EEL Week 13

Welcome back fellow travelers!  I hope that you had a restful and healthful break and are ready to jump back in because we have a lot to cover right off the bat. So let's get started.

Review: We reviewed our Chart A orally and did a Mad Lib.

New material: Complex-Decl./Exclam. and S-Vt-IO-DO

S-Vt-IO-DO
Example sentence: She baked a cake.
As we learned last year, to identify a sentence's pattern we need to answer some questions.
Who can tell me the first question we should ask?
Answer: Who or what baked a cake?
Then: What is being said she?
She baked what/whom? Can cake replace or describe she?
No? Then it's what? A direct object.

Now we will add another element-an Indirect Object.
Example sentence: She baked me a cake.
Let's go through our questions again.
Our new question at the end is 'she baked a cake for whom or what?'
Answer: For me. Me is the indirect object.
*Notice that the indirect object does not receive the action of the verb (hence the term indirect).
Now that we know the pattern, how do we diagram this?

Complex Structure
Review sentence structure motions.
Who can tell me what a simple sentence consists of?
Answer: One independent clause. The cow jumped over the moon.
What about a compound sentence?
Answer: Two independent clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction.
The cow jumped over the moon and the dish ran away with the spoon.
Can anyone tell me the coordinating conjunctions?
FANBOYS

A complex sentence is 1 independent clause and 1 dependent clause.
*Remember a clause has both a subject and a verb and dependent clauses cannot stand alone.
1) Tom, who loves animals, owns a sheepdog.
2) Tom, a great hunter, loves animals.
3)The boy who loves animals owns a sheepdog.
A message about commas: We use them when the clause can be removed without confusion. When we compare sentence 1 to sentence 3, the clause in 1 can removed without detracting from the original meaning. The clause in 3 clarifies any confusion about which boy.

Types of clauses-adjectival and adverbial

Adjectival-These clauses act as adjectives, giving us more information by answering the adjective questions.
Can anyone tell me what those are?
Answer: What kind, which, how many, and whose
We know these from IEW as who/which clauses
These clauses can also start with relative pronouns. Can anyone tell me what those are?
Whom, whose, whomever, whoever, that, what, and whatever
They are called relative pronouns because they relate back to the independent clause. They also act as the subject of the adjectival clause.

Adverbial -These clauses act as adverbs, give us more information about the verb, adjective or adverb, and answer our adverb questions.
Who can tell me what those are?
Answer: How, when, where, why, how often, how much, to what extent, and under what condition
In IEW we know these clauses as our www.asia.wub clauses.

Let's look back a our sentence 1. Is this clause adjectival or adverbial?
Answer: Adjectival

Let's use our Analytical Task Sheet for the first sentence in our Guide Week 13>