UNDERSTANDING SENTENCES

Part of Understanding Sentences

1. Recognizing Complete Sentences

2. Identifying Core Parts (Simple
Sentences)
3. Identifying Core Parts (Complicated
Sentences)

Recognizing Complete Sentences

A sentence is commonly define as a group of words that
express a complete thought or area. This is important for a
reader to understand the different between complete sentence
and incomplete sentence.
Complete sentence is a complete tought that gives enough
information to give you the full meaning being expressed by the
writer. It is mean that every complete sentence must contain :
Subject
Predicate/Action
incomplete thoughts only give you partial information. After
reading an incomplete thoughts you are left with question about
what happened? Or whom or what something happened?

EXERCISE 1
1. Twenty years ago, the Presidents Council of Economic Advisor
reopened for business under a new management after nearly a year
in Limbo.
2. This Chapter, an excellent summary of the current economic problems
in Russia, presents some very useful graphs.
3. After the car crashed off the side of road Yesterday
4. Becoming less dependent on sensory-motor responses and more
capable of processing language.
5. Islands and peninsulas that are inhabited by fewer than one hundred
people.

IDENTIFYING CORE PARTS OF

SIMPLE SENTENCE
The two core parts of the sentencethe subject
and the verb, or the subject and the action, must
be present for a group of words to convey a
complete thought.
To read and understand a sentence,you should
able to quickly identify these core parts. In short,
simple sentences, core parts are easy to identify.
Often simple sentences have only core parts and a
few additional descriptive words or phrases.

Examples :
The books fell of the desk.
The sentence consist the subject (books) and action (fell)
Beautiful girl washes the dishes.
The sentence consist the subject (Beautiful girl) and action
(washes)
After her own illness, the physician was more sympathetic to
her patients concerns and fears.
As you read the above examples, you probably noticed which
one there is a coreparts in that sentences.

EXERCISE
1. My sister took her car to the garage for repairs.
2. The library was closed for the entire week due
to a flu epidemic.
3. The textbook contains exercises intended to
increase reading speed.
4. Psychological principles can be applied by
everyone.

IDENTIFYING CORE PARTS IN

COMPLICATED SENTENCES
Examples :
Complete sentence Simple
Burger World plans to start work on a new
restaurant.
Complete Sentence Complicated
Burger World, which operates some 2000 fast
food restaurants, plans to start work this spring or at
the latest by early summer, on a new self-service
restaurant in Rochester, New york, which is
designed to test many new ideas in energy saving
and customer convenience

Burger World plans to start work on a new restaurant

1.The new restaurant will be self-service
2.Burger world operates 2000 fast food restaurants.
3.Burger world plans to start working this spring
4.If burger world does not start working in the spring,
itll start in early summer
5.The new restaurant will be located in Rochester,
New york
6.The new restaurant will be designed to test many
ideas in energy saving and customer service.

EXERCISE
Identify the core parts of each complicated sentences below and
write them in the space provided. Then, write as many new
sentences as you can using the remaining information in the
sentence.
1.Besides teaching he rules of behavior that are acceptable in
our society, the family supplies children with the affection and
love they need to feel that they are complete and happy persons.
2.Segregation occurs within the school as well, because
students are usually assigned to different tracks, or programs,
according to ability and achievement.
3.The Gulf Stream, the warm waters of the northward-lowing
ocean current, has influenced much of the life of the Gulf and
Atlantic shores as far north as Newfoundland.

The end,thank you!