Friday, March 19, 2010

complimentary track

Grammar -
say you witnessed the most amazing soccer goal in yesterdays match of Liverpool and Cheslea, two professional English soccer teams.
sentence: a rocket exploded off the foot of Chelsea defensman, Robert Jones, as he kicked a screaming bender into the back net of the Liverpool goal!
the sentence has a subject (a rocket) it has a verb (exploded) it has a direct object (foot) indirect object (Robert Jones) a preposition
a proper noun, several modifiers, structurally parralel, and uses some figurative to enhance the theme of the sentence.
past perfect tense
3rd person narrative
Verbs are action words
nouns are placeholders
adjectives and adverbs modify
prepositions indicate time and place
interjections add character to the sentence
conjunctions/auxilliaries connect it all together.
Every sentence has a subject and a verb.
I ran to the supermarket
My tooth hurts'
The garden smells great!
My friend is an extremely brilliant singer
My friend (subject)
is (linking verb)
extremely brilliant (modifiers - adjectives)
singer (object complement (tells us about the friend.
The lazy cat impressed many at the party, as it sang "row row row your boat."
again, the lazy cat (subject)
impressed (verb)
many (adverb modifier)
at the party (prepositions)
as it sang(a verb phrase)
"row row row your boat" is the object of the subject, lazy cat.
easy! now let's talk in depth for each part of speech and discuss the relationship of voice, persona, and aesthetic qualities.
first, we know voice is the tense (past, present, or future)
we know persona will be 1st 2nd or 3rd
we know aesthetic qualities or those qualities which make writing sound more cohesive, colorful, and structurally sound.

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