a simple sentence doesn't contain any subordinate clauses, it isn't always short. A simple sentence often contains modifiers. In addition, subjects, verbs, and objects in simple sentences may be coordinated. - Examples:
- John hit the ball. Simple sentence.
- John hit the gargantuan earth ball with a bat.
- Still a simple sentence; I added modifiers and and a phrase (but didn't add a clause).
- John and Larry and Sarah (but not Kim) hit and smacked and whacked the earth ball yesterday.
- Still a simple sentence; I added coordinated subjects and verbs.
- So, what are counterexamples?
- John hit the ball while I drank iced tea. (This is complex because "while I drank tea" is a dependent clause.)
- John hit the ball, and Jill caught it midair. ("and Jill caught it midair" is an independent clause...so the two make it a compound sentence.)
- More examples of deceptively simple sentences.
- "Your future is assured. You will live, secure and safe, Wilbur.
Nothing can harm you now. These autumn days will shorten and grow cold.
The leaves will shake loose from the trees and fall."
(E.B. White, Charlotte's Web. Harper & Row, 1952) - "They
shot the six cabinet ministers at half-past six in the morning against
the wall of a hospital. There were pools of water in the courtyard.
There were wet dead leaves on the paving of the courtyard. It rained
hard. All the shutters of the hospital were nailed shut. One of the
ministers was sick with typhoid. Two soldiers carried him downstairs and
out into the rain."
(Ernest Hemingway, Chapter Five of In Our Time. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925)
- Thought for Food
- 'God made mankind,' is a simple sentence.
- 'On the sixth day God made man of the dust of the earth after his own image,' is also a simple sentence...but that doesn't make the meaning simple, just the structure.
* Cædmon's Hymn
- Copy down your first memorization poem.
- You will have a quiz in no less than three weeks. You will receive one point for each line written or recited.
- That letter (æ) is an ash. You may us it or "ae" when writing his name.
HW:
- Twenty Annotations for the Anglo-Saxon Chapter.
- Begin Definitions for Your Vocabulary and Terms if you Wish
