Sentence Pattern Review, Day 3

Appositive After a Colon or Dash

"You need only one thing to succeed: determination."

"Christianity believes that one man redeemed humanity--Jesus Christ."


Interrupting Modifier

"George, my teacher, is often in a bad mood."

"The fruit juice one finds at the 7-11, containing a lot of added sugar, is less healthy than fresh fruit."


Participial Phrases

"Determined to do well on the test, Wendell followed all of Sean's sentence pattern reviews."

[Types of participals:
Present: -ing "Looking to succeed in school, Joe promised to himself that he would study every day."
Past: -en or -ed "Driven to succeed in school, Joe promised to himself that he would study every day."
"Determined to succeed in school, Joe...."]


Emphatic Modifier
"As a whole, people are nice."


Prepositional Phrase First

"After class, he went to lunch."


Passive Voice and "Object First"

"The ball was hit by Ichiro."
"Famous as Jay Chou Sean will never be."


Paired Constructions

"Just as Chien Ming-Wang is a hero in Taiwan, so too Ichiro is a hero in Japan."
"Not only am I a good student, but also I am a good athlete."
"Neither science nor math interests me."


Dependent Clause as Subject or Object

"I didn't know that he likes to watch baseball games." [Object is a dependent clause.]

"How he failed the test I don't understand." [Subject is a dependent clause.]

[These dependent clauses are long nouns. Each one will start with one of the following words: who, whom, which, what, why, where, when, how, that.]

"I don't know who would love such a greedy person."

"Do not ask for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for you."

"She could not decide which shoes to buy."

"What he could do was go to sleep and study in the morning."

"Why he cried at the end of the soap opera I will never understand."

"He doesn't know where his roommate has been."

"Why weren't you here when the test started?"

"Can you show me how to turn on the computer?"

"That someone like you could get a job at an important company is disturbing."


Absolute Construction

"His team having lost, Ervin went home and cried."

"Ruth, her patience having been used up, quit her job at the 7-11."

--Now go ace the midterm.
S.