大学英语写作教程1第五单元.ppt

Unit Five
Expanded
Sentence
Base (1)
Unit Objectives
1. features of attributives
2. types of attributives
1) pre-modifiers
2) post-modifiers
3. précis for short paragraphs
Part II ATTRIBUTE
A word or phrase syntactically subordinate to another word or phrase that it modifies; for example, my sister's and brown
my sister's brown dog.
ATTRIBUTIVES
A word or word group, such as an adjective, that is placed adjacent to the noun it modifies without a linking verb;
for example
pale
the pale girl.
2. Types of attributives
1) pre-modifiers
2) post-modifiers
1) Pre-modifiers
The three good-looking clever girl
students
My brother’s first novel
2) Post-modifiers
The student from a mountain village in Renhua county can speak good English.
All the townpeople, old and young, heard about the accident.
Part plete and plete sentences
A sentence is a group of words containing a subject and a verb and expressing plete thought.
People sometimes have two basic sentence errors: fragment and run-on sentence.
Sentence Fragments
SENTENCE
In the distance a blue haze settled
over the rooftops.
SENTENCE FRAGMENT
In the distance a blue haze over the
rooftops
SENTENCE FRAGMENT
In the distance a blue haze settlING
over the rooftops
NOTE
A sentence fragment is a group of words which does not express plete thought. Since it is part of a sentence, it must not be allowed to stand by itself.