ENG 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Dependent Clause, Independent Clause, Sentence Clause Structure

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 1100
• Professor: Aleksa Jankovic

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433-(cid:1008)(cid:1008)(cid:1007) in a writer"s resource amanc020@uottawa. ca/ mondays-tuesdays (appt. Subject: who/ what, verb: action, occurrence, or state of being, object: the person or thing affected by the action (verb) Direct object: what the verb is talking about. Anna (subject) sent (verb) an e-mail to dr. atkins (indirect object) Grammatical unit of a group of words behaving as a part of a sentence (dependent/ independent) A dependent clause starts with a subordinating word: after, although, so that, unless etc. Every sentence you write is a combination of independent and dependent clauses. Punctuation marks are the street signs of sentence structure. There are 4 types of sentences: compound, complex. Compound 2 independent clauses joined by a co-ordinating junction. Complex - one independent clause is joined by a comma to one dependent clause. Compound-complex 2 independent clauses joined by a comma and coordinating junction (compound sentence) + 1 independent clause joined by a comma to one dependent clause.