Giola, Joseph


 * Here are your sentences to choose from: **


 * 1) The Charleston Cougars are playing the Cary Rail Hawks in soccer tonight
 * 2) I am tired the boy said and then drifted off to sleep.
 * 3) Whenever my mother claims to have an emergency, it’s usually nothing more than a paper cut.
 * 4) We really should be going now she said.
 * 5) I received an incomplete on my homework because I forgot to write my name on it.

** 1. The Charleston Cougars are playing the Cary Rail Hawks in soccer tonight **
NP: The Charleston Cougars

Articles: The

Common Nouns:

Proper Nouns: The Charleston Cougars

Adj:

VP: are playing the Cary Rail Hawks in soccer tonight

Verbs: playing

Adv: tonight

PP: in soccer tonight

Prepositions: in

Article:

Nouns: soccer

DO (if any exist): The Cary Rail Hawks

Noun: Cary Rail Hawks

Article: The

IC: The Charleston Cougars are playing the Cary Rail Hawks

DC: in soccer tonight

Sentence Type (Simple, Compound, Complex, Compound Complex) Complex

Sentence Correctly Punctuated: The Charleston Cougars are playing the Cary Rail Hawks, in soccer tonight.

2. **I am tired the boy said and then drifted off to sleep.**
NP: I am tired the boy said

Articles: The

Common Nouns: boy sleep

Proper Nouns:

Adj:

VP: said and then drifted off to sleep

Verbs: said and drifted

Adv: Off

PP: the boy said

Prepositions:

Article: the

Nouns: boy

DO (if any exist): the boy

Noun: boy

Article: the

IC: I am tired the boy said

DC: then drifted off to sleep

Sentence Type (Simple, Compound, Complex, Compound Complex) Complex

Sentence Correctly Punctuated: "I am tired” the boy said, and then drifted off to sleep.

NP: my name on it

Articles:

Common Nouns: it, name

Proper Nouns:

Adj: my

VP: I received an incomplete on my homework because I forgot to write

Verbs: Received, write, forgot

Adv:

PP: On my homework

Prepositions: on

Article:

Nouns: my

DO (if any exist): I

Noun: I

Article:

IC: I received an incomplete on my homework. I forgot to write my name on it

DC:

Sentence Type (Simple, Compound, Complex, Compound Complex) Compound

Sentence Correctly Punctuated:

I received an "incomplete" on my homework, because I forgot to write my name on it.

October 8th

1. Define a compound sentence and provide one example (must show the mathematical breakdown).  A compound sentence is a sentence with more than one subject or predicate (1IC + 1IC) Ex: My brother Kurt is in the army, and my other brother is also in the army. IC: My brother Kurt is in the army IC: My other brother is also in the army

2. Define a complex sentence and provide one example (must show the mathematical breakdown). A complex sentence is a sentence that contains a subordinate clause/s (1DC + 1ID)

Ex: Kurt who is in the army, is the general of the Army, and he is in Afghanistan. DC: Kurt who is in the army...and he is in Afghanistan. IC: Is the General of the Army

3. Define a compound complex sentence and provide one example (must show the mathematical breakdown). A compound complex sentence has two independent clauses and one dependent clause (1IC + 1IC + 1DC). Ex: When I visited my brother in Afghanistan, I was a soldier in the Army and didn't see him much. IC: I was a soldier in the Army DC: When I visited my brother in Afghanistan IC: Didn't see him much.

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