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SENTENCE
DEFININTIO N SYNTATIC DIVISION
SEMANTIC DIVISION
● A number of words forming a complete sense is called sentence. ● OR ● A group of words in order to give complete ● Meaning is called sentence. ● OR ● A word or a set of words in arranged form which has subject and predicate is called sentence.
SENTENCE ON THE
BASES OF STRUCTURE
● Syntax division
●Syntactically sentence is divided into four types.
●(1) Simple Sentence
●(2) Compound Sentence
●(3) Complex Sentence
●(4) Compound Complex Sentence
SIMPLE SENTENCE
●A sentence which has only one Independent clause is called simple sentence.
●The weather is hot.
●She is a girl.
COMPLEX SENTENCE
●The combination of dependent clause with independent clause is called complex sentence.
● Example:
●When you called I was busy at home.
●I was sleeping in the room when you knocked the door.
COMPOUND COMPLEX SENTENCE
●The combination of two independent clauses and one dependent clause is called compound complex sentence.
●Example:
●I was busy at home when you called and I didn’t pick up the phone.
●It is Sunday and we want to go on a picnic, lets call and invite the whole family.
Affirmative Sentence
●A sentence which makes statement is called affirmative, positive or assertive sentence.
●It talks about information
● Example:
●Abbas Sahak is a good manager.
●BASELCC is a famous institute in Peshawar.
Negative Sentence
●A sentence in which negation is used (no, not, never, less, un, in, dis) is called negative sentence.
● Example:
●He is not a good boy.
●I don’t like to eat rice.
Optative sentence
●A sentence that shows wish or pray is called optative sentence.
● Example:
●May you live long.
●God bless you.
Exclamatory sentence
●A sentence that expresses feeling or emotion is called exclamatory sentence.
● Example:
●Hurrah! We won the match.
●Wow what a nice car!.
PROBLEMATIC
SENTENCES
PROBLEMATI C SENTENCES Run-on
sentence
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Fragment sentence
Rambling sentence
●There are two sentences that the writer has not separated with an end punctuation mark or has not joined with a conjunction.
●Example:
●It is the most beautiful place I have ever visited.
●I like our new English teacher He always explains the work very clearly.