What is the coverage?
From voices to clauses:
- Voices
- Active
- Passive
- Active
- Conjuctions
- Coordinating
- Correlative
- Subordinating
- Relative Pronouns
- Coordinating
- Sentence Structures
- Simple
- Complex
- Compound
- Compound Complex
- Types of Clauses
- Noun clauses
- Adjective clauses
- Adverbial clauses
- Manner
- Place
- Reason
- Purpose
- Condition
- Concession
- Manner
- Noun clauses
- Past Tense
- Simple Past
- Past Progressive/Past Continuous
- Simple Past Perfect
- Past Perfect Progressive
- Simple Past
WTF? Voices?
The sentence can be in active or passive voice-- or just plain intransitive. A sentence in the active voice has the subject as the do-er of the action. In passive, the subject is the receiver of the action.
In intransitive sentences, there is no receiver of the action so it can't be active or passive.
Examples of Sentences
Active- Dick and Regyna ate the cake.
Passive- The cake was eaten by Dick and Regyna.
What do conjunctions connect? Your mom.
They connect clauses. There are three kinds:
Coordinating- FANBOYS
Correlative- come in pairs (example: either or, neither nor, but also)
Subordinating- Used to connect two ideas, one of which is less important.
WTF are noun clauses?
They function as regular nouns; they can be the subject, subjective complement (example: The Vatican, home of the pope, is a city in Rome.), the direct object, or object of the preposition (It is behind the bush).
They are introduced by relative pronounds (who, whose, whoever, what, whatever and in some cases, subordinating conjunctions like how, that, where and why.)
WTF are adjective clauses?
They modify nouns/pronouns. They are introduced by relative pronouns as well.
- For people:
who, whom, whoever - For things/animals:
that, which - For time/events:
when, whenever - For places:
where, wherever
WTF are adverbial clauses?
Consult handouts. -_- (Natamad ako)
Add'l note/s:
ReplyDeleteIf the active sentence can't seem to be transformed into intransitive, try including the word 'someone' or 'something' before assuming that it's intransitive.
Another FAQ:
WTF are relative pronouns for?
(Yes, I do not know.)
connect noun or adjective clauses
ReplyDeleteTrivia: Wikipedia also answers grammar questions. Garr. I salute the person who thought of that.
ReplyDeleteSome (hopefully) helpful notes for the past tenses:
ReplyDeleteSimple Past - no need, right? Ma'am would have killed you if you didn't know.
Past Progressive - it was a continuous action in the past, but was interrupted by a simple past action.
sentences will look something like this: (noun) was (verb)ing when (noun) (verb)ed.
You get the point.
Simple past perfect and past perfect prog
Both of them use 'had' or 'had been', sometimes with 'already' thrown in, so that's a shortcut. Maybe. -_-
Shortcut: If the verb is preceded by the aforementioned words and is in its simple past form (don't get confused), it's simple past perfect. If it ends in -ing, it's past perfect progressive.
Difference in usage:
The past perfect prog implies that the action happened for a longer period of time than when you use simple past perfect.
Compare:
SPP: The house had burned.
PPP: The house had been burning.
SPP implies that you saw it AFTER it got burnt, PPP implies that you saw it WHILE it was burning.
Make sense? :D
Good luck on our exams >:D<