Some More Sentence Structures

Object-First pattern:

Down the street walked the depressed student.

Even more significant have been the vocabulary words studied from the Simpsons episodes.

Paired Constructions

Not only..., but also.

[Don't mistake a dependent clause-independent clause construction for a paired construction. It's a common mistake among my students.]

Kerry Wood and Greg Maddux are the favorite pitchers. The former is a power pitcher, the latter is a precise pitcher.

Contrast Pairs

Citizenship is a privilege, not a right.

Dependent Clause as Part of an Independent-Clause Sentence
--The DC can be a subject or object

How he got into TaiDa is a mystery. (Subject=DC "How he got into Taida")

I don't understand why baseball players make so much money. (Object="why baseball players...")

Absolute Construction

Compare an "absolute construction" to a dependent clause.

Dependent clause in italics:
"Because she failed to make the volleyball team, she was sad for the rest of the day."

Absolute Construction in italics:
"Her efforts to make the volleyball team a failure, she was sad for the rest of the day."

DC in italics:
Because her swimming goggles fell to the bottom of the pool, she cried out to her teacher.

AC in italics:
Her goggles having fallen to the bottom of the pool, she cried out to her teacher.

Other AC examples:
Ralph, his attempt to publish a novel a total failure, decided to give up writing.