Introduction
Reading and writing and invaluable skill that should not be ignored by anybody who want to be called literate.
In all societies of the world, it is generally known that reading and writing provides information and experience about the aspects of the world that we may not be able to have personal contact with.
Reading is therefore a means of receiving information about what people do, how people live, and what happen, etc.
Writing on the other hand is a means of recording information and experience on paper.
Such records of fact, opinions, observations, etc. Provide permanent records which can be referred to when we can no longer rely on our memory an undistorted version of the incident.
So in this post, you are introduced to the first step in composing what can be regarded as a full and well formed idea. Once you are able to master this stage of writing properly, you will find further stage relatively easy, since a good foundation would have been laid for your writing skills.
So the focus in this post, is the basic structure of the sentence.
An understanding of the structure will help you to compose acceptable sentence.
It is necessary for teachers of composition to be aware of the importance of the following stages of composition: the sentence, the paragraph, and the essay.
A start should be made with is the sentence as the basic unit of communication. This suggestion is based on the fact that the particular meaning, significance, and intention of any paragraph are determined by the sentences making it up.
Also the quality of an essay is determined by the organisation and functions of it component paragraphs.
Our focus for now in this post will be how to identity and compose well formed sentence.
We will examine the structure of the sentence, in order to determine the elements which must be present and those which only serve the purposes of expanding thoughts and making communication more detailed.
How sentence are formed
Two elements must be present in a well formed sentence.
- The first element is the SUBJECT or the DOER That is the initiator of the action.
- The second element is the VERB, which indicate what the subject does. The verb usually indicate action, but it may also indicate a state of being, or link two sentence elements together.
Example
- Lisa runs
- The dog barks
- The goat bleats
- The cow died
In the above sentence, Lisa,the dog and the goat do something and something happened to the cow.
The two part of each of the four sentence need to be present for the sentence to be well formed.
On many occasions, however, we need more than this two part to express our thought fully. Sometimes we want to speak about the quality of a person, or the new status in life.
In this case, we use certain forms of verb to identify the person with his attribute or his new status.
Verb which perform such functions are the following: am, is, are, was, were, etc. The elements which follow these verbs called complement.
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