LING 2P10 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Linguistic Prescription, Adverbial Clause, Dependent Clause
15 Jan 2016
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Ling 2p10 chapter 9: compound sentences & intro to complex sentences: adverbial. Sentence: consists of one or more clauses; clause is the smallest syntactic unit that has meaning. Clause: minimally consists of 2 constituents (a np and vp) Phrase does not generally occur independently; phrase cannot form a sentence by itself. Coordinators/coordinating conjunctions: the words that join 2 equal clauses; each part is a complete clause and can stand on its own and, but, or, yet, for. Main clauses can also be connected by conjunctive adverbs/transition words. Use the term transition word: to refer to actual adverbs themselves. Use the term transition phrases: ro refer to groups of words that establish these similar types of sentence relationships. Transition words/phrases can occur in 3 positions: at the beginning, middle or end of a main clause. At the beginning of a main clause, transition words or phrases may be period or semi-colon.
