CMN 279 Chapter 4: Chapter 4 Business Styles Sentences and Paragraphs
23 Jan 2012
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Independent clause: a clause, containing a subject and complete verb, that functions on its own as an independent grammatical unit: dependent clause (subordinate clause): a clause that cannot function on its own as an independent grammatical unit. Subject: word or group of words in a sentence that acts or is acted upon. Types of sentences y y verb: a word or group of words in a sentence that describes an action, occurrence, or state of being y. Phrasing basic types of questions y declarative sentences: a sentence that makes a statement y. Three types of questions: closed questions: a question with a limited number of possible responses, open questions: a question with an unlimited number of possible responses, hypothetical question: a question that poses a supposition. Writing balanced sentences: parallel structure y parallelism: the use of the same grammatical forms or matching sentence structures to express equivalent ideas.
