... basicsentence patterns is one of the most important and basic
grammatical matters in English and Vietnamese. Students only can write or speak
English correctly when they master the basicsentence ... can see that there are seven basicsentence
patterns in English. Compare with English, basicsentence patterns in Vietnamese have
some differences.
Vietnamese
Type Basic patterns example
1 Subject ... their basicsentence patterns? Are they different or
similar? We will continue to analyze the basicsentence patterns in English and
Vietnamese.
English
There are some examples of the basic...
... object, car,
like a verb.)
PROBLEMS WITH SENTENCESTRUCTURE 161
150 COMMON USAGE ERRORS
Lesson
20
Problems with
Sentence
Structure
There are three basic kinds of sentences: simple, compound, and complex. ... troubling sentence fragments and run-on sentences. The following
two exercises offer some more practice on what we have learned.
EXERCISE 15.
Eliminate all sentence fragments. Correct the run-on sentences. ... Sentences
As we learned in Part One (pages 105–107), two or more simple sentences can be
combined to form a compound sentence.
SIMPLE SENTENCE
: Dogs show affection for their owners.
SIMPLE SENTENCE
:...
... wasn't very interesting.
A. The sentence pattern is used to express the nature or the characteristics of N. (Example 1)
B. This sentence pattern indicates a condition or the state ... (Examples 1~7)
C. This sentence pattern is used for stating the sequence of actions. In this case, the agent of
the two actions should be the same person. (Examples 1,2,3,4)
D. This sentence pattern ... gave explanations after drawing a map.
A. This sentence pattern indicates that V1 happens before V2. (Examples 1~6)
B. This sentence pattern is used for clearly stating sequential relation...