COMM 212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Bell Aliant, Proofreading, Roman Numerals
23 Jan 2017
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Why writing effectively matters: (cid:862)the (cid:373)illio(cid:374)-$ (cid:272)o(cid:373)a (cid:271)t(cid:449)(cid:374) roge(cid:396)s & bell alia(cid:374)t. (cid:863: effective sentences. The building blocks of complete sentences: phrases & clauses. Phrase: a group of words containing a subject or a verb, but not both: does not express a complete thought, cannot stand by itself as a sentence, sentence fragment: a phrase punctuated as a complete sentence. Subject: word/group of words in a phrase, clause, or sentence that acts or is acted upon. Verb: word/group of words in a phrase, clause, or sentence that describes an action, occurrence, or state of being. Clause: a group of related words containing a subject and a verb. Independent clauses: grammatically complete and can stand on their own as a complete sentence. (delivers full meaning: dependent clauses: grammatically incomplete and reliant on independent clauses for their meaning. (do not make sense by themselves) Begins in 1 of 2 ways; - a dependent marker if, as, because, since, or although.
