Syntax Part 1

Syntax Part 1

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LAFS.1112.L.2.3

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​What We Talk About

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•Syntax Tools

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Key Terms

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•Sentence Construction

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​Key Terms - Syntax

Sentence  structure; how  sentences are  arranged​

​Can be simple  or complex (see later slides) also depending on one’s  audience

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​Key Terms - Diction

Choice of  words (word  choice);  wording​

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Can be simple or advanced depending on one’s intended audience

Multiple Select

What are the 4 types of syntax?

• Simple sentences

• Compound sentences

• Complex sentences

• Compound-complex sentences

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What is a noun?

​Syntax Tools - Nouns

Person, thing, or place

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Can be in singular or  plural form

Open Ended

Give an example of an Noun.

Multiple Select

What is a verb?

• describe an action

• Name

• place

• thing

​Syntax Tools -Verbs

• Describe the actions that people, things, or places do

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• Can be present or past tense

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• Can have helping words like forms of the verb “to be” (is, was)​

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• Can also have passive, conditional, or future forms

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Give an example of an Verbs.

Multiple Choice

a word or phrase naming an attribute, added to or grammatically related to a noun to modify or describe it.

• adjectives

• noun

• verbs

​Syntax Tools - Adjectives

Instead of describing just “sky” in this picture, if a writer pairs it with the adjective “hazy sky” it gives the reader a better mental picture of what they describe.

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​​Enhances only nouns​

​Gives readers a better picture of the noun one describes

Open Ended

Give an example of an Adjectives.

Multiple Choice

What is an adverb?

• the phrase that fixes run-ons

• the phrase that gives a place

• the phrase that modifies or qualifies

• phrase that pays

​Syntax Tools - Adverbs

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Example: The polar bear waits patiently for the next ice flow.

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​Enhances only verbs

​Must appear either just before or just after (most common)  the verb it enhances!

​Words that end in –ly are usually adverbs

​Never begin an adverb!

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Give an example of an Adverb.

​Syntax Tools - Articles

​Protects its pride and the territory it inhabits. (This sentence is also proper to use the pronoun “it.”)

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​Introduce nouns in sentences

​A, an, the  

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​Example: A lion

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Give an example of an Articles.

​Syntax Tools – Pronouns

Meant to substitute an already introduced noun in a sentence (or subsequent sentences) so the writer does not have to repeat writing it more than once.

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He, his, himself

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You, your, yours, yourself

I, me, my, myself

​Her, hers, herself

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Give an example of a Pronoun.

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a word that can function by itself as a noun phrase and that refers either to the participants in the discourse

​Syntax Tools – Pronouns

It, its, itself

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Example: The tiger would only move forward when it wanted to.

​Pronouns are used properly in a sentence only when the reference it is intended to substitute is mentioned first in a sentence!

They, them, their, themselves

This, these

​Syntax Tools –Pronouns

​A pronoun may be used to substitute a  noun in no more than two sentences after it is first introduced in a paragraph.

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If the noun is still talked about after the above, then it must be reintroduced in the paragraph’s fourth sentence.

Multiple Choice

a sentence consisting of only one clause, with a single subject and predicate.

• simple sentence

• complex sentence

• compound sentences

​Syntax Tools –Simple Sentences

• A simple sentence conveys in one part the intended message it needs to communicate.

(This sentence is an example.)

• Simple sentences can also have several words.

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Give an example of an Simple Sentences.

Multiple Choice

complex sentence

• a sentence containing a subordinate clause or clauses.

• has one dependent clause (headed by a subordinating conjunction or a relative pronoun ) joined to an independent clause

• a sentence consisting of only one clause, with a single subject and predicate.

​Syntax Tools – Complex Sentences

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A complex sentence is usually one that is made up of one part.

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As we talked about in the mechanic's discussion,  punctuation devices like semicolons and dashes can create multipart, complex sentences.

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Give an example of an Complex Sentences.

Questions? Syntax Part 1​

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