Playlist: Parts of Speech (3) / Sentences
Part one of this program completes the study of the building blocks of grammar with a thorough explanation of adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections—wow! Then, part two covers the basic rules of syntax, featuring subjects and predicates; appositive and verb phrases; direct and indirect objects; linking verbs; predicate nominatives, nouns of direct address, and appositives; dependent and independent clauses; and compound and complex sentences. Also, the egregious sentence fragment is introduced. (34 minutes)
This film will cover adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, interjections, simple sentences with subjects and predicates, phrases and objects, and compound and complex sentences.
Adverbs describe verbs, adjectives and other adverbs. If a word answers the questions how? how often? when? or to what extent? then it is an adverb. Most adverbs end in "ly."
Prepositions show relationships between other words, usually nouns, and how words relate in terms of time and space. The preposition plus the noun that comes after it is the prepositional phrase.
Conjunctions provide transitions between sentences and parts of sentences. Conjunctions can be entire phrases. Conjunctions hook two things together and show how they relate.
Interjections are words or short phrases that do not play a grammatical role in a sentence but to show emotion or surprise.
Grammar is how the parts of language fit together to make sentences. The grammar of a sentence is called syntax. The most basic type of sentence is the simple sentence with its subject and predicate.
A phrase is a group of words that is not a sentence and may contain either a subject or predicate but not both. Types of phrases include appositives phrases, verb phrases, and prepositional phrases.
An object is a noun that is not the simple subject but part of the predicate or subject phrase. Objects include direct objects, indirect objects, and objects of the preposition.
Exceptions to the general rule of objects include predicate nominatives, nouns of direct address, and appositives.
Compound sentences are two or more simple sentences (independent clauses) joined together by a conjunction or a mark of punctuation like a colon, semicolon, or dash.
A dependent clause cannot stand on its own and is dependent on the independent clause. A complex sentence consists of an independent clause and a dependent clause.
This section reviews adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, interjections, simple sentences, phrases, objects, compound, and complex sentences.